Just saw Children of Men. Wow, wow, wow. That is an *incredible* movie. I was duly impressed with all the long shots (the person I saw it with was certain that they must have been edited together from multiple takes, until we watched the extras and saw them talking about how those shots were put together), but what was equally impressive was the sense of place, how real and how lived-in that world was, how grim but also how vibrant it was. The best thing about those famous long shots was how they enhanced that sense of reality, so you could really feel the tension mounting & the situation unfolding in each scene in real time. It's just incredible.

Saw Hot Fuzz tonight, and was underwhelmed. It got a few chuckles from me, but most of my reactions were "Ah, I recognize that" or "Hmm, clever," or "Ah, tricky." I found it much less funny and far more gory than Shaun of the Dead. On the drive home, I was kinda wishing I had rented that instead.

Unfortunately, I've got to go with dcp on this one. We watched Shaun of the Dead before going to see Hot Fuzz, and the former was much funnier. Hot Fuzz was good fun, but it was not the OMG AWESOME I was expecting from everyone else's reactions. I sort of expected the whole movie to be like the last twenty minutes, where they exploit all the action-movie cliches.

See, P-C, whereas I wouldn't have minded if those last twenty minutes with all the shooting & explosions had been cut down to ten. Not that I don't love shooting & explosions (and I wouldn't have cut a second of the fight in the model village!) but that's kind of a one-note joke after a while. I just loved everything about Nicholas moving to Sandford, being introduced to all the townspeople, meeting Danny (okay, so the bromance was my favorite part), and beginning to piece the mystery together. I thought it was much funnier than Shaun of the Dead, actually!

::sits with Kate P.::

Black Sheep is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the Flick Filosopher likes it!

Genetic engineering transforms placid woolies into maneating monsters, and oh yeah, anyone bitten mutates into a monster sheep, too. (The creature effects were handled by Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop, and they, too, tickle endlessly by going to great pains to consider what would constitute “scary” in a sheep.)

Oh man, the WAM channel is showing a movie called Spymate that stars Chris Potter and Richard Kind. Toss in Will Farrell and you'd have had a movie that would spur me into a spree killing rampage in the theater.

Right now, Disney's home page is showing a 9 minute clip of Ratatouille.

The trailer for that was giving me all kinds of SF2F flashbacks, between the music and the claymation animals. Heh.

On my periodic jaunt to apple.com's trailers, I watched the one for Nancy Drew. Horrors! Shock! Call me a grumpy old timer, but that's not my Nancy! This movie looks to be a Clueless/Mean Girls/Scooby damned Doo mishmash. I liked Mean Girls and loved Clueless. But there's no George, unless you count the sassy hipster who helps her acclimate to the big city. And there's no Bess unless you count the chunky boy who hangs out with her.

There is a Ned, but who cares? Also, what teenaged boy these days has the curse of being named Ned? Still. I wanted my George and my Bess and less country mouse who triumphs. *My* Nancy is hip!

Right now, Disney's home page is showing a 9 minute clip of Ratatouille.

OMG! HI-Larious.