...what could have possessed you to watch it even once?
terry crews dancing robot to satisfaction springs to mind...
...what could have possessed you to watch it even once?
...what could have possessed you to watch it even once?
Wanted to watch a funny comedy and give my brain some time off
I can watch Citizen Kane and Ace Ventura on the same afternoon with no problems
I get this part...in the same first date with a girl we watched Pi, Kids, Requiem for a Dream, and The Emperor's New Groove.
White Chicks, though...White Chicks?
Definitely agree with the animation. The action sequences were pretty badass.Big Hero 6, I didn't care much for its plot but the animation.......Holy. Crap. Sometimes, I would just pause and soak in all the intricacies of the graphics.
Not sure what differentiates Disney Animation Studios and Pixar but bravo to them.
Last night I went to see Metropolis. The version that was restored with help from that Argentinian find from a a few years ago. In the local Concert Hall. With the musical score provided live by the Concert Hall's philharmonic orchestra. Oh hell yeah.
It was a very interesting experience, and in a good way. Metropolis, as a silent movie made in the 1920s, is a challenge for a mind used to today's movies. First, the fact that there's no audible dialogue means you have to pay much more attention to gesture and facial expression of the actors. It also means that the acting in these departments is somewhat overdone, which is funny to see.
Also, 90-year-old set-building and visual effects. What they achieved is awesome beyond a doubt and still silly to see today. The 1920's "futuristic" aesthetics and the way the movie uses clothing as a means of showing the differences between worker class and ruler class is almost painful in the way wordplay can be painful.
I don't know if it's the lack of spoken dialogue alone or something else, but it struck me that nothing in the movie is even remotely subtle. The acting itself, the way important information is conveyed via frames of written text with really obvious wording, the writing... most obvious when Machine-Maria drives all the man crazy. Yeah, we get it, she's temptation incarnate. Oh, Brigitte Helm had the devious gaze down to a tee.
With regard to the actual story, it's a classic arc. Well, obviously. The thing that was most memorable to me was that every action of every character that somehow related to the city's machine system was utterly erratic, idiotic, senseless, or several of these. But I guess that was exactly the point.
From today's point of view, it also struck me how utterly sexistic and clich?-laden the portrayal of women in the movie was.
In all, the movie is definitely not the most fun film around, but really worth seeing. But that should be done properly, meaning not at home, but on the big screen. If you have the chance to see it at a cinema or better yet a screening with classical music score, go for it.
Batman: [reads the first riddle] What has yellow skin and writes?
Robin: A ball-point banana!
Batman: [reads the second riddle] What people are always in a hurry?
Robin: Rushing people... Russians!
Batman: So this means...
Robin: Someone Russian is going to slip on a banana and break their neck!
Batman: Precisely, Robin!