Watching anime with my dad. So much of this new stuff is not very good.
Watching anime with my dad. So much of this new stuff is not very good.
I got to episode 40ish and kinda petered out on it. Enjoyed the first 30 or so episodes though.
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Re: Justice League cgi
Watched Atomic Blonde. It scratched the stylized action itch Marvel movies and shows can't reach. Feels a lot like a Seijin Suzuki movie in its use of color and subordinating plot* to watching cool-looking people do cool things coolly, but without all the Peckinpah zooms. In fact, for a movie that trades so heavily on style, the camera is surprisingly orthodox, only moving when absolutely necessary aside from two on-the-nose shots that begin completely upside down. A single shot accounts for what must have been a 5-8-minute fight scene beginning in a stairwell and ending in a car chase. Does this mean we're out of the 50-cut-a-minute Bourne handycam woods?
This rarely bothers me and it's a really pedantic thing to complain about, but it does that '80s movie thing where it just throws every Now That's What I Call Music chart-topper in there regardless of year and context. There's no way the young, dyed-mohawk 1989 East German resistance was listening to the then-six-year-old 99 fucking Luftballons.
* It's possible plot machinations only seemed tertiary because I couldn't follow them. Never can in spy movies. I just kind of entrusted the movie to know what it was doing. Still don't know who Bakhtin was or where The List (a convenient catalogue of all the spies in all the agencies in all the countries...?) even came from.
The flip side of German punks listening to Nena six years later is the house party full of high school jocks listening to Joy Division contemporaneously in Donnie Darko like that ever happened.
This seems a problem particular to movies set in the '80s and produced after 2000.
Well, there was that one time.
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