Image via The Dark KnightThe biggest opening weekend, ever, and I missed it. I turned down not one, but four invitations to see The Dark Knight in order to see it with the Pom on Saturday night...and it didn't happen! A certain someones adventures ran overtime and instead we ended up having a superhero/villain night in, watching the complete Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, followed by The Incredibles.
Image via The IncrediblesNow I really enjoyed The Incredibles. I love Holly Hunter and Jason Lee (not to mention Samuel L. Jackson) and I think, yet again, Pixar has delivered a film that works for both children and adults. I'd actually hazard a guess that this film appeals more to adults - the idea of an overly litigious society driving superheroes underground, and the commentary on marriage and middle age would soar over the heads of little 'uns, but it had me chuckling.
So superheroes featured on Saturday night to be sure, just not the right one.
Close is a lingerie shop without a front window.
Karma was on my side, however, and at the family Sunday dinner not one, but four people brought up The Dark Knight. It went something like this:
"So we saw The Dark Knight. [Insert rave review here]. What did you think? Oh, you haven't seen it yet? Good God, why not?!" (x4).
Couldn't have been better if I planned it myself! By the end of it I was actually feeling a little sorry for the Pom!
I've been assured we're heading to the cinema tonight, so in preparation last night I dug out Two Hands.
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It had been a few years since I'd seen Gregor Jordan's 1999 gangster flick, and it's aged well. Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne are sweet and baby-faced, and Bryan Brown's crime lord, Pando is delightfully deviant. I still don't quite get the ghost brother subplot, but the bank robbery remains the funniest, most random scene I've seen in an Australian film. It certainly borrows a lot from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but there is so much brilliant, bogan culture that is unashamedly Aussie. Jordan's energetic style is wonderfully cinematic and well accompanied by the brilliant soundtrack featuring the awesome Powderfinger. I can recommend a revisit.
And on to tonight...despite appearances, I'm trying not to hype up my viewing of The Dark Knight. It's been impossible to escape all the posthumous Oscar chat surrounding Heath's performance, but I'm hoping to go and see it sans expectations.
Let's put a smile on that face!
So superheroes featured on Saturday night to be sure, just not the right one.
Close is a lingerie shop without a front window.
Karma was on my side, however, and at the family Sunday dinner not one, but four people brought up The Dark Knight. It went something like this:
"So we saw The Dark Knight. [Insert rave review here]. What did you think? Oh, you haven't seen it yet? Good God, why not?!" (x4).
Couldn't have been better if I planned it myself! By the end of it I was actually feeling a little sorry for the Pom!
I've been assured we're heading to the cinema tonight, so in preparation last night I dug out Two Hands.
Image via GeocitiesIt had been a few years since I'd seen Gregor Jordan's 1999 gangster flick, and it's aged well. Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne are sweet and baby-faced, and Bryan Brown's crime lord, Pando is delightfully deviant. I still don't quite get the ghost brother subplot, but the bank robbery remains the funniest, most random scene I've seen in an Australian film. It certainly borrows a lot from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but there is so much brilliant, bogan culture that is unashamedly Aussie. Jordan's energetic style is wonderfully cinematic and well accompanied by the brilliant soundtrack featuring the awesome Powderfinger. I can recommend a revisit.
And on to tonight...despite appearances, I'm trying not to hype up my viewing of The Dark Knight. It's been impossible to escape all the posthumous Oscar chat surrounding Heath's performance, but I'm hoping to go and see it sans expectations.
Let's put a smile on that face!
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