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Brick was pretty tight. Juxtaposition was the star, where hardboiled shenanigans unfurled in and around the unassuming backdrop of a suburban high school. The plot was secondary, though still treated with love; basically it was just a means to have the protagonist meet all the archetypes up and down the noir pecking order, from lowly hash junkie to enigmatic bombshell to crimeboss - stuff like that. The Kara character felt kind’f stuck in there just to be there, but she was pretty welcome regardless. After all, what’s a noir without the brothel mom? And Meagan Good is a babe you just can’t refuse.
Zero Effect. I have to see this movie once in awhile to remember how much I love it so. It’s never on TV and it’s never in any theater’s midnight movie list (though it’d fit perfectly amongst Tron and Sixteen Candles or whatever usually plays at those things), and nobody ever talks about it. I have the memory capacity of a sea anemone, so this means that I’ll forget about Zero Effect after a few weeks and pop it into a DVD player come several months, curl up into a happy little fetal ball and sport a big shit-eatin’ grin from its opening credits to the last soliloquy. This movie isn’t cynical enough to be total noir, nor does Daryl Zero have the hard-boiled-ness to match his slickness. Instead he harkens back to times quirkier and tamer than Dashiel Hammet, to that dope-smoking nutcase Holmes who solved as many mysteries from his armchair as he did walking the streets. Solid all around, what I like best about the movie is its understatement: Bill Pullman’s got a monotone drawl, it’s set in Portland instead of New York or something, Kim Dickens is the female lead instead of Chalize Theron… you get the picture, yeah? It’s confident enough to walk about without beating its chest. If you see it, you see it. If you don’t, then whatever. That’s pretty rad. And holy fuck! I just found out that the director (Jake Kasdan) also worked on Freaks and Geeks. Respect.
Alright - on to drawings and shit. BLack and White, the lot of 'em.
And woah. If this isn't one of the neater LJ posts I've run into so far.
Zero Effect. I have to see this movie once in awhile to remember how much I love it so. It’s never on TV and it’s never in any theater’s midnight movie list (though it’d fit perfectly amongst Tron and Sixteen Candles or whatever usually plays at those things), and nobody ever talks about it. I have the memory capacity of a sea anemone, so this means that I’ll forget about Zero Effect after a few weeks and pop it into a DVD player come several months, curl up into a happy little fetal ball and sport a big shit-eatin’ grin from its opening credits to the last soliloquy. This movie isn’t cynical enough to be total noir, nor does Daryl Zero have the hard-boiled-ness to match his slickness. Instead he harkens back to times quirkier and tamer than Dashiel Hammet, to that dope-smoking nutcase Holmes who solved as many mysteries from his armchair as he did walking the streets. Solid all around, what I like best about the movie is its understatement: Bill Pullman’s got a monotone drawl, it’s set in Portland instead of New York or something, Kim Dickens is the female lead instead of Chalize Theron… you get the picture, yeah? It’s confident enough to walk about without beating its chest. If you see it, you see it. If you don’t, then whatever. That’s pretty rad. And holy fuck! I just found out that the director (Jake Kasdan) also worked on Freaks and Geeks. Respect.
Alright - on to drawings and shit. BLack and White, the lot of 'em.
And woah. If this isn't one of the neater LJ posts I've run into so far.