Troll

*gasp*

So Norway’s colour graded kinda grey/bluish?

Such grey/blue.

Wow, this is like an old-fashioned, no-nonsense, non-referential disaster movie. It’s got the science nerds, the military, the president I mean prime minister, the monster… it’s like all those movies you’ve seen… but it works! It’s like, say, Godzilla, but without the pompous boring bits (i.e., “character development”). I’m totally into this.

I hope they don’t screw it up but just keep going like this.

Classic.

Well… OK… I thought they were gonna skip some parts of the formula, like the protagonist visiting their father and having an argument (since this film is less than two hours long), but they squeezed that in, too. It was a moderately amusing Daddy Issue set of scenes, but it was still kinda dull (as always).

I guess you gotta have character development if it’s gonna be on Netflix.

Well, OK. It did hit all the right notes, and landed a pretty satisfying (and was faithful to the genre), but it got a bit boring here and there. Not a lot — there was, like, 15 minutes of flab?

It’s a fun little movie. Very Godzilla.

Troll. Roar Uthaug. 2022. ⚃

À propos de Nice

I bought a Complete Jean Vigo box the other year — it’s not big, because Vigo only did four (pretty short) films. I’ve watched the most famous ones, L’Atalante and Zero de Conduite, so I thought I’d finish up with the last two.

This one is silent and… kinda odd. I mean, odd in that it seems like Vigo is just going around Nice filming stuff at random. But parts are animated?

OK, there are bits here that seem slightly scripted…

Vigo seems to spend most of the film devising ways to film up womens’ skirts — first while they’re sitting, and then while they’re dancing, and finally he just has them walking across an open manhole.

Then in slo mo and backwards.

It’s a very horny movie, I guess.

À propos de Nice. Jean Vigo. 1930. ⚂