Catching up
I’m way behind on my crits for the writing group, so I’m trying to catch up on some of those. I’m also trying to come up with a decent bio for Thousand Faces.
The Dallas Comic Con was a lot of fun. Wasn’t too crowded this time, so I was able to get in and get everything I wanted done in pretty short order. I found an amazingly cheap copy of DC: The New Frontier Absolute Edition, which is just gorgeous. It’s nice to have a copy of the full series, especially in this format. Christina Hendricks was very cool and easy to chat with, and I got to meet artist Bob McLeod, who co-created some of my favorite comic characters (The New Mutants). I even managed to sell a bunch of old toys I had laying around.
Sunday we saw Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. (Fort Worth doesn’t have any awesome Indy movie theaters like Dallas does, but we do have the Modern Art Museum, which has a small screen on which they can show things like this.) I reviewed it for the department newsletter, so I thought I’d post that here. The fact that this film wasn’t included among the Best Foreign Film nominees just goes to highlight how irrelevant the Oscars are.
Something I’ve come to realize is that my reviews are almost always completely positive. Fact is, I’m generally pretty picky about what movies I see, and have a pretty good eye for what I’ll like. So the chances of me walking into a movie and coming out sorely disappointed are pretty slim (though it does happen–Star Wars prequels, I’m looking at you). If I were a pro, I’d go see everything, and probably have a lot of negative reviews. But really, is there a point to reviewing something like Meet the Spartans or Transformers?
