I think I'll go for a walk
Wow, this thing still works? *blows dust off "Post An Entry" page*
I would summarize the last *mumble* months, but it's really just a constant round of knitting, cooking, reading the Internets, etc. And, this week, dentistry. Which I would really, really like to whine about, but won't, because it is graphically TMI and at least one of my friends is dentistry-averse and I don't want to freak him out.
Instead I'm breaking radio silence to beg/plead/cajole you to go see Hesher if it's playing at a theater near you. The teeny tiny list of theaters it's playing in can be found on the movie's website, though I can't direct link it because of flash evilness. (Wake up and smell the 2011, guys.)
You can find a trailer at the same website. I encourage you to watch it. There's no big distribution deal for Hesher, probably because A) it credits the audience with having a brain, and leaves a lot of the backstory and plot unstated for us to fill in for ourselves, and B) it has more f-bombs and sexually explicit language than vintage Kevin Smith. So the only chance it has to get into more theaters is for people to go see it at the theaters that DO have it.
This movie deserves, but probably won't get, Oscar nominations. Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and if there's a category that encompasses general look-and-feel, then that too. There is only one tiny thing that dates the movie; in all other respects it could be set anytime between now and the mid 1980s. I just think that's kind of a cool trick. :) I realize I haven't said much of what the movie is about, but it's about a lot of things, and I'm pretty confident that anyone in fandom - any fandom - is going to grok why it's so awesome. We're already primed to recognize subtext and make our own meta.
Ok, my final endorsement for Hesher... as Joseph Gordon-Levitt himself posted on Twitter, "I'm half naked in it a lot." And he is. And I didn't even pay a lot of attention to looking at him, no matter how worth looking at he is, because I was just marveling at the story and the characters and how nice it is for a movie to treat me as though I have a brain.
I would summarize the last *mumble* months, but it's really just a constant round of knitting, cooking, reading the Internets, etc. And, this week, dentistry. Which I would really, really like to whine about, but won't, because it is graphically TMI and at least one of my friends is dentistry-averse and I don't want to freak him out.
Instead I'm breaking radio silence to beg/plead/cajole you to go see Hesher if it's playing at a theater near you. The teeny tiny list of theaters it's playing in can be found on the movie's website, though I can't direct link it because of flash evilness. (Wake up and smell the 2011, guys.)
You can find a trailer at the same website. I encourage you to watch it. There's no big distribution deal for Hesher, probably because A) it credits the audience with having a brain, and leaves a lot of the backstory and plot unstated for us to fill in for ourselves, and B) it has more f-bombs and sexually explicit language than vintage Kevin Smith. So the only chance it has to get into more theaters is for people to go see it at the theaters that DO have it.
This movie deserves, but probably won't get, Oscar nominations. Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and if there's a category that encompasses general look-and-feel, then that too. There is only one tiny thing that dates the movie; in all other respects it could be set anytime between now and the mid 1980s. I just think that's kind of a cool trick. :) I realize I haven't said much of what the movie is about, but it's about a lot of things, and I'm pretty confident that anyone in fandom - any fandom - is going to grok why it's so awesome. We're already primed to recognize subtext and make our own meta.
Ok, my final endorsement for Hesher... as Joseph Gordon-Levitt himself posted on Twitter, "I'm half naked in it a lot." And he is. And I didn't even pay a lot of attention to looking at him, no matter how worth looking at he is, because I was just marveling at the story and the characters and how nice it is for a movie to treat me as though I have a brain.