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When considering what to settle down to watch for our evening’s pleasure, we usually choose from David W’s array of collected viewing material, this time I suggested that maybe he’d like to choose something from my small (but carefully selected) collection. I was surprised, yet delighted, when he chose K-PAX, having expressed reluctance to watch it in the past.
I first saw K-PAX at the movies years ago. It is not often I will walk out of a movie vowing to buy it as soon as it’s released on DVD, but this was one of those occasions. Having had to be frugal with my money, I would only buy a DVD if I deemed it ‘collection worthy’. This meant that it had to be something I would be certain to want to watch over and over.
K-PAX drew me into the story straight away, and kept me enthralled all the way through. I still enjoy watching it and pick up on new things each time I see it. Kevin Spacey does a wonderful job portraying PROT, who claims to come from the planet K-PAX. Jeff Bridges does an equally good job portraying the psychiatrist who goes out of his way trying to figure out the mystery of PROT while at the same time not realising how closed off he is becoming from his own family.
Light is used beautifully as a motif throughout the movie. I have always been fascinated by light and the way it reflects and refracts. From an artistic point of view it can be very beautiful.
At the end of the movie, we are still left with a few niggling questions but I don’t mind that. Things in life are rarely fully explained. I like that there’s a little bit of ‘what if?’ and ‘but how?’ left. I like a movie you can think about after you’ve seen it and keep working on the questions in your mind.
4 Lukes.
I didn’t mind Transformers 1, but lets be honest, Transformers 2 was an absolute piece of garbage. Without outright admitting it, the makers of the Transformers films – Michael Bay and his posse – have indicated they missed the mark with 2 and are going in a slightly different direction for 3. Well, from the looks of the new trailer I’m calling ‘bullshit’. It still looks like a mess of over the top CGI mayhem. But to be fair, I didn’t see any robot testicles so I’m still holding out hope that it might be good. Judge for yourself and check out the trailer below:
Is this the Blackest Night for the upcoming Green Lantern film?
Warner Brothers has handed the production team of Green Lantern an extra $9 million to ‘fix’ the visual effects, in time for the fast approaching release date.
If posts in the forums of many popular comic themed websites are any indication, the effects shown in the first trailer and then later at WonderCon left a vast majority of fans disappointed, specifically the entirely CGI Green Lantern suit and fully CGI alien Green Lantern Corp members.
Hopefully the extra money should give the production team the chance to correct some of these issues and make sure everything is perfect for the film’s August release date.
I don’t know if this is a panic mode knee jerk reaction, or that Warner Bros have recognised that there is a problem and are dedicated to ensuring that is the success it deserves to be. I hope it is the later. Either way, we’ll find out in August.
