Monday, 24 November 2008

Watched the last few episodes of firefly, one of the best sci-fi shows in years. Fantastic anti-hero characters and witty humour combined with a western concept in space. Simply brilliant to watch even though the first episodes are somewhat boring.
Also watched meet the fockers. Not nearly as funny as the first one though Dustin Hoffman delivers a good performance and the end is way too predictable and cheesy. A few good laughs though.
Watched Rome:Open City in class. A good italiian realist film in where the story is well told and the ending is unpredictable. It left me slighly unsatisfied because I was expecting some form of greater victory for the underground italian group, though it could be argued that a moral victory was achieved in the end, as Andy Dougan fairly pointed out to me. All in all, the acting was superb which also reflects the quality of the direction.
Also saw rejected on youtube, a simple animated series made by Don Hertzfeldt when he was commisined to make animated shorts for corporations. I thought it was a hilarious and if you have a dark sense of humour, i thoroughly recomend this to you. It's developed a bit of a cult following too.

1 comment:

D. Sarakinis said...

Yeah man, Don Hertzfeldt is a fucking genious and rejected is one of the funniest things i've seen!!!