Have you ever had it blue?
Last week's "excitement", captured here for your pleasure.Belbury Youth Club at Shunt Vaults
I went along to this Ghost Box-hosted event with JJ and DL, and was happy to catch up with both NB and KS too. A couple of observations:
Shunt Vaults is an astonishing venue. I don't think I've been anywhere like it since...well, since ever. It's a series of arches attached to London Bridge station. As you walk in, you're confronted with the overwhelming smell of mould, which immediately gets into the back of your throat. It is atmospherically lit (in other words, dark), and vast inside. I fell in love with it and am now looking for any excuse to get along to the place again.
As for the content of the evening itself, it was OK. We were hindered in that we got there far too early and had no dinner beforehand (which necessitated a trip back up to the surface to get supplies in. Becuase we were in a train station, food options were limited: it was pasties/crisps or nothing). As such, we were hungry and a bit bored for the early part of the evening. By the time Broadcast appeared to improvise over a short film, I was feeling a bit hysterical and commented to NB that I would kill to hear Funky Town instead.
Following Broadcast, we stuck around to hear some music, including the theme tune to Teddy Edward and a moog version of Son of my Father. Then we all made like a banana, and split.
Watchmen
I enjoyed this, on the whole. It was shonky at points, but enjoyable.
A couple of things jarred:
The embarrassing sex scene, which was more graphic than it needed to be, and for the choice of music in the background (old Len croaking Hallelujah. Incongruous).
The wigs, particularly Ozymandias's effort. I couldn't take my eyes off the line of glue around his forehead.
Ozymandias himself. One-dimensional, compared to the other turns.
Good stuff:
The performances were pretty solid, on the whole. Dr Manhattan was appropriately blank. Rorschach was well-realised.
The usual stuff that annoys me at the cinema every time annoyed me this time: the late start and the incredibly loud incidental music (which at one point made me jump out of my seat).
So what else is new? Ennui, mainly. Eight weeks to my holiday.
Labels: ghost box, shunt vaults, watchmen
posted by deafdisco @ 10:04 am
6 Comments:
I assumed the sex scene was supposed to be funny. It only needed Carry On trombone effects. But why was it meant to be funny? Search me! The whole film was full of textural inconsistency. I'm baffled how something could take so much care with some elements and be so slap dash with others.
the wigs, i am afraid, really did show it up for being creaky. lots of bits overly drawn-out, lots condensed into blink-and-you'll-miss-em sections.
we watched with a self-confessed fanboy (who read the comics 20+ years ago), a new convert, and someone who has never read the source material. a good control group, in other words.
O (who has never read the GN) thought the ending was lame. however, he followed and enjoyed the rest of it, on the whole.
thought brooker's comment about it at the end of his column today was a pretty fair assessment.
i was saddened by the lack of trailers for films featuring jason statham driving cars around prisons.
i should say the fanboy was not impressed.
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Hello! Shunt is amazing yes. But you know it's closing v soon? so best get back there pretty darn quick...
oh god! i had no idea! dang it had better get the old gang together one more time...
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