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freckles_and_doubt) wrote2005-06-09 11:46 am
freckles_and_doubt) wrote2005-06-09 11:46 am
completely insane
That Jo&Stv, they're completely insane. In a good way, I hasten to add. Their page of so-called "Friends" is worth a look, if only for the value of so much lateral in a small space.
The other movie I watched last night was The Day After Tomorrow, as a sort of finger-on-pulse test of the progress of ecological consciousness in the Hollywood machine. While clearly a fairly bad and predicable movie (not for nothing was it made by the same people who did Independence Day), I found some encouraging signs for my underlying and more-or-less continual ecological angst. Obviously, they did the Global Warming Takes Three Days compression, which is inevitable, given the expectations of pace in Hollywood action films; equally obviously, the whole global warming thing was merely an excuse for mucho special effects and cheesy moments of heartwarming human endeavour. Also, Jake Gyllenhaal may just be my candidate for replacing Tom Cruise in the irritating stakes. However! encouragingly, the doom-saying climatologists were the Good Guys, and the Evil American Economy and Adminstration wore the black hats. It strikes me that the only way awareness of the clear and present danger of our rampage through our natural resources will ever impact on the soft and squidgy consciousness of the Average Western Dingbat, is through overstated images of giant waves pulverising Manhattan and multiple tornadoes in LA. Enough movies like that, and the knee-jerk reaction of the led-by-nose consumer might be usefully conditioned into something other than "Kyoto Accord Is For Bunny Huggers." At any rate, some of the annoyed right-wing responses to the film are entertaining... :>
Whee! RottenTomatoes has an ad announcing that Miyazaki's version of Howl's Moving Castle opens on Friday in the US! *does joy dance on tips of toes, setting off coughing fit*. This means I may be able to lay hands on the DVD in the forseeable future! Diana Wynne Jones in anime!
The other movie I watched last night was The Day After Tomorrow, as a sort of finger-on-pulse test of the progress of ecological consciousness in the Hollywood machine. While clearly a fairly bad and predicable movie (not for nothing was it made by the same people who did Independence Day), I found some encouraging signs for my underlying and more-or-less continual ecological angst. Obviously, they did the Global Warming Takes Three Days compression, which is inevitable, given the expectations of pace in Hollywood action films; equally obviously, the whole global warming thing was merely an excuse for mucho special effects and cheesy moments of heartwarming human endeavour. Also, Jake Gyllenhaal may just be my candidate for replacing Tom Cruise in the irritating stakes. However! encouragingly, the doom-saying climatologists were the Good Guys, and the Evil American Economy and Adminstration wore the black hats. It strikes me that the only way awareness of the clear and present danger of our rampage through our natural resources will ever impact on the soft and squidgy consciousness of the Average Western Dingbat, is through overstated images of giant waves pulverising Manhattan and multiple tornadoes in LA. Enough movies like that, and the knee-jerk reaction of the led-by-nose consumer might be usefully conditioned into something other than "Kyoto Accord Is For Bunny Huggers." At any rate, some of the annoyed right-wing responses to the film are entertaining... :>
Whee! RottenTomatoes has an ad announcing that Miyazaki's version of Howl's Moving Castle opens on Friday in the US! *does joy dance on tips of toes, setting off coughing fit*. This means I may be able to lay hands on the DVD in the forseeable future! Diana Wynne Jones in anime!
:)
(Anonymous) 2005-06-09 11:16 am (UTC)(link)strange coincidence: i saw that howl's moving castle ad. on rotten tomatoes. yesterday. weird, huh? i never go to rotten tomatoes, but there i was.
yay anyway!
:)
Re: :)
(Anonymous) 2005-06-13 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)KathyM
sig.
(Anonymous) 2005-06-09 11:17 am (UTC)(link)no subject
It does? Then it might open in Civilisation soon!