Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bambi B on December 30, 2003 at 15:27:57

In Reply to: Exploding helicopters... posted by Dalton on December 30, 2003 at 12:20:57:

Dalton,

A very good list- I think I will join your moratorium on these items also!

Especially:

Exploding helicopters: I enjoy helicopters and haven't yet been in an exploding one. Have you noticed also how often the movie pilots are shown flying from the left seat? Is this to correspond to popular concept?

Time travel: This has become too easy and everyone is popping back and forth. I like the "Terminator" concept- naked and one way only a bit better, but overall it's an easy technique.

Evil corporations: I agree again here as fiction will never match the dull reality of how big companies work- hierarchy, blame passing, marketing angst, and dogged number crunching.

NY under water: Notice the WTC towers projecting out of the frozen sea in "A.I." 2000 years.

Love Stories in tough places: Yes, we haven't seen the Chicago fire one, nor has anyone done the last hour of the WTC towers- admirable restraint for once. Most unfortunate love story in a disaster setting: "Titanic".

Martial Arts: I enjoyed "Crouching Tiger"- until they were just running over the tree tops. This made sense in the "Matrix", but this leads me to:

Over-editing: I hate the idiotic change of angle/POV every 1/8th second. This was so ridiculous for the second "Batman" it was unwatchable on that ground only. A mask for lower production values- if we were allowed to focus on anything we's see the fromage?

And another:

Anti-gravity: I am sick of just about everything floating around without any apparent fuss or expenditure of energy. Most stupid example: Robin Williams' version of "Absent-Minded Professor", called "Flubber" after the compound that makes "anti-gravity", but all along Williams is accompanied by the gabby robot that just floats silently next to him. Why did he need to invent flubber if he had this floating robot? Wouldn't this sentient, conversational robot playing the film clips and floating in the air be a more fabulous invention than the flying Thunderbird? Interesting that Williams takes flubber to sell to the Ford Co. instead of giving it free to the US Gov't. as did Fred McMurray- a change of priorities between 1963 and 1999?

Yes, with the current movie crop, I'll be spending more time with the LPs.

Cheers,

Bambi B