Lathe of Heaven
Movie: Lathe of Heaven (2002)
Watched with: Jessy
This movie isn't going to make anyone's top 10 list, but it was really great for a B scifi movie.
It was well-scripted (I don't know how much of that's due to the source novel, but another Ursula Le Guin book was made into the abysmal Earthsea (2004), so the Lathe people did something right), well acted (James Caan gets top-billing and does an amiable job, but the lead kid's good too), and it looks really neat.
For the exterior locations, I think they pretty much did the Gattaca thing, where you portray the future by selectively filming buildings with unusual architecture (like you often see on college campuses) (though Lathe also throughs in some arbitrary Asian stuff for a kind of Blade Runner cyberpunk feel). It didn't look terribly expensive, but it was interesting and relatively believable.
Then for the costumes, they basically realized they had no hope of plausibly depicting future fashion, so they evoked stereotypical future costumes, but in a more stylized way. If you can imagine clothes from The Jetsons not looking (too) ridiculous, it's kind of like that.
It didn't make logical sense, but it was very effective and cool.
Furthuer complimenting the visual look, but of the protagonists were pretty, which is kind of a dumb thing to approve of in a movie, but it usually doesn't hurt.
The story, about a boy whose dreams can alter reality, the girl he loved and dreamed away, and the therapist who takes advantage of him, was slightly dopey but thoroughly interesting and well-told.
Check it out if you get a chance.
Watched with: Jessy
This movie isn't going to make anyone's top 10 list, but it was really great for a B scifi movie.
It was well-scripted (I don't know how much of that's due to the source novel, but another Ursula Le Guin book was made into the abysmal Earthsea (2004), so the Lathe people did something right), well acted (James Caan gets top-billing and does an amiable job, but the lead kid's good too), and it looks really neat.
For the exterior locations, I think they pretty much did the Gattaca thing, where you portray the future by selectively filming buildings with unusual architecture (like you often see on college campuses) (though Lathe also throughs in some arbitrary Asian stuff for a kind of Blade Runner cyberpunk feel). It didn't look terribly expensive, but it was interesting and relatively believable.
Then for the costumes, they basically realized they had no hope of plausibly depicting future fashion, so they evoked stereotypical future costumes, but in a more stylized way. If you can imagine clothes from The Jetsons not looking (too) ridiculous, it's kind of like that.
It didn't make logical sense, but it was very effective and cool.
Furthuer complimenting the visual look, but of the protagonists were pretty, which is kind of a dumb thing to approve of in a movie, but it usually doesn't hurt.
The story, about a boy whose dreams can alter reality, the girl he loved and dreamed away, and the therapist who takes advantage of him, was slightly dopey but thoroughly interesting and well-told.
Check it out if you get a chance.
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