DEATH TO PIGEONS!
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psychickStupid flying rats. I was awoken not once but TWICE this morning by pigeons outside my window. I have now put my paintbrush box right below it so that I can POKE THEM SAVAGELY next time. Bastards can do it on someone else's windowsill.
On a more positive note, I saw A Scanner Darkly this weekend with some of my peeps (we was chillin'). It's based on a Philip K. Dick story, and it is starring everyone's friend Kanoonoo, so I went in with a little trepidation but I'm happy to say that I was pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't call it my favorite movie of the year (*coughPIRATESahemcough*) but I liked the characters, the level of complexity that was achieved, and the overall message. The first two I am particularly pleased about because I have a lot of problems with PKD in that direction, as he really really really does like being weird and twisty with his plots and I've yet to find myself able to finish one of his books. Kafka, yes. PKD, no. There was weird and there was twisty, and I could see his thumbprint on it, but in all the was very approachable and intriguing without being just confusing and offputting. The art was cool - the 'special effects' were very well done and friendly to an animated medium, and they would have been 1) a pain to do, and 2) possibly too visually weird/distracting to be done in photorealism, so I'm very pleased with the choice that they made there. (Also: to repeat the memo to America, ANIMATED != FOR KIDS ALL THE TIME!) I definately feel that it's a movie that will want watching twice or more, and that new levels and details will be revealed every time.
On a more positive note, I saw A Scanner Darkly this weekend with some of my peeps (we was chillin'). It's based on a Philip K. Dick story, and it is starring everyone's friend Kanoonoo, so I went in with a little trepidation but I'm happy to say that I was pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't call it my favorite movie of the year (*coughPIRATESahemcough*) but I liked the characters, the level of complexity that was achieved, and the overall message. The first two I am particularly pleased about because I have a lot of problems with PKD in that direction, as he really really really does like being weird and twisty with his plots and I've yet to find myself able to finish one of his books. Kafka, yes. PKD, no. There was weird and there was twisty, and I could see his thumbprint on it, but in all the was very approachable and intriguing without being just confusing and offputting. The art was cool - the 'special effects' were very well done and friendly to an animated medium, and they would have been 1) a pain to do, and 2) possibly too visually weird/distracting to be done in photorealism, so I'm very pleased with the choice that they made there. (Also: to repeat the memo to America, ANIMATED != FOR KIDS ALL THE TIME!) I definately feel that it's a movie that will want watching twice or more, and that new levels and details will be revealed every time.
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:O
Date: 2006-07-17 03:35 pm (UTC)I must inform my tribe...
Re: :O
Date: 2006-07-17 04:12 pm (UTC)