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Back from my weekend with the family. My Nana's health is pretty bad at the moment, they don't know if she'll get to go back to her retirement village, which she isn't too thrilled about. She's sharp as a tack, though, and getting fed up with all the dementia-addled people in her ward. I ate a lot, which seems to happen often when I'm staying with family.
You'd think I'd have a lot to link to after a weekend away, but there's surprisingly little.
Crazy people make Mal and Kaylee's 'Shindig' outfits out of duct tape.
Dom's AFI contribution video...thing is up here.
I saw three movies over the weekend.
Speed Racer
I don't really know how to judge this one. It's a kids' film, and it seemed to hit its mark with its target audience - all the kids in the movie loved it. I know the phrase eye candy is used for something else, but this is literally like candy for the eyes - loads of bright colours and an overload of sugar that makes you feel like everything in real life is a whole lot duller by comparison. The car fu was pretty impressive, but I think I was more impressed with the look as an overall impression. The camera rarely stops moving, even in close-up. Even in the slower, quieter moments, there are cuts away to something more exciting so the kids are kept on their toes. There's not much plot or acting going on here, but what was there was...fine, nothing to write home about. I don't think it deserves to be a 'flop', though, that's proabbly just poor marketing.
Watching a movie in which the title character's name is actually Speed Racer is so difficult to swallow. There's something that happened at the beginning of the movie that caused me to remark 'if they wanted a slow kid, they would've called him Slow Racer!' I mean really.
2.5 out of 5
Bridge to Terebithia
Not a terribly consistent film - AnnaSophia Robb overacts the hell out of her character and makes her hard to like despite hers being the character you're supposed to fall in love with - but packs a hell of a lot more of an emotional punch than Speed Racer could manage. I thought Josh Hutcherson, the main kid, was excellent, particularly at selling the emotions after Leslie dies. Terrible marketing in choosing to focus on the...what, 5 minutes of fantasy sequences? It's really more of a story about growing up and not losing that wonder about life.
3 out of 5
Mermaids
This genre is so tired. And Mermaids can't be exempt from it, because the concept had been done before Mermaids and has been done since. Single mother/sex hound moves from town to town after relationships end and has difficult relationship with teen daughter, who is discovering her own budding teen sexuality. Drama ensues, they end up with a touching mother-daughter relationship, the end. Christina Ricci and Bob Hoskins were the bright spots in this one, far out-charming Cher and Winona Ryder in the leads.
2.5 out of 5
Go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer go!
Green Queen
You'd think I'd have a lot to link to after a weekend away, but there's surprisingly little.
Crazy people make Mal and Kaylee's 'Shindig' outfits out of duct tape.
Dom's AFI contribution video...thing is up here.
I saw three movies over the weekend.
Speed Racer
I don't really know how to judge this one. It's a kids' film, and it seemed to hit its mark with its target audience - all the kids in the movie loved it. I know the phrase eye candy is used for something else, but this is literally like candy for the eyes - loads of bright colours and an overload of sugar that makes you feel like everything in real life is a whole lot duller by comparison. The car fu was pretty impressive, but I think I was more impressed with the look as an overall impression. The camera rarely stops moving, even in close-up. Even in the slower, quieter moments, there are cuts away to something more exciting so the kids are kept on their toes. There's not much plot or acting going on here, but what was there was...fine, nothing to write home about. I don't think it deserves to be a 'flop', though, that's proabbly just poor marketing.
Watching a movie in which the title character's name is actually Speed Racer is so difficult to swallow. There's something that happened at the beginning of the movie that caused me to remark 'if they wanted a slow kid, they would've called him Slow Racer!' I mean really.
2.5 out of 5
Bridge to Terebithia
Not a terribly consistent film - AnnaSophia Robb overacts the hell out of her character and makes her hard to like despite hers being the character you're supposed to fall in love with - but packs a hell of a lot more of an emotional punch than Speed Racer could manage. I thought Josh Hutcherson, the main kid, was excellent, particularly at selling the emotions after Leslie dies. Terrible marketing in choosing to focus on the...what, 5 minutes of fantasy sequences? It's really more of a story about growing up and not losing that wonder about life.
3 out of 5
Mermaids
This genre is so tired. And Mermaids can't be exempt from it, because the concept had been done before Mermaids and has been done since. Single mother/sex hound moves from town to town after relationships end and has difficult relationship with teen daughter, who is discovering her own budding teen sexuality. Drama ensues, they end up with a touching mother-daughter relationship, the end. Christina Ricci and Bob Hoskins were the bright spots in this one, far out-charming Cher and Winona Ryder in the leads.
2.5 out of 5
Go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer go!
Green Queen