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bzarcherMan, a ton of people have birthdays today.
Happy birthday, kids. I guess October was pretty boring for your parents.
Beyond that, I'm trying to put A Scanner Darkly into words after seeing it with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dklegman tonight, and I'm honestly failing. Yes, the story's a little predictable, when it's not fucking with you, but it's also good, and probably the most faithful film adaptation of a Phillip K. Dick story you could hope for. The rotoscoping's used as a fascinating tool throughout the movie, and adds a layer that pure animation or pure live action would have lost, I think.
Plus, it contains lines like "You Albino-lizard bitch!"
There's some very good acting from Keanu Reeves (partially because they let him be a man much closer to 40 than 20), which is a bit of a surprise, and while I think Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson were basically just being themselves, with the dials turned up a bit from their regular volume, I think they carried their parts well. In addition, Rory Cochrane managed to play Benicio Del Toro so well that untill I looked him up on IMDB, we were convinced that he was Benicio under a pseudonym, so that was pretty cool.
All in all, it's a difficult movie to explain if you haven't seen it or read the material it was based on, but I reccomend it if you get a chance.
Oh, also - if you are not one of the Beautiful People, avoid The Happy Greek down by the Gateway like the plague. The food's great, but the treatment from the waitstaff ruins the experience.
Happy birthday, kids. I guess October was pretty boring for your parents.
Beyond that, I'm trying to put A Scanner Darkly into words after seeing it with
dklegman tonight, and I'm honestly failing. Yes, the story's a little predictable, when it's not fucking with you, but it's also good, and probably the most faithful film adaptation of a Phillip K. Dick story you could hope for. The rotoscoping's used as a fascinating tool throughout the movie, and adds a layer that pure animation or pure live action would have lost, I think.Plus, it contains lines like "You Albino-lizard bitch!"
There's some very good acting from Keanu Reeves (partially because they let him be a man much closer to 40 than 20), which is a bit of a surprise, and while I think Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson were basically just being themselves, with the dials turned up a bit from their regular volume, I think they carried their parts well. In addition, Rory Cochrane managed to play Benicio Del Toro so well that untill I looked him up on IMDB, we were convinced that he was Benicio under a pseudonym, so that was pretty cool.
All in all, it's a difficult movie to explain if you haven't seen it or read the material it was based on, but I reccomend it if you get a chance.
Oh, also - if you are not one of the Beautiful People, avoid The Happy Greek down by the Gateway like the plague. The food's great, but the treatment from the waitstaff ruins the experience.
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Date: 2006-07-14 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-14 01:39 pm (UTC)Part of me suspects it was the waiter(s) - both seemed to be putting on quite a show of favoring particular tables while ignoring the others, and I know it wasn't just us because I watched an older gentleman get up, try to hunt down his waiter, and saw the waiter deliberately turn away, keep his back to the gentleman, and walk away, ignoring him, even after he called out "Excuse me, waiter!" so that we could hear it clearly from 30 feet away.
I'm also pretty sure I went to High School with one of them, and he was a self-centered ass back then, too. :D
Let me know when you plan to go back - I don't think any of us would mind a second crack at it to see stuff we didn't catch before.