jibber jabber 

great movie and a recommended viewing. it hooked me from the opening scene of mr fox doing his morning calisthenics. love the art direction and the quirky humour. classic wes anderson.

one of the movies i checked out over the holidays and it kicked much ass. in fact it probably kicked the most ass of any movie i watched last year. always been a danny boyle fan but this time he’s got a great, dare i say inspirational, script to work with.
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i realize its been a while since i’ve done any movie reviews so here’s the short versions:

quantum of solace:
good but i was expecting more, too bad about that Aston Martin though…

kung fu panda:
a few good laughs but missing the heart that pixar movies have.

the bank job:
neat little heist flick and the role suits jason statham well.

maid of honour (saw it on the plane):
gag

eeee heee heee heee…. (that’s me giggling like a little school girl)

went to see wall-e on saturday night. so good. i saw one of the first trailers for the movie i think almost a year or more ago now and i was instantly struck with how cute wall-e the robot was. as more and more trailers came out i became even more convinced at how great this movie was going to be. by the time the movie opened my expectations were sky high… and i was not let down.

not just a kids movie but just a great movie with amazing characters and a timeless love story. the animation is incredible. love the underlying conservation theme and the fat humans. go see it, you’ll love it.

being a mac fan i have to point out some little bits of trivia

- wall-e makes the mac startup sound after he’s been recharged
- eve’s neck has that same rotating bar pattern that you see when you first boot your mac
- eve’s design was partially by Jonathan Ive, the mac industrial designer
- the voice of Otto is the voice from the old Mac text-to-speech program

also got to watch Juno recently. the trailers got me sufficiently interested and i’m glad i gave in and watched it. its for lack of a better word…sweet. its a cute, fun, endearing little movie.

i’m sure you already know the basic premise of the movie so i won’t recap. i love the lead character’s wit and i’m stoked i got to hear somebody say “homeskillet” in a movie. all the other characters were so well written and acted too. the dad kicks ass and i love when the mom bitches out the ultrasound technician.

and yet again, a movie filmed in vancouver just somehow seems to register on my radar even when there aren’t obvious landmarks. i first suspected it when they were driving to the adoptive parents house. the suburbs and the houses just looked so surrey/coquitlam and by the time they were in the mall i knew it was coquitlam centre. i could tell by the railings. pretty silly huh?

anyways go see it. its good.

friday night our industrial neighbours were throwing a big party and if last years was any indication we figured it would be loud, so we decided to peace out and go see a movie. i was hoping for cloverfield but Steph sold me on this film aka “Le scaphandre et le papillon”

its kind of a biopic in that its the story of the life of the editor of french elle magazine after he has a stroke and becomes a victim of “locked in” syndrome. its a pretty amazing story as far as human determination and life and stuff and the cinematography and visuals were pretty good but there were just some devices that the director used that just started to drive me a little batty.

first off the movie is all first person. you spend the whole movie seeing the world as he sees it or else in his mind and imagination. second, because of his condition, he can only communicate via eye blinks and so he communicates by having somebody recite the alphabet and he blinks when they hit the correct letter. i understand that this is a key point of the movie but its repeated so many damn times that i never want to hear the french alphabet again.

its in french and subtitled and after our recent trip to france, i tried real hard to not read the subtitles. i think i got about 1/3 of it in french. not too bad. also, i found a cool track in the movie that i liked by Ultra Orange and the Emmanuelles who the singer it turns out is one of the actresses in the film.

pretty good movie but you may be distracted by the story telling devices.

goddamn if the brits aren’t good at comedy. from the same team that brought you “shaun of the dead” comes this wickedly funny rip on the buddy cop genre.

the story revolves around a guy who’s the top cop in london and gets sent to a remote village so he doesn’t make the rest of the london police force look bad. of course once he gets to his new posting, he’s partnered up with a slacker partner and things in the quaint country town aren’t what they seem.

the last half hour has to be the funnies 30 minutes of celluloid in existence. also love the references to movies like point break, the professional, etc.

oh yeah…since i’ve been to quite a few movies in theatres lately so i’ve seen a lot of trailers and there’s a couple that actually look interesting.

the kingdom – this one caught my eye mostly because michael mann is attached to the project. the trailer has that same kind of feel as traffic or syriana. its got that yellow tint, shaky cam, but its also kind of the first movie i can think of to be set in the current middle east chaos.

american gangster – this movie looks like a nice epic tale. my only beef is that denzel washington is in it. he’s like robert deniro with his one look. the outraged, head trembling, spittle spewing jowls flapping look. i’m not sure if my interest in the movie will outweigh my dislike for denzel.

war – this looks interesting solely because of jason statham. he’s just a good action star.