tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033321063629203288.post2822333371321277024..comments2010-10-19T17:31:35.824+01:00Olivier de Vrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377400356181373132noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033321063629203288.post-71367058737691517282010-10-19T17:31:35.824+01:002010-10-19T17:31:35.824+01:00Thanks for good stuffAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033321063629203288.post-87668955466586868422008-04-24T18:45:00.000+01:002008-04-24T18:45:00.000+01:00just saw Lars and the Real Girl, Gosling did a great job playing out his character's psychological transitions... it was considerate of the movie's producers to leave out the predictable small-town drama as wellpatrickhttp://www.kogmedia.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033321063629203288.post-29601620467769539432008-04-07T02:38:00.000+01:002008-04-07T02:38:00.000+01:00I don't think I'm maligning it at all. The telekinesis was cute, but I spent no more than fifty pages looking for a handsome imperious love interest until I settled on Artie boy. As for pacing, Jesus, if only. Giant deserted landscapes where fuck all happens except relishing in messages like 'monsters are people too, but jeez can they ever be evocative metaphors for the banality of evil' or 'maybe the people who look normal on the outside are the real monsters' or that good old standby 'families are weird'. <BR/><BR/>I can't for the life of me figure out why it felt so unbelievably stale and boring when the digest seems so engrossing. I got suckered by a jacket cover, and not for the first time either.<BR/><BR/>What annoyed me most was how it was all just too weird for weirdness' sake. Every plot twist, every character, every description was a soulless, overwrought set piece for some idea that never really materialises. It just keeps on piling them on, never really doing anything with the characters, sometimes just introducing them dramatically, then forgetting about them, and unceromoniously killing them off, hundreds of pages later. There's just a huge amount of unrealised potential <I>in every fucking sentence</I>.<BR/><BR/>I felt like I was watching an exposition of a completely period-specific nineteenth century centre of London carefully constructed over the course of thirty years from coagulated mucus, while it melted due to a sprinkler system malfunction. I kept giving it the benefit of the doubt, but was eventually bitterly disappointed by specifically the impregnation. If you are planning to pull off making something that tasteless palatable, you have to do a lot better.Olivier de Vrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377400356181373132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033321063629203288.post-725075012448842482008-04-02T18:03:00.000+01:002008-04-02T18:03:00.000+01:00WHY WHY WHY, oh why must you malign Geek Love? I grant you it's not life- changing, but if you think a telekinetically impregnating a midget with with the semen of her flippers-instead-of-hands machiavellian twin brother/ dolphin boy is indicative of something that holds no interest in terms of plot or character, I think you are very jaded indeed.<BR/><BR/>Plus, as I recall, it actually had some pace. something I could never find in Carnivale.Edwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14860304221155896550noreply@blogger.com