Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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so i finally saw Bourne Supremacy. i liked it, but i would have liked it even more if it hadn't given me a headache. i fucking hate the handheld camera trend. it needs to go the way of the dinosaurs.
saw previews for Nicolas Cage's new movie National Treasure, which looks like it could be entertaining, and The Grudge. also the movie Saw, with Cary Elwes, looks interesting.
Sky Captain was absolutely wonderful. The trailers don't even come close to doing justice to the look of it, and the directing & editing are just dead on. There was a huge section where I realized that the production design and order of set pieces were lifted almost entirely from Fellowship of the Ring -- they go to a mountain, where things go badly, and then they wake up healed in a beautiful peaceful valley, and then get chased across an impossibly narrow bridge over an impossibly deep crevasse by a giant monster with big flappy wings. Not that I didn't still love those bits, but it was very amusing.
What the "all CGI!" reviews of this film are missing, I think, is that this isn't a live-action movie with a lot of CGI; it's an animated movie with some composited live action. And I think that approaching it that way (making the look of thhe actors fit the look of the animation) works much better than trying to make CGI look "natural."
I guess the fuckwads are remaking the George Pal "War of the Worlds" (or possibly the Orson Welles version) and ignoring the H. G. Wells "War of the Worlds".
There's a competing version of War of the Worlds from Pendragon Pictures and director Timothy Hines that's just finished shooting. It's set in the 19th century, and is supposed to be a highly faithful adaptation of Wells.
Jessica just reminded me, re: Sky Captain, did any one else think "Rivendell!" when they showed Shangri-La?
Nonian, I said "Rivendell!" out loud at that part.
I went to see Hellboy again last night (free screening at a local college). I don't know why I love that movie so much, I just do.
Nonian, I said "Rivendell!" out loud at that part.
Me, I said, "It's Attack of the Clones !"
I don't know why I love that movie so much, I just do.
Because a big red devil-looking guy sits on a rooftop eating milk and cookies with a ten-year-old and making fun of the square macking on his girl.
I saw Sky Captian today! I'm going to have to go back and see it again, because I missed some of the things that were posted in white font. but I won't mind seeing it again. It was lovely. I was reminded of some anime, especially Big O.
P-C and other Anne Hathaway fans -- she is one of the women that Premiere magazine is featuring in the October women in film issue. (Others are Angelina Jolie, Patrcia Clarkson, Queen Latifah, Liza Chasin, and Olivia de Havilland.)
We are watching The Apple.
It is... interesting.