more movies

does more movies mean less books? or just netflix? I'm still reading boxes and arrows, 37signals, alistapart, web things.

So last night I watched the movie "Crank" it was crap. The problem with making a main character a professional killer is identification.  Sure revenge flicks sometimes don't need all that much pathos but 32xcxcx
(my cat, Hidari, is trying to help me type)
The movie was crap. Stupid girlfriend. Stupid premise. Stupid main character. At least the movie just got started, no introduction of character. Hooray!

Tonight I watched "Brick". Cold stares. Snappy dialouge. To the stoners hanging out by the dumpsters behind the cafe' the main character says "I got all five senses and I slept last night this puts me six up on the lot of you." Great framing and attention to detail (especially important for noir style movies) but then again only high-school drama geeks talk like the characters in the movie. I mean there is something about the movie, it was clearly very well constructed and a certain riff on the high-school movie, but but, I dunno. It was so serious. And I remember high-school could be serious, but, hmm, damn. Some good mystery framing. Use of clues. Though not enough information in context for the viewer to know what might be going on. Its definitely the high-school one act play writing that bothers me, sure its a kind of alternate reality type thing, maybe. It kind of makes me want to start a fight. I did like the line - "The Kingpin. Supposed to be old, like 26"

Even though Lucky Slevin was much more over the top, I liked it more. Which is strange perhaps. It had better wallpaper.