Klauss is a weird little fucker
11:25 AM 12/18/09 · I don't always feel the need to make a post to my main journal about the movies I rent but I did this last time...for some reason or other. Possibly mostly because I just haven't been posting as much as I used to and I wanted to post something. It was mostly about the most recent 10 movies I rented...
...one of which was The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
A couple people said it was pretty good.
Most of them said it sucked rocks.
I'm a little quirky on the matter.
Having watched a number of foreign films, mostly horror with a few action ones tossed in, I've noted that they tend to put different emphasis on certain things an American film would either exclude or outright ignore. I had the sense all the way thru The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou that it felt like a foreign film and spent a lot of the time watching it trying to work out what type it reminded me the most of.
I can't really qualify this but it felt a lot like the movies I've seen that were in Tagalog; I watch most stuff in the language it was made in with subtitles. I can't say why this particular language, which I believe is native to the Phillapines, is the most similar to the feel of this movie...but that's what I've got.
As a smaller me I was a big fam of Jaques Cousteu and this may explain why I've loved most things set in water no matter how good or bad they were. Also may explain my love of Steve Alten's Meg series. Regardless, that was the big reason I wanted to see this movie...
...and while I don't think I'll ever wanna watch it again I can't say I didn't enjoy it. There's a small number of movies I've seen before that I judged as being one shots. Enjoyed them but there was a quality to it that gave me the distinct impression that if I ever watched it again it would lose something that I enjoyed the first time. Only 2 other I can recall offhand, that were like this, were E.T. and The Dead Poets Society.
Despite this fact this movie came across from a slightly different region of the world, I think they were going more for a British feel. Hail the conquering hero and all that rot. There's a line from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that kept echoing thru my head while watching this: "Most decidedly unsporting, probably Belgians"...or something like that.
So, ultimately I did enjoy this movie but I don't know that I'd recommend it. I skipped over watching the deleted scenes in this. Given the subtext of the film its the stuff the crew edited out and given what they left in their personal films...I'm probably better off not watching any of that.
Oh, there's a mess of storylines running thru The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. First off, Steve's partner of many years is slaughtered by a supposedly unknown kind of shark. Steve swears revenge on it. Then there's this guy that shows up who may or may not be his son and reporter that he may or may not have sex with if the opportunity presents itself. His wife has left him for her ex husband...
...and it just gets weirder still the further in you go.
...one of which was The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
A couple people said it was pretty good.
Most of them said it sucked rocks.
I'm a little quirky on the matter.
Having watched a number of foreign films, mostly horror with a few action ones tossed in, I've noted that they tend to put different emphasis on certain things an American film would either exclude or outright ignore. I had the sense all the way thru The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou that it felt like a foreign film and spent a lot of the time watching it trying to work out what type it reminded me the most of.
I can't really qualify this but it felt a lot like the movies I've seen that were in Tagalog; I watch most stuff in the language it was made in with subtitles. I can't say why this particular language, which I believe is native to the Phillapines, is the most similar to the feel of this movie...but that's what I've got.
As a smaller me I was a big fam of Jaques Cousteu and this may explain why I've loved most things set in water no matter how good or bad they were. Also may explain my love of Steve Alten's Meg series. Regardless, that was the big reason I wanted to see this movie...
...and while I don't think I'll ever wanna watch it again I can't say I didn't enjoy it. There's a small number of movies I've seen before that I judged as being one shots. Enjoyed them but there was a quality to it that gave me the distinct impression that if I ever watched it again it would lose something that I enjoyed the first time. Only 2 other I can recall offhand, that were like this, were E.T. and The Dead Poets Society.
Despite this fact this movie came across from a slightly different region of the world, I think they were going more for a British feel. Hail the conquering hero and all that rot. There's a line from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that kept echoing thru my head while watching this: "Most decidedly unsporting, probably Belgians"...or something like that.
So, ultimately I did enjoy this movie but I don't know that I'd recommend it. I skipped over watching the deleted scenes in this. Given the subtext of the film its the stuff the crew edited out and given what they left in their personal films...I'm probably better off not watching any of that.
Oh, there's a mess of storylines running thru The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. First off, Steve's partner of many years is slaughtered by a supposedly unknown kind of shark. Steve swears revenge on it. Then there's this guy that shows up who may or may not be his son and reporter that he may or may not have sex with if the opportunity presents itself. His wife has left him for her ex husband...
...and it just gets weirder still the further in you go.