Came in here to post that I'd watched the Japanese version of
Johnny Mnemonic, and while trying to skim got MOON spoiled for me by some craphead who didn't use spoilertags and started their post with no context until the spoiler. :fml
Anyway, for some reason the local rental place had Mnemonic on Bluray; really grainy transfer, but it sure made Keanu's suit material stand out. Unfortunately it made all the special effects stand out as well. Tremendously mediocre matte paintings composited against slightly unstable landscape shots were the worst offenders, but the ghost in the machine AI telling Beat Takeshi what to do, floating like a spectre rather than staying contained withing the imaging hardware... meh. And all the post-apocalyptic landscapes look like they were handled with the budget of a BBC scifi program.
Still. The movie was not nearly as bad as I remembered, but it brought a big dose of reality along with it. I remember hearing "o! if only it were Longo's original vision, too bad it was Hollywood-edited!"
...No. There's nothing that would have excused so many scenery chewing actors in shots framed in such a pedestrian manner. I just realized that was Longo's oevre with his most famous series of photos up to that point in time, but it does not work for a cinematic device. Whomever they got to play "Shingo" must have been given orders to make Keanu's acting look subtle. I mean, this was one of Ice-T's first acting roles, wasn't it? And he's about on par with everyone else's "let's project to the back row" technique.
watched Tekkon Kinkreet
it looked good, but the story was horrible
Yeah, I love the look, and the comic is also really gorgeous, but I fell asleep during the movie. It's incoherent.
I'm going to be a really grumpy old man one day.
We can make a club!
