films seen and not seen
Mar. 5th, 2009 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacThe DVD of Dr. Horrible arrived, yay! This was my first chance to see the whole 42-minute thing straight through, as Hulu will not buffer on my computer, and I have to stop it every 90 seconds to let the download catch up with the playback.
It's full of clever Joss Whedon moments - like everybody else, I was sold when the singing cowboys suddenly appeared on screen - but it's a terribly sad story, isn't it? And not just for the obvious reason. Dr. Horrible - who I expect has a backstory something like Wade Ormont's - loses his last scrap of humanity, not that he wasn't already fooling himself if he thought he could woo Penny with megalomania. And what of Penny? What's her depressing backstory that she twice alludes to? When she edges away from Captain Hammer during his long (too long) egocentric song, is she seeing him for the cheezy meathead that Billy had told her he is? But if so, why is her last line that Captain Hammer will save us? And doesn't that also imply that she never realized that Billy and Dr. Horrible are the same person?
Liked the trailer, and the making-of shorts. Liked some of the ELE application videos, but not others. Listened to about ten minutes of "Commentary: The Musical" before turning it off from terminal boredom.
Decided not to rush out and see Watchmen. I'm not sure how much admiration of the graphic novel depends on having been a previous superhero-comics reader who came across it when it was new in 1987, but a number of people who were not both have dubbed it overrated. Me, I did read it in 1987. Though I had never been a superhero-comics reader, I admired it greatly, but I liked V for Vendetta more. The film of that, though fairly faithful to the original, was dull and flattening, and reviews of the Watchmen film suggest the same. As well as terribly violent, no surprise. No thanks, I'm not that big a fan.
It's full of clever Joss Whedon moments - like everybody else, I was sold when the singing cowboys suddenly appeared on screen - but it's a terribly sad story, isn't it? And not just for the obvious reason. Dr. Horrible - who I expect has a backstory something like Wade Ormont's - loses his last scrap of humanity, not that he wasn't already fooling himself if he thought he could woo Penny with megalomania. And what of Penny? What's her depressing backstory that she twice alludes to? When she edges away from Captain Hammer during his long (too long) egocentric song, is she seeing him for the cheezy meathead that Billy had told her he is? But if so, why is her last line that Captain Hammer will save us? And doesn't that also imply that she never realized that Billy and Dr. Horrible are the same person?
Liked the trailer, and the making-of shorts. Liked some of the ELE application videos, but not others. Listened to about ten minutes of "Commentary: The Musical" before turning it off from terminal boredom.
Decided not to rush out and see Watchmen. I'm not sure how much admiration of the graphic novel depends on having been a previous superhero-comics reader who came across it when it was new in 1987, but a number of people who were not both have dubbed it overrated. Me, I did read it in 1987. Though I had never been a superhero-comics reader, I admired it greatly, but I liked V for Vendetta more. The film of that, though fairly faithful to the original, was dull and flattening, and reviews of the Watchmen film suggest the same. As well as terribly violent, no surprise. No thanks, I'm not that big a fan.
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Date: 2009-03-06 03:52 am (UTC)We're going to see Watchmen on Sunday. I'm not looking forward to it as much as other people as I haven't read the graphic novel on which it is based and have read that there is Much Violence. We shall see.
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Date: 2009-03-06 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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