MDW and I returned from seeing Gran Torino - which I liked a lot. However, the coming attractions had a tedious sameness. Like the synchronized drivers of Dallas, different studios are releasing similar films dealing with a small group fighting back against a massive conspiracy by:1. A giant billion-dollar corporation whose reach goes "all the way to the top."
2. A giant bank underwriting dictatorial regimes with tentacles everywhere and a reach that goes "all the way to the top."
3. Something else where a there's a conspiracy that doesn't go all the way to the top, but extends part of the way, stops, takes the stairs, rests and has a smoke, then gets off on the wrong floor, but sees the snack cart and stops for a Danish. Later, it reaches the top by freight elevator.
I might Netflix the last one.
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Thank you for spreading awareness about Dallas' crazy drivers. Every effort helps.
I agree about movies becoming monotonous. I was pleased however to see the trailer for "9" on the big screen today when I went to see Coraline. Certainly gives the appearance of something we haven't seen before. And nothing riles up exciment for a movie quite like the electric guitar.
Go see "Taken" especially if you like the old Bronson movies of Deathwish
takineko,
I read "Coraline."
Movie any good?
Jeff,
I love old Bronson movies.
I'll check it out.
I really enjoyed the movie. Mostly the visuals though it wasn't a bad plot either. [The plot was given away in the commercials though]. I think 3D added to it, though half the time I forgot I was watching it in 3D until something amazing decided to slink out at me.
Beautiful movie, I'm sure there will be a great deal of fan art all across the internet this week.
A friend of mine who read the book said she didn't like something about the way they changed the ending to the Coraline movie, but she didn't specify because she didn't want to spoil it.
It certainly made good use of the 3D aspect, much to the annoyance of my fiancée who was seated next to a 20-something who apparently had never experienced 3D before and thus constantly had to say, "Whoa!" every time there was a significant depth -- particularly of the poking-out kind.
He was probably the sort of person whom you see on the commercials for 3D movies, who stands there and says, "The 3D makes you sound like an idiot by stating the following cliché: You really feel like you're IN the movie."
One little boy shouted, "Let's not watch this movie EVER AGAIN!" after being frightened by one scene.
Keeper,
You should've told the 20-year-old that 3-D coupled with the word "Whoa!" causes impotence.
Neil Gaiman talks a bit about Coraline and links to reviews that discuss differences between book and film (one positively; one negatively) in his blog here: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/recharging.html
The negative reviewer completely misses one point. Apparently he doesn't know much about the theater and superstitions therein. So one of his negative points is not a point at all other than to display his ignorance of the stage.
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