Kip and Jenn go to the movies!
So, yeah, we finally saw Lord of the Rings : Return of the King. Yeah, yeah, real Johnny-Come-Latelies are we. What can I say? We’ve been terribly occupied since the opening week of said movie.
Anyway, loved it, can’t wait to but the box set of all the extended versions and O.D. on the thing. I have to say my favorite bit was the lighting of the signal fires. Hey, it’s inherent lizard brain stirring symbolism on mountain tops, how could it not grab me? Very odd to see movies of the first “adult” book I’ve ever read, knowing what’s going to happen and yet still find it suspenseful nonetheless.
But actually I’m here to talk about the trailers.
I love trailers—which is something in serious conflict with being the dame who loves nothing better than being given a good story without knowing a damn thing. And it was a lot of trailers, after about seven damn commercials all right before a three hour and fifteen minute movie.
Not a bad selection really and it all made sense*—the fantasy special effect movie mix. It was The Chronicles of Riddick, The Village, Harry Potter : The Prisoner of Azkaban**, Hellboy, and Troy. And Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
While I would not be unhappy to find myself in a theater watching one of these (well, I‘m uncertain about Riddick) the one I’m going to make a point of seeing is Sky Captain. Good lord, is it a pretty looking movie, in all things. As Kip kept saying it looks like a live action Max Fleischer cartoon. (You can can view the trailer here)
There’s the funky 1930s-1940s robot designs, daring aerobatics, Gwyneth Paltrow as intrepid reporter Polly Perkins. And flight jackets. And Angelina Jolie as the dashing eye-patched Capt. Franky Cook. I am so there.
Moral of the story: I want Capt. Franky Cook.The end.
*I’ve often been absolutely bewildered by the trailers before some movies, of what the theaters thought of the demographic of the movie in question. Like Final Destination 2 right before the second Lord of the Rings movie.
**With new director Alfonso Cuaron. Yow.
Moral of the story: I want Capt. Franky Cook. The end.
Only if you share.
you’re lucky, I got The Mask 2.
THE MASK IS A CGI BABY.
*SCREEEEEEEAAAAAAAM*
You guys get a sidedish of retrofitted-1930’s nostalgia with your midget-packed cinematic main course, while *I* get a trailer for the goddamed sequel to “The Mask”? (Featuring a wretchedly-rendered CG jive-dancing baby, no less!) There’s no justice in today’s movie palaces, i tells ya.
JINX!
*weeps profoundly at the misfortune of all the lost souls who’ve been subjected to that trailer*
Jenn, did you and Kip know that “…Riddick” is actually a sequel to “Pitch Black”? The name of V. Diesel’s character is the clue, I guess, but still. Talk about a departure. Now if I could only figure out what genre they are trying to stand on its head…
Yeah, I heard Diesel say something like Pitch Black was The Hobbit to Riddick’s Lord of the Rings. Since I haven’t seen Pitch Black, I have no idea what he’s talking about.
The Village looked good. Troy looks like a waste of time, since I bet Brad Pitt is playing Achilles, which means he won’t be snuggling with Patrocles, darn the luck. Hellboy looked like, well, Hellboy. And Gary Oldman’s playing Sirius Black, and was that Alan Rickman in old lady drag? Heck, I’m there. —But Angelina Jolie in a tight uniform with an eyepatch? Um, and lotsofcoolretro’30sdesign, yeahyeah. Homina homina, baby; I’m in the theater for that one.
(The Mask 2? I also saw a poster for Aliens vs. Predator. And, of course, Hellboy. Dark Horse must be thrilled.)
I believe Lord of the Rings III is the geatest movie. it doesn’t happen very often when a screen version of a book is as powerful as the book itself… It’s more than words can say, and it deserves the best of awards.