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mimesh

Movie round up

Mar 21, 2010 19:01

Has anybody seen Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland yet? I had mixed feelings after watching it. While it was overall entertaining and had some beautiful visuals and a few (but not enough) Burtonesque trademark characters, it lacked the magic many of his earlier works had. The technical possibilities didn't really work in his favor. But Johnny was ( Read more... )

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sparky77 March 21 2010, 18:44:36 UTC

I remember it took my like 5 hours to watch Near Dark because I needed to take a whole lot of breaks to fully process Pasdar's pretty.

mimesh March 22 2010, 21:33:54 UTC

I've never considered him pretty, more rugged and handsome since I only had seen him in Heroes. But in Near Dark he was just pretty.

mumblemutter March 21 2010, 18:57:07 UTC

i plan to watch alice in wonderland! but i fear that i will not enjoy the 3D aspect, so maybe i will just see if anyone out there is screening a non 3D version? although does that miss the point? do we need to watch it in 3D in order to fully appreciate it? hrm.

But there is also something about him that makes his beauty really unconventional. I can't really put my finger on it.yes! and that's weird because he's so typically square-jawed superhero/leading character like? but there's something about him? maybe it's how he comes across as so vulnerable half the time in his younger movies? near dark!!! is one of my favorite movies, i watched it even before i was into heroes, and had no real idea who the pasdar was (even though i'd also watched profit before i got into heroes). i feel i am being chased by adrian pasdar's filmography simply because he's been in shows/movies that i tend to gravitate to anyway. not so for milo v! but i think in part because there was a time if it had vampires in it i would totally watch it, because blood+ ( ... )

mimesh March 22 2010, 21:44:20 UTC

In contrast to Avatar I don't think that this is a movie you have to see in 3D. The effects were less organic and more gimmicky and not that essential for the experience in my opinion. But I don't even know if it got released in 2D.

Like missy and Anansi have said it probably has to do with the striking mix of female and male features like his long lashes/big eyes and the square jaw. But it's more than that.

I refuse to believe that. That snippet you posted was very sexy. Although didn't you cut it because it didn't fit in the story because of the sexiness? Either way, I'm looking forward to it! :D

Milo and "his other girlfriend" should not be this hot together...

mumblemutter March 23 2010, 01:03:51 UTC

i think some of the 3D movies tend to be shown in 2D in the crappy theatres nearby here, i'm not sure. but perhaps i will brave 3D for it?

oh, pasdar. his appearance is so pleasing to me, seriously. like, from ages twenty onwards, so much loveliness! and also he's such a big puppy! with that face you wouldn't think so, but he is!

no, really. i scrapped two sex scenes and then i had to shoehorn in one because none of it fit with the style, which i feel is kind of like, mostly some dreamy, aimless thing where they float around talking into thin air and pretending they're cool for like, seven thousand words. clearly no-one should ever allow me near a vampire fic, ahem.

i could have totally watched the entire movie about milo playing with his pussy instead of the one we got. two hours of that!

snopes_faith March 21 2010, 19:01:56 UTC

I was confused for the longest time whether I should root for them

It's exactly this feeling which ultimately makes the film a bit less than the sum of its parts for me. Like you, I frankly find it hard to whose 'side' I'm on in this film. It's always been one of my least favourite of KB's films although it has its wonderful moments, of course.

mimesh March 22 2010, 21:50:07 UTC

I found it actually interesting because it challenged my usual assumptions and expectations. But it didn't help that I found none of the characters that appealing. Of course I was rooting for Caleb and by extension Mae, but I doubt I would have, if he hadn't been played by Adrian. And the vampires were pretty much caricatures, only Henriksen managed to make his character half way believable.

taiteilija March 21 2010, 19:25:58 UTC

Awwwwwwwww ♥ I'll snag the whole bunch if you don't mind :)

mimesh March 22 2010, 21:50:49 UTC

Of course I don't mind!

wee_warrior March 21 2010, 19:30:38 UTC

The movie itself was a nice genre flick but not really something I would get excited about if it weren't for the baby Pasdar.

I think at the point, it was something decidedly new, given how nihilistic it is (safe for the ending, basically). The whole protagonist-might-become-monster idea it shares with The Lost Boys, which was at the same time, and is a film more conventionally in the typical vampire/horror mode.

I found it very interesting in context of the recent vampire mania, though because Bigelow's vampires are decidedly less glamorous, sparkly, mysterious and romanticized than their recent movie and TV brethren. I was confused for the longest time whether I should root for them (and Caleb to become one) or not which shows just how much we have been conditioned by characters like Oldman's Dracula, or Pitt's Louis and the entire True Blood/Twilight/etc. gang to see them with positive connotations.Romanticized vampire heroes are at least about a decade older than Near Dark, though. Anne Rice wrote Interview With The Vampire in ( ... )

mimesh March 22 2010, 22:01:08 UTC

Romanticized vampire heroes are at least about a decade older than Near Dark, though.

Perhaps even older than that? I'm not familiar with Vampire literature but I could imagine that this is an older motif. Have you seen the Dracula movies with Christopher Lee? Unfortunately I haven't but I wonder how the vampire image is presented there.
But romantic aspect aside, what I was trying to express is that Bigelow's creatures seemed very different compared to the limited vampire flicks and TV shows I have seen over the last 20 years. Perhaps it's the nihilistic aspect you mentioned. And of course not everybody can be as fierce as Pam. ;)

wee_warrior March 22 2010, 23:05:54 UTC

Have you seen the Dracula movies with Christopher Lee? Unfortunately I haven't but I wonder how the vampire image is presented there.He's a charismatic villain, but as far as I recall, not presented as sexy (unless you're into overbearing control freaks, that is). Bela Lugosi is also more the domineering kind, and Nosferatu, well - they were clearly going for grotesque. Poor guy is bald, has a raging case of buck teeth, obviously a hyperactive thyroid gland and his fingernails could really use some trimming ( ... )