80-s hell

I haven't been to Europe in the past few years, but last night we had dinner in kind of a touristy place, and there were several people who were dressed hideously, who all spoke in different European languages (Spanish, Dutch). Therefore, I'm forced to conclude that Europe is drowning in a return of 80-s fashion that's much worse than what we're having around here.

Thoughts about "Inception"

First of all, I wish Christopher Nolan would watch his films on something larger than his laptop before he sends them out into the world. Then he would know that his action scenes are impossible to follow on a big screen.

Also, Michael Caine is not an exotic condiment that you add just a grain of to your film to give it an odor of sophistication. Either make a film with Michael Caine, or leave the man alone, I'm sure he has things to do.

The same can be said about Pete Postlethwaite, but I feel more strongly about Michael Caine because me love him long time.

Lesson number one in cinema - show, don't tell. This can be said about almost everything in Inception, but I'll give just two examples:

Instead of explaining to us that the hero's wife is a haunting presence, try to find an actress that actually has a haunting presence, instead of one that looks like the best friend in a romantic comedy.

And instead of telling us about how the hero is tortured, hire an actor that has even the minimal ability to look tortured. Ethan Hawke looks tortured. Leonardo Dicaprio looks like he's had a happy childhood, gets along perfectly with his parents, always got good grades in school, eats all his vegetables, works out in the clean mountain air, and dates lingerie models.

And finally, have the balls to commit to something at the end of the movie.

Blocking, smoothing, polish - a self portrait

Based on an actual Bruce Campbell

I've been using this sequence from "Evil Dead 2" as reference for work. My animation probably won't turn out this cool, but I'm having a lot of fun in the process:

"Let the right one in" vs "Let me in"

This is a trailer of the groovy Swedish film "Let The Right One In":



And this is the trailer of the American remake "Let Me In":



I don't know how the American remake will turn out. I do know that the original was amazing, and I know that the directir of the remake is Matt Reevers, who brought us the unbelievably bad (and unexplicably popular) "Cloverfield".