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That's all for now.

March 21, 2006

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

I ended up watching this movie on Sunday night with a couple of my housemates and I was blown away by it. It was probably one of the best movies I've seen in a long time, and one of the few ones that I've actually felt motivated to go and buy (rather than stumbling across in a sale and grabbing while it was cheap).

It's written and directed by Shane Black, the writer behind Lethal Weapon, and in some ways follows the same formula - a mixture of action and comedy wrapped up in a buddy movie. The difference here is that all that's wrapped up in a film-noir and the buddy's are a small time crook, a hard nosed, cynical, gay P.I. and a failed actress.

This film plays on the film-noir strategy beautifully. It's fully of gloriously almost pointless violence and for some reason it's all directed at the small crook. Barely a scene goes by when he isn't getting beaten up or attacked. On top of this the jokes are fast and furious. So quick in fact that at times you're so busy laughing at one that you miss the second! It's blithely self-referential and you can just tell that everyone is having fun with it.

Basically you need to see this movie.
That is all.

6 comments:

Kat said...

wow is the 3-eyed beast watching a fly fly by a new thing or did i just never notice it before? i only noticed the blinking...

Kat said...

Amanshu where have you gone?! :-(

amanshu said...

Hmmm... You know I could have sworn I'd replied to this. Twice.

There are actually four squiggler pictures (as I named his race and since I created him, I believe I get that honour?). Every time the page is reloaded a different one is selected, so it's entirely possible you never noticed it before because it wasn't there before! Eventually I hope to have a whole load of different ones. Not just him watching flies, but looking around, being dripped on, having tennis balls fired at him, gravity reversing and generally surviving the minute details of day to day life.

I've just been a little bit busy is all...

As for where I've gone, see the new post!

Kat said...

wow! i haven't seen the drips or the tennis balls! will have to reload lots! you clever mansh!

amanshu said...

That's because I haven't made them yet... I've been a little bit busy, or something...

Also, I haven't quite worked out how to get his neck to work properly. But I will. Oh yes, I will...

Kat said...

ok didn't read that properly. my bad.