From ac29ba182c0567305f1cdca6b422b0495e3d9fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Newbold Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:51:46 -0700 Subject: film notes from last year --- film/2017.page | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/film/2017.page b/film/2017.page index 366c75a..326ef2c 100644 --- a/film/2017.page +++ b/film/2017.page @@ -82,3 +82,37 @@ of a let down in the end. Will probably watch *Spring Breakers* after having seen this, though i'm not really looking forward to it. +Valarian (2017) +------------------ + +Ugh, the dialog was *so bad*, the male protagonist *so stiff*, and the plot +resolution *so genere* it almost ruined all the eye-candy and fun visual gags: +I got warm fuzzies in the openeing sequence, loved the desert shopping scene, +and the female protagonist acting was fine. "Fifth Element" has all the +advantages and none of the downsides. + +Blade Runner Sequel (2017) +-------------------------- + +I wasn't expecting to like this as much as I did. Mostly for the cinematic +mood: visuals, droning music (very loud in the theater I saw this in), pacing. +Most of the plot and tension was regurgitated and dumbed down from the original +(which, to be fair, I didn't understand the first time I watched it at 15 or +so), but there's still a little room for mystery here. I'm not a huge Gosling +fan, but I liked contrastic his stoicism against Ford's grumpy old man. + +Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) +---------------------------------- + +Hrm. Entertaining, I guess? Felt like watching TV, or fan-fic. The goofiness +felt overdone and the Luke/Yoda jedi island interlude had zero emotional punch. +I sort of liked the Casino planet interlude, and the call outs of inequality +and military-industrial complicity, but it ended up being heavy handed. Any +original trilogy nostalgia is long gone after all this franchise creep... +Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Marvell-everything, Star Wars, they all taste +the same. + +I liked Valarian better for creative eye candy (despite its screenwriting +flaws), and Blade Runner as a franchise extention (pushing the old buttons in a +slightly different way). + -- cgit v1.2.3