What did I just watch?
Oct. 1st, 2009 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darkelf105I watched Sukuyaki Western Django last night, and uh, had to look it up on Wiki to make sure it was real, and whilst readin the wiki, came across this review by Will Sloan from Inside Toronto
"This is a crazy, fast-paced spectacle of a movie, with some stunning action scenes and gorgeously colourful production design. The problem is, it’s an empty spectacle. Miike pays homage to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci, but forgets that those directors genuinely loved the kitschy pop culture they emulated instead of regarding it with smug superiority. Kill Bill was a comic book, yes, but Tarantino allowed his actors room to create characters the audience could care about, while Miike, by having his cast speak awkward English, is perversely trying to keep their characters two-dimensional and keep the audience distant...Ultimately, Sukiyaki Western Django is an exhausting experience. This is not a film you become involved in – it isn’t funny or engaging. Rather, it’s one that you’re supposed to watch with a cool, hip sense of ironic detachment, sitting in the audience and saying to yourself, “Aren’t I cool for laughing at this?” How could anyone enjoy such a self-conscious time at the movies?"
Yes, this is exactly how I felt about that movie, now that you mention it....also, I have t disagree, Tarantino's movies are pretty spectacles full of empty, too. I feel that this is the new direction that films aimed at my demographic are going and I am angry. Please write stories again and to those in my demographic, please stop confusing awesome visuals, no matter the level of artistry involved with them, as being the equivalent of a good movie.
Now I am simultaneously relieved about how fulfilling I found Pandorum and sad, too, because it still wasn't on par with a sci-fi movie like Aliens but apparently solid is all I can hope for in the theaters regarding genre. Blarg.
"This is a crazy, fast-paced spectacle of a movie, with some stunning action scenes and gorgeously colourful production design. The problem is, it’s an empty spectacle. Miike pays homage to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci, but forgets that those directors genuinely loved the kitschy pop culture they emulated instead of regarding it with smug superiority. Kill Bill was a comic book, yes, but Tarantino allowed his actors room to create characters the audience could care about, while Miike, by having his cast speak awkward English, is perversely trying to keep their characters two-dimensional and keep the audience distant...Ultimately, Sukiyaki Western Django is an exhausting experience. This is not a film you become involved in – it isn’t funny or engaging. Rather, it’s one that you’re supposed to watch with a cool, hip sense of ironic detachment, sitting in the audience and saying to yourself, “Aren’t I cool for laughing at this?” How could anyone enjoy such a self-conscious time at the movies?"
Yes, this is exactly how I felt about that movie, now that you mention it....also, I have t disagree, Tarantino's movies are pretty spectacles full of empty, too. I feel that this is the new direction that films aimed at my demographic are going and I am angry. Please write stories again and to those in my demographic, please stop confusing awesome visuals, no matter the level of artistry involved with them, as being the equivalent of a good movie.
Now I am simultaneously relieved about how fulfilling I found Pandorum and sad, too, because it still wasn't on par with a sci-fi movie like Aliens but apparently solid is all I can hope for in the theaters regarding genre. Blarg.