Victory
We
have some free movie passes lying around that we need to use at some
point, but unfortunately there are not very many movies playing in
theater's that I'd like to see. Most of the new movies I won't watch
until I get to see them free on the Movie Network, and some others I
might not even watch when TBS plays them in the "world broadcasting
premiere". (As the Mad Magazine once joked: If you didn't see a movie
either in theater, DVD, video rental or cable, you probably aren't all
that interested in seeing it.)
If I had to go see something, perhaps the first choice would be "V for Vendetta". I have high hopes for it, since I assume that the Wachowski brothers have maintained the idea of the original comic book and its general content is not like what the trailer and ads try to lead us to believe. Of course the screenwriters must have compressed and streamlined the story quite a lot, but I believe that it will be fine as long as they have left in the basic structure and the central points of the story and V doesn't make any bullet-time bullet dodging moves. Perhaps we will eventually also see the Watchmen movie, although I have to wonder what motivation Ozymandias would now have now that Soviet Union is long gone. Perhaps he now wants to teach us Westerners and Muslims that we must all stand together against the alien invasion?
Another movie that I am interested in seeing is "Final Destination 3", but I'd like first to read whether it is as good as the second part, which in my opinion is the best teen horror movie ever made. The very premise of the movie, that there is no monster in a rubber suit lurking around but the whole physical reality itself is the monster that tries to kill our main characters as impersonally as gravity pulling down a rock thrown in the air, acting teleologically but constrained to obey the laws of physics (for example, a knife can't just jump out the drawer and fly through the air to slash your throat), is absolutely brilliant. If the Matrix movies inspired books of philosophical essays, the premise of this movie should also inspire at least a few blog posts.
No matter where you run, you can't escape the fact that you are still inside the physical reality. Thus the only way to try to survive is to live in a specially constructed safehouse that doesn't contain anything that the physical reality could potentially use as a weapon. But is this really living? Add to this the excellent special effects when the death eventually catches the teens one by one, and the result is a truly excellent movie. The writers of the third part are the same as the second part, so this gives me positive hopes, but I can think of a dozen easy ways to ruin this movie, so I am still a bit wary.
If I had to go see something, perhaps the first choice would be "V for Vendetta". I have high hopes for it, since I assume that the Wachowski brothers have maintained the idea of the original comic book and its general content is not like what the trailer and ads try to lead us to believe. Of course the screenwriters must have compressed and streamlined the story quite a lot, but I believe that it will be fine as long as they have left in the basic structure and the central points of the story and V doesn't make any bullet-time bullet dodging moves. Perhaps we will eventually also see the Watchmen movie, although I have to wonder what motivation Ozymandias would now have now that Soviet Union is long gone. Perhaps he now wants to teach us Westerners and Muslims that we must all stand together against the alien invasion?
Another movie that I am interested in seeing is "Final Destination 3", but I'd like first to read whether it is as good as the second part, which in my opinion is the best teen horror movie ever made. The very premise of the movie, that there is no monster in a rubber suit lurking around but the whole physical reality itself is the monster that tries to kill our main characters as impersonally as gravity pulling down a rock thrown in the air, acting teleologically but constrained to obey the laws of physics (for example, a knife can't just jump out the drawer and fly through the air to slash your throat), is absolutely brilliant. If the Matrix movies inspired books of philosophical essays, the premise of this movie should also inspire at least a few blog posts.
No matter where you run, you can't escape the fact that you are still inside the physical reality. Thus the only way to try to survive is to live in a specially constructed safehouse that doesn't contain anything that the physical reality could potentially use as a weapon. But is this really living? Add to this the excellent special effects when the death eventually catches the teens one by one, and the result is a truly excellent movie. The writers of the third part are the same as the second part, so this gives me positive hopes, but I can think of a dozen easy ways to ruin this movie, so I am still a bit wary.
Debbie Schlussel has an interesting review of V for Vendetta here:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/03/v_for_propagand.html
"If most other Hollywood films subtly whisper of an agenda, "V" clocks you over the head with it with a still sizzling, iron frying pan of extreme leftism. It doesn't arrive in theaters until March 17, but already the mainstream (ie. liberal) movie critics and entertainment media are raving about this egregious attack on our war on terror."
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