[extropy-chat] Movie Review: "Immortal"

[Brian Lee]

The Director/Writer's name is Enki Bilal. He's done a bunch of graphic 
novels for Huminoids (a French publishing company with a US subsidiary joint 
venture with DC Comics).

I felt the same way about the movie. I sort of trudged my way through the 
first half and it got pretty interesting toward the end.

A piece of trivia is that this is one of two movies competing for the title 
of completely set-free/total green screen (I think the other is Sky 
Captain). There's only 2-3 human actors, all the rest are CGI.

BAL

>From: The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>
>To: ExI-Chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Subject: [extropy-chat] Movie Review: "Immortal"
>Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:31:05 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I just watched a bizarre Sci-Fi with a mixture of
>transhuman and new-age themes called "Immortal" by
>Enki something or another. My initial feelings on it
>were mixed. It is certainly visually stimulating with
>a mixture of CGI animation and cinematography that is,
>while not seamless, nonetheless bizarre and
>facinating. At first, I thought the acting was
>horrible, but as the movie progressed, I came to the
>conclusion it is portraying a posthuman society in
>which emotion is not expressed in normal human fashion
>but is instead just different enough to keep the
>viewer off balance. If you want a disturbing vision of
>a posthuman future, watch it. Then let me know what
>you think. Don't expect Lucas level special effects,
>but a bizarre and interesting story along posthuman
>lines.
>
>The Avantguardian
>is
>Stuart LaForge
>alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
>
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