Well, that's a shame. I still contend that
the Domino trailer was a near-masterpiece, and easily the most entertaining trailer I've seen this year. It's packed with quick cuts, weird camera angles, film rewinding and going extra fast, scenes with saturated color, quirky characters, explosions, machine guns, nimble dialogue, and more. Apparently the movie is much the same, but 1) all the good stuff is in the trailer, and 2) 2 minutes of that fast stuff is fine, while 2+ hours of hyperkinetic bullshit becomes overwhelming. At least according to the disapproving opinions of
87 of the 99 movie critics now represented on Rotten Tomatoes.
If a film looks interesting and gets 50%, or 40% positive on RT, we'll check it out. Even 30% if we're really pre-sold. But 12%? That's a mighty big leap of faith for $9.25 each and 3 hours of our lives we'll never get back.
On the other hand,
Ebert liked Domino enough to give it 3-stars. On the other other hand, he gives everything 3-stars now.
Literally, this week, though that's only true because
The Fog is so awful the studio didn't screen it for critics, and Ebert therefore did not review it.
In other movie news, I'm about five film reviews behind (and 3 books), but we did get out to see Wallace and Gromit last Monday, and enjoyed it. I didn't think it was a masterpiece, but if you already like W&G, you'll enjoy the film well enough. If you don't yet know about W&G, you're probably better off renting/buying the new DVD with all 3 of their short films on it. The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave are both better than Curse of the Were-Rabbit, in large part because they've got just about as much good stuff, but both run only 30 minutes. I'll add a full review of the film at some point, along with all the others I've seen since I last took the time to write a review. The novel has just been more pressing, of late, and when I'm in the mood to write fiction, I've gotta run with it.
