Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Book of Life

A film about the biblical apocalypse.
Pretty boring. spent most of the time perving on P.J. Harvey. I thought the guy who played the devil sounded and acted like a wrestler. The dialog was clunky and the actual topic for the movie was kind of boring. It took a long time to evolve towards a fairly simplistic ending. The music vignettes seemed forced and overly long.
Apparently one of the first films filmed entirely digitally. I thought it suffered for that. they kept trying to include digital effects as a stylistic element, but the colours just seemed bled out. It was like putting a lens flare on everything.
There was one long voice over by William S. Burroughs. nice. i wonder if he did it for the film?
i also wonder why P.J. harvey was in such an underwhelming film. must be friends with someone in the project.

overall i was unimpressed, painfully hipster; two stars
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