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Munich, finished.
May. 10th, 2006 02:50 amSo in between breaks to eat or do other stuff, I eventually watched the whole movie. Watched the last 45 minutes in a continuous run, which was probably a good thing.
I'll get into spoilers in a minute, but I want to say that whoever did the text overlay in final shot is an idiot.
You out there, text graphics guy? Text graphics woman? You're an idiot. You remind me of the same sort of idiot that designed my senior high school year book cover. Hell, for all I know, you ARE the idiot that designed my senior high school year book cover.
The text at the end was barely readable. I had to squint and pause and squint again. Don't they teach you somewhere along the way that whenever you put text on something you have to have it contrast enough with the background that its readable? White text with a light half-outline and a faint shadow in thin-lined print overlaid over a multi-hued and multi-shaded city backdrop creates a lot of confusing light/dark lines that are really hard to read. Even I know that, and all I do is make livejournal icons. Hell, I knew that even before I ever made icons. But that's because I'm not an idiot.
Okay, maybe that sounds harsh. I don't mean to sound really upset, because I don't honestly care. I'm not upset at all. I'm dismissive. Here I was watching a really lushly produced, highly visual, very symbolic-imagery-heavy film, and it concludes with bad text choices. That's just... that's lame. Lame-o.
( Munich: a very, very good film, but I wouldn't have given it Best Picture either. )
All that aside, there is NAKED ERIC BANA. WITH ASS. And pretty hair. God, he's good-looking in this movie. In a very approachable way. Not in a way that's like a glamorous movie star, but in a way that's like the really, really attractive normal guy you pass in a bookstore or a gas station. You just want to stare for a while as it dawns on you, slowly, how attractive he really is.
Acting-wise, Bana is fantastic and thoroughly carries the film. For someone who doesn't move his face all that much and kind of looks like a wall most of the time, he did a fine job of conveying emotions. I think it's his eyes. I think they're magic, and he sends you his emotions from his eyes directly into your brain instead of using facial expressions like normal people.
He and Geoffrey Rush play off each other very well, too.
P.S. Eric Bana: pretty when wet.
I'll get into spoilers in a minute, but I want to say that whoever did the text overlay in final shot is an idiot.
You out there, text graphics guy? Text graphics woman? You're an idiot. You remind me of the same sort of idiot that designed my senior high school year book cover. Hell, for all I know, you ARE the idiot that designed my senior high school year book cover.
The text at the end was barely readable. I had to squint and pause and squint again. Don't they teach you somewhere along the way that whenever you put text on something you have to have it contrast enough with the background that its readable? White text with a light half-outline and a faint shadow in thin-lined print overlaid over a multi-hued and multi-shaded city backdrop creates a lot of confusing light/dark lines that are really hard to read. Even I know that, and all I do is make livejournal icons. Hell, I knew that even before I ever made icons. But that's because I'm not an idiot.
Okay, maybe that sounds harsh. I don't mean to sound really upset, because I don't honestly care. I'm not upset at all. I'm dismissive. Here I was watching a really lushly produced, highly visual, very symbolic-imagery-heavy film, and it concludes with bad text choices. That's just... that's lame. Lame-o.
( Munich: a very, very good film, but I wouldn't have given it Best Picture either. )
All that aside, there is NAKED ERIC BANA. WITH ASS. And pretty hair. God, he's good-looking in this movie. In a very approachable way. Not in a way that's like a glamorous movie star, but in a way that's like the really, really attractive normal guy you pass in a bookstore or a gas station. You just want to stare for a while as it dawns on you, slowly, how attractive he really is.
Acting-wise, Bana is fantastic and thoroughly carries the film. For someone who doesn't move his face all that much and kind of looks like a wall most of the time, he did a fine job of conveying emotions. I think it's his eyes. I think they're magic, and he sends you his emotions from his eyes directly into your brain instead of using facial expressions like normal people.
He and Geoffrey Rush play off each other very well, too.
P.S. Eric Bana: pretty when wet.
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