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Neologistic sci-fi triple feature
Oct. 9th, 2009 07:56 pmZombieland (otherwise known as "best Method acting-based excuse for punching a TMZ photog ever"): went to the advance screening of this some time ago with friends, as the marketing strategy appeared to be flooding the target audience with free tickets (seems to have worked, too). Thought it was charming and well-cast, more a romcom with survival horror elements than vice versa. But when push comes to shove I guess my bottom line is that I prefer my lightweight comedies sans gore. XD; Jesse Wossface who plays the protagonist bears an uncanny and entertaining physical resemblance to S., one of Ced's friends, who I've always thought epitomized EveryIndieDudeToday; like the Gen-Y equiv of Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, or maybe Michael Cera. Excellent celebrity cameo, too.
Pandorum: not precisely a work of towering originality, but a pleasant surprise considering how awful the reviews were. XD; It's genuinely creepy and the plot does make sense, given much of it can be guessed in advance ahahaha. Watch Zombieland before this, not only because it's the better movie, but because Jesse Wossface's lifehacker rules apply equally to provide a framework for the action ("Double tap!"). Nota bene this film also fails to be original in the ways of racefail, i.e. "every way you would come to expect from a storyline in which a purportedly representative sampling of humanity is sent to colonize space."
Surrogates: imma let you finish but Ghost in the Shell was the best you know what never mind. I did enjoy it quite a lot - Bruce Willis's Ken Doll avatar alone is worth the matinee admission, what with the hair and the plasticky pink lip gloss - but again, not a work of towering originality. XD;; Coincidentally the Sci Am podcast for this week featured an interview with the director, who appears to believe he had v. deep points to make regarding how overuse of technology such as teh internets is CUTTING US OFF FROM MEANINGFUL HUMAN CONTACT OH NOES. Which was kind of weird since the movie itself clearly went much further than that (what does surrogacy do for performative gender roles? Moral hazard in warfare?).
Pandorum: not precisely a work of towering originality, but a pleasant surprise considering how awful the reviews were. XD; It's genuinely creepy and the plot does make sense, given much of it can be guessed in advance ahahaha. Watch Zombieland before this, not only because it's the better movie, but because Jesse Wossface's lifehacker rules apply equally to provide a framework for the action ("Double tap!"). Nota bene this film also fails to be original in the ways of racefail, i.e. "every way you would come to expect from a storyline in which a purportedly representative sampling of humanity is sent to colonize space."
Surrogates: imma let you finish but Ghost in the Shell was the best you know what never mind. I did enjoy it quite a lot - Bruce Willis's Ken Doll avatar alone is worth the matinee admission, what with the hair and the plasticky pink lip gloss - but again, not a work of towering originality. XD;; Coincidentally the Sci Am podcast for this week featured an interview with the director, who appears to believe he had v. deep points to make regarding how overuse of technology such as teh internets is CUTTING US OFF FROM MEANINGFUL HUMAN CONTACT OH NOES. Which was kind of weird since the movie itself clearly went much further than that (what does surrogacy do for performative gender roles? Moral hazard in warfare?).
