Trying not to get my geek-card revoked
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olorielOK WHY DID NONE OF YOU LOOSERS TELL ME TO WATCH RONAL THE BARBARIAN LONG AGO
I AM OFFENDED THAT THIS GLORIOUS PIECE OF HILARITY HAS SO FAR PASSED ME BY
<-- this is mostly geared towards the Europeans in the audience. It's a Danish fantasy parody animation movie (and by "Danish Fantasy", I don't mean those Telerin cookies). Probably rated Quintuple-X in the US, so the Americans cannot be blamed for not knowing it.
It's actually awful, but because it's a parody on serious fantasy and/or its representation in the late 80s and 90s (and thus intentipnally awful, crude, sexist etc.), it comes out on the other end and is FANTASTIC. Taking the utter piss of machismo fantasy. And for all that, it's still got an engaging story (and not the story you expect from the start) and a couple of cute characters!
(It's sort of distracting, really, because visually, it's rather Pixar-ish. And then the characters make crude sexual jokes and run around in sado-maso gear and you go "Whoops! NOT Pixar!")
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In more serious geek news, on Tuesday, Jörg and I went to see Star Trek: 9-11. I mean, Into Darkness.
I liked it ok right up until the last 20 minutes.
SPOILER
The sappy reconciliation/humanity scene between Spock and Kirk, though, just ruined the ending for me - from then on, I just couldn't take it serious anymore.
Like, I knew all the while that OF COURSE with Khan's blood sample, they'd easily restore Kirk.
And then he didn't look like he needed restoring, anyway. Considering that he was supposedly dying from radiation which was supposedly having the same effects on humans then as it would have now, all we saw was... sweat? OMG IT'S THE SWEAT OF DOOM. Did they fear that Star Trek audiences wouldn't appreciate blisters'n'vomit? Or did they just fear that Radiation!Kirk would've been indistinguishable from their alien designs?
At any rate, he didn't look like he was dying, and I knew he wouldn't really die, so their (seemingly) endless conversation just felt pastede on yey. Blaaaaaaah.
And then, WHY DID THEY NEED TO CAPTURE KHAN SPECIFICALLY when they still had 72 bodies with presumably the same properties RIGHT IN REACH I MEAN THEY EVEN USED ONE OF THEM TO PUT KIRK INTO CRYOSLEEP?! I mean, I know they had to capture Khan, but wasn't "bringing him to justice" enough, did they think audiences wouldn't care unless Kirk's life somehow depended on it, which it didn't really? WHAT.
Oh well. And then, Kirk's speech in the end felt overly pathetic (the entire theatre was groaning!), but that may genuinely be a conflict between American audiences (who like it that way? IDK) and German audiences (who fear pathos with a holy passion).
SPOILER
Oh well. Up until that point, it was engaging and entertaining, so that's OK.
We actually saw it in 3D, and I suppose the technology got better since Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (I used to be a cineaste, WHERE DID THE TIME GO) or at any rate, it is better at the Cinedom than it was at the Metropolis (well, I guess that is true anyway). But it still mostly looks like two or three layers (rather than actually threedimensional space) to me, and as soon as your eyes stop relaxing and try to focus on something out of focus, you get lost and nauseated. Well, and quick sequences with lots of things moving at once are still a blur, impossible to follow. It's really effective with height differences (like the jump of the cliff right in the beginning), which is maybe why it seems to have been to spectaculary succesful in Avatar, but beyond that... I'm still perfectly happy to render 2D into 3D in my own brain (as long as the 2D images are in good focus and in HD ;)), rather than having imperfect 3D thrust upon me.
I AM OFFENDED THAT THIS GLORIOUS PIECE OF HILARITY HAS SO FAR PASSED ME BY
<-- this is mostly geared towards the Europeans in the audience. It's a Danish fantasy parody animation movie (and by "Danish Fantasy", I don't mean those Telerin cookies). Probably rated Quintuple-X in the US, so the Americans cannot be blamed for not knowing it.
It's actually awful, but because it's a parody on serious fantasy and/or its representation in the late 80s and 90s (and thus intentipnally awful, crude, sexist etc.), it comes out on the other end and is FANTASTIC. Taking the utter piss of machismo fantasy. And for all that, it's still got an engaging story (and not the story you expect from the start) and a couple of cute characters!
(It's sort of distracting, really, because visually, it's rather Pixar-ish. And then the characters make crude sexual jokes and run around in sado-maso gear and you go "Whoops! NOT Pixar!")
- - -
In more serious geek news, on Tuesday, Jörg and I went to see Star Trek: 9-11. I mean, Into Darkness.
I liked it ok right up until the last 20 minutes.
SPOILER
The sappy reconciliation/humanity scene between Spock and Kirk, though, just ruined the ending for me - from then on, I just couldn't take it serious anymore.
Like, I knew all the while that OF COURSE with Khan's blood sample, they'd easily restore Kirk.
And then he didn't look like he needed restoring, anyway. Considering that he was supposedly dying from radiation which was supposedly having the same effects on humans then as it would have now, all we saw was... sweat? OMG IT'S THE SWEAT OF DOOM. Did they fear that Star Trek audiences wouldn't appreciate blisters'n'vomit? Or did they just fear that Radiation!Kirk would've been indistinguishable from their alien designs?
At any rate, he didn't look like he was dying, and I knew he wouldn't really die, so their (seemingly) endless conversation just felt pastede on yey. Blaaaaaaah.
And then, WHY DID THEY NEED TO CAPTURE KHAN SPECIFICALLY when they still had 72 bodies with presumably the same properties RIGHT IN REACH I MEAN THEY EVEN USED ONE OF THEM TO PUT KIRK INTO CRYOSLEEP?! I mean, I know they had to capture Khan, but wasn't "bringing him to justice" enough, did they think audiences wouldn't care unless Kirk's life somehow depended on it, which it didn't really? WHAT.
Oh well. And then, Kirk's speech in the end felt overly pathetic (the entire theatre was groaning!), but that may genuinely be a conflict between American audiences (who like it that way? IDK) and German audiences (who fear pathos with a holy passion).
Oh well. Up until that point, it was engaging and entertaining, so that's OK.
We actually saw it in 3D, and I suppose the technology got better since Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (I used to be a cineaste, WHERE DID THE TIME GO) or at any rate, it is better at the Cinedom than it was at the Metropolis (well, I guess that is true anyway). But it still mostly looks like two or three layers (rather than actually threedimensional space) to me, and as soon as your eyes stop relaxing and try to focus on something out of focus, you get lost and nauseated. Well, and quick sequences with lots of things moving at once are still a blur, impossible to follow. It's really effective with height differences (like the jump of the cliff right in the beginning), which is maybe why it seems to have been to spectaculary succesful in Avatar, but beyond that... I'm still perfectly happy to render 2D into 3D in my own brain (as long as the 2D images are in good focus and in HD ;)), rather than having imperfect 3D thrust upon me.
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Date: 2013-05-29 09:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-05-29 09:54 am (UTC)And I'm going to watch Into Darkness tonight.
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Date: 2013-05-29 06:26 pm (UTC)Have fun! It's (mostly) good.
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Date: 2013-05-29 11:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-29 06:26 pm (UTC)Benedict Cumberbatch is fantastic, of course.