DISQUS

Jandy I often like framing devices, too, and I wouldn't have minded this one so much if it hadn't padded the running time out so much. And it's not that I'm against long movies, either - this one was just needlessly long because they tried to put too much in that didn't really need to be there.

The friend I saw it with suggested that the Katrina setting was a tie-in to Brad Pitt's Katrina relief efforts. :) I guess there was already enough sadness and doomed love in the main story for me without the added horror of Katrina in the frame story. Again, it was just too much.

I get what you're saying about the car accident, and he did incorporate that whimsy a little bit more with the recurring segment of the guy who kept getting struck by lightning (forgot about that when I was writing). I loved those parts. I just felt like I saw suddenly watching Magnolia or Amelie or Pushing Daisies rather than Benjamin Button.

And yes, random circumstance that depends on other random circumstance is one way way the world works - but the stylistic way of depicting that series of circumstances is a filmmaking choice that was basically arbitrary in this film, because it wasn't consistent with the rest of the filmmaking choices in the film. It's not that I didn't like the events happening like that, but Benjamin had not previously shown himself to be that sort of storyteller, so for him to all of a sudden choose to tell the events leading up the accident in that manner was out of character.

Jandy I played the demo of Braid and loved it, but I have yet to lose my Arcade virginity. If there were any Arcade games I'd fork over $$ for, though, it'd be that one. Maybe I'll do it one of these days.

Jandy I think I beat Bioshock in a week, but I had it as a rental and played on easy difficulty just to get through the story faster. You should definitely play it sometime, though - price for it used is probably coming down by now.

No, I hate survival horror kind of games. HATE. So I've avoided Dead Space, Condemned, all of those ones.

Jandy Wow, you've seen them a lot! I don't know why I wasn't feeling them when I saw them with SP. Next time they play around here, I'm definitely going.

Jandy Heh, "a Sound." I like that. And it's true. It took me months to like anything by Bishop Allen other than "Butterfly Nets." They're a bit of an acquired taste.

You're a Tegan and Sara fan, right? An Horse toured with them a bit; I think it was kinda their first big break. Interesting factoid.

Jandy Thanks, I try! I was basically just like "lead up to terror, terror, aftermath of terror." Fun to do and made it work with the music better. ;)

Jandy You're right on three of them! Three of them you're making up. :) Good guesses, though, even on those.

Jandy Yeah, Altair's falls are definitely more graceful. And have better camera work. :-) Still, definitely similar. Great game, isn't it? A bit repetitive, but climbing and jumping all over everything was effortless and awesome every time.