HER
I saw this at the movies. The cin-ema. Specifically Nova in Carlton, Melbourne.
What the fuck is with this place? First up, to buy tickets, you need to be nowhere near the actual
cinema. You need to embark on an epic quest to find the ticket counter, hidden behind a book shop and underneath a staircase. Wave as you pass Harry Potter's old bedroom. Maybe this was a clever marketing tactic to get people excited to see the Hobbit. Maybe not though, cos I don't want to see the Hobbit.
THEN at the ticket counter, after slaying the dragon or whatever, they don't take eftpos. What kind of fucking world is this. The tickets are already exorbitantly priced, just factor in another three cents for whatever the eftpos costs. Are you avoiding paying taxes? Well fucking factor your tax dodging in to the ticket costs. Or the beer costs. Oh, another thing. The beer. I got a beer, a Heineken I think - and the writing on the bottle was Israeli. Or Hebrew. Nothing wrong with that, but goddammit nine dollars for a beer, can it at least not be from the middle east? I mean ze Jews are great at many things, but I'm not sure beer brewing is one of them. I can pretty much taste the blood of Palestinian children in my Heiny. Alright enough.
HER is really beautiful. The colours, the pacing, Spike Jonze is a real master at making cool films that
aren't up their arse trying to be cool. It works because all of the elements have a purpose, the
film is stylish but not for the sake of being stylish. The hipstery (for lack of a better word obviously)
theme makes sense, HER is set slightly in the future so the 30's clothing scheme fits with human's cyclical clothing trends, etc.
Despite the beauty, HER's main question is what da fuq is going to happen when AI comes along. Jonze goes with a very believable response, people will try and rub their genitals on it. Joaquin Phoenix's character Theo, gets into a relationship with his OS (Operating system), HER goes in to the ins and outs of being in a relationship with a digital mind. There are cute parts, where they take each other on little adventures, try and fuck using a surrogate woman, and there are the nasty parts, where Theo finds out his computer lady has been less faithful, and him coming to terms with the fact he is punching well above his intellectual weight.
I guess HER lands as sort of a mix between Juno and Space Odyssey 2001, except no space travel or pregnant teens. Another down side, I didn't really buy the fact Theo doesn't own some kind of futuristic space Fleshlight, that would vacuum the nasty out of him light years better than any flesh woman could.
All in all, very good, great soundtrack, go see.
I saw this at the movies. The cin-ema. Specifically Nova in Carlton, Melbourne.
What the fuck is with this place? First up, to buy tickets, you need to be nowhere near the actual
cinema. You need to embark on an epic quest to find the ticket counter, hidden behind a book shop and underneath a staircase. Wave as you pass Harry Potter's old bedroom. Maybe this was a clever marketing tactic to get people excited to see the Hobbit. Maybe not though, cos I don't want to see the Hobbit.
THEN at the ticket counter, after slaying the dragon or whatever, they don't take eftpos. What kind of fucking world is this. The tickets are already exorbitantly priced, just factor in another three cents for whatever the eftpos costs. Are you avoiding paying taxes? Well fucking factor your tax dodging in to the ticket costs. Or the beer costs. Oh, another thing. The beer. I got a beer, a Heineken I think - and the writing on the bottle was Israeli. Or Hebrew. Nothing wrong with that, but goddammit nine dollars for a beer, can it at least not be from the middle east? I mean ze Jews are great at many things, but I'm not sure beer brewing is one of them. I can pretty much taste the blood of Palestinian children in my Heiny. Alright enough.
HER is really beautiful. The colours, the pacing, Spike Jonze is a real master at making cool films that
aren't up their arse trying to be cool. It works because all of the elements have a purpose, the
film is stylish but not for the sake of being stylish. The hipstery (for lack of a better word obviously)
theme makes sense, HER is set slightly in the future so the 30's clothing scheme fits with human's cyclical clothing trends, etc.
Despite the beauty, HER's main question is what da fuq is going to happen when AI comes along. Jonze goes with a very believable response, people will try and rub their genitals on it. Joaquin Phoenix's character Theo, gets into a relationship with his OS (Operating system), HER goes in to the ins and outs of being in a relationship with a digital mind. There are cute parts, where they take each other on little adventures, try and fuck using a surrogate woman, and there are the nasty parts, where Theo finds out his computer lady has been less faithful, and him coming to terms with the fact he is punching well above his intellectual weight.
I guess HER lands as sort of a mix between Juno and Space Odyssey 2001, except no space travel or pregnant teens. Another down side, I didn't really buy the fact Theo doesn't own some kind of futuristic space Fleshlight, that would vacuum the nasty out of him light years better than any flesh woman could.
All in all, very good, great soundtrack, go see.
