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Feb. 15th, 2015 09:14 pmtwo more movies off the loncon3 good costuming list:
moulin rouge: a musical, which dïe überblönde tells me is mostly la traviata done modern. it's a curious mix of modern music/musical styles, but it seems to work. it may have had a plot and/or characterization, but musicals aren't really my thing and dïe überblönde panned it, so i fast-forwarded through a lot of it.
the costumes are excellent, though, and there are enough close-ups to make them worth looking at. some of the large-ensemble dance/musical numbers made good use of fancy costumes as well. there was a dance number similar to one in austin powers: goldmember: both had one group of dancers in black costumes and other group in motley. it's visually striking.
mirrormask a neil gaiman... thing. mix of live action and animation. surreal to the point of the surrealism being distracting from all other aspects of the movie. the costumes are worth the price of admission, though, if one is willing to wait for them/fast forward through the artwank.
i also watched this year's collections of short oscar bait. the live action movies are a generally good bunch. the plots aren't anything new, but they're well acted and well directed. much better than last year's selection.
the animation was a bit of disappointment, though. in fact, i think the best film was one tacked on to the end to fill the collection out to a reasonable length. it's "duet", a 4-minute-long piece by glen keane. i think it's stylistically wonderful. legit versions are on footube, since gügle paid for its development as part of some odd tech-dev project.
moulin rouge: a musical, which dïe überblönde tells me is mostly la traviata done modern. it's a curious mix of modern music/musical styles, but it seems to work. it may have had a plot and/or characterization, but musicals aren't really my thing and dïe überblönde panned it, so i fast-forwarded through a lot of it.
the costumes are excellent, though, and there are enough close-ups to make them worth looking at. some of the large-ensemble dance/musical numbers made good use of fancy costumes as well. there was a dance number similar to one in austin powers: goldmember: both had one group of dancers in black costumes and other group in motley. it's visually striking.
mirrormask a neil gaiman... thing. mix of live action and animation. surreal to the point of the surrealism being distracting from all other aspects of the movie. the costumes are worth the price of admission, though, if one is willing to wait for them/fast forward through the artwank.
i also watched this year's collections of short oscar bait. the live action movies are a generally good bunch. the plots aren't anything new, but they're well acted and well directed. much better than last year's selection.
the animation was a bit of disappointment, though. in fact, i think the best film was one tacked on to the end to fill the collection out to a reasonable length. it's "duet", a 4-minute-long piece by glen keane. i think it's stylistically wonderful. legit versions are on footube, since gügle paid for its development as part of some odd tech-dev project.