I'd been planning to blog more recently, and topics have been floating in and out day by day. However, sitting down and blogging is daunting, especially when you've set a benchmark of at least a few paragraphs per blog!
So, this is the start of a new era. Short blogs. And random (perhaps nonsensical - if you're not in my head) blogs.
Cheers.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Steamrolling winners
"No Country for Old Men" was on the agenda tonight; there was no all-star cast, the trailer was not a flurry of explosions on-screen, and there were no side-swiping verbs flashing in-your-face, reminiscent of the 80's Batman and Robin TV series.
Lacking all the usual toys that would "hollywoodise" a film (any film) into essentially an "action flick", "No Country" rolled the red-carpet exceedingly well. The opening scene to the introduction of all the characters encapsulated the audience superbly, and set the stage well for the climax. Unfortunately for the whole thing, there was no climax. It just pretty much the same throughout the whole movie. Although one can say that the classic cat-and-mouse storyline has been done all too often, this movie was unsatisfying in its conclusion... or lack of conclusion.
When one opens a bottle/can of fizzy, one expects to drink it within a few hours, otherwise it will go "flat". "No Country" felt like the producers left it out a little bit too long... inevitably fizzling out leaving an unsatisfying overly-sugary taste in the audience's mouth, which resulted in exclamations of "huh?" to "I want a refund"!
I was initially the former. But due to other "big names" (I know the Coens have a huge fanbase), such as the Wachowski brothers and even Scorsese and their flop-movies, I think I much rather have a refund... although admittedly, this is overstating the non-ending of the movie, I can however, still taste the copious amounts of sugar and that possibly is a much better improvement upon Neo and Co. in the fight against the machines.
Lacking all the usual toys that would "hollywoodise" a film (any film) into essentially an "action flick", "No Country" rolled the red-carpet exceedingly well. The opening scene to the introduction of all the characters encapsulated the audience superbly, and set the stage well for the climax. Unfortunately for the whole thing, there was no climax. It just pretty much the same throughout the whole movie. Although one can say that the classic cat-and-mouse storyline has been done all too often, this movie was unsatisfying in its conclusion... or lack of conclusion.
When one opens a bottle/can of fizzy, one expects to drink it within a few hours, otherwise it will go "flat". "No Country" felt like the producers left it out a little bit too long... inevitably fizzling out leaving an unsatisfying overly-sugary taste in the audience's mouth, which resulted in exclamations of "huh?" to "I want a refund"!
I was initially the former. But due to other "big names" (I know the Coens have a huge fanbase), such as the Wachowski brothers and even Scorsese and their flop-movies, I think I much rather have a refund... although admittedly, this is overstating the non-ending of the movie, I can however, still taste the copious amounts of sugar and that possibly is a much better improvement upon Neo and Co. in the fight against the machines.
Monday, February 25, 2008
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