More Reviews of things!
Apr. 27th, 2012 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrI rather overdid it today, and this sort of post keeps me from falling asleep at 7pm.
Rango: a straightforward but well made humourous CGI spaghetti western with talking animals which are BEAUTIFULLY animated. The cinematography and character design in this film are truly gorgeous, they really add to the humour and drama etc. It is alas rather racist and ableist, this didn't ruin the film for me but YMMV.
Becoming Loveless A cute sweet little comic about being aromantic.
Kino's Journey (2 episodes): Slow, gentle, atmospheric anime where not much happens, about a young traveller and their talking motorbike travelling between various strange lands. The final proof I needed that I cannot stand this kind of anime (see also: Mushishi, Haibane Renmai). I kept waiting for there to be ACTUAL PLOT that MEANT SOMETHING rather than subtle mediations on the bittersweet irony of life. Also the gentle tragedy of the first episode has a REALLY OBVIOUS SOLUTION which really didn't lessen my desire to walk in, slap everyone upside the head and take over the damn story. Um. But if you like this sort of thing it's pretty good for what it is :D
Fringe (First 3 disks of season 1): This is basically an updated, slightly kookier version of the X files. I really like the main character Olivia, a gritty bitter female FBI agent, but in general am not sure why I am enjoying it. Yet, I am!
Hanna: Thriller about a teenage girl trained in survival skills by her father in the wilderness, on the run from the FBI. A failed attempt at a good film, had some good moments but was patchy and tonally inconsistent. On the plus side: a thriller with a female main character who is neither sexualised nor evil!
Rango: a straightforward but well made humourous CGI spaghetti western with talking animals which are BEAUTIFULLY animated. The cinematography and character design in this film are truly gorgeous, they really add to the humour and drama etc. It is alas rather racist and ableist, this didn't ruin the film for me but YMMV.
Becoming Loveless A cute sweet little comic about being aromantic.
Kino's Journey (2 episodes): Slow, gentle, atmospheric anime where not much happens, about a young traveller and their talking motorbike travelling between various strange lands. The final proof I needed that I cannot stand this kind of anime (see also: Mushishi, Haibane Renmai). I kept waiting for there to be ACTUAL PLOT that MEANT SOMETHING rather than subtle mediations on the bittersweet irony of life. Also the gentle tragedy of the first episode has a REALLY OBVIOUS SOLUTION which really didn't lessen my desire to walk in, slap everyone upside the head and take over the damn story. Um. But if you like this sort of thing it's pretty good for what it is :D
Fringe (First 3 disks of season 1): This is basically an updated, slightly kookier version of the X files. I really like the main character Olivia, a gritty bitter female FBI agent, but in general am not sure why I am enjoying it. Yet, I am!
Hanna: Thriller about a teenage girl trained in survival skills by her father in the wilderness, on the run from the FBI. A failed attempt at a good film, had some good moments but was patchy and tonally inconsistent. On the plus side: a thriller with a female main character who is neither sexualised nor evil!
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Date: 2012-04-27 09:53 pm (UTC)i think you could argue that hanna's amorality is a sort of evil. (i wouldn't argue that, but i think it could be done.) and you could certainly argue that marissa is evil. (i think it's more complex than that, of course.)
gah, so many feels!
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Date: 2012-04-28 06:06 am (UTC)Perhaps it's more pacing than tone. Basically, it went: slow naturalistic realism, interesting if a bit dull/FAST IMPRESSIONISTIC THRILLER STROBE LIGHTS EXPLOSIONS/kooky families/cheesy FBI drama/kooky surrealness/SCHLOCKY EVIL/indie movie ambiguity/end
I think if, on one hand, the generic thriller scenes had been more realistic and Marissa less moustache twirlingly nasty, but on the other the slow sections had been less slow, I would have really enjoyed it. As it was my brain kept switching modes and I was left unsatisfied. But I know a lot of other people love the film, so maybe I'm just reading it from the wrong perspective!