What a great film, Wes Anderson is no Coppola- but this was a great piece of comedy that just kept going. And Jeff was in it. (More subtle review to come)

Won’t you please let me go
These words lie inside they hurt me so
And I’m not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
I’m not the kind that needs to tell you
Just what you want me to…

⌊ Age of Consent by New Order.

What I mean by that is simple; here is the trailer for Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. You should will download it and chuckle like Bill Murray in… a situation. He does get in a lot of those, don’t he?

I just acquired myself “Ghost In The
Shell: Stand Alone Complex Vol. 1″ along with Ghost In The Shell the
groundbreaking 1995-hit Anime film. 1995! And it ends with
U2…The Japanese don’t seem to have
any problem with spin-offs, the kind that we see here in the UK as spread by
marketing departments and studios, in Japan (it would seem, we’re open for
comments) Directors or writers see that their idea is spread, that it flies the
nest. From Graphic Novel to Full Feature Anime Film to a Zillion-part TV Series
and a truck-load of soundtracks. Ghost In The Shell has gained critical acclaim
and wide-spread admiration and flattery – not to mention
understanding. For a film that covers the physiological ground (okay, maybe not)
cyborgs with souls and machinery with emotion… its not an easy
ride.Luckily this isn’t my review – so
I’m off to bed.

I
think its supposed to be the story of a grass-root revolutionary movement, if
that wasn’t the point – then I get it! No
grenade in the pig’s petrol
tank for this lot, direct action is not their
thing. The self led duo (which, unconvincingly, becomes a trio – see photo) is
all about hearts and minds – and screwing them around by breaking into the homes
of wealthy bourgeois pig-dogs and re-arranging the furniture (in a zany
mother’s-crystal-in-the-bog kind of a way) so that when said capitalist suckkaz
come home they find a crazily piled stack of chairs where once a rather nice
grandfather clock stood… like the morning after a great party. They also find
a note “You Are Too Rich” or “Your Years of Plenty are Over”
etc.The purpose of this rebellion is
turned into drunken revenge when Jule (Julia
Jentsch) and Ewan McGregor… I mean Jan (Daniel
Bruhl) decide to ‘do’ the house of Jules’ disgruntled ‘employer’
(there’s more to it, but it gets ridiculous in a second). So, they do – and what
hilarity (that’s a question) ensues when they go drunkenly over the top -
breaking the rules and plunging a sofa into the guy’s pool, Jan and Jule (who’s
dating Peter) then strip off and get all hot and heavy… but what’s this – Jan
and Peter (the Vigo Mortissen look-alike he is) are best buddies, in fact
founding fathers of the rebellion – that for one night only – Jule is taking
part in (while Peter is out of town, I forget why) not only is he engaging in
some two-way (party of 3) love-in but he’s also breaking his moral high
ground… don’t worry because as quickly as you can say “oh I saw that plot
twist coming” Jule is confronted with the owner of the Dali-ed up house. She
panics – and Jan does the right thing… whacking him around the head with a
maglight… and taking him hostage, they
drive.Meeting up with Peter (who
doesn’t suspect screwing around – but does take a broken gas-gun just in case)
Jan and Jule – with hostage ‘Hardenberg’ drive into the German
Alps.So the film gets there… but it
takes an hour or so, we’ve got a businessman – tied up in the back of a
Volkswagen, a slightly odd romance between Jule and Jan and this guy Peter who’s
a little lost, venerable to…blah blah blah I’ll finish this later – it was getting boring anyway, right?

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the
Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy has
already supplanted Frank Herbert’s Dune as the minimum standard of which
adaptations of much loved radio-plays / novels / 1980’s TV series’ can be
created. It has many omissions and contains
much
that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, similarly it takes prime
position over the older, more pedestrian works (Lord of The Rings – Animated
Feature, Van Helsing, The Lost World) in two important
respects…Firstly it was very
expensive – overly dressed and over acted (looking at you Malcovitch) – it was
not worth the ¬£6.30 (which was paid back to Q in snacks and the colonel’s
finest). Secondly, it has the words “based on” in the title sequence. A damned
lie, although the objectives and character descriptions are (to a point) based
on Douglas Adam’s work, the film is a hash of editing and Hollywood shmuckery.
It has a disapointing ending and mindless story diversions. There are NO
characters, and if you happen to come to the film new to the whole HHG thing,
then you won’t get the sudo-intelligence that reigns throughout. It’s zany, and
British – but Hollywood all the way to the zesty, bitter lemon of an
ending.