*..oh, yes, *. Not that I don't know people that crazy/dense/annoying....But I really, really, hate to watch a movie about them. Obviously, he's nuts from the start, the machines look as if they're at least 10 years obsolete, and the ending is a clumsy kludge: it's as if the filmmakers had said "Hey, we're running out of film here...let's wrap it up quickly." Moan.
Fifth Element is also a favorite of mine: to me, it's far better than The Matrix, which had much of the same boffo special effects, but none of the humor or interesting dialog that made 5E such a treat. One of the interesting things about it for me was the fact that it integrated three or four different "worlds": Bruce Willis's low-rent future, the 19th century-like world of the monks, a clone of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and of course Lilu's far-far-out-of-town viewpoint. Some things were just too overdone: I wish that Ruby Rodd had something else to do but act fruity, and the gag about Lilu posing as a clueless tourist should have been either played through completely once and then dropped, or been repeated enough to be funny. Doing it twice doesn't do it at all. But all in all, I liked it. (My favorite shots are those of 3-D traffic...so much is said in so little....)
*..oh, yes, *. Not that I don't know people that crazy/dense/annoying....But I really, really, hate to watch a movie about them. Obviously, he's nuts from the start, the machines look as if they're at least 10 years obsolete, and the ending is a clumsy kludge: it's as if the filmmakers had said "Hey, we're running out of film here...let's wrap it up quickly." Moan.
Fifth Element is also a favorite of mine: to me, it's far better than The Matrix, which had much of the same boffo special effects, but none of the humor or interesting dialog that made 5E such a treat. One of the interesting things about it for me was the fact that it integrated three or four different "worlds": Bruce Willis's low-rent future, the 19th century-like world of the monks, a clone of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and of course Lilu's far-far-out-of-town viewpoint. Some things were just too overdone: I wish that Ruby Rodd had something else to do but act fruity, and the gag about Lilu posing as a clueless tourist should have been either played through completely once and then dropped, or been repeated enough to be funny. Doing it twice doesn't do it at all. But all in all, I liked it. (My favorite shots are those of 3-D traffic...so much is said in so little....)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Flash Gordon (1980)