Movie reviews

Sep 14, 2010 06:10

I can't believe how many movies I've been to this year. And how many of them I want to write about.

Tomorrow, When The War Began )

movies, anime, evangelion

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deadborder September 13 2010, 23:01:16 UTC
TWtWB is an Australian film that I actually wanted to see. (Wot?) I quite enjoyed it myself. Of course, I was also geeking out by identifying the equipment used by the "enemy" soldiers, and squeeeing that the SFX people had done enough research to make the "bad guy fighter" into a recognisable J-10 rather then some generic blobjet.

And yes, good sotry and chracterisation to. And it has the best "bait and switch" trailer ever.

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notalwaysweak September 14 2010, 00:15:11 UTC
Chris was so miscast though compared to how he's described in the books, IMHO.

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halfeatenmoon September 14 2010, 00:24:38 UTC
True. It's been years since I last read the books but I don't remember him being anything like that. I can see how they changed him for sort of comic effect, but they make him seem stupid and I remember Chris in the books being quite smart.

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notalwaysweak September 17 2010, 13:21:41 UTC
He was smart, and lightly built, not freakin' Jack Black, and into poetry, and I never pictured him as a stoner -- he was into drugs, but I didn't think of him as just a plain old pothead.

But the contrast between that characterisation and the sheer horror of the situation he's actually describing is so well done, it's a shame more people don't get that.

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rose_papillon September 15 2010, 01:01:44 UTC
"Of course, at another level, the series is really just about Ellie blowing shit up."

Man, I gotta read these books.

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