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jchrisobrien) wrote2010-07-23 02:42 pm
jchrisobrien) wrote2010-07-23 02:42 pm
Fantasia 2010: All good things...
Sunday: the last day of Fantasia is always sad. You never want the awesome to end, but nothing gold can stay, as the poet once said. So we pack everything up into my car and drive up near the theater, meeting up with Brian and Asta for breakfast at Eggspectations (breakfast restaurant inside an old brewery, very neat interior!) The crowd was small on a Sunday morning (not surprising) for our next viewing.
Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection - Concordia Hall theater. Partners-in-Crime: Cris, Forest, Vanessa
A cascading black hole is traveling towards Earth, and the planet must be evacuated. The refugee fleets are being wiped out by a mysterious enemy, so the Yamato is rebuild for one more mission: escort a rag tag fleet to a new earth (sound familiar, BSG fans?) while defending against this new threat. The crew of the Yamato must safeguard the fleet and face an unexpected threat from beyond time and space.
The movie actually started off well. I got chills when they played the old theme song for the show, and the middle of the film was filled with space battles and intrigue. As the story progresses it gets wilder and more improbable, like a drunk telling a story who drinks more and more as the story goes on, until it stumbles into complete incoherence. In the end, we learn that there's still no dilemma so great that can't be fixed by shooting the wave motion gun at it. 2/4
Black Lightning - Concordia Hall theater. Partners in Awesomeness: Cris, Forest, Nicole, Vanessa
Slightly nerdy Russian boy gets a car from his father. This car was a supposed "failed" Russian experiment for a nanocatalyzer, which when installed in the car allows it to fly. At first he uses his car to make money by being the fastest delivery man in the city, but after a tragic incident he learns "with great power comes great responsibility" and uses his new found car to help people and fight crime.
This movie obviously had major parallels to the first Spider Man film (with a dash of Dark Knight and Iron man thrown in) but it also has the same energy, childish glee, and sense of Awesome that the first Spider Man film had. The audience cheered and applauded no less that six times during the course of the movie. This is the time of experience you come to Fantasia for: being in a room of like minded people who get excited at awesomeness and aren't afraid to express it! The production values are top notch, and even though the story is familiar, it is immensely satisfying. See it! 4/4
At this point it was five o'clock, and we had to get back on the road to Boston. Try as I might, I couldn't get my car to convert to flying mode, so we took the long, scenic land route home. Our border crossing was blessed with no traffic, but cursed with an overly inquisitive border guard who barraged us with questions about how we knew each other, the exact towns we were from, and what we did. I think he assumed that Forest and I were kidnapping Vanessa. I knew there was a reason we shouldn't have duct taped her to the back seat.
After dodging the border police in a high speed chase and losing them after a herd of moose attacked the police cars (those moose warning signs were right! Beware the moose!) we stopped for dinner at the Common Man. As soon as we sat down, one of the bartenders asked us if we liked Guinness. Someone had just ordered two glasses and didn' want them, so he offered them to us free of charge. This continues the three year tradition Forest and I have of getting free booze at Fantasia. We drank our free beers in front of a massive fireplace (I could have driven my car into it), and snacked on macaroni and cheese pizzas and buffalo burgers. The rest of the way home was in darkness, and shortly after midnight I pulled up in my driveway.
I'm already looking forward to next year!
PS - Monday night I got an email from Nicole saying another Fantasia film was playing at the Brattle [rec]2, the sequel to the Spanish "documentary zombie" movie from last year (which was remade as Quarantine). This had more of an action movie vibe to it, and had multiple camera points of view, so it felt much more artificial that the first film. It was a fun good time, and still worth seeing if you liked the first movie. It's still pretty disturbing, but I'm definitely jaded by now.
Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection - Concordia Hall theater. Partners-in-Crime: Cris, Forest, Vanessa
A cascading black hole is traveling towards Earth, and the planet must be evacuated. The refugee fleets are being wiped out by a mysterious enemy, so the Yamato is rebuild for one more mission: escort a rag tag fleet to a new earth (sound familiar, BSG fans?) while defending against this new threat. The crew of the Yamato must safeguard the fleet and face an unexpected threat from beyond time and space.
The movie actually started off well. I got chills when they played the old theme song for the show, and the middle of the film was filled with space battles and intrigue. As the story progresses it gets wilder and more improbable, like a drunk telling a story who drinks more and more as the story goes on, until it stumbles into complete incoherence. In the end, we learn that there's still no dilemma so great that can't be fixed by shooting the wave motion gun at it. 2/4
Black Lightning - Concordia Hall theater. Partners in Awesomeness: Cris, Forest, Nicole, Vanessa
Slightly nerdy Russian boy gets a car from his father. This car was a supposed "failed" Russian experiment for a nanocatalyzer, which when installed in the car allows it to fly. At first he uses his car to make money by being the fastest delivery man in the city, but after a tragic incident he learns "with great power comes great responsibility" and uses his new found car to help people and fight crime.
This movie obviously had major parallels to the first Spider Man film (with a dash of Dark Knight and Iron man thrown in) but it also has the same energy, childish glee, and sense of Awesome that the first Spider Man film had. The audience cheered and applauded no less that six times during the course of the movie. This is the time of experience you come to Fantasia for: being in a room of like minded people who get excited at awesomeness and aren't afraid to express it! The production values are top notch, and even though the story is familiar, it is immensely satisfying. See it! 4/4
At this point it was five o'clock, and we had to get back on the road to Boston. Try as I might, I couldn't get my car to convert to flying mode, so we took the long, scenic land route home. Our border crossing was blessed with no traffic, but cursed with an overly inquisitive border guard who barraged us with questions about how we knew each other, the exact towns we were from, and what we did. I think he assumed that Forest and I were kidnapping Vanessa. I knew there was a reason we shouldn't have duct taped her to the back seat.
After dodging the border police in a high speed chase and losing them after a herd of moose attacked the police cars (those moose warning signs were right! Beware the moose!) we stopped for dinner at the Common Man. As soon as we sat down, one of the bartenders asked us if we liked Guinness. Someone had just ordered two glasses and didn' want them, so he offered them to us free of charge. This continues the three year tradition Forest and I have of getting free booze at Fantasia. We drank our free beers in front of a massive fireplace (I could have driven my car into it), and snacked on macaroni and cheese pizzas and buffalo burgers. The rest of the way home was in darkness, and shortly after midnight I pulled up in my driveway.
I'm already looking forward to next year!
PS - Monday night I got an email from Nicole saying another Fantasia film was playing at the Brattle [rec]2, the sequel to the Spanish "documentary zombie" movie from last year (which was remade as Quarantine). This had more of an action movie vibe to it, and had multiple camera points of view, so it felt much more artificial that the first film. It was a fun good time, and still worth seeing if you liked the first movie. It's still pretty disturbing, but I'm definitely jaded by now.
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oh, so you saw Nevermore's rendition of Edgar Allen Poe the night before too? ;)
I'm still humming the Yamato theme song on my rides to work.
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you're not coming camping with us next month? :(