![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Look what I have
Oct. 21st, 2006 10:52 pm( No, really, look )
My dad sent me the location of a pack of Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes by email - he had convinced one of his co-workers to bring over a package for me and leave it at the hotel she was staying at. We picked up the bag this evening, and I now have most of them stuck between my teeth.
Also in the bag were a postal vote registration letter, an unknown birthday present, a wedding card from Germany and a Stephen King novel, which was a bit unexpected.
We had actually gone out into the city to see "The Prestige", but with that being sold out we opted for "Man of the Year" instead. This is an example of a film that is almost entirely unlike what the trailer presents it as - even though it does contain the comedic elements of the preview, there is a very large sort of consipiracy theory that emerges in the middle and builds to a climax, at which point the director just decided to forget it and end the film virtually right there.
The plot is about a comedian that is elected President of the USA, and during the time when it turns into a conspiracy film, about the software bug in the electronic voting system that caused that to happen. This sounds strange, but my biggest problem with the film is the astonishing unlikelihood of the bug that they chose it to be (it was about candidates with double letters in their names being declared the winner alphabetically). Now, I've been reading the Doom Wiki so I've come across some pretty unlikely bugs recently, but this one beats the lot. What's even more impossible is that no one in the film noticed it before it was released. That's quite a major plot hole.
But the pieces where you're seeing Robin Williams' character's TV programme are very entertaining (I'd certainly watch it). It just tends to get a bit dull in the middle where it attempts to have a plot. But (and this is not something you'd expect to find in this film) I think it has the cleverest scare that I've ever witnessed in any film - it has a long build-up, then lets it fade away anti-climactically, then distracts you with another surprise before springing the main shock on you.
But all that's irrelevant, really, because most of the readers of this journal won't be able to see the film in the UK for about the next three years. And I have Crunchy Nut corn flakes, so who cares?
My dad sent me the location of a pack of Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes by email - he had convinced one of his co-workers to bring over a package for me and leave it at the hotel she was staying at. We picked up the bag this evening, and I now have most of them stuck between my teeth.
Also in the bag were a postal vote registration letter, an unknown birthday present, a wedding card from Germany and a Stephen King novel, which was a bit unexpected.
We had actually gone out into the city to see "The Prestige", but with that being sold out we opted for "Man of the Year" instead. This is an example of a film that is almost entirely unlike what the trailer presents it as - even though it does contain the comedic elements of the preview, there is a very large sort of consipiracy theory that emerges in the middle and builds to a climax, at which point the director just decided to forget it and end the film virtually right there.
The plot is about a comedian that is elected President of the USA, and during the time when it turns into a conspiracy film, about the software bug in the electronic voting system that caused that to happen. This sounds strange, but my biggest problem with the film is the astonishing unlikelihood of the bug that they chose it to be (it was about candidates with double letters in their names being declared the winner alphabetically). Now, I've been reading the Doom Wiki so I've come across some pretty unlikely bugs recently, but this one beats the lot. What's even more impossible is that no one in the film noticed it before it was released. That's quite a major plot hole.
But the pieces where you're seeing Robin Williams' character's TV programme are very entertaining (I'd certainly watch it). It just tends to get a bit dull in the middle where it attempts to have a plot. But (and this is not something you'd expect to find in this film) I think it has the cleverest scare that I've ever witnessed in any film - it has a long build-up, then lets it fade away anti-climactically, then distracts you with another surprise before springing the main shock on you.
But all that's irrelevant, really, because most of the readers of this journal won't be able to see the film in the UK for about the next three years. And I have Crunchy Nut corn flakes, so who cares?
