Finally saw
Sunshine,
and while it was pretty and had a great cast and a wonderful score (damn, was that hard to find, but I finally succeeded thanks to
*ahem*)
it fell kinda flat for me.
It wasn't so much that I would change anything, but that it had left out a lot of storytelling and it needed
more
added to it.
What little meaning I could glean from it I got from commentaries and interviews, which to me is a sign of failure (which is how I felt about the LotR trilogy). If you can't say what you mean to say within the given medium, you haven't successfully told your story.
I didn't mind the sudden shift in tone towards the end, but the lack of any foreshadowing of where the movie would go. Or maybe I was expecting too much... but, no, because from what the director and writer said, there was supposed to be more, but I didn't get that from watching it. Not at all.
Still, pretty.
when you watch a DVD, if it goes straight to the menu, do you go looking for trailers? Or do you watch the film without trailers?
Just got back from Memphis where I saw Cloverfield. The camera style thankfully didn't end up being problematic for me. And
I was SO thankful when I realized I was wrong about which actor played Hud, and it wasn't Best-Night-Ever Guy from the trailer after all.
The monster actually reminded me of the thing Craig Nelson hacked up in Poltergeist 2 what with the elongated vaguely skull-like head and the crawling around supported on its forelimbs
.
My review of Cloverfield, after some sushi talk.
I thought it was great, and it didn't disappoint in being a really cool monster/disaster movie told from a hand-held camera's POV.
I love Knight's Tale so much I can forgive the ingenue for her lack of depth.
This. Also, I like her truly ridiculous ensembles.
Alan Tudyk was my main reason for watching Firefly.
Whereas for me, I was all "OMGWTFWash!!!!" when I finally watched
A Knight's Tale.
But Paul Bettany's entrance is my all time favorite in the history of cinema.
Heh. And in his entrance, you see his entrance. Um.
(Cap'n Jack Sparrow's entrance in PotC1 is definitely my favourite in the histroy of cinema, but ymmv.)
Funnily enough, I never shipped Heath Ledger's character with the blacksmith chick. I wonder why? It seems so obvious, in hindsight, but I just...didn't. I loved her enormously, but I didn't think she was just the love interest - I thought she was one of the guys.
Now, I
did
ship Chaucer with Watt. In fact at some point I'm going to have to write the fic in my head, in which Chaucer falls like a tonne of bricks for the knight (oh yes, yes he does, my goodness, in the second nekkid scene it is ALL about the eyefucks) and yet how he ends up with Watt, to both their surprise.
It always bugs in theater movies when they show actors reheasing in full costume on a finished set.
This bothers me more than is reasonable, I think because I feel that people who make movies and tv should actually know a little about theatre, since it is related. Or at least more than they can be expected to know about law or medicine. I mean, they don't even have to research. Anyone who has been in a high school or even grammar school play knows that you don't have costumes and sets spring full formed in to being for rehearsals. See also when actors audition in costume. Crazy!
Just watched
I am Legend.
Really really liked it. And not just for the sheer hotness of Will Smith, although - man. Man. That is some salty goodness right there. Still, shallow and obvious fervour aside, I thought it was a cracking film. Made me jump, made me cry, seemed to me to make the right story-telling choices. It rocked.
from a recent internal email about the rash of vomitings, "It seems all the raves about Cloverfield truly being an experience rather than a movie have held true, whether that’s as positive a review as it might sound remains to be judged."
It made close to $18 million on Friday. It's doing pretty well as a movie experience!
