Rewatched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and the very last scene was the epitome of unspoken yet awesome special effects, because this time I paid special attention to RDJ's hands, and heck yes, he
was missing half a finger.
I so appreciate that kind of thing.
The thing about The Terminator as a B plot romance movie is that I grew up in with a mom who viewed it as the A plot. I think that movie is a bit trickier, because I think the B plot romance is a stealth A plot in a way. Like, Kyle wouldn't have been there most likely if he hadn't already been in love with Sarah, and eventually the whole thing boiled down to him being there, loving Sarah, and consumating was the whole reason for the assassination attempt.
Beau and I just watched The Queen of Versailles and man that movie (documentary) is a trip. The NYT review said this was like looking in a mirror, and I didn't feel any connection to those in the film.
Reading articles with the director, she said the family has been over-spending when they were in financial crisis. While there was one scene that dealt with this issue, that wasn't at all clear to me. I thought their financial problems were due to the construction of 2 key buildings - not household expenses!
The Terminator is a good one.
...If you take away the romance, the movie doesn't happen.
I see The Princess Bride as an adventure/swashbuckling movie. Though the romance is obviously a very key part.
...If you take away the romance, the movie doesn't happen.
Right. Which was what I was trying to get at (and apparently explaining poorly). You wouldn't call The Terminator a romance, but the romance is important to the outcome (or existence, in this case) of the movie.
What about Dark City (the original The Matrix)?
Reading articles with the director, she said the family has been over-spending when they were in financial crisis. While there was one scene that dealt with this issue, that wasn't at all clear to me. I thought their financial problems were due to the construction of 2 key buildings - not household expenses!
Over-spending by building the new house, maybe. But also WTF Christmas???
Holy shit,
ParaNorman
made me cry. So good.
Holy shit, ParaNorman made me cry. So good.
I was afraid it wouldn't look as good on TV as it did on the screen, but it did. It looked great.
The stop-motion looked as fluid as CGI! Like, I was pretty sure I'd heard it was stop-motion, but it was so hard to tell that I thought I was
wrong.
There were only a few jerky moments here and there where it looked stop-motion-y.
There were some moments that I did think would have played better on the big screen, but it still looked great.
I didn't expect it to make me tear up (at the scene where
his sister stood up for him
). And then when the climax rolled around, I was basically crying for the rest of the movie. What the hell.
