Ephemera of Vision
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.
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This is a much sillier remake of Escape from New York, with much less budget, as if it that is possible. Not for lack of ambition, they cram so much stuff into a small film.
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This is almost an epic movie for first time director Kristen Stewart, following large parts of the life of some pitiful girl, as she turns into a fully grown woman, with some setbacks.
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This is supremely silly, but po-faced, there’s not much humour to match the preposterous action sequences. “He doesn’t look like a killing machine. Looks like he’s in a boyband”. How meta. Almost as hilarious as Colbert’s “beef” with Rain.
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Is this official fan fiction? The Bible themes fit to a T. Zombies are metaphors again, I liked it better than the last one. The “In the House - In a Heartbeat” song still slaps, as much as the massive floppy dongs in full view.
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Depressing song and dance, featuring very uplifting music. I wouldn’t raise a baby in the sticks either, away from civilisation, it takes a village.
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Those first 30 minutes are insane, but it cannot sustain it for all the 180 minutes. The soundtrack is bitching, you gotta hand it to these musical fellows.
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An update on what seems a very old plot, which remains steadfast on extremely outdated politics. The period piece element is great, and so are the actors.
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The production values are so shitty, the kerning on the initial credits is amateur hour. Includes some Tony Todd cameos, for continuity.
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This is absolutely ridiculous, but doesn’t cross the second line into absolutely bonkers. It remains sadly grounded in jingoism, bad one liners, and stupid camera movements.
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The one with the NASCAR crash, not to be confused with Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Oh god, as if this wasn’t bad enough, they brought in the nu-metal. It makes me physically ill.
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The one with the plane crash. Not to be confused with any of The Twilight Zone initial episodes.
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The one with the rollercoaster ride. Yup, the same shit it ever was, but with a real actress, Mary Elizabeth Winsted. She can’t salvage this, but she tries.
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The one with the big freeway pileup. Not to be confused with The Matrix Reloaded.
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A quintessential American story: some megacorp poisons thousands for decades, gets caught and squirts out some cash to shut them up (no trial, just a fake Potemkin village, no jurisprudence is settled).
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Yeah, I agree that the WMD media circus was a scandal, and I broadly agree with Rob Reiner here, but I’m not sure a half-comedy half-didactic exposé about it is the best way to do it, particularly releasing it in the Trump administration.
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