cinemagic festival | vixelle
Through the magic of Jazz Biscuit (and the dashing Darragh Doyle) I made it to Vexille tonight. Lette would have been proud – it was animé brilliance with a twisted plot, enough to make Rubber Ritchie wince. Sinéad was there somewhere too – looking forward to reading what she thought of the movie.
Vexille was showing as part of the Cinemagic Festival and there are still some more some great movies lined up for the week. Donnie Darko (Tuesday 29) Toy Story and Last King of Scotland (Wednesday 30) Jaws (Wednesday 30 – I know I’ve done Wednesday already but it’s Jaws!) and a special preview screening of Iron Man on Thursday 1.
If only I didn’t have to work…
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They showed Grindhouse last night Monday an’ all. Didn’t go however, Lost was on. Lost!
And if anyone wants to go see Donnie Darko tonight, drop me a line. mail at darrenbyrne dot com
Damm, would love to. But I’ve a deadline tonight.
I’d love to hit Donnie Darko tonight too, but I’ll be in Tripod at Gemma Hayes.
I really enjoyed the movie last night. There were some really great science fiction concepts, though I did find the main character Vexille, very annoying (far too emotional for a “security agent”). I thought it was interesting that it’s a Japanese movie, and yet it was about their country’s demise. The animation was fantastic at many points, but was rather lacking during close-up shots. Despite that I did really like it, even the parts that made me laugh (though they probably shouldn’t have).
I liked the simplicity of the close up shots and the camera/cinematic look the whole movie had.
You’re right about Vexille though. How irritating was that woman?! Best line of the movie goes to Leon though. Delivered at the weirdest possible moment:
“Why didn’t you come to the airport?”
Very irritating. She wasn’t believable as a secret agent, at all. I would have rathered watching Maria for the entire movie. She was bad ass.
She was pretty hardcore, kill ‘em all. But she smoked like a transvestite.
Yes, yes. She enjoyed those fags far too much! haha
You’ve been tagged by the way.
http://www.sineadcochrane.com/2008/04/29/describe-yourself-in-6-words-meme/
Hey David, think I copped you on the escalator at the end of the movie… thanks for the linkage and the feedback – (”dashing”? pffft!!) – will certainly pass it on to Cinemagic. I enjoyed the animation – thought the SWORD armour, the running and chasing scenes and any “machine” imagery was done amazingly well. People were a bit pants though. Really felt the whole “Tremors” theme coming through at the end though…
Tagged you say… hmmm.
Hi Darragh – sorry I missed you (I was the froppy haired one sitting next to the pretty girl).
There is definitely some borrowing in the movie with a big old Dune reference with the ‘Jags’.
I would love to have gone but im nowhere near dublin and getting there is tough
maybe nextime, I really would have loved it 
Didn’t think you’d make it (Limerick being so very far away and all) but I posted about in your honour