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 Bridge to Terabithia
by Eric Preston
Why do marketing people exist? Aren’t the best people to
decide how a movie is sold, the people that made it?
This is one
of those films whose marketing was so different then the actual movie,
it probably turned people off. From the trailers we were expecting
Narnia meets Lord of the Rings all wrapped up in special effects laden
fantasy adventure. That’s not what this film is, that’s
not even what it tries to be. The only people that did think it
was were the marketing department, and the people that watched the trailer,
me being one of the later. What it we did get was a very heartfelt
story of two young outcasts that find each other and build a
friendship fueled by their very vivid imaginations.
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 The
Committee
by Eric Preston
Imagine the most introverted and intense episode
of the original The Twilight Zone, one that
filled you with intrigue while you tried to figure out just
where they could possibly be going with the story. Take that
episode, then set it in an accurate depiction of a Britain-like
country in the late 1960s. Now, imagine following along with
the main character, seeing multiple levels of meaning in each
small line of dialogue, interaction and setting, becoming
more and more engrossed in what was about to be revealed ...
then, just when you think a payoff is coming, nothing. Roll
credits. That's what The Committee is. An
extremely opaque film that is admitted mental masturbation
for writer/producer Max Steuer (author of The Scientific
Study of Society). It's almost as if an economics professor,
one that you really like and who is very interesting to speak
with, wrote a story specifically for himself and a few of
his graduate students, a story revolving around his theories
of how bureaucracy works with and against individuality in
a slightly parallel society to 1960s Great Britain. A story
for which he didn't worry about whether or not anyone without
that very specific background would “get” any
of it.
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 Rock
& Rule: 2-Disc Collector's
Edition
by Eric Preston
The plot centers around MOK (voiced by Don Francks
with the singing voice of Lou Reed), an aging rock star of
future Earth where animals have evolved into what humans are
today. His desire for more power has him searching for the
one voice that can unlock the gateway for a demon to cross
over into this world to do his bidding. This quickly leads
him to the angelic voice of our female lead, Angel (voiced
by Susan Roman), whose singing voice is performed by Blondie's
Debbie Harry and could not be more perfect for the role. She
is a member of a struggling band that is led by her boyfriend,
and our antihero, Omar (voiced in the wide released version
by Paul Le Mat with the singing voice of Cheap Trick's Robin
Zander). He's an arrogant and mostly unlikable guy, whose
heart is in the right place. Well, actually, he's a dick.
The story attempts to show him as the rebel without a cause
type, but really he is just plain unlikable, which is one
part of the film that didn't quite work for me.
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 Syd
Barrett: Under Review
by Eric Preston
Rolling clouds over an English accented reading
from The Wind in the Willows is how we're first introduced
to the BBCesque critical analysis of the short lived public
music career of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's founder, original
lead singer and guitarist. This quickly gives way to the soft
authoritatively British voice (which sounds like what the
Orbit Gum Spokeswomen is parodying) of the faceless Narrator
(Sian Jones).
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