I have, it's his best film for fucking ages.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:40, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

That's exactly
what I thought! I really wasn't prepared for how good it was.

William Hurt was good too and I thought it was very clever the way they used him in the film.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:43, Reply)

Yep, the only problem I had was the implication that serial killing is inherited
but it was a useful plot device.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:45, Reply)

Yeah I would agree with you on that one
The second his daughter showed up I thought... oh here we go! But it was still a great film. Its also mega cheap to buy on DVD - under £5! Woo!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:48, Reply)

It's one of those films I like because not many people have seen it,
so you can show it to people and look like you know about great films and that.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:51, Reply)

Ah smooth move!
I tend to like some really weird films, I recommend them and people tell me I'm nuts, ho-hum.

Have you seen Brick? That's a good film! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:54, Reply)

Yeah, that's an awesome film,
I like it a lot.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:58, Reply)

I really
like Joseph Gordon-Levitt so mainly brought it for him. Its very clever and really liked the style of the film, like an old detective movie!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:00, Reply)

Brick's ace
And I love Tommy. (He'll always be Tommy to me.)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:13, Reply)

Did you see him in 500 days of summer?
I watched it at the weekend expecting it to be a fucking awful self serving pile of chickflick shit, but found I rather liked it.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:21, Reply)

that's on my list of films to watch.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:27, Reply)

Oooh
consider it added to my list too! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:59, Reply)

I was dying to see it
But nobody would come with me because it looked like it was going to be a shit chick-flick.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:28, Reply)

Re: Inherited Serial Killer Tendencies
Don't rule it out completely...there's a bit of a debate raging between certain biologists about "evolutionary psychology," i.e., whether or not we inherit personality traits from our parents. Obviously this offends a lot of people, particularly since it's at odds with the idea that we're all born equal, but there is a growing amount of evidence for the idea that certain characteristics "run in the family" - e.g., above- or below-average intelligence, aggressive behaviour, depression, other mental illnesses, even homosexuality (though this one runs less successfully for obvious reasons) - so they've probably done the usual scriptwriter's thing of taking a tentative theory and grossly over-extrapolating.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:28, Reply)

Firstly that's not what evolutionary psychology is.
Secondly, inheriting charateristics and personality traits such as violence a lack of empathy etc, is totally different from inheriting behaviour patterns, like killing people.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:36, Reply)

Yes, that's true
That's why I said the scriptwriters would have grossly over-extrapolated. If anything, you'd probably expect an "inherited" behaviour pattern to be due to environmental influences than genetic, so not really "inherited" in the sense of the word we're discussing here.

And I admit my understanding of the distinction between inheriting character traits and evolutionary psychology is ropey (I realise the two are related but not the same), having not read all that much about it. I just thought I'd throw the idea in there for general interest.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 13:15, Reply)