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Rereading, the phrasing is ungracious. Thanks for the correction. I learned something new.
BTW, even though most of the script owed little the original comic, the character names mostly are from the Eisner comic. Which makes me wonder if 'Sand Serif" is a font geek joke.
From looking at the trailer, I thought that the B&W conversion for Frances Ha was very poorly done.
And Frank Miller is batshit insane these days.
You can still buy B&W film, but it's more expensive and nobody I've ever met in the film/TV industry likes the way it looks. Most people working in B&W are either aiming for an old-timey look (which you can't get from modern film) or a super-stylized look (which you can't get from modern film).
I got announcements that said Madison and Cliff will be in the Veronica Mars movie.
I saw that! Cliff Cliff Cliff!!!
His video was awesome.
I saw Frances Ha and really enjoyed it. It does a wonderful job of capturing the delirious, complex, claustrophobic friendship of young women. The film kinda loses its way at points but onthe whole i was quite impressed. Gerwig is lovely.
So I just saw Punching Stuff Until It Blows Up, er, I mean Man of Steel.
It was not good.
Standard Zach Snyder not good? Or a different flavor of not good? I need to know how angry Pete is going to be once he sees it. (Pete really likes Superman, and has been excited about the trailers for Man of Steel. I've told him to go see it on his own, because I don't really care about Supes, and that I have given up on Zach Snyder movies.)
Mainly it was just incredibly boring. There was no there there. The timeline is shaken up for no good reason other than telling it chronologically would have been even more boring. Trivial bits of backstory are repeated over and over and over again, and major pieces of information are glossed over or not mentioned at all. It's just a boring clunky badly told story.
One thing I will say in its favor - Lois Lane is done very well. I don't think this passes the Bechdel test, but the "Pulitzer Prize winning ditz" schtick from the last several Superman films is GONE. She is presented from the beginning as an actual competent journalist who doesn't need to ask her male boss how to spell shit. There is no scene where she's randomly in her underwear or a tight cocktail dress. She's frequently in need of rescue, but not more than the military guys she's surrounded by. So that was refreshing. But it doesn't make up for the fact that she's in a movie where you could fall asleep for an hour and not miss anything.
Mainly it was just incredibly boring. There was no there there.
So pretty much like every other Zach Snyder film? Good to know.
(The best thing from the Watchmen movie was the music video, and NOT just because it was MCR. Tho' that helped immensely.)