A Few Thoughts About Rango
Dear Posterity
My oldest friend and I sat down in a Saturday afternoon session to watch this fillum. We are both now great-uncles several times over so we feel we have societal permission to be cranky old men. I normally watch fillums at night so I was somewhat shocked by the fact that when we walked in, nearly all the seats were taken and the cinema was infested with children.
But interestingly, children are a lot better to watch a fillum with than teenagers. Once the movie starts, children shut up and watch.
And it's a good fillum to watch.
I actually found myself wondering why this fillum which appealled so much to my cine-literate self, would also appeal to a kiddy audience. And then I realised: Gore Verbinsky has done something really clever here.
He's made a fillum where the kiddies don't even noticice the jokes intended for people like me because they are asides to a classic Sergio Leonne-style plot staged for comic effect in a way that the little 'uns can understand.
The references come thick and fast, but it doesn't matter if you don't catch them. Talking about the film afterwards, my oldest friend pointed out the reference to the Terrance Hill/ Bud Spencer Trinity movies, of which he is a big fan and I pointed out the Star Wars in another scene. Both references were real, but the fact that each of us had missed one did not deteriorate from our enjoyment of the fillum.
I'm ashamed to say that I was the worst behaved patron in the cinema because I forgot to turn off my mobile and it rang halfway through the fillum. In my defence, it rings quietly and I didn't answer it.
But if you have a child or an inner child, Rango is probably a fillum you will enjoy. I know I did.
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My oldest friend and I sat down in a Saturday afternoon session to watch this fillum. We are both now great-uncles several times over so we feel we have societal permission to be cranky old men. I normally watch fillums at night so I was somewhat shocked by the fact that when we walked in, nearly all the seats were taken and the cinema was infested with children.
But interestingly, children are a lot better to watch a fillum with than teenagers. Once the movie starts, children shut up and watch.
And it's a good fillum to watch.
I actually found myself wondering why this fillum which appealled so much to my cine-literate self, would also appeal to a kiddy audience. And then I realised: Gore Verbinsky has done something really clever here.
He's made a fillum where the kiddies don't even noticice the jokes intended for people like me because they are asides to a classic Sergio Leonne-style plot staged for comic effect in a way that the little 'uns can understand.
The references come thick and fast, but it doesn't matter if you don't catch them. Talking about the film afterwards, my oldest friend pointed out the reference to the Terrance Hill/ Bud Spencer Trinity movies, of which he is a big fan and I pointed out the Star Wars in another scene. Both references were real, but the fact that each of us had missed one did not deteriorate from our enjoyment of the fillum.
I'm ashamed to say that I was the worst behaved patron in the cinema because I forgot to turn off my mobile and it rang halfway through the fillum. In my defence, it rings quietly and I didn't answer it.
But if you have a child or an inner child, Rango is probably a fillum you will enjoy. I know I did.
This entry was originally posted at http://enrobso.dreamwidth.org/9433.html. Please comment there using OpenID.