Proud to be a Seaplane Pilot.
We watched two films Friday night, Miyazaki's Porco Rosso and Otomo's Steamboy. The former was terrific, the latter impressive but somewhat ponderous.
Porco Rosso (yes, that means "Crimson Pig") is about an ace from WWI in 1929 who has become a bounty hunter, fighting seaplane pirates in the Adriatic. I can't help using the word "delightful" in all its meanings with a Miyazaki film, but this one is also funny and touching and ooh! it has lots of cool airplanes. Most of it makes sense too, except for the part about the spell that turned the head of Marco (aka Porco) into a pig's head. This movie features great voice work by three American actors you won't recognize, because they're actually doing voices. Not like Shrek or The Incredibles.
Steamboy is Otomo's first feature film since Akira, and it's an epic adventure. Which means that it's melodramatic and overlong. There are chase scenes that are worth the price of admission, and the machines are awesome. We saw a preview for Metropolis, and I'll get that for next week.
We saw V for Vendetta yesterday, which was also ponderous and overlong. I liked some of its messages about ideas being more important and lasting than people or governments. In our post-2/11 world, V's use of terrorism as a force of good is interesting to say the least. Technically speaking, the fight scenes were ass, the music sucked, and Nat's British accent was laughably bad. V4V wasn't a waste of time. Not quite.
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Haven't seen V yet, but I wonder how the censors would have viewed it if it had been set in the US and showed the destruction of the Lincoln Memorial or similar?
Adn if Natalie can't do the accent, why don't you just get Keira K? My wife is convinced they are identical twins anyhow. :)
Natalie SUCKED that accent in every way possible. And I agree, the fight scenes were total ass. The director didn't need to try and film it like the matrix-bros even if they did write the script. I loved the rest though. And keira Knightley should be in everything.
Keira would have been wonderful in that part. She's much taller than Nat.
I saw Pride & Prejudice on the plane, and Keira made that stultifying boring movie enjoyable with her fine performance.
Hooray for dedicated voice actors doing voices in animated film! I tried to explain this to a friend yesterday and she just looked at me funny.
Sadly, I was working Saturday when all my friends went to see V for Vendetta. If I don't find someone else who wants to see it, I'll just catch it by myself at the dollar theater.
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