MAY and a Meme

Has anyone seen the movie MAY directed by Lucky McKee of "Alice" fame? I saw it yesterday while drawing comic pages. On one hand, it sometimes feels like it's trying to hard to be what it is, that is to say, something tailor made for people who go to Hot Topic (like Emily the Strange... what the fuck is the deal with Emily the Fucking Strange?!). I mean, it's Lucky McKee, for god's sake. On the other hand, I haven't been able to stop thinking about this film since I saw it.

There's only a small handful of people out there I'd actually recommend seeing this film, people like Danny, Lea, Misty, etc. It's crazy, Angela Bettis's May totally was Misty, it was fucking crazy. All she needed was to be blond and scowling more, and it would have totally been her. Wow. I imagine a lot of people will call this film beautiful and moving. Those are the people who, like MAY, I must resist the urge to date at all costs. I'm still not sure if I liked the movie, but damn if it'll be in my head for awhile yet.

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movie trailer round up

Here are some thoughts on a few movie trailers I've seen in theatres and at the apple site:

BUBBLE
I've seen this trailer three times now, I've read the synopsis, and I STILL have no idea what the hell this movie's about. Steven Soderberg had better have something good up his sleeve, is all I'm sayin'.

AMERICAN DREAMZ
This could be charming and fun dreck like LOVE, ACTUALLY or just plain dreck. But the fact that Willhem Dafoe is playing Dick Cheney is incentive enough for me to check it out.

EIGHT BELOW
The movie's tagline: "The Most Amazing Story Of Survival, Friendship, And Adventure Ever Told." SUCK IT, URUGUAYAN RUGBY TEAM! YOU AIN'T GOT SHIT ON PAUL WALKER AND HIS SNOW DOGS!

THE FOUNTAIN
The new one from Darren Aranofsky; when it looked like the film wouldn't get made, he adapted is as a graphic novel. I really should read it, because interesting as this looks, I have NO idea what it's gonna be about. I just hope it's soul-crushingly depressing!

THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
On one hand, this promises to be horrendously politically biased. On the other hand, it's biased on politics I strongly agree with.

UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTON
It isn't enough that this piece of crap is getting a sequel, but that it features Bill Nighy and Derek Jacobi?! WHY, AWESOME BRITISH MEN, WHY?!

ELLIE PARKER
This film looks so low-budget (and not purposefully so) that I wonder if Naomi Watts agreed to do it for scale? Let me just say that it is truly here, here in this trailer, that I've actually felt truly attracted to Miss Watts. This could be fun.

BLOODRAYNE
Look. I'm not fan of the game on which it's based, but here's the thing. It's a simple enough concept: sexy vampire fighting Nazis in WWII. It's a concept so idiotically simple that it's idiot-proof. So leave it to Uwe fucking Boll to decide to set it in Eighteenth-Century Romania for no fucking reason. WHY, BEN KINGSLEY, WHY?! Seriously, did Kingsley, Nighy, and Jacobi all lose a bet or something?

MIAMI VICE
I don't care how fashionable it's gonna be to badmouth this movie. It's written and directed by the show's creator, Michael Mann, director of MANHUNTER, HEAT, and COLLATERAL. It's going to fucking rock. That is all.