movies!
I've been at the movies!
yesterday before my show i went and saw Fantastic Mr. Fox. It was truly excellent. A Wes Anderson film that was (kinda) for the kids. Actually, I don't know how much a young child would actually enjoy this movie as most of the elements of the story are rather adult...killing chickens, limbs being shot off, snappy dialogue, and heavy boozing. It's still a typical Anderson movie about a dysfunctional family, but i love all the dysfunction he portrays. If you liked The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, or The Darjeeling Limited, nothing should stop you from seeing this movie.
And the night before that when i had intended on seeing Fantastic Mr. Fox, i ended up opting for The Road, the new movie with Viggo Mortensen based on the Cormac McCarthy novel. I haven't read it, but i spoke to someone who had and apparently, the movie follows the book very closely. It was grey, it was depressing. it was the apocalypse. complete, oppressive and miserable hell. abandoned hope and cannibalism...stealing blankets off the dead and rotting...the daily rain of ashes and the fires. and just the grey the grey the grey- it crushes you. the man asked the old man something like, "have you thought about dying?" to which the old man replies something like, "you can't ask for luxuries like that in this world." See it, but be ready to carry it with you for a few days after.
yesterday before my show i went and saw Fantastic Mr. Fox. It was truly excellent. A Wes Anderson film that was (kinda) for the kids. Actually, I don't know how much a young child would actually enjoy this movie as most of the elements of the story are rather adult...killing chickens, limbs being shot off, snappy dialogue, and heavy boozing. It's still a typical Anderson movie about a dysfunctional family, but i love all the dysfunction he portrays. If you liked The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, or The Darjeeling Limited, nothing should stop you from seeing this movie.
And the night before that when i had intended on seeing Fantastic Mr. Fox, i ended up opting for The Road, the new movie with Viggo Mortensen based on the Cormac McCarthy novel. I haven't read it, but i spoke to someone who had and apparently, the movie follows the book very closely. It was grey, it was depressing. it was the apocalypse. complete, oppressive and miserable hell. abandoned hope and cannibalism...stealing blankets off the dead and rotting...the daily rain of ashes and the fires. and just the grey the grey the grey- it crushes you. the man asked the old man something like, "have you thought about dying?" to which the old man replies something like, "you can't ask for luxuries like that in this world." See it, but be ready to carry it with you for a few days after.