I'm Not There is a brilliant, but flawed beautifully strange movie. As I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the life and work of Bob Dylan I cannot say whether it is an effective study of the man, I would suspect that if you were looking for that then Don't Look Back or No Direction Home would suit your needs better.
All the six actors playing the part of 'Dylan' are wonderful although through no fault of his Heath Ledger's Robbie Clark seems the least Dylan-like. Of the supporting actors I think Bruce Greenwood deserves a lot of praise for his dual roles of Keenan Jones and Pat Garrett. It's packed to the gills with references to or homages of other movies and references to the life and work of Bob Dylan himself of course although I think I probably missed far more of the latter. With the Richard Gere segment being heavily influenced by Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid it is appropriate that Kris Kristofferson be the narrator for the story.
My two main criticisms of the film are that there is almost no narrative flow between each of the segments, the film mostly just seems to cut between them at random and it seems unnecessarily long I don't believe the film would suffer from having many of the scenes cut entirely.
White Dwarf is basically three games in one involving moving with your mouse a small white circle which exerts a gravitational like pull on other coloured circles which cross the gameboard.
I think the most fun play mode is Original in which you have to collect the green circles and then touch a blue circle to bank the points you've accumulated all whilst avoiding the red circles.
If that description makes little sense I urge you to go play it and you'll soon pick up the knack of it.
My best score so far 15590
Best score on the Avoid mode is around 56 million!
We're are very bloody busy at the cinema this week with The Kite Runner, Lust, Caution and I'm Not There and my stress levels aren't helped by the number of stupid customers we've had today.
Prize fucking twat of the day goes to the bloke who arrived for a 2.45 pm show of The Kite Runner that didn't flaming well exist! Reason being that being a Friday our programme changed and so the times for today are not the same as they were yesterday.
I explained this to him but he was still very irate and insisted that he looked at the website and he had a piece of paper with the times printed on it for The Kite Runner and also for that matter there was no mention of I'm Not There. I explain again "Okay sir you say that you looked at the website yesterday, are you sure you were you looking at the times for today's shows?"
Cinema weeks start on Fridays and so on so times for Friday and the weekend will not necessarily be the same as the times we display earlier this week. He's irate and won't answer the questions I've asked him trying to ascertain where the mix up might lie and keeps going on about this damn piece of paper that will prove him correct.
So he goes away and comes back for the 6pm show bringing with him the piece of paper that he mentioned earlier. Now I'm expecting that he's either printed off the page from the website or he's got one of our printed programmes or he's got a page from the local newspaper and I'll be able to point out the error that he's made. I'm assuming he's got last week's times.
But no he comes back with a plain piece of printer paper with literally just the film titles and the times. The times on his piece of paper being of course last week's. He brandishes this at me like this is his proof, but there's no fucking identifying bits on it at all. No dates! No logo or other text that might indicate where he'd printed it off from assuming he did print it off from a website. He could have just typed it himself for all I know.
A strange movie this one as it seems like a bit of a cross between two of Clive Owen's previous movies Sin City and Children of Men with a bit of Looney Tunes thrown in for good measure.
Mr. Smith (Owen) finds himself the reluctant guardian of a newborn when he rescues a heavily pregnant woman from a killer. Upon despatching the hitman with a carrot Smith discovers that the guy he killed wasn't alone and a whole host of armed men are apparently in pursuit of the pregnant woman. Paul Giamatti as the leader of the gang of killers plays Elmer Fudd to Clive Owen's Bugs Bunny, is he like Fudd "a pussy who uses a gun to make him look tough"? Well next to Owen's unstoppable killing machine the answer has to be yes.
Shoot 'Em Up is also peculiar in that it is an anti-gun movie that is extremely violent with dozens of people as the title suggests being shot to death if they are not being killed by the occasional carrot when Smith finds himself out of ammunition. Enjoyable but not wholly satisfying.
Coincidentally I saw a group of primary school children singing this in the city centre late this afternoon along with the more traditional Christmas carols.
Cute little seasonal game from the folks at Nitrome. Thin Ice involves skating a loop around the monsters on the frozen pond to make the ice beneath them fall away.
So when I wrote cute I meant cute in the way that causing monsters to freeze and drown to death in a frozen pond is cute.
