I finally got to watch Children of Men the other night. I've been looking forward to it for a while now and it did not disappoint. It reminded me of the game Half Life 2 with it's dystopic and oppressive glimpse into the future, er... without the gravity gun of course. Although Clive Owen woulda rocked the house with one of those. Anyway... The film's theme is a simple one. I can think of a number of past movies which have dealt with a similar plot but CoM gets a leg up on all of them through pure filmmaking tour-de-force. I can see it pleasing a wide audience with it's extended and uncut ground-level action sequences accompanied with it's more subtle character based near silent moments. The way they repeatedly used sound as an additional tool to suck you into what's going on was awesome as well. For instance, drowning everything with a high pitched eeeeeeeee after an explosion. Very cool. I also appreciated many details being left unexplained. It helped push the immediacy of what was going on in front of me. It was quite brutal and unapologetic with it's violence though so if you're opposed to seeing a dude get shot in the head or bodies lying all around you may want to close your eyes. The rest of it is gold.

I'm almost done the last issue of SMLMJ. Took me forever to get back into things. Damn. I have a free schedule to do whatever I want after so I have that to look forward to.

And totally unrelated... Y'know how everyone raves about them thick-ass weekly and monthly magazines that come out here? Well, here's the proof:


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