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Oh, here it is. :P
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“The Hobbit” trailer took me by surprise, actually… a kind of quiet thrill.
I only wanted to watch this because someone claimed it was as good as “How To Train Your Dragon”. While I have now assessed this to be quite untrue (because HTTYD was really awesome), it was a pretty decent flick, though I think I could have personally waited for the DVD. >_>
The image is from my absolute, hands down favorite part of the film. It’s just the most visually stunning and moving part, no doubt about it.
Though Maximus the horse… dog… is a close second. >_> I did feel a little cheated by the ending, but oh well… it’s Disney. :P
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This is kind of a fun list. I don’t care about the vast majority of them, but there are a couple titles that sound interesting… “Now”, for example, or “Hugo Cabret”.
But I literally squealed when I got to the second to last entry. Sherlock Holmes 2? Oh gawd yes!
![Tron: Legacy was deliciously liquid and slick. Perhaps it is a little sterile and cold and unfeeling, but oh… oh so shiny.
Story? Um, yeah, not really. In fact, I get the feeling that they didn’t really try too hard. But it’s actually almost okay, cause everything was just so attractive to look at all the time. >__>
And the reference to The Door made watching the first film all and totally worth it. ^__^
[edit] After reading like ten different critical reviews of the movie, I will basically just say this: yes, they could have tried to “fix” the nonsensicalness of the original movie and yes, they could have tried to do much more with the plot… but if it really bothers people so much that an algorithm can take human form (oops, spoiler XP), then they should just pretend that the world of Tron is just an ALTERNATE EARTH WHERE THIS KIND OF THING CAN HAPPEN.
Because let’s face it, nothing in that film was technologically accurate except for Cillian Murphy’s “kill -9 pid”.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldpqtsn9bG1qz4x70o1_500.png "Tron: Legacy was deliciously liquid and slick. Perhaps it is a little sterile and cold and unfeeling, but oh… oh so shiny.
Story? Um, yeah, not really. In fact, I get the feeling that they didn’t really try too hard. But it’s actually almost okay, cause everything was just so attractive to look at all the time. >__>
And the reference to The Door made watching the first film all and totally worth it. ^__^
[edit] After reading like ten different critical reviews of the movie, I will basically just say this: yes, they could have tried to “fix” the nonsensicalness of the original movie and yes, they could have tried to do much more with the plot… but if it really bothers people so much that an algorithm can take human form (oops, spoiler XP), then they should just pretend that the world of Tron is just an ALTERNATE EARTH WHERE THIS KIND OF THING CAN HAPPEN.
Because let’s face it, nothing in that film was technologically accurate except for Cillian Murphy’s “kill -9 pid”.")
Tron: Legacy was deliciously liquid and slick. Perhaps it is a little sterile and cold and unfeeling, but oh… oh so shiny.
Story? Um, yeah, not really. In fact, I get the feeling that they didn’t really try too hard. But it’s actually almost okay, cause everything was just so attractive to look at all the time. >__>
And the reference to The Door made watching the first film all and totally worth it. ^__^
[edit] After reading like ten different critical reviews of the movie, I will basically just say this: yes, they could have tried to “fix” the nonsensicalness of the original movie and yes, they could have tried to do much more with the plot… but if it really bothers people so much that an algorithm can take human form (oops, spoiler XP), then they should just pretend that the world of Tron is just an ALTERNATE EARTH WHERE THIS KIND OF THING CAN HAPPEN.
Because let’s face it, nothing in that film was technologically accurate except for Cillian Murphy’s “kill -9 pid”.
![So we watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Heath Ledger’s last film, of course, which threw a wrench into the everything and they ended up getting three other big name male actors to substitute for him… I suppose that worked out, since a lot of it takes place in a dream world anyway.
I quite enjoyed it! It was like a cross between MirrorMask and What Dreams May Come. That is, there were a great deal of visual themes that I recognized as being similar to MirrorMask (or even the older Labyrinth!), but the film came laden with all these themes of morality and life, death and choice. Perhaps not entirely coherently, either. So I hesitate to label it “thought-provoking”, because when I think about it now, I don’t really know what it might be trying to provoke thought about… or what it was its theory was… or … whatever.
My brain mostly just feels heavy, rather than enlightened. And though I think the latter is supposed to be preferred, the former might not in itself be bad. ;x
It probably has something to do with the fact that I’m not sure there was a real protagonist character, so there’s no single story to follow and moral to learn. At any rate, I also enjoyed the portrayal of the Devil in this film, as a being whose goal isn’t specifically the doom of mankind. Still not a guy you necessarily want to make an enemy of, or any bargains at all, but you can’t deny that he seems to keep his promises.
Anyway, despite its quasi-schizophrenic aspects, I did enjoy it. So there. :)
[edit] And here’s a link to an article, interview of Terry Gilliam (director) and Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: The imaginarium of Terry Gilliam.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8kn8lZPYb1qz4x70o1_500.jpg "So we watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Heath Ledger’s last film, of course, which threw a wrench into the everything and they ended up getting three other big name male actors to substitute for him… I suppose that worked out, since a lot of it takes place in a dream world anyway.
I quite enjoyed it! It was like a cross between MirrorMask and What Dreams May Come. That is, there were a great deal of visual themes that I recognized as being similar to MirrorMask (or even the older Labyrinth!), but the film came laden with all these themes of morality and life, death and choice. Perhaps not entirely coherently, either. So I hesitate to label it “thought-provoking”, because when I think about it now, I don’t really know what it might be trying to provoke thought about… or what it was its theory was… or … whatever.
My brain mostly just feels heavy, rather than enlightened. And though I think the latter is supposed to be preferred, the former might not in itself be bad. ;x
It probably has something to do with the fact that I’m not sure there was a real protagonist character, so there’s no single story to follow and moral to learn. At any rate, I also enjoyed the portrayal of the Devil in this film, as a being whose goal isn’t specifically the doom of mankind. Still not a guy you necessarily want to make an enemy of, or any bargains at all, but you can’t deny that he seems to keep his promises.
Anyway, despite its quasi-schizophrenic aspects, I did enjoy it. So there. :)
[edit] And here’s a link to an article, interview of Terry Gilliam (director) and Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: The imaginarium of Terry Gilliam.")
So we watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Heath Ledger’s last film, of course, which threw a wrench into the everything and they ended up getting three other big name male actors to substitute for him… I suppose that worked out, since a lot of it takes place in a dream world anyway.
I quite enjoyed it! It was like a cross between MirrorMask and What Dreams May Come. That is, there were a great deal of visual themes that I recognized as being similar to MirrorMask (or even the older Labyrinth!), but the film came laden with all these themes of morality and life, death and choice. Perhaps not entirely coherently, either. So I hesitate to label it “thought-provoking”, because when I think about it now, I don’t really know what it might be trying to provoke thought about… or what it was its theory was… or … whatever.
My brain mostly just feels heavy, rather than enlightened. And though I think the latter is supposed to be preferred, the former might not in itself be bad. ;x
It probably has something to do with the fact that I’m not sure there was a real protagonist character, so there’s no single story to follow and moral to learn. At any rate, I also enjoyed the portrayal of the Devil in this film, as a being whose goal isn’t specifically the doom of mankind. Still not a guy you necessarily want to make an enemy of, or any bargains at all, but you can’t deny that he seems to keep his promises.
Anyway, despite its quasi-schizophrenic aspects, I did enjoy it. So there. :)
[edit] And here’s a link to an article, interview of Terry Gilliam (director) and Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: The imaginarium of Terry Gilliam.
Inception
… was pretty goshdarnedgud! I mean, I don’t think I would go see it four times in the theater… probably not even a second time. But it was a pretty good ride overall.
I’m not sure what’s with the people who call it confusing, because most of it seemed pretty straightforward to me, up until the very end which is (of course) deliberately ambiguous. And then, you have to overlook the fact that there are a ton of things left unexplained: how, exactly, the machines let people share dreams… who gets to control what and why, etc etc. I’m still not really sure what Ariadne’s role (as the “architect”) was… she just designed the dreams at the beginning and wasn’t really necessary afterwards at all, it seemed?
And I’d have to agree that it seemed like a missed opportunity in some ways… could have pushed the dream angle way more and made things actually surreal more often. I read the wiki and one of the things mentioned was how the more unreal a dream was, the more likely it was that the dreamer would figure things out… which I think is a blatant falsehood. My dreams frequently get super unrealistic and I never think anything is weird. Then again, I’ve never personally successfully achieved lucidity in a dream, and whenever I get close, I just wake up, so meh.
As long as you willingly and politely suspend your belief in a few key things, the movie’s great. XP
In other news, omg hiking. x____x
(as well as omg ankle. -____-)
Toy Story 3
Gonna say straight out that Toy Story 1 and 2 were only “meh” in my opinion… I’ve liked other Pixar films much more. Having said that, TS3 has definitely ingrained itself as one of the better Pixar films… I absolutely liked it more than 1 or 2… though I don’t think it quite topples Ratatouille as my favorite.
Aggravatingly enough, the whole film was either soaringly hilarious or heartbreakingly rueful… there wasn’t a whole lot of middle ground to tread. I think I ended up enjoying it so much because of the ending that came about. Is it weird that I found Andy’s maturation to be the most fascinating and entrancing thing about the entire storyline? I was totally flooding tears when he was making his final decision.
Hmm. Not much to add. Oh, except … the short at the beginning was really amazing, if unorthodox. Definitely my new favorite Pixar short, by far.
And I’m definitely crying at movies too often. wtf is wrong with me. ::lol::
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