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Film weekend
This weekend I had a bit of a film marathon.
Naomi and I watched Batman Begins which was fantastic. Very dark and cool. Bale is awesome as the bat. Oldman is great as the kindly policeman. Freeman is his usual stoic self. I loved it so much, I decided to buy some Batman merchandise they were selling outside. I bought what I thought was going to be a cool Batman Begins batman figure. It turned out to be a wierd joker character I'd never seen in my life. I put it in the bin. Never again will I be caught up in post movie consumerism. Unless David Lynch starts making Eraserhead figures!
I also watched Starsky and Hutch which was funny. And immediately after I watched Jackass the movie. They are such nutters. Absolute and utter nutters. Any number of those stunts could have killed them. Ooooh, there's some horrible stuff in that. I quite like the simple ones though, where Knocksville gets made up to look like an old man and he goes shoplifting. The toy car one...well...
And then I watched Chrisopher Nolan's first film, "The Following". I was so impressed with Batman Begins that I thought it only right to trace his origins. Now there's a classic. Shot in black and white, it follows the story of a writer who follows people to get inspiration for his writing. He ends up following the wrong guy...the mood is similar to that of Eraserhead, or is that just because it was black and white and a bit wierd. Anyway, it's a damn fine film noir masterpiece.
And now it's Sunday night...
posted by PA on Sunday, June 19, 2005
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