BWAHAHAHAHA + review
10 Mar 2007 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayoraaseiOh, I dearly love Ctrl+Alt+Del, and this just made my day: PC's answer to the Mac ad.
I've always been a fence-sitter in the Mac vs PC debate, but Apple's starting to piss me off more and more these days ==;;; Their iPods are the fugliest and most overrated pieces of technological crap......
It may also be remnant bad memories about QuickTime, probably the buggiest and ugliest (ok, WMPlayer is uglier, but at least it didn't try to pretend it was anything else) player I've ever been forced to endure.
.....Okay, I think I've just about pissed off every raving mad Mac lover there is....ahem, moving on.
On Wednesday I went with Carmen to see The Illusionist.
I have to admit, our reasons were impure, as we went to see it purely for the name =P Normally romcom is not the type of movie I like to catch.
I really enjoyed Ever After, which was also a period romantic film with a happy ending, and dire fate for the villains, but somehow made enjoyable in spite of all the Hollywood conventions.
If Ever After was a retelling of Cinderella, then The Illusionist is almost like a retelling of Bluebeard...the violent fiance who forces a marriage on a reluctant woman, the woman's loved one rescuing her and granting the villain justice....
But it is much wittier than that. It is a quiet film, so for once I have no problem actually hearing what they say. It takes its time to lay out its web, a grand illusion so empty of violence and yet so effectively lethal.
Edward Norton is not exactly a heart-throb, but now I don't suppose I would have wanted it any other way. He gave Eisenheim a natural, unaffected charisma that was so appealing in its humility and sincerity that I don't suppose any cocky Hollywood son could pull it off better.
It's a pity that The Prestige stole its thunder, because The Illusionist is a much more magical film, and that magic coming much more at ease for our protagonist, who weaves his sleights-of-hand effortlessly with a quiet and unexaggerated stage demeanour. Unlike Angier and Borden of The Prestige, Eisenheim was an intelligent man who possessed magic, not an intelligent man possessed by magic, and so we love him more, for all the trickery that he gracefully avoids explaining.
The other characters are also much more likeable, the poor pressured policeman who at once respects Eisenheim and is driven by his Prince to arrest the Illusionist; and self-contained, level-eyed Sophie. Although I must say it took me a while to recognise them through all the Victorian-age beards.......
The Illusionist is less a provocative movie than The Prestige, but it is a wonderfully told fairytale, and as fairytales are...speak of magic that make you sleep better at night.
I've always been a fence-sitter in the Mac vs PC debate, but Apple's starting to piss me off more and more these days ==;;; Their iPods are the fugliest and most overrated pieces of technological crap......
It may also be remnant bad memories about QuickTime, probably the buggiest and ugliest (ok, WMPlayer is uglier, but at least it didn't try to pretend it was anything else) player I've ever been forced to endure.
.....Okay, I think I've just about pissed off every raving mad Mac lover there is....ahem, moving on.
On Wednesday I went with Carmen to see The Illusionist.
I have to admit, our reasons were impure, as we went to see it purely for the name =P Normally romcom is not the type of movie I like to catch.
I really enjoyed Ever After, which was also a period romantic film with a happy ending, and dire fate for the villains, but somehow made enjoyable in spite of all the Hollywood conventions.
If Ever After was a retelling of Cinderella, then The Illusionist is almost like a retelling of Bluebeard...the violent fiance who forces a marriage on a reluctant woman, the woman's loved one rescuing her and granting the villain justice....
But it is much wittier than that. It is a quiet film, so for once I have no problem actually hearing what they say. It takes its time to lay out its web, a grand illusion so empty of violence and yet so effectively lethal.
Edward Norton is not exactly a heart-throb, but now I don't suppose I would have wanted it any other way. He gave Eisenheim a natural, unaffected charisma that was so appealing in its humility and sincerity that I don't suppose any cocky Hollywood son could pull it off better.
It's a pity that The Prestige stole its thunder, because The Illusionist is a much more magical film, and that magic coming much more at ease for our protagonist, who weaves his sleights-of-hand effortlessly with a quiet and unexaggerated stage demeanour. Unlike Angier and Borden of The Prestige, Eisenheim was an intelligent man who possessed magic, not an intelligent man possessed by magic, and so we love him more, for all the trickery that he gracefully avoids explaining.
The other characters are also much more likeable, the poor pressured policeman who at once respects Eisenheim and is driven by his Prince to arrest the Illusionist; and self-contained, level-eyed Sophie. Although I must say it took me a while to recognise them through all the Victorian-age beards.......
The Illusionist is less a provocative movie than The Prestige, but it is a wonderfully told fairytale, and as fairytales are...speak of magic that make you sleep better at night.
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Date: 2007-03-10 12:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-10 11:17 pm (UTC)*grin* yeah, CAD is awesome XD I want ethan to make ME a time machine!!
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Date: 2007-03-11 03:09 am (UTC)*Snickers* I want to prebook an ambulance one week in advance too XD Not for myself, of course XD
You mean the time machine that takes you to a future where gaming and alcohol and dying will be require a permit and be taxed? LOL!!
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Date: 2007-03-11 03:15 am (UTC)for me? *blinks innocently* :D? if so, I feel loved.. ^O^!
yeah, possibly :P.. but actually, I want it for the same reason ethan did (to get more time to do stuff, like play all the games he wants right when they're released)
..does ted remind you of penpen from evangelion, or is it just me?
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Date: 2007-03-11 11:49 pm (UTC)Gotta love the PS3 bash going on. (Youtube isnt so kind to SONY either lol)