A thrill. Visually rich (especially nice costumes and sets), but few images really stuck with me.
Stepping outside, my friend and I walked around town while the city where we live set up for its annual art fair. Streets were blocked off and filled with empty booths and tents as the fair had yet to start. The surreal feeling one often has upon leaving the theater and being spit out into an ultra high-res (but ultimately mundane) real world.
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In some ways an anti-documentary. Instead of taking you deep into the world of his subjects, Herzog mostly presents them as oddballs to be laughed at. The movie covers too much ground, so in addition to lacking any emotional resonance, it also fails the comparatively humble task of providing substantive information. Maybe it's a mimicry of the flattened selves we present on the internet, but more probably it's just a miss for the usually great director.
Visually exciting—the set design in particular is really lush and dense. The plot hops between several convergent storylines in a way that feels a little derivative, but a nice shift in tone about three quarters of the way through the movie adds some weight to what's otherwise a fairly manic affair. The final scene manages to tie things together in surprisingly satisfying fashion, with Cake's cover of "I Will Survive" working somehow as a sentimental denouement.
Overall: Lots of fun.
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I started paying attention to the broadcast of Iron Man 3 that had found its way onto the TV screen of my parents’ living room entertainment center around the film’s ten minute mark. It’s at this point in the movie that we get our first glimpse of the Mandarin, Iron Man’s longtime comic book nemesis and the apparent villain to Tony Stark’s hero for this installment of the movie franchise. Played by Ben Kingsley, the Mandarin is the most compelling…
