Watched the original Tron. Very strange film, some interesting aspects but at least I get the reference on Tantek’s homepage now
Watched Gravity with friends — a beautifully made film about Murphy’s Law and the importance of international UI conventions. Reminded me a lot of the scene from Explorers on the Moon where Captain Haddock gets drunk and starts orbiting a nearby asteroid before he is saved by Tintin and a sturdy rope.
#TIL Nina Paley released sitasingstheblues.com into the public domain
Brave has some of the best Pixar film music since Ratatouille, and an excellent depiction of a lute — placing it alongside Ghibli’s Whisper Of The Heart for interesting (non-tropic) #film music.
Time to fix the fact that, for one reason or another, I’ve never seen I, Robot all the way through
Just finished #watching Laputa, Castle in the Sky again. It may not have the strongest plot out of all the Myazaki films, but it does have, in approximate order of appearance:
- Crazy awesome airships
- Mysterious crystals
- Flying pirates
- Bad guys who wear dark glasses at night, inside and underground
- Pseudo-Welsh miners
- A hermit who talks to rocks and has a beard
- Robots. Lots and lots of robots. One of them looks after birds nests and picks flowers. Others destroy things with their crazy laser vision.
- Stylised lightning which looks like dragons
- And at the end: a flying island which looks like a giant jellyfish, floating gracefully into orbit
The robots look like this:
My point being that anyone who demands any more than this from a film probably doesn’t deserve it.
Finished #watching Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. Beautiful film. One day I will be like Yupa and talk using only my facial hair.
Just finished watching Star Wars: A New Hope Uncut. A fantastic project which was surprisingly easy to get lost in despite constant character gender and species changes (sometimes mid-sentence).