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Topic: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Re: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

Her completely flattened me.  Great review, Doc.

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Re: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

Thanks! Yeah, I was pretty floored. My friends and I just sat there in stunned silence for a few minutes after it ended.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Re: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

Finally just saw this for the first time.

I'm surprised how much I didn't love it.  hmm

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Re: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

Teague, did Eternal Sunshine work for you? Wondering as Her covers a lot of the same territory (in a superior and more interesting way in my opinion)

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Re: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

Definitely companion pieces, both about love and relationships, though they approach the topic from different directions.

I would venture to say that HER is a more "legitimate" piece of sci-fi, as it's projecting a recognizable future to wrestle with the present, while ETERNAL SUNSHINE is more fantasy, just making up a premise to get at an emotional (and timeless) truth, and could just have easily been about magic spells as a piece of fictitious technology.

It took me two viewings to really fall all the way in love with HER, personally, so might be worth revisiting a little bit down the line after some digestion time, Teague.

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Re: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

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Re: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

Real tilt on the troll spectrum with that post history, guy.

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Re: "Her" review by Doc (no spoilers)

Yeah, I don't know what that was, but could we not.

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