Falling Pandas
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bluegargantuaHey,
So in the past two days, I've seen The Fall and Kung Fu Panda. Both of them were pretty good movies.
The Fall is about this little immigrant girl in a Los Angeles hospital in the late 20's/early 30's. She runs into this guy who's broken his leg and confined to his bed. The guy starts spinning this fantastical tale for the little girl in order to con her into stealing enough pills for him to kill himself.
Yeah, it's kind of a dark movie.
But the story he tells? It's like a fever dream of lush images and colors. The hero band includes an Indian (who the narrator thinks is a Native American, but who the little girl imagines as a Hindu), a masked bandit (who's Spanish...er...French), an ex-slave, an Italian explosives expert, and Charles Darwin (who has the most awesome coat in the history of coats -- I totally want it).
Anyway, these guys are all united in their quest to kill the evil Spanish governor. And the movie cuts back and forth between the amazing visuals of the story and the quiet, desperate reality of the hospital. The best part is that the interplay between the adult and the child was perfect. The girl kept interrupting and injecting her own ideas into the story, she caught him out on one or two things and when her overall personality was just fantastic.
So yeah, great movie, recommended.
On to Kung Fu Panda, this quote from the movie sums it up best:
"There's no charge for awesome."
Well, there will be a charge to get into the movie, but it's a perfectly serviceable little animated Kung Fu movie. No musical numbers, no ironic pop references, just an animal tale kung fu movie that is totally jazzed about being a kung fu movie. It's no cinematic masterpiece, it's just a straight up kung fu flick. But for all that it's really well done and quite funny in a number of places.
So it's been a good cinematic summer for me so far.
later
Tom
So in the past two days, I've seen The Fall and Kung Fu Panda. Both of them were pretty good movies.
The Fall is about this little immigrant girl in a Los Angeles hospital in the late 20's/early 30's. She runs into this guy who's broken his leg and confined to his bed. The guy starts spinning this fantastical tale for the little girl in order to con her into stealing enough pills for him to kill himself.
Yeah, it's kind of a dark movie.
But the story he tells? It's like a fever dream of lush images and colors. The hero band includes an Indian (who the narrator thinks is a Native American, but who the little girl imagines as a Hindu), a masked bandit (who's Spanish...er...French), an ex-slave, an Italian explosives expert, and Charles Darwin (who has the most awesome coat in the history of coats -- I totally want it).
Anyway, these guys are all united in their quest to kill the evil Spanish governor. And the movie cuts back and forth between the amazing visuals of the story and the quiet, desperate reality of the hospital. The best part is that the interplay between the adult and the child was perfect. The girl kept interrupting and injecting her own ideas into the story, she caught him out on one or two things and when her overall personality was just fantastic.
So yeah, great movie, recommended.
On to Kung Fu Panda, this quote from the movie sums it up best:
"There's no charge for awesome."
Well, there will be a charge to get into the movie, but it's a perfectly serviceable little animated Kung Fu movie. No musical numbers, no ironic pop references, just an animal tale kung fu movie that is totally jazzed about being a kung fu movie. It's no cinematic masterpiece, it's just a straight up kung fu flick. But for all that it's really well done and quite funny in a number of places.
So it's been a good cinematic summer for me so far.
later
Tom
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Date: 2008-06-07 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-07 10:28 pm (UTC)Um...there were pretty young kids there. If you'd let them watch Samurai Jack, this would probably be a little tamer than that. There's a lot of fighting, but rarely does anyone actually get hit. No one dies.
later
Tom
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Date: 2008-06-09 05:43 am (UTC)