Pfft...showoff...
If you were in New York City recently and double-took something in the air as a flying person, turns out you were half-right.
To promote Chronicle, an upcoming film surrounding three teenagers who get superpowers, three radio-controlled planes that were designed to look like people and flew them around the city.
It brings up those dreams we all had wishing we could just magically fly around in the air, breaking the rules of gravity with mystical propulsion with only the thought of wanting to go up.
Though I’m sure people mistook it as model planes that were oddly shaped, it was still a neat concept to sell a big part of what the movie was about -- being teenagers with superpowers.
In fact, most movies involving superpowers or unexplainable attributes usually occur around the early-to-late teen years.
This is most likely because when we’re going through all those tough times of puberty, we’d much rather be able to run super fast or see through walls than break our voices.
I remember watching the Superman movies when I was little and imagining how awesome it would be to live in the shoes of Clark Kent. That element of secrecy, and being invincible seemed so interesting. That is until I saw the old Spiderman cartoons, but that’s a whole different story.
The film Jumper highlighted the ability to travel to any place on Earth. I would’ve loved to be in Jumper (let me rephrase that, I wouldn’t want to just act in the film, just take the powers).
What film/TV show/book made you dream of having powers?
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Arnie tells it exactly how it is
Monday, November 21st, 2011Arnie listening to his own voice.
DVD commentaries are the gateway to diving deeper into a director’s mind, giving him or her a feature-length opportunity to explain parts of a film that may have been misinterpreted along the way.
Along with the leading actors, discussions can get quite deep. For some commentaries, the discussions about subtext and what the director’s intentions were give a new reason to go back and watch the film again.
Some are just a fantastic way of getting another hour and a half of comedy (even if the genre of the film is not the same).
But then you have your hit-and-misses. These are the ones that scream out: “I don’t care, but the studio paid me to come in for two hours”.
But THEN you have a whole new echelon of commentary that I can’t quite explain. Please, watch this and tell me what you think:
It’s almost like watching a movie about a guy watching a movie that…INCEPTION!
But no, this in fact does not win any awards for its in-depth analysis into the film, but it does make everyone chuckle at Arnold once again. But hey, he’s been Governator of California before, why can’t he be a tour guide for films too?
Recommended commentary you SHOULD hear:
This is Spinal Tap!
You might recognise something’s afoot the moment you put the DVD in. It sounds like Nigel Tufnel and the gang from Spinal Tap are in a recording studio doing the commentary. And they are. And it’s great. Christopher Guest’s ‘mockumentary’ series (loosely-based term) are fantastic, but the talents of the actors surrounding him as well are improvisational geniuses.
Recommended commentary you SHOULD NOT hear:
The Matrix
I know, it’s one of the greatest films of its time, and still a classic (let’s just forget numbers 2 and 3, shall we?). But the commentary is so…what’s the way to put it…full of itself. Self-appreciating movie people digging into how much they invested in their roles. Blah blah bleh, nothing new about the film. And we still don’t know kung-fu.
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