Dark City (the movie), by Alex Proyas
omg
(Review posted 20 Dec 2005 03:33:15)

From a non-review previously posted elsewhere. And it's about a movie rather than a book. Good thing we're easy.

"I'm Anna, by the way. What's your name?"

"John. John Murdoch."

omg!

I mean, why didn't anyone tell me about Dark City? I mean, someone (in the sense of "some part of the universe") presumably did, because I must have asked M to put it on her Netflix list because it came the other day and now I finally watched it.

But why didn't anyone take me by the lapels years ago and insist that I watch it? Of course if they'd done that years ago then I would have watched it years ago and I probably wouldn't have watched it tonight, and that would be too bad. Although you never know.

So anyway this is obviously anything but a review, but I'm just sayin' omg and that I watched Dark City and all, and that I thought it was a really good movie.

I dunno, maybe it's not officially a really good movie, maybe the consensus of those that I respect and admire and seek to emulate isn't that it's like one of the best movies ever, but anyway, regardless, I thought it was really good.

It wasn't the perfect movie, in that there were things I could carp about (or maybe it was the perfect movie, in that there were things I could carp about). Like that (what was it called?) "The Matrix" thing, I would have liked a final wizard battle involving the teleological basis of reality rather than who can push on the knife harder. And that thing at the end about how what makes us special isn't up here (pointing to the forehead), that was a little obvious (but hey at least he didn't gesture toward his chest or anything). F'rinstance.

But still, omg.

Anyway.

I thought it was a really good movie. You should see it yourself if somehow you haven't already (unless a ten second look at the IMDB page turns you off entirely, because if it does it's possible that you might not like it, and I know your time is valuable; but omg).