At World's End Review

[itasianinvasion]

I wanted to have this written earlier, and I saw it a week ago, but I kept expecting to see it again with my folks, and it kept getting called off or pushed back, so I couldn’t see it again, to maybe clear up my review, but them’s the breaks.

The review is pretty spoiler heavy, but I imagine most of you have seen it by now, but just in case:  the

Comments

[not_a_girl]

Well thank god someone besides me and my boyfriend liked it. All my damn friends just keep bitching and bitching.

[itasianinvasion]

These sorts of films rarely live up to audience expectations on the way things should've ended. I had the same problem, but you have to learn to shut it off.

Which is big talk for me. Ask me if I did that after I see Transformers.

Matt

[not_a_girl]

Oh god. I'm already so sad about that movie. I'm just gonna watch Beast Wars again instead.

[anonymous]

Didn't see it yet, not that you give too much away I couldn't discern for myself. At any rate, I'm really upset to hear about Chow Yun-fat. He's one of those actors that shine no matter what he's in and frequently misused. Remember that flick the replacement killers or that one with Marky-Mark about internal-affairs or some such nonsense. Both near-worthless films made totally watchable by Chow Yun-fat's preformance. His appearance was the only reason for my desire to see the third Pirates movie; as much as I like Rush in all that he does I found myself not caring about his return as Barbossa given how incomplete the second film was. You're absolutely right about the attempted rape. I mean seriously it's as if all of the Hollywood big-wigs got together at a giant evil table to converse about this movie

[itasianinvasion]

I don't think Chow Yun Fat will have a great action/adventure role ever again except maybe that video game sequel to Hard Boiled, Stranglehold.

What's paprika about?

Matt

[anonymous]

It's in the vein of Paranoia Agent. Essentially a company makes a dream machine that gets stolen and misused to create a kind of viral dream that invades other people's consciousnesses and then somehow merges with reality. A police officer who has been secretly getting therapy via the dream machine undercover from its creators, and a split-personality who is a kind of dream super-heroine must find out who is behind the theft and stop the menacing dream from... uh... destroying the world? I don't know man, it's anime. How can you possibly ask me to describe an anime without sounding totally batshit crazy? Anyways it looks amazing and the plot and characters are pretty compelling. Check it out if it comes your way, but seriously, I don't know if you saw the first movie, Nightwatch, but don't touch Daywatch with a 10-foot-pole. It's fucking useless.
BUZ

I agree with most of your points

[anonymous]

Matt,

I agree with most of you points, except for the open letter to Hollywood about the easy rapes; look buddy, I've been quietly responsible for most of the rapes going on in Hollywood, both on and off set, for some time now, and I'd appreciate it if you don't fuck with my livelihood. But otherwise good review.

Sincerely,
Adam

Re: I agree with most of your points

[itasianinvasion]

Thank you for the kind words, and the harmony on individual points, but overall, how did you feel about the film as a whole?

Oh, and before I forget, you're a horrible person.

Matt