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Nearly the last movies
Jul. 19th, 2008 12:37 pmI'll have gotten around to reviewing all of them! ...By watching half as many as usual, granted. XD;
Who Is KK Downey? [trailer]: locally-produced, -financed, and -shot indie comedy, about a pair of fame-hungry loser buddies who perpetrate a literary fraud in the vein of the James Frey or JT Leroy debacles. Budget-what-budget, of course, and some of the actors were less convincing than others, but the script was strong - basically it was an over-the-top sendup of vacuous hipster culture, with a full gamut of awful ironic hipster hairstyles on display. Read the novelization, if they ever turn one out as promised in the Q&A session.
Repo! The Genetic Opera [trailer]: I'd be lying if I didn't admit part of Fantasia's enduring attraction was the geek cred of those North American and world premieres. I mean, de gustibus non est disputandum and all that so I guess there's a few people on my flist who wouldn't go see Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Brightman, and Paris Hilton sing in a massively OTT goth rock opera produced by Yoshiki out of X-Japan (and yeah, check out the rest of that cast while you're at it), but the rest of you are going to have your butts parked in the repertoire house come Halloween. Something to look forward to in life... The screening was something of a triumph. XD Ced and I didn't stay for the Q&A as it would've just been anticlimactic, so instead we went to La Banquise and had poutine (with bacon! and onions!). It was delish but I suspect the sudden influx of starch and trans fats didn't agree with my system - have been living off fruit and cold noodles and such for a while.
Who Is KK Downey? [trailer]: locally-produced, -financed, and -shot indie comedy, about a pair of fame-hungry loser buddies who perpetrate a literary fraud in the vein of the James Frey or JT Leroy debacles. Budget-what-budget, of course, and some of the actors were less convincing than others, but the script was strong - basically it was an over-the-top sendup of vacuous hipster culture, with a full gamut of awful ironic hipster hairstyles on display. Read the novelization, if they ever turn one out as promised in the Q&A session.
Repo! The Genetic Opera [trailer]: I'd be lying if I didn't admit part of Fantasia's enduring attraction was the geek cred of those North American and world premieres. I mean, de gustibus non est disputandum and all that so I guess there's a few people on my flist who wouldn't go see Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Brightman, and Paris Hilton sing in a massively OTT goth rock opera produced by Yoshiki out of X-Japan (and yeah, check out the rest of that cast while you're at it), but the rest of you are going to have your butts parked in the repertoire house come Halloween. Something to look forward to in life... The screening was something of a triumph. XD Ced and I didn't stay for the Q&A as it would've just been anticlimactic, so instead we went to La Banquise and had poutine (with bacon! and onions!). It was delish but I suspect the sudden influx of starch and trans fats didn't agree with my system - have been living off fruit and cold noodles and such for a while.
