Movies

lifted and floored



Saw The Dark Knight on Sunday, and it’s still in my thoughts.

A lot.

I know it’s easy to hop on the bandwagon and say it’s a great movie, but it really might be one of the better “films” I’ve ever seen. It fucked me up like The Departed did, left me drained in a fulfilled but depressed way. Not just because of Heath Ledger’s incredible take on the Joker, but also because who...or, better yet, “what” won at the end.

This was not a gentle movie in any sense, especially in terms of its brutal performances, many plot twists and overwhelming sound and cinematography - it hit me hard and often. But, in doing so, it moved me.

I really, really wonder how they’re going to follow this up.

wow

I don’t see movies much in the theaters these days. In fact, the last one I left the house for was Ratatouille. Fitting, then, that I saw this one today.



Fantastic. And wonderful. All the crunch-related stress that’s been building over the past few weeks just melted away while watching...

Hot damn I love Pixar.

things

I finally got the chance to watch Paprika on Blu-Ray a few days ago, after letting it gather dust on my shelf for months.



Yeah, it was crazy. And amazing. And moving. And overwhelming. In fact, I really enjoyed watching the movie at the time - the visuals and music were stunning - but it wasn't until several hours later that I realized how much I loved it. Like, you have to spend some time processing everything you were just assaulted with before being able to appreciate its greatness.

So, the next day I bought the soundtrack on iTunes (direct iTunes link), and have been listening to it like mad.



Oh, while on iTunes I noticed they carried a few Yoko Kanno CDs as well, so I picked up this:



CM Yoko (direct iTunes link) is all commercial music (like, for TV commercials), but it has super neat (and incredibly varied) stuff. One of the tracks, though, is crazy good. I really want to know what kind of advertisement "Exaelitus" was for...

Also, holy crap, I'm already over 80 hours for this week. Yay for crunch. Game is going great though!