nasty_wolverine wrote:EmperorIng wrote:nasty_wolverine wrote:
You should give 8 1/2 a try...
La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2 were my double rent pack from the local library, so it's on the queue!
I suggest to watch sober, you will feel high by the time it ends... its one of those mind spinner movies.
The only movies I watch with alcohol are bad movies. Fellini Satyricon is a drug in its own right.
heisenbergman wrote:I could never get into 8 1/2 and I've tried maybe on three separate occassions. Too weird and disjointed for my taste.
Funnily enough, this was precisely my problem with Fellini Satyricon. I think it's a Fellini thing. Sometimes it works (Amacord).
Moniker wrote:(And it has absolutely nothing to do with lingerie or seashores or being big breasted and owning sports cars. Although, tbh, those things happen reasonably often, and really can't hurt.)
These movies have given me a false impression of Italy as a land of impossibly-beautiful women and sports cars with an added dash of fruitless soul-searching.
This all reminds me that my high school cross-country coach did a study-abroad summer in Rome one year, where he met up with the then-exiled Prince of Afghanistan. His Excellency took him (a total stranger) to night-clubs straight out of La Dolce Vita with constant sex, drugs, and orgies. Poor guy wanted to go back home.