Alex Garland's latest puts its heroine through hell (but delivers its harshest blows to those who torment her) and a pair of DIsney characters get a meta revival in this week's new releases
Me enjoyed both reviews, but me especially love idea of these two movies as double feature.
Anyway, this Chip and Dale movie look moderately clever, me almost certainly not will see it. But me do wish big-screen adaptations of animated kids shows had other mode to operate in besides bringing characters into "real" world. Fat Albert, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Smurfs, and now this, all meta stories where characters have to deal with modern world and vice versa, instead of setting and premise that made show work in first place.
Which me guess is at least honest, given so much of IP-driven filmmaking is all about "hey, remember this, everybody?" instead of trying to recreate what made thing memorable in first place. Somehow, Palpatine has returned.
I think it's precisely because a lot of filmmakers don't want to get tagged as hacks who just glommed on to a re-hashed IP that leads them to go beyond the original premise and show how in on the joke they are. They feel they have to answer the viewer's question, "Why wouldn't I just watch the original show?" by using the real world in which these fans watched the original show - it becomes less about the characters and more about the fandom. But yeah, that in itself is getting to be a lazy premise. I mean, Rocky & Bullwinkle came out 22 years ago.
Yeah I think people making animated movies should proudly make cartoons, like how people making horror shouldn’t insist that oh actually this is more like a meditation in trauma or whatever.
I really like the lonely island guys but come on. Make a cartoon that respects itself and it’s premise without having to do winking irony all the time.
Appreciate the reviews. I'm also a little put out having learned what a sheela na gig is and what it may signify. On a brighter note, this learning led me to the fun discovery that the grotesque carvings on gothic cathedrals are sometimes called "hunky punks". Humans are such weirdos.
Me enjoyed both reviews, but me especially love idea of these two movies as double feature.
Anyway, this Chip and Dale movie look moderately clever, me almost certainly not will see it. But me do wish big-screen adaptations of animated kids shows had other mode to operate in besides bringing characters into "real" world. Fat Albert, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Smurfs, and now this, all meta stories where characters have to deal with modern world and vice versa, instead of setting and premise that made show work in first place.
Which me guess is at least honest, given so much of IP-driven filmmaking is all about "hey, remember this, everybody?" instead of trying to recreate what made thing memorable in first place. Somehow, Palpatine has returned.
I think it's precisely because a lot of filmmakers don't want to get tagged as hacks who just glommed on to a re-hashed IP that leads them to go beyond the original premise and show how in on the joke they are. They feel they have to answer the viewer's question, "Why wouldn't I just watch the original show?" by using the real world in which these fans watched the original show - it becomes less about the characters and more about the fandom. But yeah, that in itself is getting to be a lazy premise. I mean, Rocky & Bullwinkle came out 22 years ago.
Yeah I think people making animated movies should proudly make cartoons, like how people making horror shouldn’t insist that oh actually this is more like a meditation in trauma or whatever.
I really like the lonely island guys but come on. Make a cartoon that respects itself and it’s premise without having to do winking irony all the time.
Appreciate the reviews. I'm also a little put out having learned what a sheela na gig is and what it may signify. On a brighter note, this learning led me to the fun discovery that the grotesque carvings on gothic cathedrals are sometimes called "hunky punks". Humans are such weirdos.
I first learned about sheela na gigs thanks to PJ Harvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgoC15Lom-M
I always forget how much i like PJ Harvey and its always the most peculiar prompts that remind me. thanks!
I thought 'Men' sucked. And I LOVED Annihilation. Just way too heavy handed, repetitive, and had nothing much to say other than "Men! Am I right?!?!!"