yield to nothing
Apr. 20th, 2009 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megotelekSo...
We had kind of an eclectic movie-watching weekend. On the slate: Apollo 13 (Friday night, the 39th anniversary), Repo! The Genetic Opera, and Hot Fuzz (the greater good).
Apollo 13 I won't really review; I've seen it lots of times and I love it every time. My favorite part of the movie is when Mission Control is trying to make the square filter fit in the round hole. "We gotta make this...fit into the hole for this...using nothin' but this." And they do! Love it.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Repo! was...interesting. It was on my must-see list just because it has singing Giles (as the eponymous Repo Man) and Sarah Brightman (as indebted opera singer Blind Mag). In a post-apocalyptic or maybe just dystopic future, designer genetics are all the rage. People finance new organs through mega-conglomerate GeneCo, and if they can't make the payments, GeneCo sends the Repo Man to...repossess the organ(s). Bloodily. The main subplot revolves around Nathan Wallace (Anthony Stewart Head) aka the Repo Man, and him trying to live his double life while trying to protect his sick daughter, Shiloh. See, Shiloh's mother Marni died giving birth to her, and Nathan blames himself. Rotti Largo, CEO of GeneCo, was Marni's jilted lover and so takes advantage of Nathan's guilt to force him to be the Repo Man. There are a lot more subthreads; it's very operatic/Shakespearean in structure, actually.
The "rock opera" structure mostly works, except when it doesn't. I like the Graverobber/Narrator character, he serves the purpose of a more exciting Che from Evita, representing the underground and black market of the future world. Actually, there were a lot of points at which the musical structure reminded me of Evita. Not the style, but the melodic structures.
I mostly enjoyed it, except for a few gratuitous language/~edgy~ bits involving Rotti's annoying children (basically, anytime Paris Hilton is on screen). And a few of the numbers are just outstanding ("Zydrate Anatomy", "Chromaggia", "Chase the Morning", "Genetic Emancipation"). Enough so that I bought the soundtrack.
Hot Fuzz
This movie was absolutely brilliant. Brilliant. Simon Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a London police officer who is so good at his job the rest of theforce service looks bad...so they pack him off to a tiny hamlet that doesn't know the meaning of crime. Or does it?
And Timothy Dalton guest stars! Great movie. I can't really say any more for fear of ruining it, but trust me. It's excellent!
We had kind of an eclectic movie-watching weekend. On the slate: Apollo 13 (Friday night, the 39th anniversary), Repo! The Genetic Opera, and Hot Fuzz (the greater good).
Apollo 13 I won't really review; I've seen it lots of times and I love it every time. My favorite part of the movie is when Mission Control is trying to make the square filter fit in the round hole. "We gotta make this...fit into the hole for this...using nothin' but this." And they do! Love it.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Repo! was...interesting. It was on my must-see list just because it has singing Giles (as the eponymous Repo Man) and Sarah Brightman (as indebted opera singer Blind Mag). In a post-apocalyptic or maybe just dystopic future, designer genetics are all the rage. People finance new organs through mega-conglomerate GeneCo, and if they can't make the payments, GeneCo sends the Repo Man to...repossess the organ(s). Bloodily. The main subplot revolves around Nathan Wallace (Anthony Stewart Head) aka the Repo Man, and him trying to live his double life while trying to protect his sick daughter, Shiloh. See, Shiloh's mother Marni died giving birth to her, and Nathan blames himself. Rotti Largo, CEO of GeneCo, was Marni's jilted lover and so takes advantage of Nathan's guilt to force him to be the Repo Man. There are a lot more subthreads; it's very operatic/Shakespearean in structure, actually.
The "rock opera" structure mostly works, except when it doesn't. I like the Graverobber/Narrator character, he serves the purpose of a more exciting Che from Evita, representing the underground and black market of the future world. Actually, there were a lot of points at which the musical structure reminded me of Evita. Not the style, but the melodic structures.
I mostly enjoyed it, except for a few gratuitous language/~edgy~ bits involving Rotti's annoying children (basically, anytime Paris Hilton is on screen). And a few of the numbers are just outstanding ("Zydrate Anatomy", "Chromaggia", "Chase the Morning", "Genetic Emancipation"). Enough so that I bought the soundtrack.
Hot Fuzz
This movie was absolutely brilliant. Brilliant. Simon Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a London police officer who is so good at his job the rest of the
And Timothy Dalton guest stars! Great movie. I can't really say any more for fear of ruining it, but trust me. It's excellent!
