Fannish Things (Mary & Max, JCVD)
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Fannish Things
Recently I watched quite a few things that I not only liked but liked very very much, you might say I like-liked them. They are vastly different from one another. Here are some of them: Mary & Max, a story about a friendship in clay animation and JCVD, a meta movie with Jean-Claude van Damme about Jean-Claude van Damme.
Mary & Max (2009) movie
I watched this without knowing anything about this. A friend of mine told me that this movie might just as well have been made for us and I think I agree with her.
It's about the several decades long pen friendship between Mary, an Australien girl and Max, a man from New York, who both find the world to be very confusing and scary. Their friendship has its ups and downs but also an overall beauty and tenderness that is just amazing. It's a clay animation movie and I personally found all the characters to be just adorable.
Mary
Max
JCVD (2008) movie
I picked this up at a DVD rental shop on a whim. I like Jean-Claude van Damme and I had heard about this movie but didn't really know what to expect.
I absolutely adore this movie. It is about Jean-Claude van Damme playing Jean-Claude van Damme, an out of luck actor, fighting for custody of his daughter and longing for making a good movie for a change. There is a lot of self-referentiality and tongue in cheek humor, there is talk about the depiction of bad guys in various decades of action cinema and about the celebrity status in general and what people expect from movie stars. In one scene Jean-Claude van Damme complains to his agent about his (van Damme's) fee being too high. He argues that this way there's no money left for the movie itself and he'd rather work for free and be in a good movie with a decent budget.
when confrinted with "movie" violence
when confronted with "real" violence
with some fans
Fannish Things
Recently I watched quite a few things that I not only liked but liked very very much, you might say I like-liked them. They are vastly different from one another. Here are some of them: Mary & Max, a story about a friendship in clay animation and JCVD, a meta movie with Jean-Claude van Damme about Jean-Claude van Damme.
Mary & Max (2009) movie
I watched this without knowing anything about this. A friend of mine told me that this movie might just as well have been made for us and I think I agree with her.
It's about the several decades long pen friendship between Mary, an Australien girl and Max, a man from New York, who both find the world to be very confusing and scary. Their friendship has its ups and downs but also an overall beauty and tenderness that is just amazing. It's a clay animation movie and I personally found all the characters to be just adorable.
Mary
Max
JCVD (2008) movie
I picked this up at a DVD rental shop on a whim. I like Jean-Claude van Damme and I had heard about this movie but didn't really know what to expect.
I absolutely adore this movie. It is about Jean-Claude van Damme playing Jean-Claude van Damme, an out of luck actor, fighting for custody of his daughter and longing for making a good movie for a change. There is a lot of self-referentiality and tongue in cheek humor, there is talk about the depiction of bad guys in various decades of action cinema and about the celebrity status in general and what people expect from movie stars. In one scene Jean-Claude van Damme complains to his agent about his (van Damme's) fee being too high. He argues that this way there's no money left for the movie itself and he'd rather work for free and be in a good movie with a decent budget.
when confrinted with "movie" violence
when confronted with "real" violence
with some fans