Tonight I watched Doomsday. It's terrible, but also fantastic. I think I can sum things up by telling you that at one point, the punk-rock survivors of a zombie-esque plague have a big Thunderdome-style show where the mohawked leader performs a dance routine to FYC's "Good Thing." Which was an unexpected musical choice. But then they set a guy on fire and ate him, so it all made sense.
After that our heroes get captured by knights in plate armor. And then they get to meet Malcom McDowell in a castle, and there's some gladitorial combat. And then there's a crazy car chase.
So it's kind of to 80s action movies what Raiders is to 40s serials. But less so.
I liked Up in 3-D. I thought it worked well, if not quite as well as Coraline. But I also would've liked it in 2-d, and the surcharge was $4 for us (normally $6 at this theater for pre-noon, but we got to pay $10) so I'm definitely feeling kinda "eh" on the whole concept.
So who's seen the German movie Felidae?
It's a very dark, gritty film noir that came out in 1994.
And it's animated.
And it's about cats.
Huh, shit, that reminds me that there was this other German animated noir movie that came out recently (and by recently I mean in the last five years) that looked interesting, and now I can't remember what it was.
yep. That's Happy Feet.
My 4yo won't even watch it. He tried once, and keeps telling me how bad it is.
We're going to attempt
Up
with the actual child, although we are both concerned that we will love it and want to watch it, and he'll want to know where the Jedi are and when the shooting starts.
I found
Happy Feet
to be just about the most depressing movie I had ever seen.
Oh man, Happy Feet. When my daughter was 14 or 15, she had to have a baby tooth pulled and before we went in, she insisted that I buy (!!) it so she could watch it when we got home from the oral surgeon because she'd never seen it and it had so much "buzz". The day after, she asked me if she hallucinated or was it that bad? I had to break it to her that no it wasn't the drugs, the movie was indeed that awful.
Ha ha ha. I just took a look at the Rotten Tomatoes page (74%!), and there are all these reviews praising it to high heaven (one called it the greatest motion picture of all time), and I'm wondering what movie they saw.
I haven't seen Happy Feet, but shrift hates it so much, I was never tempted to try.
