Movie Report

Saw Conan - short version is, the first part is v. good*, the middle part isn't bad, but the ending is really anti-climactic. I insisted we wait through the credits in hopes there'd be an extra twist afterwards, but there was none. On the way out, we passed a viewer who'd fallen asleep in his seat.

Further notes:

1. There are a lot of deaths by skull fracture in this film; also by impalement. After a while I was nervously scanning each new location for pointy bits people could fall on.

2. Towards the end the heroine gets chained up for sacrifice by the villains (in a sword-and-sorcery film, I don't think it's really a spoiler to mention this); the outfit they put her includes shoes that, at least in the shot I'm thinking of, look oddly 1920s. I suspect they're actually flats or sandals with ankle straps, given that once she is freed (again, not really a spoiler) she has to do a fair bit of running and fighting. She's luckier than the villainess, who in one long shot can be seen trying to pick her way down a giant flight of crumbling stone steps while wearing platform wedges**.

*It's sort of an extended version of the first couple of scenes of the original movie; also Ron Perlman plays Conan's dad, which definitely helps.

** She was much creepier as played by the child actress in the earlier scenes.

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cucumberseed wrote:
Aug. 20th, 2011 03:46 pm (UTC)
1) Where does the moon come from in your LJ handle?

"Moon Custafer" is a term I made up as a small child. When asked what it meant, I'd simply say "it's the same thing as a Bander." I use it as my online ID a lot, since I can be pretty sure no on else is using it.

2) Do you find one medium for guilty pleasures (literary, music, cinema, television, games) guiltier than the others?

Not sure what this question means - I don't consider any medium "guilty." It's certainly harder to enjoy something in the audio-visual media without being observed by others in the household, though.

3) A fictional villain you wish was never created.

Can I answer "the entire cast of Wuthering Heights? YMMV, but for myself I could never get into that novel. I tend to have more problems with fictional heroes - either the story holds them up as wonderful while I detest them, or they themselves are ok, but spawn a tiresome legion of imitations.


4) A song you wish was never recorded.

Lately I've been annoyed by Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" (though I don't mind her other stuff)- and I have to hear it every day on the radio in my workplace. If you haven't *told* the guy you like him, you don't get to hate on the girl who *did* go out of her way to catch his eye.

5) If you had to emigrate to a fictional country, which one would it be?

Probably the nameless country in Shaun Tan's The Arrival. It seems like a welcoming place; plus everyone has weird/funny animal companions.