Tony Jaa is Huge
- Edit Posted August 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM PST in Awesome, Film
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(via Plexifilm + Simon Wistow)
Completely missed when this came out! Definitely seeing it this weekend.
Edit: Awesome, as predicted. The last 30 minutes dragged a little—the first one had a better boss fight, this one using a predictable, well-worn device to vanquish the antagonist—but the scene with Red and Blue singing over cans of Tecate is almost worth the price of admission. Guillermo Del Toro’s creatures and scenes are also not uneasy on the eyes.
Trailer!
Happy to discover the intersection of Tamala 2010 and Thomas Pynchon. Also, Tamala on Parade DVD with short form sequels released!
(via Monoscope)
I should offer to upgrade the fellow to MT4 one of these days...
It’s not playing on this side of the pond yet, so I have to wait until I get back to San Francisco for a look. I do want to see it, though, despite numerous friends’ expressed hesitancy regarding J.J. Abrams. I liked Alias (the first few seasons, anyway), and Lost has been entertaining, if inconsistently good. Cloverfield makes a good trailer, and a good trailer does not bequeath good film—see Transformers, I Am Legend for recent evidence.
I’m going to see it with the expectation that it will suck, and that the handheld cinematography will pale next to the epic work in Children of Men. Deep down, maybe, I hope it won’t suck.
I finally finished watching Amelie. I’m struggling with both loving the film (I’d now consider it a favorite) and being dismayed by the dismantling of a central premise of the story, that Amelie doesn’t need a boy (or love from a boy) to be happy.
Guillermo del Toro is making a sequel looking to be an improvement on the first outing, Will Smith making up for Legend in Hancock and this picture of 24 hours lost in New York with a stranger.
