does more movies mean less books? or just netflix? I'm still reading boxes and arrows, 37signals, alistapart,
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.
Even though Lucky Slevin was much more over the top, I liked it more. Which is strange perhaps. It had better wallpaper.
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.
So my next couple of netflix have been The Devil's Backbone and Talledaga Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Sascha Baron Cohen is a winner as the gay French Formula 1 driver who arrives to challenge Will Ferrell's character. Otherwise the movie is kind of trash. However the line, "I want to move to Sri Lanka with my husband to train komodo dragons to perform Hamlet" is some kind of wierd beautiful asipiration.
I've been reading comic books by Brian Wood. The first two volumes of DMZ (will there be more?) are pretty awesome. As a result of Bush era foreign policy there are localized militia uprisings all over America. As war breaks out between the Free States and 'America' Manhattan becomes the demarcation line. As noted in the introduction to the first volume, the books aren't just about the possibility of another civil war but are more about what it means to be a New Yorker, this sort of indeliable spirit of survivalism and tenacity that is more than being "American". Both books are damn fine reads with some energetic art Ricardo Burchielli. The character of them is more graphic adventure than traditional super-hero comic and Brian Wood's ability to flesh out wierd future scenarios that aren't so unreasonable remains intact.
Otherwise, playing with the cat - who squeaks alot.
I just started a new Netflix account. Hooray for things to distract myself. A job. A cat. Books. Movies. Life is about things that we spend time on. Maybe sometime on others.
I never really finished the last three book reviews I wrote but maybe that doesn't matter.
The movie? It has witty but maybe a bit overwritten speech patterns but some fun story twists. I really really love the movies use of wallpaper. It reminded me of Old Boy with its attention to little but so amazingly visual details. So Luck Number Slevin, whoever did your wallpaper you are awesome.
In other news, the Dutch are awesome when it comes to Information Architecture.
