It's cracking

[oneiriad]

52. Himmerland
So, a movie with petty criminals, random violence, mistakes that escalate beyond what anyone would have imagined and a plot that twist and turns - pretty standard, really. Only thing not standard is that it is set in, of all places, Himmerland. (And a very unrealistic Himmerland - seriously, snow on the ground, then fast forward three months, and still snow - what is this, fimbul winter?)

53. Wanted
I had read the comic and liked its world where the supervillains had kicked the superheroes collective arses well enough. I didn't expect much, just a relaxing action movie. Unfortunately, sometimes a movie comes along and breaks my suspension of disbelief. Reign of Fire did it, and now this one, in oh so many ways. There is some pretty obvious symptons when it happens. Mostly they involve me starting to question stuff when I'm supposed to be enjoying the movie. Like the Fraternity. So, about a 1000 years ago a clan of weavers/order of monks/whatever found binary code in their cloth and began to assassinate people. The weavers/monks/whatever are realistic enough, but why on earth would any of them ever start studying the fabric they make that closely. And how would they have known binary anyway - I'm fairly sure most binary codes are relatively modern. Besides, the number 0 (zero) didn't even make it to Europe until later. Also, say you start spotting random names written seemingly by chance into your cloth (probably the monkeys got tired of doing Shakespeare all the time) - what kind of a psycopath would then assume that the point was to go out and kill those people? Anyway, I'll stop ranting now.

54. Perfect Blue
Occasionally creepy

55. The Simpsons Movie
Okay. Right.

56. 5x2
The trick of telling the movie backwards has been done, but it still adds a little. Anyway, spent most of this waiting for an explanation - at first I just wanted to know what the woman was doing having married that guy in the first place (sorry, but when one of the first things you see a character do is rape his just-barely-ex-wife...), but gradually wondering what either of them were doing in this marriage. You wind up expecting something special, some memorable first meeting - and then there isn't one. Maybe that's the point, I don't know.

57. River Queen
That Maori chief certainly has some interesting ideas about what the leader should be doing during a battle. Also, that tattoo looks painful - just saying...

58. Hero at large
Nice idea, crappy movie.

59. Batman - Gotham Knight
Extremely varied in quality, both as regards plot (which varies from an episode I'm fairly sure is pretty much a copy of an episode from one of the animated series to some interesting introspective bits) and animation (which varies from downright ugly to having Wayne look like a pretty boy in a style I halfway associate with yaoi).

60. Underworld - Evolution
Ugly werewolves, uglier hybrid, ugliest vampire. Why is it that nobody seems to be able to make werewolves look halfway decent?

61. The Incredibles
I'm probably the last person in the world to watch this...

62. Hellboy 2 - the Golden Army
Hellboy is going to end up as crazy cat lady, isn't he? Anyway, a fairy girl named Nuala, with a dashing, blond, pretty-boy for a brother - now why does that sound familiar? Mind you, Nuada didn't seem to have any particular inclination towards wine or the love that dare not speak its name, but still. That said, I would absolutely love to see del Toro and Gaiman make a movie together.