June 8, 2008

• Movies

  Matrix Revolutions…. Yeah, just like the only other time I saw it. Spectacle and lameness. There is, however, one reason to watch this film. It’s the one transcendental moment for all the Matrix films. It’s the moment when Neo and Trinity are in their ship zooming toward the machine city, and they go up to avoid being destroyed. They break through the clouds and the sun is shining above, and we know this is the only time either of these characters has seen it. Neo has been blinded, so he can’t see this, but Trinity says, “Beautiful…” And then the ship arcs back down into the dark melee of the terrestrial conflict.

  There Will Be Blood… Wow. Just wow. Just…. I mean…. what can I say? P.T. Anderson channels Stanley Kubrik. A work of art. Someone’s academic career will be made by spending years dissecting this movie. But watch it because it’s beautiful and haunting. I had to pause it a few times, it’s so engrossing.

  Garbage Warrior…. Documentary about the architect who invented the Earthship housing design and concept. Battles with New Mexico legislature, trips to disaster-torn areas, lectures on sustainability that don’t seem like lectures. If you’re a greenie and you want your friends to understand, this is the movie.

  Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies…. Just out on DVD, rolling in from 1969. Annakin Skywalker was named after the director of this film. Silly road race movie set in the 1920s, with the proverbial all star cast. I wanted to see much less Tony Curtis and Terry Thomas and much more Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, but o well. It’s the ‘sequel’ to ‘Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines,’ which is by far the better movie. Get ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ instead.

  Update:

  Warning… It’s a spoiler.

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