Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Renaissance
French Near future Noir Sci Fi.
Paris 2050.
Hard bitten supercop is called in to investigate the kidnapping of a corporate scientist. Something she was researching has been getting people killed. Each step of the investigation drags the protagonists deeper into a world of sinister corporate intrigue and a secret worth dying for.
The visuals on this were stunning. In an attempt to combat the uncanny valley effect the whole film is presented in saturated black and while. Stylized with a Frank Miller comic book look, there seemed to be a mix of real, hand drawn and computer generated footage. But, the lo-fi look allowed them to blend seamlessly.
The imagination of the future Paris was fresh showing an incremental change in the urban landscape and an innocuous pervasive use of technology. The characters face's were finely chiseled shadow casting machines which allowed an almost unending exercise in positive and negative space. All together the effect was very stylish; but what else would you expect from the french, eh?
3 stars
"Nacho cheese is sort of the bastard cousin of Cheeze Whiz, which is the red-headed stepchild of American cheese, which is like the white-trash member of the cheese family. So that makes nacho cheese the red-haired bastard inbred cousin/stepchild of a white trash cheese…and we still love the crap spooned over salty corn chips. Ain’t that America." --Teague Bohlen
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true." -- Niels Bohr
Thursday, February 25, 2010
chlorine trifluoride
There’s a report from the early 1950s (in this PDF) of a one-ton spill of the stuff. It burned its way through a foot of concrete floor and chewed up another meter of sand and gravel beneath, completing a day that I'm sure no one involved ever forgot. That process, I should add, would necessarily have been accompanied by copious amounts of horribly toxic and corrosive by-products: it’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Heavenly Creatures
I was quite interested to see how Peter Jackson did without millions upon millions of dollars behind him. He acquitted himself quite well I thought.
The true story follows two years in the lives of two school age girls in 1950's New Zealand. Both isolated but for different reasons they find a mutual bond through the construction of a fantasy world. The intensity of this bond is considered unbecoming and so the girl's families try to force more normal behaviour. As one might expect, the girls rebel.
I had the thought towards the end of the film that it has a Shakesperian tragic element. If you squint you can even overlay Macbeth onto one of the girls and Lady Macbeth on the other. The set up is joyous but contains the flaws of each of the two; Ambition for Macbeth and hubris for Lady Macbeth. The combination of these two leas down a path that becomes increasingly dark.
The story is told with much effort to make you feel very stifled and and trapped. Small cramped rooms, lost of close shots where the camera has to pan to follow the conversation, lurid underlit scenes and heavy but not excessive use of a narrative in the form of one of the girl's diary entries. All of this helps us to empathise with the girls who as children have solutions and understandings which are naieve and excessive. There is then a sort of symmetry with the application of force by the parents who don't understand the girls relationship and try to apply (what now appear to be) the heavy handed methods of the age. The final evolution of these pressures is the strongly foreshadowed and grisly conclusion.
This was Kate Winslet's first film and she did quite well, but in the end the stand out performance was of the main girl Melanie Lynskey. An actor who I don't know if I have seen since, but had just the right look for the part. (Looking on IMDB she has done lots of little things, but nothing big.)
Anyway, A nice film that had me emotionally engaged right to the end, which punched me in the gut with a good succinct payload and left it at that.
3 1/2 STARS
Elvis!
It rained all day the day that Elvis Presley died
And only a legend can make it do that!
And you know, I remember when my baby said we were through
And she was gonna walk out on me
It was Elvis Presley that talked her out of it
And he gave me my first leather jacket
And taught me how to comb my hair just right in a filling station bathroom
It was Elvis that gave you a rubber on prom night
And told you that you looked real sharp
And you know, I think he maybe just got a little tired
Of repairing all the broken hearts in the world.
And only a legend can make it do that!
And you know, I remember when my baby said we were through
And she was gonna walk out on me
It was Elvis Presley that talked her out of it
And he gave me my first leather jacket
And taught me how to comb my hair just right in a filling station bathroom
It was Elvis that gave you a rubber on prom night
And told you that you looked real sharp
And you know, I think he maybe just got a little tired
Of repairing all the broken hearts in the world.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
How I remember it.
...oh yeah, if there had been no internet when I was a lad I would never have done all of the amazing things I have done. We used to have to go to school early in the morning and write with chalk on boards of slate. Much better than these modern laptops, they just make you lazy. Our teacher was an ancient woman who would paddle us with the flats of her shoes if we didn't learn to use Napier's bones proper. Calculators hah! We used a system of pebbles in holes in the sand.
On our 15 mile hike home across volcanic mountains my friends and I would catch and ride the dodo's that ran wild on the road to Atlantis where we went to school. Much more fun than your segways.
Don't even get me started about the Morris dancing, You have never lived until you have clashed sticks in a Cotswold Morris dancing crew. Much more healthy than dance dance revolutions that I see all you hooligans doing in the malls and the video arcades.
I'm sure I could think of more examples but me noggin' is shot from huffing all that kerosene because we didn't have video games.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Engage catapillar drive
So I run this big metal UHV-STM (electron microscope). One of the major problems it has is it is so sensitive I can see vibrations from anything. People walking down the hallway, doors closing and trains a block away. So when the microscope is running, it floats on these dampeners. But that is not enough, because all of the cables connected to it transmit the vibrations. So Borislav, a colleague who has a similar machine offered to help me minimise vibrations the way he does it. Borislav and I carried out the careful cable management scheme. The whole time I was thinking: 'Mr. Naydenov, rig the chamber for shilent running.'
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Equilibrium
Fucking Christian Bale plays a block of wood with Batman's voice. He is part of the thought police in a heavy handed dystopian future where everybody takes drugs to suppress their emotion. After killing his partner he begins on a painfully obvious journey to discover his feelings. Plot holes abound.
A total rip off of the visual and conceptual components of the matrix this film has none of the original's novelty. The main character wore a priests cassock and did fancy superhuman tricks with guns; Often in large columned plazas. They must have searched far and wide to fine enough brushed concrete building for all the filming locations.
It didn't even have a hot chick in it, making it worse than The Island.
2 stars
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”
This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
(Douglas Adams)
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Mummy brown, not as disgusting as it sounds, also nose grease.
What the fuck is happening with censorship in australia?
Since watching 2001 on the big screen last saturday i have had the Blue Danube stuck in my head. Not annoyed yet!#
Note to self. A Soldering Iron is not a Multimeter probe, do not mix them up.
What the fuck is happening with censorship in australia?
Since watching 2001 on the big screen last saturday i have had the Blue Danube stuck in my head. Not annoyed yet!#
Note to self. A Soldering Iron is not a Multimeter probe, do not mix them up.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Cool Hand Luke
War hero Luke is put in a country jail for a drunken crime. His devil may care attitude wins him the respect of his fellow convicts and eventually their hopes. But the hope of others is a heavy burden to bear. Early on he talks to his mother who is dying. She apologises for giving him the burden of her love.
Mother: Why, we always thought you was strong enough to carry it. Was we wrong?
Luke: I don't know. Well, things are just never the way they seem, Arletta, you know that. A man's just gotta go his own way.
I am sure there is little i can say about this film that hasn't been said better before. The characters have the familiarity of a western and the depth of a drama. The metaphor is maybe of the fighting American spirit and the close of an era. The statement is very anti-establishment.
Right at the end Luke sums up with this monologue:
You've got to admit You ain't dealt me no cards in a long time. It's beginning to look like You got things fixed so I can't never win out. Inside, outside, all of them... rules and regulations and bosses. You made me like I am. Now just where am I supposed to fit in? Old Man, I gotta tell You. I started out pretty strong and fast. But it's beginning to get to me. When does it end? What do You got in mind for me? What do I do now?
The the deconstruction of a man, the burden of hope and the breakable, unbreakable spirit. Lots to think about.
It seems that with film, the further back you go the more depth the characters have and the more time is spent exploring the subtleties of this depth. But if you go back to a certain point the medium of film is too young to support it. So, I would like to know exactly what point in history that was? Can we call it the golden age of hollywood?
Anyway, so much popular culture has sprung from this film. What we have here is failure to communicate; no man can eat 50 eggs; taking the shirt off now boss... and i think i heard the old theme music to the Channel 9 news.
Maybe i am rating this above my level of enjoyment, but not above the level of reflection it has afforded.
4 1/2 stars.
Mother: Why, we always thought you was strong enough to carry it. Was we wrong?
Luke: I don't know. Well, things are just never the way they seem, Arletta, you know that. A man's just gotta go his own way.
I am sure there is little i can say about this film that hasn't been said better before. The characters have the familiarity of a western and the depth of a drama. The metaphor is maybe of the fighting American spirit and the close of an era. The statement is very anti-establishment.
Right at the end Luke sums up with this monologue:
You've got to admit You ain't dealt me no cards in a long time. It's beginning to look like You got things fixed so I can't never win out. Inside, outside, all of them... rules and regulations and bosses. You made me like I am. Now just where am I supposed to fit in? Old Man, I gotta tell You. I started out pretty strong and fast. But it's beginning to get to me. When does it end? What do You got in mind for me? What do I do now?
The the deconstruction of a man, the burden of hope and the breakable, unbreakable spirit. Lots to think about.
It seems that with film, the further back you go the more depth the characters have and the more time is spent exploring the subtleties of this depth. But if you go back to a certain point the medium of film is too young to support it. So, I would like to know exactly what point in history that was? Can we call it the golden age of hollywood?
Anyway, so much popular culture has sprung from this film. What we have here is failure to communicate; no man can eat 50 eggs; taking the shirt off now boss... and i think i heard the old theme music to the Channel 9 news.
Maybe i am rating this above my level of enjoyment, but not above the level of reflection it has afforded.
4 1/2 stars.
Kill Bill Vol. 2.
Well really a couple of words on the whole Kill Bill thing.
I can say that my general lack of excitement about the whole project was maintained after seeing the second part. I suppose finally some of the characters flesh out into something that you could care about right at the end. But the bride was still an almost meaningless character right through the end and even to me now in reflection.
All of the little filmy style bits seemed rough and assembled in such a piecewise manner as to feel like an afterthought. This comes back to the whole 'homage' element to the film that Quentin Tarentino seem to think covers all ills. I will give it that a couple of scenes were still pretty good. the fight scene with the crazy 88's was such unbelievable excess that it worked; Sort of like The Wild Bunch meets a samurai sword. The scene with Estaban near the edn was also quite fun. The actor had some good mannerisms that made the character more real than many of the other main characters. Oh yes, the training chapter with Pai Mei was quite good. I like that there were no subtitles/ It pushed you to fill in your own understanding of the training montage based on all your prior experience of training montages.
And where was all of the good Tarentino dialogue? Nowhere, that's where. Maybe in the last scene with Bill, who felt like he was speaking the words that Tarento would have liked to say. I almost get the feeling that Tarentino wrote Bill to be his cameo right at the end but felt that maybe it was too egocentric even for him.
So yeah, blah. I don't like Kill Bill, it is meaningless fluff. But i guess i was able to watch it, so:
3 stars
I can say that my general lack of excitement about the whole project was maintained after seeing the second part. I suppose finally some of the characters flesh out into something that you could care about right at the end. But the bride was still an almost meaningless character right through the end and even to me now in reflection.
All of the little filmy style bits seemed rough and assembled in such a piecewise manner as to feel like an afterthought. This comes back to the whole 'homage' element to the film that Quentin Tarentino seem to think covers all ills. I will give it that a couple of scenes were still pretty good. the fight scene with the crazy 88's was such unbelievable excess that it worked; Sort of like The Wild Bunch meets a samurai sword. The scene with Estaban near the edn was also quite fun. The actor had some good mannerisms that made the character more real than many of the other main characters. Oh yes, the training chapter with Pai Mei was quite good. I like that there were no subtitles/ It pushed you to fill in your own understanding of the training montage based on all your prior experience of training montages.
And where was all of the good Tarentino dialogue? Nowhere, that's where. Maybe in the last scene with Bill, who felt like he was speaking the words that Tarento would have liked to say. I almost get the feeling that Tarentino wrote Bill to be his cameo right at the end but felt that maybe it was too egocentric even for him.
So yeah, blah. I don't like Kill Bill, it is meaningless fluff. But i guess i was able to watch it, so:
3 stars
Die Antwoord again
I think I linked to some stuff by these guys a little while ago. So raw! I think i like it.
And some earlier stuff:
Monday, February 8, 2010
Miramax is gone
So Miramax is ramping right down. Diney bought them and they haven't been making any money. But Next in the list of films to watch... some Miramax films i haven't seen before.
- Kids
- The Reflecting Skin (Never heard of it. Might not be able to find a copy)
- Exotica
- Beautiful Girls
- Flirting With Disaster (David O. Russell , same director as I ♥ Huckabees)
- Heavenly Creatures (So, what is Peter Jackson like outside of fantasy?)
- There Will Be Blood (Meaning to see this for a while)
- City of God (If i can face it)
- Prozac nation (Christina Ricci and Anne Heche)
- Kill Bill Vol 2 (okay finally time to watch it)
- Adventureland
- Brideshead Revisited (Gar of all people suggested this to me)
- No Country for old men (Cohen brothers don't fail me now!)
- Renaissance (French sci-fi animation. hey could be good)
The Seven Archetypal Plots
- Cinderella - Unrecognised virtue at last recognised. It's the same story as the Tortoise and the Hare. Cinderella doesn't have to be a girl, nor does it even have to be a love story. What is essential is that the good is despised, but is recognised in the end, something that we all want to believe.
- Achilles - The Fatal Flaw, that is the groundwork for practically all classical tragedy, although it can be made comedy too, as in the old standard Aldwych farce. Lennox Robinson's The Whiteheaded Boy is the Fatal Flaw In reverse.
- Faust- The Debt that Must be Paid, the fate that catches up with all of us sooner or later. This is found in all its purity as the chase in O'Neill's The Emperor Jones. And in a completely different mood, what else is the Cherry Orchard?
- Tristan - that standard triangular plot of two women and one man, or two men and one woman. The Constant Nymph, or almost any French farce.
- Circe - The Spider and the Fly. Othello. The Barretts of Wimpole Street, if you want to change the sex. And if you don't believe me about Othello (the real plot of which is not the triangle and only incidentally jealousy) try casting it with a good Desdemona but a poor Iago.
- Romeo and Juliet - Boy meets Girl, Boy loses Girl, Boy either finds or does not find Girl: it doesn't matter which.
- Orpheus - The Gift taken Away. This may take two forms: either the tragedy of the loss itself, as in Juno and the Paycock, or it may be about the search that follows the loss, as in Jason and the Golden Fleece.
- The Hero Who Cannot Be Kept Down. The best example of this is that splendid play Harvey, made into a film with James Stewart.
more on semiotics
The Purple Rose of Cairo
What fun! I have to admit that I have never watched a Woody Allen film from beginning to end before. So, with this as my only background I would have to say that writes a mean script.
A downtrodden wife is in love with the movies. While watching the latest Hollywood romance one of the characters steps out of the screen and into her life. The film character falls in love with the woman and a whole world of unreal romance and adventure threatens to sweep her away. Meanwhile, the actor who plays the part of the character comes to find a solution to this problem, otherwise the film can never end. A second romance blossoms between the woman and the actor. In the end she has to make a decision between the real and fictional man.
While the story was great and the depression-era tone was spot on I thought that the cinematography was a little bit staid and unimaginative. But then again maybe that was a choice so as to imitate the more primitive film style of the era. Unlike the film from yesterday the philosophical exploration was not overt and only towards the end as the structure becomes clear do you start to think about the main themes of storytelling, hope and perfection. Even then, right up until the very end you are kept within the storytelling construct of the silver screen. However, unavoidably the final reel rolls and reality returns with a bittersweet tone, but the dream remains.
4 stars,
hmm, i keep giving 4 stars, maybe i will have to go and watch some shit to give a bit more depth to this rating system. For example: Avatar = 3 stars.
Next up, Cool Hand Luke.
A downtrodden wife is in love with the movies. While watching the latest Hollywood romance one of the characters steps out of the screen and into her life. The film character falls in love with the woman and a whole world of unreal romance and adventure threatens to sweep her away. Meanwhile, the actor who plays the part of the character comes to find a solution to this problem, otherwise the film can never end. A second romance blossoms between the woman and the actor. In the end she has to make a decision between the real and fictional man.
While the story was great and the depression-era tone was spot on I thought that the cinematography was a little bit staid and unimaginative. But then again maybe that was a choice so as to imitate the more primitive film style of the era. Unlike the film from yesterday the philosophical exploration was not overt and only towards the end as the structure becomes clear do you start to think about the main themes of storytelling, hope and perfection. Even then, right up until the very end you are kept within the storytelling construct of the silver screen. However, unavoidably the final reel rolls and reality returns with a bittersweet tone, but the dream remains.
4 stars,
hmm, i keep giving 4 stars, maybe i will have to go and watch some shit to give a bit more depth to this rating system. For example: Avatar = 3 stars.
Next up, Cool Hand Luke.
A blonde and a lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from Los Angeles to New York.
The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde, tired, just wants to take a nap, so she politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks. The lawyer
persists and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun.
He says, "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me five dollars, and vice versa."
Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep.
The lawyer, now agitated, says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $500."
This catches the blonde's attention and, figuring there will be no end to this torment, agrees to the game.
The lawyer asks the first question: "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?"
The blonde doesn't say a word, reaches into her purse, pulls out a $5.00 bill, and hands it to the lawyer.
"Okay," says the lawyer, "your turn."
She asks, "What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four legs?"
The lawyer, puzzled, takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references ... no answer. He taps into the air phone with his modem and searches the Internet and the Library of Congress ... no answer. Frustrated, he sends e-mails to all his friends and coworkers but to no avail.
After an hour, he wakes the blonde and hands her $500.
The blonde thanks him and turns back to get some more sleep.
The lawyer, who is more than a little miffed, stirs the blonde and asks, "Well, what's the answer?"
Without a word, the blonde reaches into her purse, hands the lawyer $5, and goes back to sleep.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
I ♥ Huckabees
I had seen the end of this film on cable before but it made a lot more sense after watching the whole thing. If it can be said to truly make a lot of sense. It is a tribute to the writer's craft more than that of the actors.
A distracted, conflicted young man comes to the existential detective agency to solve a coincidence in his life. In the process of solving the case the detectives systematically tear his life apart to allow him to see the importance and interconnectedness in life. Tension between an excess of meaning and the complete lack of meaning lead to an understanding of the human condition. The film is never really very serious but through its structure it confronts some of the key ontological questions about in a heuristic fashion.
Jason Swartzmann is growing on me, but i can't figure out if this is because he ends up in good films or if he is a good actor. Jude Law always plays a very convincing asshole and Mark Wahlberg is undistinguished. Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman get to almost steal the show because they get to play the excellently fun part of the detectives.
Heavy on the philosophy, but pretty watchable. The links from the wiki page make for good reading.
4 stars
...tomorrow, Woody Allen!
A distracted, conflicted young man comes to the existential detective agency to solve a coincidence in his life. In the process of solving the case the detectives systematically tear his life apart to allow him to see the importance and interconnectedness in life. Tension between an excess of meaning and the complete lack of meaning lead to an understanding of the human condition. The film is never really very serious but through its structure it confronts some of the key ontological questions about in a heuristic fashion.
Jason Swartzmann is growing on me, but i can't figure out if this is because he ends up in good films or if he is a good actor. Jude Law always plays a very convincing asshole and Mark Wahlberg is undistinguished. Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman get to almost steal the show because they get to play the excellently fun part of the detectives.
Heavy on the philosophy, but pretty watchable. The links from the wiki page make for good reading.
4 stars
...tomorrow, Woody Allen!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tekkon Kinkreet
Wow, after all of the light frivilous anime i have been watching this one came down like a brick. THe film took on a heavy symbolist theme early on. Heavy metaphores that strike to the heart of the japanese psyche (i guess?) . Themes about urban renewal and the subsequent loss of humanity in the environment. These themes were linked together with an exploration about the human spirit; Light and Dark, introvert and extrovert, naieve and canny, Black and White (which turns out to be the names of the main protagonists).
The story follows a run down city 'Treasure Town', over which two young boys keep watch. There is a natural balance between the old fashioned Yakuza, street punks and the police. That is, until a new Yakuza boss with plans to redevelop Treasure town comes along. The new yakuza is laden with negative overtones and at times seems to have an inexorable, quasi religious menace.
This new threat begins journey of development for the town and its adults that ultimately condenses into a internal voyage for the two young boys.
A lot of the animation reminded me of Auon Flux at the beginning, except the backgrounds were significantly more sumptuously drawn. The old cityscapes were really lovely, but as the story pregressed from external to internal the animation became more expressionist until only broad naive watercolour was used in the final sequences.
Good artistic story and the usual japanime tropes seemed fresh.
4 stars
Wow, the steam engine might be back!
and dogs may be obsessive compulsive.
oh and this, i thought at first that i wouldn't like it. but it is sweet. this guy's wife cries like a child after every movie she sees.
and dogs may be obsessive compulsive.
oh and this, i thought at first that i wouldn't like it. but it is sweet. this guy's wife cries like a child after every movie she sees.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Idiocracy
I just caught this movie on cable called idiocracy. As the name implies it was stupid. but i enjoyed it. I never heard of it before but aparrently it has a bit of a cult following.
A guy gets frozen and wakes up 500 years in the future. In the future everybody has degraded to the level of imbecile. Our average joe is now the smartest person on earth. The film follows his stupid adventures to becoming the president of the united states.
It felt like a stoner movie where each of the vignettes bore litte relatyion to the others. So the jokes are set pieces. A couple of good gags.
But like any good Adam Sandler-type movie, the story of average idiot with an odd special ability making his fortune was enough to sustain me. It is a distillation of the American dream.
2 1/2 stars
A guy gets frozen and wakes up 500 years in the future. In the future everybody has degraded to the level of imbecile. Our average joe is now the smartest person on earth. The film follows his stupid adventures to becoming the president of the united states.
It felt like a stoner movie where each of the vignettes bore litte relatyion to the others. So the jokes are set pieces. A couple of good gags.
But like any good Adam Sandler-type movie, the story of average idiot with an odd special ability making his fortune was enough to sustain me. It is a distillation of the American dream.
2 1/2 stars
Gay for Ghibli
Just watched 'The Cat Returns"
Somwhere between The Wizard of Oz, the Labyrinth and The Neverending Story. A big fat excuse to have heaps of cats doing amusing things and a catgirl to boot!
The englkish voices were great. Anna Hathaway as the main girl, but the awesome thing was Cary Elwes as Baron Humbert von Gikkingen the best part of the movie, a cat figuring brought to life. A gentleman cat who likes solving other peoples problems with his friends a fat cat and a raven.
Rou can tell by the description that it is a story for kids, but pretty enjoyable nonetheless.
Also in the voice acting is Tim Curry who i didn't care for as the cat king, Eliott Gould as the raven, Odo from DS9 as the cat king's advisor and Andy Richter as another advisor.
Only 70 minutes long which was a good length.
Yay, 4 stars!
Somwhere between The Wizard of Oz, the Labyrinth and The Neverending Story. A big fat excuse to have heaps of cats doing amusing things and a catgirl to boot!
The englkish voices were great. Anna Hathaway as the main girl, but the awesome thing was Cary Elwes as Baron Humbert von Gikkingen the best part of the movie, a cat figuring brought to life. A gentleman cat who likes solving other peoples problems with his friends a fat cat and a raven.
Rou can tell by the description that it is a story for kids, but pretty enjoyable nonetheless.
Also in the voice acting is Tim Curry who i didn't care for as the cat king, Eliott Gould as the raven, Odo from DS9 as the cat king's advisor and Andy Richter as another advisor.
Only 70 minutes long which was a good length.
Yay, 4 stars!
Cuneo
Terence Cuneo
and his father Cyrus Cuneo
Lots of train pictures, jolly good!
Look here, a good place to look for prints.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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