Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Goodbye, Life

That was a short visit. Hope to see you again in a couple of weeks.

As you might have noticed, this and the last posting lacked the picture/painting I had intended to post with every blog entry. Alas, I still have no camera, and the cam on my phone stopped working as well, so I can't take photos of the stuff I produced in the last couple of weeks. But since I'm probably going to disappear again for a few weeks, there won't be that many postings without pictures. Quid pro quo. Or something like that.

Watched Watchmen. Then read the comic (which, surprisingly, was available in our University library; I love my English department for its open-mindedness). I liked the film. It was intriguing, partly confusing and left certain stuff open (which is neither good nor bad). Upon reading the comic, I figured the confusing stuff mostly came from the changes that had taken place for no conceivable reason. The film seems to push the vigilantes into harsher good/bad-directions, while the comic leaves them pretty much in the middle-field. The comic also and unsurprisingly explains their behaviours better. It's nice to have such well thought-out and complex personalities in the superhero genre.
I guess Heroes tries to follow that direction a bit, since its characters are quite grey, as well, but that might just be due to a general lack of a well thought-out concept, resulting in a change of character-direction in order to surprise the viewer again by putting the character into the other party. (Yes, Heroes is slowly starting to bore me.)

What does not bore me, but rather gets better bit by bit, is Joss Whedon's new show, Dollhouse. While I'm not too fond of Faith's, err, Eliza Dushku's acting, I like the direction of the show and hope it gets beyond the damsel-in-distress stage.
I miss Joss' humour. It's what made Firefly brilliant.
Still, lots of potential in the show.

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In Linz eröffnete vor einigen Wochen die Tolouse-Lautrec Ausstellung in der Landesgalerie - eine sehr empfehlenswerte Ausstellung mit vielen beeindruckenden Bildern des Malers der Pariser Bordellszene. Mich beeindruckten vor allem die verschiedenen Stilrichtungen, in denen die Gemälde angefertigt wurden, und natürlich begeisterten mich am meisten die Bilder, in denen deutlich der Einfluss der japanischen Malerei zu sehen war. Hat mich auch etwas überrascht zu sehen, dass der japanische Einfluss damals schon so groß war. Und weil das so toll ist, geht's demnächst in die Sensai-Ausstellung in Salzburg.

4 comments:

anne said...

Hi :) Just stopping by...

I still haven't seen Watchmen. I'm usually pretty good at watching movies I like when it comes out, but this one seemed to slip through the cracks.

I agree with you about Dollhouse, Eliza Dushku's acting doesn't impress me, but I'm definitely paying attention to the show because it's by Joss Whedon ^_^

Manuela said...

Thing is, I like Eliza's acting as Faith. She seems to be an excellent model for a strong, confident woman. That probably is what bugs me about her as Echo - seeing her completely helpless doesn't fit my image of her.
On the other hand, Dichen Lachman can pull off both the strong and the helpless part and it doesn't seem out of character for her.

NRM said...

Itsa me, Offtopic-guy^^

On Thursday this week (30.4.) there'll be a demonstration against fashism in Linz!

Infos:
http://www.lichtergegenrechts.at/

HanD

nrm said...

Vom 14.-17.5. findet beim Hafen die sogenante Suversiv-Messe statt, inklusive eine Guerilla-Gardening-Stand!!