Blue Velvet, The Hours and the U.N.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
I've been wanting to see The Hours and Blue Velvet (Yay, Lynch!) for a while now and last week I finally saw them. First off, Blue Velvet. Isabella Rossellini proved she's not that good a singer. Kyle MacLachlan was naive and a little weird (as always). And Lynch's trademark mood oozed through the whole film. I actually found parts of the movie funny. I'm not sure if it's meant to be a comedy, but it felt like David Lynch's typically sick humor. I love the intro and outro sequences where you see white pickets fences and a firetruck driving by with a fireman waving to the camera, to us.Also, what's the fuzz about Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth being creepy? Sure, you wouldn't want to have him as a neighbour because he seemed extremly volatile, but I didn't find him that creepy. I guess it depends on the viewer.
The second movie of the week is The Hours. This movie used a badass structure. It's three stories, about fifty years apart, all shown at the same time. There's some smooth editing in action here. You could actually recognize when they changed time period within a few seconds, but they used every trick in the book to achive that (except for color timing, which was for the better). Unfortunately there was one thing about the editing that bothered me. Sometimes the movie went for a reaction shot when there was no use for it. It felt as if the editor was having trouble relaxing in the slower scenes. And the movie never takes a break and lingers on a shot, which I think could've been used to great effect here.
The movie itself is excellent, and it has quite a deep message to the viewer. I do think some people will find this movie boring, since it deals with depression and the meaning of life :)
On a different note, did you know that in 1999, the U.N suggested a tax for emails?
posted by Richard @ 00:02
2 Comments:
If I could have the same articulacy when writing a review about a perticular game then I might have a shot in sending my works to a game site of my choise.
But it's no fun that way. :P
Saying daikatana is about as fun as being bitten in the balls by a rabid dog really brings out the mental pain of actually having to sit through a game like that. :)
And saying that F.E.A.R is creamy and dreamy like a 20 year old gorgeous asian girl longing for your loins as you've just had to experiment with viagra, really brings out the joy of the mental image finally being able play this game.
I love my reviews. :P
/Sami
Articulacy? When I read what I write, I sometimes suspect a monkey has done my writing. But in that case, maybe a particular articulate monkey.
Can you believe that you managed to disgust and scare me at the same time with your two reviews? I don't even need to read the first one, and I'm still scared and disgusted! Good work!
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