AT WORLD'S END

[melannen]

...was awesome.
No, seriously. It was so awesome that it took me about five minutes to get my land legs back afterward. I was pitching all over the aisle on the way out, but I didn't actually notice until I fell over, because the floor is *supposed* to sway like that. Right?

Selected Spoilers:
EVERYBODY DIES¹

Also, I want it on the record that I had 'licking rocks' as an lj interest well before this movie came out.

¹May not actually be true<sup>2

2</sup>If true, may not actually be relevant.<sup>3

3</sup>After all, everybody does die. Dyin's *guaranteed*. It's the coming back that can be a bit tricky.

PS: THIS IS MY DEFAULT ICON FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE.

Comments

[enemy-anime.livejournal.com]

Seconded!!

!!

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

A:DFSOIDSHGRS:S"!!!

WANT TO GO SEE MOVIE NOW!!!!

(Though I .... think the the tv trailers kind of suck? Especially compared to the awesome trailer for DMC?)

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

It was awesomeness distilled, right from the Les Miserables nod at the begining with the hangings and the eerie singing (I must get a copy of that song, now). Each instalment of the trilogy has been darker in tone and more seriously SF than the last--parts of this one were almost Gaimanesque.

And the ending kicked three different kinds of ass. ajksilfhedigh, heart in a box!

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought the beginning was a little heavy-handed, what with the evil corporations who control King George's government using a prison compound on a Caribbean Island to torture and execute suspected international terrorists after suspending the right of habeus corpus and the rights to a fair trial.

On the other hand, I haven't seen Les Mis so maybe I just missed what it was a reference to. Also: the singing was indeed cool and I also must get a copy of that song!

And I definitely liked the darker urban-fantasy elements in this one, for all that I also loved the more light-hearted tone of the first one.

[beraht.livejournal.com]

I didn't like it at all but, then, I didn't expect to. I loved the original but disliked the second and this was much more in line with it than the first.

If they have a fourth, I think I'll just skip it.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

They're very different and I seriously doubt they'll do a fourth (although I'm taking bets on whether we'll get a sucky prequel trilogy in tweny years!)

I do still hold out that the first is just about the *perfect* movie, but the last two, for all their flaws, were a lot more emotionally intense to go with being darker, and that has its own pull for me.

[beraht.livejournal.com]

I actually prefer dark and grim movies and television -- dystopias are a favorite kind of literature and Deep Space Nine and Firefly are two of my favorite TV series -- but I just couldn't get into the later two movies, which were way too convoluted and, no offense, melodramatic.

I wish I could explain it better but I'm more Jay Sherman than Roger Ebert.