Some Capsules
So, I may or may not post full reviews of any or all of these on Slow Century. But, for the record, here’s what I’ve thought about a few things this week.
Coraline blew my mind. It’s one of the most realistic portrayals of childhood I’ve ever seen on film. The stop-motion animation is beautiful. And, even though I always hate 3-D, it worked pretty well here. A
The Uninvited was way better than I thought it would be. It had a few twists I didn’t see coming and a couple of nice performances. I’m not familiar with the original Japanese film so I don’t know how it compares, but this is well worth a Netflix rental. B+
Fanboys was a huge disappointment, despite good performances from Kristen Bell and Jay Baruchel. Most of the cast was awful, it just didn’t make me laugh and, despite its allegiance to geek-dom, the dialogue was entirely made up of silly, obvious trivia instead of funny and interesting conversations about it like dudes like Kevin Smith and Joss Whedon have been able to manage in the past. C-
Important Things With Demetri Martin on Comedy Central is a hit-or-miss sketch show but there were more hits than I was expecting. And the bit about going back in time to fuck historical figures was hysterical. If you like or hate Demetri Martin, this show will not sway you in the opposite direction. I mostly like him, so B-
And, it’s occurred to me I haven’t posted life stuff on The Great Indoors like my colleagues have, so… Yeah. That’s because I graduated recently and broke up with my girlfriend, so there is nothing going on in my life right now. But I’m going to watch The Room tonight, which is supposed to simultaneously be the best and worst film of all time, and Dollhouse is on tomorrow, so there’s hope. My sister’s getting married on Sunday, so I’ll probably be posting something about that too. Oh, and Danielle? Manielle is a lovely name for a girl, not a guy. And Datthew sounds too much like Asian Fusion for me.
