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Oh, and I saw movies over the weekend and on Buddha’s Birthday (which was yesterday). I shall bore you now with opinions of them.
Source Code
Possibly the best Philip K Dick film to not be based on an actual Philip K Dick story, in which Jake Gyllenhall wakes up in the body of another man on a train that is about to be blown up. He has eight minutes to figure out who the bomber is, and every time he fails he goes back to repeat the same eight minutes. It’s a great hook, and one that writer Ben Ripley and director Duncan Jones pull off brilliantly without lapsing into Groundhog Day or Matrix-style video-game pastiches. The science bits might throw some people off, but the story works really well within the premise it sets up for itself. And the performances by Gyllenhall, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright really help sell it.
Rio
Animated film about a rare parrot smuggled out of the Brazilian jungle and raised in Minnesota who ends up back in Rio de Janeiro to meet the only other parrot of his kind … for mating purposes. Just as Sucker Punch is a film that I liked a lot that most people didn’t, Rio is a film that everyone liked a lot that I didn’t. It’s not bad, and parts of it are really funny, but the fish-out-of-water b/w boy-meets-girl-and-they-argue-until-they-fall-in-love story vehicle has been done a zillion times. Points for including material to risk losing a G rating, but overall it didn’t really engage me all that much. Fun, yes, but also disposable.
Beautiful plumage,
This is dF
Source Code
Possibly the best Philip K Dick film to not be based on an actual Philip K Dick story, in which Jake Gyllenhall wakes up in the body of another man on a train that is about to be blown up. He has eight minutes to figure out who the bomber is, and every time he fails he goes back to repeat the same eight minutes. It’s a great hook, and one that writer Ben Ripley and director Duncan Jones pull off brilliantly without lapsing into Groundhog Day or Matrix-style video-game pastiches. The science bits might throw some people off, but the story works really well within the premise it sets up for itself. And the performances by Gyllenhall, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright really help sell it.
Rio
Animated film about a rare parrot smuggled out of the Brazilian jungle and raised in Minnesota who ends up back in Rio de Janeiro to meet the only other parrot of his kind … for mating purposes. Just as Sucker Punch is a film that I liked a lot that most people didn’t, Rio is a film that everyone liked a lot that I didn’t. It’s not bad, and parts of it are really funny, but the fish-out-of-water b/w boy-meets-girl-and-they-argue-until-they-fall-in-love story vehicle has been done a zillion times. Points for including material to risk losing a G rating, but overall it didn’t really engage me all that much. Fun, yes, but also disposable.
Beautiful plumage,
This is dF
