Sasquatch Dumpling Gang is an awesome awesome movie. It's a sort of slacker comedy about sci fi geeks. The lead is played by Peter Pan from the most recent movie, whom I rather like, then there's a tall, fat guy who makes medieval weapons out of electrical tape and foam, the girl who is interested in the lead and the random short kid. The idea is that they find sasquatch tracks in the woods and alert the authorities, hoping they'll be proved real. The movie is told in chapters, following a bunch of different characters, and getting to the bottom of the mystery.
I liked the chapter titles, which each had a cartoon still of an upcoming scene and a heading. I liked the secondary characters, especially "shirts" who never wore a shirt, always had a cup of coke and usually had a hotdog on a stick. I liked that it never got too nasty.
Event 16 (Uhm, not much on imdb there, but one comment from someone who saw the same screening as us.) I am conflicted about Event 16. I wanted it to be good, and I think the story is very strong...but...it wasn't without it's problems. I feel like the script was letting it down, especially the dialogue. I thought the (rather poor) sfx were relied on too heavily. I was disappointed at the portrayal of women (with one exception all speaking women are either nurses or hookers) and the fact that the camera didn't seem to be very high quality. I can think of changes I would have made that would make the movie a bit more redeemable.
Lee's friend Ezra played the man bad guy, a troubled and slightly insane serial kiiller from 1893 that comes into the present time, and he was awesome. Really creepy and sinister (and that's after I'd just chatted to him outside!) The other two leads were alright.
I was really annoyed with one thing they did in the future sequence ****SPOILERS**** The lead woman knew that eventually the killer would come for her, right? She spent 22 years learning self defence, so she could fight him off. One question: if you'd had all that time to prepare, wouldn't you have moved on to full blown martial arts? Like Tae Kwon Do or freaking Jujitsu? Meh. I should be used to inherent sexism in movies, but when the lead male told her to wait in the closet while he "took care of it" I wanted to cry. ***END SPOILERS***
Deep Breath. Ok, after that we saw Army of Shadows a restoration of a 1969 French film about the Resistance. It was very good, but very long. I suspect it's just a reflection of the time it was made but it did seem frustrating to show us every single motion involved in packing a suitcase, or walking through a prison camp...so yeah. That combined with the increasingly uncomfortable Te Papa seating made it a very long movie. The ending was, quite predictably, depressing.
Thursday Rachel picked me up for lunch and after that I bought fair trade sneakers (loves) and then we saw C.R.A.Z.Y. which I had thought would be a gay coming of age film but was really a family drama. Most of the movie the lead (a delicious looking boy called Zac) is striving to be anything but gay and the story is centred around his relationship with his four brothers and his Dad. I really really liked this film, it was steeped in wonderful 70s music and full of clever jokes, just the right amount of Magic Realism and a real depiction of brotherly relationships. Plus, obviously, the lead was totally pounceable.
Then I convinced Rachel to stay on at the Embassy and watch The Method (which apparently doesn't have an imdb entry?) It was a very tense and suspenseful movie about suits competing in a board room for one job. It was very involving and I felt my stress levels rising while I watched it. The ending was annoyingly ambiguous but overall I liked it very much, even if it killed my buzz from C.R.A.Z.Y.
My plan for today is to go to a lunchtime move at the City Gallery and then wander around looking at art. I may even make it to Te Papa today and have a look at the exhibitions.
PoF: black, pink, rennovated skirt.
CO: saving the world, one purchase at a time.