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Good to see reality tv finally being taken down a peg.
So Black Death was pretty sweet. Glad to see that it and Solomon Kane exist today. We need more of these kinds of no nonsense, darker fantasy movies.
Now I don't like Millar very much, but the guy is justifying writing his work off based on the qualities of a fraction of what Millar does. And then likening him to Geoff Johns (WTF? When does Johns get extreme?) and Garth Ennis (which is like comparing Roger Corman to Stanley Kubrick) demonstrates just how little he either knows about or reads comics.
I watched Badlands again in anticipation of The Tree of Life, and the thing which struck me the most this time is how funny this movie is. Kit's craziness is a constant source of absurdist humor, and the contrast between it and Holly's deadpan narration of it is hilarious. This is essentially a comedy about the ultimate wannabe: the man who wants to be part of nature (check out at the beginning when he throws a ball at a dog, and the dog stone-cold ignores him), wants to be famous (he thinks everything he does will have repercussions throughout history), wants to be deep (he rambles empty platitudes all the time), wants to be rich (as Malick himself pointed out, the rich man is the only one he doesn't kill), and fails at everything. In the end, the only thing he succeeds at is looking like James Dean, as pointed out by the cop; perhaps attention was what he was after after all, and as soon as he gets it, he dies. I don't think Malick would ever get this bleak again. Anyway, magnificent film, a singular vision stunningly executed and all that. Some real funny shit though:
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The Man from Laramie
Low-key Western that benefits from a truly interesting approach to the characters and their relationship with each other. No-one really turns out to be as obvious as they seem at first glance, and there are some stunning insights on human nature (my favourite is the self-awareness of the father - he acts like a son-of-a-bitch his whole life because he has the personality to pull it off, but he starts to consciously soften and look to make peace with his neighbours because his son doesn't have the same personality to maintain a hard line). If only more films were confident enough to play with various shades of grey.
My mom is in town and is about to make us watch The Men Who Stare At Goats. I understand that it's not too well received. Someone give me some hope here.
Its not The Bounty Hunter. That's the best I can do.
Watching Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within in HD. I'm continually surprised how my review of this film as gone up with every viewing. While far from perfect, I quite enjoy this, and the animation is still impressive. More so in HD.
That movie makes no damn sense at all.
What's the consensus round here on "The Constant Gardener"?
Harold Lloyd's 1919 short Ask Father. It's cute, witty, and less than 13 minutes long!
All things said, when's Pixar going to do something as great as this:
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Was going to write longer reviews on the 30+ Sydney Film Fest films I saw over the last 10 days, but got sidetracked by tweeting my every thought with my new iPhone; here's most of aftermath in the form of drive-by capsules:
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I watched The Elephant Man tonight, for the first time in many years. I think my attention span has improved. I certainly loved the movie when I first saw it as a teenager, but I think I only absorbed it as a series of individual scenes, and not as a complete whole.
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Yesterday I learned where one of Russ' old avatars came from. Springtime in Greenland is good kooky fun. Gonna check out Crime Wave soon. Hopefully it's more of the same.