Sunday, April 04, 2004
So, I was going to write a big essay on what I saw as the flaws of The Matrix Revolutions and what needed to be changed to make the story work, however partly the lack of time but mainly the lack of impetus is preventing me (basically the two main errors that I see are the fact that the real world that has Zion in it is considered 'The Real World', and the undefined political status of the Architect in the machine Matrix and what it is like). I saw Good Will Hunting this evening and was disappointed with it. Just as Will had the intelligence to tear another man to shreds but was helpless if put on a field where he has no mastery, like emotionally, so Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had the intelligence to write a good script but lacked the emotional experience to give it any real feeling. So although there are some good scenes in the middle, at the end all they can muster is
Matt: Shit Sean, how do we get out of this one?
Robin: You cry, we hug, people will mistake it for a psychological breakthrough.
And of course, once Will can cry then he's completely cured.
And went to see Starsky and Hutch this afternoon. More obvious mainstream appeal than Zoolander, which I loved. But with that film you had to want to like it, as Stiller wasn't setting out to do a film that mercilessly satirised the fashion industry but gently poke fun at it. S&H is a more straightforward piece that can be read as a comedy-action film, though I prefer to think of it, like Z as a romantic comedy between two straight men. Favourite lines? "Little dancing man" and "Your balls are yours, your balls are yours!"
The thing that blew me away though was that you have David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser turn up, of course, to give Ben Stiller as Hutch the keys to what was supposedly the car they drove when they were Starsky and Hutch. And they are credited in the movie as 'Original Starsky' and 'Original Hutch'. I mean, there's your Grant Morrison hypertime right there! A world where it'll always be the Seventies and there will always be a Starsky and Hutch ready to fight crime...
Matt: Shit Sean, how do we get out of this one?
Robin: You cry, we hug, people will mistake it for a psychological breakthrough.
And of course, once Will can cry then he's completely cured.
And went to see Starsky and Hutch this afternoon. More obvious mainstream appeal than Zoolander, which I loved. But with that film you had to want to like it, as Stiller wasn't setting out to do a film that mercilessly satirised the fashion industry but gently poke fun at it. S&H is a more straightforward piece that can be read as a comedy-action film, though I prefer to think of it, like Z as a romantic comedy between two straight men. Favourite lines? "Little dancing man" and "Your balls are yours, your balls are yours!"
The thing that blew me away though was that you have David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser turn up, of course, to give Ben Stiller as Hutch the keys to what was supposedly the car they drove when they were Starsky and Hutch. And they are credited in the movie as 'Original Starsky' and 'Original Hutch'. I mean, there's your Grant Morrison hypertime right there! A world where it'll always be the Seventies and there will always be a Starsky and Hutch ready to fight crime...
