twiggysayshi

Here in australia we only just recently got our version of the "idol phenomenon" and it's gotten us all hooked. Sure there's the bad few apples that still think it's karaoke, when u can see the band every episode! This, like the other 'Popstars' and 'starsearch', is just a way of manafacturing pop artists, but it's gotten so much deeper than that with seeing the contestants perform on stage everyweek and have their songs touch us or make us cry, and we get disappointed when our favourites leave, or get in the bottom three. It's become such addictive viewing they need it on everyday of the week to keep our household happy!

The show is much more than a reality tv karaoke, if we wanted that we'd switch over to channel 31 and watch 'Kangaroo Karaoke' ps GO MILLSY AND PAULINI!

Now the premise is good, classic literary characters thrown together into the real world where a bad guy and his german army - nazi types - have begun to destroy the world as we know it and start a war.

film opens, impressively, the 20th century fox sign transits into a run down sign on top of a building. pan down, the opening narrative is written to look like it's stuck in the sky, pan around town, an army tank rolls into town. down hill from there.

i havent seen, read or even heard of the original comic book, i just hope it wasn't as bland as this film.

the action and special effects where way over done and just plain show-offy. no character development always ruins a film, and the sad thing is this film HAD plenty of potential, ruined ultimetly by said flaws.

the dark lighting during the action scenes always ruin the effect, even though it's for atmosphere, it just looked plain fake.

and what the heck is with jeckyll/hyde??? did they deliberatly make him look like the hulk, that annoyed me so much.

As usual sean connery played the hero, the guy who seemingly has it together, knows what he's on about. is it just me or does someone else wanna see him in a film deeply flawed??? The supporting characters when in 'human form were alright, coulda developed their characters a bit more, but the stand out performance for me was Richard Roxbourgh as M. who can be excused for not so much development in his character, i won't spoil it for you tho.

Maybe the makers of XLG should have taken a leaf out of spider mans, batman (tim burton original) and even ghost worlds book of bringing a comic book to life.

6/10

i haven't read the original bret ellis easton (?) novel in which this is based, so i cannot use it as a frame of reference.

Hired this on dvd on the off chance it might be alright, compared to other college movie's i had seen, and boy was I impressed, from the opening mirage of the three stories simultaneously being told using reversing stock this film didn't stop thee at wonderful and creative techniques such as the split screen scene between sean and lauren in which they converse in front of each other, but both facing the camera at the same time, and then the pan around to fit into place, and the strategically placed "where do u fit in" poster to pauls own split screen where he fondle's sean in a half reality half thoughts split screen, to the theme (well i dunno if this is correct) but what i think is the theme of insignificance... paul is insignificant (insig.) to sean, sean is insig. to his dealer, laurens roommate insig. to all the guys she's sleeps with, lauren insign. to victor, and most importantly and which made me bawl my eyes out first second AND thrid time viewing this new age masterpiece, the girl who wrote letters was insignificant to sean, just another face in the crowd. well portrayed and told these little sub stories making up a piece as a whole, a rollercoaster ride of college life. here in australia we dont go to college like that, but alot of this was very close ot home for alot of teenagers, one thing to say to Roger Avary, if you got a couple of grand, fly me over there, i'd LOVE to be your apprentice or assisstant, i worship the ground you walk on sir, brilliant. 10/10