Apr
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Netflix #19 - Justice League: The New Frontier - Suggested by no one
Man I really wanted this to be great, but what a let down. First off, I was hoping the animation would reflect the nature of the old Max Fleischer Superman cartoons, which I love. I think they tried to capture that same spirit, but combined it with more modern day animation techniques, and the two didn’t mesh well together at all. Secondly, like any movie about a group of heroes, they focused too much attention on a few of the characters, rather than the entire group. And in this case, they focused on the wrong characters. Green Lantern and The Flash? Sorry. I want more Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman in my Justice League. I didn’t mind the focus on Martian Manhunter, because he was pretty cool, but I would have rathered more of the bigger names. And what was with that awful villain? The Centre? It started off cool and mysterious, but then turned into a stupid floating island with dinosaurs. Um, what? But it did have a few moments of genius. I thought this ending montage was great:
Netflix #20 - Primer - Suggested by Antonio
I was really excited about this movie since it was made for only $7,000. I thought it was going to inspire some genius within myself to emerge and help me create my own extremely low budget yet brilliant movie. But that didn’t happen. My inner genius has been further suppressed. Can someone please use very simple words and explain this movie to me? I have no idea what the hell happened! I don’t think this movie is appropriate for Netflix. I think you’re supposed to watch it a million times and analyze it over and over again until you can figure out what happened. But I sent it back because I’ll just let someone else explain it to me. On a related note, you know how I hate when people say that “you just didn’t get it” when I tell them I hate Blade Runner? Well this just proves they’re wrong. Because I didn’t GET this movie, and I don’t hate it. I can’t even formulate a review of any kind because I don’t have the foggiest idea what this movie was about. It also proves that I’m willing to admit that movies go over my head. So screw you, you elitist Blade Runner bastards! It’s a crappy movie!
April 17th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Sorry you didn’t like New Frontier. It was based on a comic book miniseries of the same title. The animation was exactly like the artwork in the comic, that’s why i loved the animation. And they focused on the same characters that the comic book did. Gratned, the big three (Supes, Bats, and WW) were nto featured characters, but then again, they weren’t featured in the comic book either.
Sorry you didn’t like it. I myself loved it!
HUGS…
April 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I liked the film, but I was able to “fill in the blanks” from having read the amazing Darwyn Cooke comic book series. I highly recommend checking it out (in the DC Comics “Absolute Edition,” if possible) for an example of graphic storytelling at its finest.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I also wasn’t a fan of New Frontier. I had real high expectations for it since people always lauded the comic book series. Unfortunately, it felt like a chore watching it, and I really didn’t like the focus on this version of Hal (Green Lantern). I suppose I’m better off reading the comics eventually.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am
The mini series is incredible, in terms of art and storytelling, but i can understand why it failed to translate fully into film especially since the mini series followed several characters over something like 200 pages. I would love to see a superhero cartoon film done like the old Superman cartoons though. Who do i have to sleep with to make that happen?
April 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am
I couldn’t even finish watching Primer. Absolutely bored me to tears. The premise was fine, but zzzzzzzz
April 17th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Yeah, you need to read the comic to see how brilliant New Frontier was.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I think I liked Primer. I know I didn’t understand it.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I’m watching a German-language gay film entitled “Guys and Balls” I found in the public library. There’s a scene in a rather frightening leather bar that made me think of you.
You might like it.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Antonio: You’re the one that told me to watch that damn movie! I expected you to be the one to explain it to me!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Craig: Four guys–friends–work together during the day and design and build their own electronic devices on their own time. Two of them work together in secret to build another device that turns out to be a kind of time machine. Keeping this a secret from the others, the two guys at first use the time machine to get rich on the stock market, but then start using it to undo mistakes and avoid events that have happened, which of course starts messing with reality. They also start seeing their earlier selves when they travel ahead in time, and then their future selves when they travel back in time. And then the kicker (for me at least) is that we eventually learn–like maybe three viewings later–that the guy narrating the movie is not one of the two guys in the present…it’s one of the two guys in the future. I saw it at a screening where the filmmaker was there, and the question and answer period was hilarious. But apparently there are *nine* different timelines and lots of other stuff going on–it’s brilliant but it’s baffling and not exactly an action adventure.