Go over the top, then keep going.
I was feeling glum for no good reason (which is better than being depressed with good reason) so I thought I’d cheer myself up by watching Wanted. Excellent idea: the movie blew the gloomy thoughts out of my head. Tibur Bekmambetov’s (Russians Russians everywhere I look; really must move to St Petersburg) adaptation of the graphic novel (My sister says they changed it substantially) is ridiculous, exhilarating, insane, and fun for anyone not overly attached to the laws of physics (You mean the trajectory, not the bullet!) or probability. In it, James MacAvoy’s cubicle rat shmoe is recruited for a fraternity of assassins formed in the medieval period. (His minder is Angelina Jolie, who is more lethal than any of the men.) The Fraternity was founded by a weavers’ guild, so I kept imagining the members of the Fashion Designers’ Association of the Philippines hunting down the evil and corrupt and garrotting them with tape measures.
The Fraternity call themselves “the assassins of fate”, “fate” being represented by a loom which churns out cloth, the warp and weft of which they translate into binary code and then into the names of their targets. So if I decide that I am the instrument of fate and I eat a bowl of muesli for breakfast every day (The Bowl of Fate), and I discover a pattern in the cereals which corresponds to the names of actual people…The point being, don’t think too much and you’ll enjoy the flick.
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June 30th, 2008 at 21:33
you can tell the movie’s gonna be fun just by watching the trailer.
June 30th, 2008 at 21:35
“garrotting them with tape measures” That’s wicked!
July 1st, 2008 at 00:21
Saw it last night. Me had FUN! Definitely over the top and doesn’t have the slightest pretensions of wanting to be taken seriously.
July 1st, 2008 at 07:07
FDAP folk hunting down evil with tape measures, eh?
That actually sounds like a neat premise for something… couldn’t put a metal soundtrack on it, though (but hey, nobody’s perfect).
July 3rd, 2008 at 06:40
love McAvoy, but saw the trailer for this and thought it was a bit OTT and cheesy …. but will leave my boring logical self at home and just go for it!
July 3rd, 2008 at 08:42
2 words.
daywatch.
nightwatch.
April 11th, 2009 at 22:14
I enjoyed it too. I really would have wanted to say that to my bosses whenever
they get sore and bitchy about things. I really would have loved to quit my job if
only my bank account would overflow with cash . . . in dollars. I really would have
loved to whack my co-workers bloody with ergonomic keyboards with letters
forming expletives. But then I am just a humble grade school teacher and I love
my weird yet creative kids so I will just have to tolerate and be civil with what I
have right now.