That’s so Norway. That’s practically my house. We all live in… er… silver… triple wide? trailers? Not in a trailer park, but in a forest somewhere….
I KNOW! I’m complaining about realism in a Marvel movie.
Sorry; won’t happen again.
Man, these fight scenes are kinda… not very good? The greenscreen work is horrible! The compositing is barely adequate — the all-CGI bits look so fake.
Heh, OK, that car chase scene was pretty amusing.
Heh heh heh. That’s a good joke. I guess it’s a burn on Whedon.
But it’s… it’s kinda charmless?
This was really tedious. But there was a couple of jokes that landed, and there was one action scene that wasn’t totally boring, so it’s not a ⚀.
Nooo! This is a documentary about The Catherine Wheel? I thought it was gonna be the ballet? Boo! I hate documentaries! So much!
I wanted to see the ballet!
Perhaps we’ll get the performance after this horrible documentary? This DVD is 90 minutes and hopefully they can’t do a 90 minute documentary…
Well, as documentaries go, that wasn’t bad. I was just disappointed that this wasn’t the show.
But there’s also the show!!!!
Oh my Emacs. I’ve listened to this album so many times…
… since I was a teenager. It’s such a beautiful album by David Byrne…
Oh! This isn’t just a ballet! It’s a whole technological thing!
It’s got all the video fades available at the time!
I love this, but isn’t this more like… er… pantomime than ballet? I mean, they aren’t dancing much? But they’re like acting a lot?
OK, now there’s more dance.
The dancing doesn’t reference the music much at all. Was this originally choreographed in complete silence? And then David Byrne was brought on to score the dance after it was filmed or something?
Well!
That was something. The first … two thirds? weren’t very ballet at all, but seemed to track the music somewhat. The final half hour (ish) was totally ballet, and it was so weird — the songs changed, and the dancing didn’t alter at all.
I loved all of it, but it was very strange.
I also wonder how it was filmed — this DVD looked very smudged, but I couldn’t see any video artefacts — was this filmed on film (like 16mm)? Or was is high grade video? If it was film, I wish somebody would make a blu ray release of this, because I’d totally buy it again and watch it again on blu ray.
Oh my ghod! They totally had me there! I thought that this was gonna be the cheesiest movie ever. But it’s a comment of cheesiness in movies instead!
Well played.
Esther Williams is very… tan… in this movie.
Oh, the … tannity… was only for the movie within the movie.
It’s all so meta.
It’s an odd movie — it’s got all these characters spouting off on… stuff…
I mean, we’re twenty minutes in, and I really have no idea what this movie is even about.
I like what I’m seeing, but I’m totally befuddled.
This bit is amusing.
Oh! I just realised that this is from 1948. So it’s one of the first colour movies that just is a colour movie because that’s what they make, and not for any artistic reason, or because it’s a huge big-budget movie.
And the colour looks great. Technology happens.
Jimmy Durante is the only actor that’s like… giving any emotion here… but that’s fine.
Drunk thoughts time: Some people is just weird thinking is dead a long time ago, like Durante. I mean, he was already old in all the movies I’ve seen him in, so he seemed kinda… eternal?
I like this movie, but the plot is like whaaa. And kinda abusive? I think they were going for a complicated meet cute, but the meet cute doesn’t happen until the halfway point of the movie, and it’s very… odd.
But the scenery is so beautiful. I want to be in all these locations, which is what matters to the filmmakers?
I’m really enjoying this, but it sure would have been nice if the jokes had been like actually funny and stuff. Instead this is a kinda generic? movie… it’s like they had an outline for a script, and they had asterisks going “write a joke here” and then they didn’t have the time.
It’s fun, but it’s not funny.
Tee hee.
But this is just inexplicably long for the amount of plot they had here. It’s like aiming for a 70 minute movie, but then the result is a 110 minute movie, and it’s just not that amusing.
There’s scenes in here that are really delightful, but as a movie, it just doesn’t quite work.
