one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
March 30 2008
Stop-motion Tron
July 18 2007
Improved movie interlude
July 15 2007
Trailer for a film about a Donkey Kong contest between 2 guys who still seem to be living in the eighties. Wow.
June 10 2007
Unbelievable. I wonder if this will live up to the trailers: Worst case scenario.
June 04 2007
Radiant City
March 07 2007
It’s 2056 and the planet is saved. I just laughed watching this, probably not the expected reaction.
July 04 2006
An inconvenient truth
The climate is changing radically, affecting our future, and we are the cause. This is no longer debatable: the film shows how 100% of peer-reviewed academic papers support this fact while 53% of mainstream media stories express doubt, lobbies are powerful things. Al Gore puts the scientific facts into an eloquent, entertaining and clearly understandable narrative without ever getting overtly alarmist or bleak. According to Gore, we have 10 years to turn things around. In that case, this film should be mandatory viewing, especially if you have children. Hopefully, it won't just be preaching to the converted; if you're a doubter or have a friend who is, I dare you to see this and come out unaffected. [link]
May 25 2006
Marie-Antoinette
The first word that came to mind when exiting the theatre was “empty”. As a stylistic exercise the film would get top marks; as a story, it has no depth at all. Coppola seems to have more interest in patterns and colours than her characters. You can see where she was trying to go, but she got caught staring out of the window on her way there. [link]