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Aug. 1st, 2004 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockWell, my computer and internet going will be sporadic in the near future. On a completely unrelated note, what computing I do comes with the interesting new challenge of wrist braces. My doctor gave them to me when I mentioned wrist pain, and they seem to help. They're quite comfortable. The challenge lies in the bottom of the braces, where my wrists usually rest on the keyboard, slide around on the plastic, and don't quite stay the way skin does. So I end up overcompensating when I move my hands to reach for farther outlying keys.
I watches two movies recently.
The Triplets of Belleville -
Okay, this was one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. Right up there with Being John Malcovich (but better). The animation was fascinating and at times (the scenery, the cityscapes, the mechanical designs, the color), positively gorgeous. The exaggerated style of it, however, both turned me off and turned me onto it. In objects and setting the exaggeration was fascinating-- the very tall and skinny ships, for example. But on the characters it was weird and frequently grotesque. Also, kind of funny (the mafia box-shouldered guys, for example.)
There were no subtitles... but then there was almost no dialogue. Just two lines in the beginning and one in the end, and those were in English. But even without dialogue, it was fairly easy to follow. Weird, but eventually one catches on.
It was very funny. Sometimes almsot horribly slow, but the funny parts were funny. Like the pet dog, and the dinner frogs. Overall, I reccomend renting it. If only for the amazingly stylish presentation.
Secret Window -
For some reason, this movie never worked for me. I mean, technically it did everything right-- Johnny Depp was good, the other actors were good, the direction was good, the dialogue was good.
But really, I never cared about Depp's character. I never got emotionally invested in him. And as such, the scary parts weren't that scary, and at many points I could predict where it was going. I never got really emotionally involved, and therefore the film was mostly a disappointment.
But, it wasn't a bad movie, not really. See my first paragraph. It's just that it didn't do it for me and therefore I can't reccomend it. Well---let's jsut say I would get it if one could borrow it from a friend, or on a Netflix kind of service, but I wouldn't pay more than 5 dollars to rent or buy it unless you're a big fan of Johnny Depp or the director.
Identity is a much better horror movie of the psycho-killer theme to come out in the last 2 or 3 years. WARNING: EVIL SPOILERS FOR IDENTITY IN COMMENTS BELOW.
I watches two movies recently.
The Triplets of Belleville -
Okay, this was one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. Right up there with Being John Malcovich (but better). The animation was fascinating and at times (the scenery, the cityscapes, the mechanical designs, the color), positively gorgeous. The exaggerated style of it, however, both turned me off and turned me onto it. In objects and setting the exaggeration was fascinating-- the very tall and skinny ships, for example. But on the characters it was weird and frequently grotesque. Also, kind of funny (the mafia box-shouldered guys, for example.)
There were no subtitles... but then there was almost no dialogue. Just two lines in the beginning and one in the end, and those were in English. But even without dialogue, it was fairly easy to follow. Weird, but eventually one catches on.
It was very funny. Sometimes almsot horribly slow, but the funny parts were funny. Like the pet dog, and the dinner frogs. Overall, I reccomend renting it. If only for the amazingly stylish presentation.
Secret Window -
For some reason, this movie never worked for me. I mean, technically it did everything right-- Johnny Depp was good, the other actors were good, the direction was good, the dialogue was good.
But really, I never cared about Depp's character. I never got emotionally invested in him. And as such, the scary parts weren't that scary, and at many points I could predict where it was going. I never got really emotionally involved, and therefore the film was mostly a disappointment.
But, it wasn't a bad movie, not really. See my first paragraph. It's just that it didn't do it for me and therefore I can't reccomend it. Well---let's jsut say I would get it if one could borrow it from a friend, or on a Netflix kind of service, but I wouldn't pay more than 5 dollars to rent or buy it unless you're a big fan of Johnny Depp or the director.
Identity is a much better horror movie of the psycho-killer theme to come out in the last 2 or 3 years. WARNING: EVIL SPOILERS FOR IDENTITY IN COMMENTS BELOW.
