Review: Green Lantern

"Green Lantern" is the new DC Superhero to hit the big screen. The film is directed by Martin Campbell who did two of the best James bond films in the past two decades "Goldendeye" and "Casino Royale". It stars Van Wilder, that Gossip Girl girl, Andy Dufresne, McLovins Dad and Peter Sarsgaard. I have never read a Green Lantern comic and am quite unfamiliar with the character thus I was interested in the film in that I could go into it fresh without any preconceived notions.

Plot wise, Van Wilder gets a green power ring from a dying purple alien and makes giant Hot Wheels ramps to save people (seriously).


REASONS WHY THIS MOVIE WAS ALRIGHT:

1. The Effects- The CG suit looked pretty nifty as did some of outer space scenes. The make-up effects on Peter Skarsgaard were terrific once his head starting getting all Elephant Man style.


2. The Comedy- The jokes in this film I felt worked really well, and feel like there should have been more. It's an outlandish premise and Reynold's little comments on the ridiculousness of things helped ground the story and keep things less super cereal.

3. The Music- Standard good epic stuff that backs up the visuals here.

4. Peter Skarsgaard- The delivery of his lines is great. A great mix of creep and cheese. The most entertaining character in the whole film for sure.


REASONS WHY THIS MOVIE WAS NOT ALRIGHT:

1. The Plot- The movie does open well introducing the Green Lantern galactic world premise, but from there, dramatic tension, progression, and character development, what are those? pshhhhh idk look at this sweet green suit!

2. Blake Lively- Total babe fo sho. Acting......

3. Oa- The planet where the Green Lantern core hang out is called Oa. It's a planet with a bunch of purple and green stuff floating around bubbly shapes. It looks kinda cool, but is completely intangible and disconnecting. The characters don't interact with the environment at all, it's painfully obvious all the actors are just standing there performing their lines in front of a green screen. Where as such special effects spectacle films like The Lord of The Rings, we really get a sense of the location as a place that actually exists no matter how fantastic they are because the characters are crawling/climbing/interacting in it. On Oa everyone justs stands and floats around. It's very similar to the Star Wars Episode III syndrome of characters walking and talking in vast CGI hallways.

4. Supporting Characters- Tim Robbin's character is criminally underused. Within the scenes he does appear in, he's oddly comedic in his reactions and mannerisms. The "the ethnic friend with glasses" character was completely unnecessary, as Blake Lively's character should have just done all his scenes to further strengthen and develop the story between her and Hal. Peter Skarsgaard's scientist character Hector Hammond is the most poorly handled in the entire film. There is this back story between him, Hal and Blake but is skimmly and awkwardly handled. His progression into a bad guy is also sloppy.

5. Fun Level- A Green Lantern has a pretty sweet deal with the range of their power. They can create any physical object with their mind. You think, "hey that would be pretty sweet, I would cook me some French Toast, as I walk my dog and fly around at the same time". This does not happen. Lame.

6. Green Lantern Training- The alien Lanterns literally train Hal Jordan for two minutes and it's not even a montage. Not saying that a cheesy montage was necessary but it would have made more logical sense. Instead there are no prerequisite classes to become a Green Lantern. The ring just chooses you, and you'll be good to go with a two minute warm up and a couple of pro tips. Either way, it would have actually been cool to see a longer progression in Hal's skills as a Green Lantern, ya know, see him mess up, learn from his mistakes, improve, kick ass, that kind of thing. It just comes out way to rushed to have any sort of dramatic impact.

7. Sinestro and the Guardians- For being the smartest beings in the universe The Guardians were total dumbasses, I wanted to punch them in their big blue heads. Sinestro is just an illogical butt head. Also Sinestro... how does no one realize he's going to turn bad with a name like that. It's like if a character had the name Dr. Stana Destructro.

8. Parralax- For being the "big baddie" Parralax was missing a crucial part in getting the audience to be scared of him and raise the tension for the climactic duel with our hero. We see him sucking out a couple Green Lanterns souls but that's about it as far as him doing evil stuff. There are a lot of things we hear he does, but we are not shown. For a real impact to show how much of a threat this dude is; show him actually destroying a world and being a total evil asshole instead of all this "he said, she said" about him. Big Problem. Simple Fix.


Overall Green Lantern was a 300 million dollar missed opportunity. They had a lot of cool things in their pocket with over 70 years of publication history but failed to make a dynamic film in any sense. Despite my criticisms I did not entirely hate this film, I tried to have the best time I could with it, I only recommend this to kids and on Blu Ray once it comes out and you're wicked bored on a Tuesday night. If you want to see a good comic book movie this summer go see X-Men:First Class.

Boston Marathon Pics

New Haven Pics: raw

SUPERMOON!

thief

got a new camera. first official photo.

my REEL

RCRR Volume II

Tales of The Rocket City Rescue Rangers: Volume II from Daniel Alexander on Vimeo.

the return of The RCRR.

EPISODE I: THE FIRST ACT

The Last Actor: Episode I: The First Act from Daniel Alexander on Vimeo.

Senior thesis project of Dan Stebbins and Greg Gaskins at The Rochester Institute of Technology School of Film and Animation.





The pilot episode of a comedy web series taking place a few years in the near future where CG Animation has become photo-realistic.



Shot mostly in Rochester, NY. Shot mostly on Kodak 16mm Film.





Written and Directed by Daniel Alexander Stebbins

Editing and Compositing by Greg Gaskins

Cinematography by Drew Ganyer

Produced by Lindsey Timko

The Last Actor: DVD Sleeve

Wingdings mutha fuckaaaaaa

NYC Marathon

Was down in NYC over the weekend and saw 43,000 people run down the road. Was at the 9mile marker in Brooklyn.

The Island of Rhodes

So for the past three weeks I've been in our nations smallest state crewing on a feature. Here are some pics...

SportsZone: Do Stuff 4 Stuff Challenge

Check out this super segment for SportsZone last year about the Ultimate Do Stuff 4 Stuff Challenge at RIT. I shot the confessional interviews.

SportsZone: Do Stuff 4 Stuff Challenge from Justin Cady on Vimeo.

The Last Actor: Hamilton Street Riot

Hamilton Street Riot from Daniel Alexander on Vimeo.

For the intro sequence of my thesis The Last Actor we shot a riot out in front of my house.

This is the only take we did because we broke most of the props and people were pretty tired and bruised afterwards. Plus we had to rush to get back to campus to meet the bus for our Hockey team the RIT Tigers which made it to the Frozen Four for the first time.

Had tremendous fun filming it.

Review: Hard Boiled

Finally watched this 1992 Hong Kong action film by John Woo last night. John Woo is a maestro of mayhem and it shows to full effect and then some in Hard Boiled. Known by many people as one of the best action films ever made I can assure you that I am now among that collective. The film stars two of Hong Kong's biggest superstars; Chow Yun Fat who's been in Pirates 3 and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Tony Leung Chiu Wai who was in the Infernal Affairs trilogy which inspired The Departed.

The story takes place in Hong Kong in the early 90's, and what does that mean? The mutha fuckin Triads are out running the streets that's what, and they be up to no good shenanigans of course. These Triads are especially nasty weapons smugglers who just don't give a fart and will kill anyone in their way innocent or not. Hot on their tail from killing his partner in the first scene is clarinet playing police Officer "Tequila" Yuen played by Chow Yun-Fat. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai plays the other main character Alan who is an undercover cop deep within the Triad gang Tequila is tracking down. Thus....complications/oodles of bullets and explosions.



The two hours of havoc that unfolds on screen is some of the best captured on celluloid. With a body count of 307 I'm pretty positive more bullets were fired here than in Operation Desert Storm. What really ups the ante in the shootout scenes is the acrobatics by the main characters who are constantly jumping, sliding, ducking, weaving, dodging, and maneuvering through the given location. The physical locations are used like jungle gyms. It's over the top but in a realistic "people could actually do this shit" kind of way. There aren't matrix style stuff or even some of the extreme things Jackie Chan has been known to do. The level of reality to the stunts was kept consistent throughout which kept the film grounded and the suspension of disbelief not far to hold on to. I really enjoy this level of stunt work as a early twenty something viewer cuz in my mind I'm like "yeah, I could totally do that if I was in that situation, jump over that bar, shoot around the corner then run and slide across the floor while dual wielding shooting two dudes in opposite directions, totally, yeah!".

The other high point represented by the action is the beautiful use of practical effects; fiery explosions, squibs, gun shots and breaking glass. Everything used here looks a million times better than the CGI-filled action extravaganzas of today (lookin at you Stallone). The stuff that goes down is really a sight to be seen as it really is incredible how they filmed it. Numerous times actors are inches away from the fire of explosions or in many cases hit by the shrapnel of exploding walls and set pieces. The infamous hospital hallway shot is just fantastic. It's a 3 and a half minute single take of our two hero's blasting bad guys and dodging live explosions the whole way and interrupted in the middle by a clever elevator ride. The sense of danger is thick and tangible from the beginning tea house shoot out to the chaotic climax at the hospital.

Beyond all the action there are actually characters and pretty decent ones to boot. Both Tequila and Alan are quite charismatic and interesting to watch especially together. It's fun to watch Tequila go from thinking he's one of the bad guys, to being totally confused to eventually trusting him and working together. The supporting cast are all cop movie archetypes that transcend cultures and time. The mob boss who doesn't give a fuck, the hard ass police chief, and the innocent girl friend who wants her cop boy friend to settle down and retire from all the danger. They do their job fine and don't detract from the action and story. The only character I had a major problem with was the Bartender played by the Director John Woo. It was a lame attempt at putting in some philosophy and getting Tequila to talk about his feelings. I've grown to dislike the use of directors in cameo roles more and more in films, especially like here when they are the "voice of reason" or explain some essential aspect to the plot (also looking at you Shamylamy). I know you want to be "involved in the whole process of filmmaking" or whatever but common, just cast someone else. It's pretty simple, craigslist it if you need to. (Yes I admit I'm being hypocritical since I acted in my last film but that is something I'm definitely not going to do for a long time.)


Is this all gratuitous violence you ask? Maybe, maybe not. I've never been to Hong Kong though its on my list of places to go (very gorgeous setting with the glass towers next to the mountains surrounded by the sea, kind of like an Asian Rio de Janeiro...but i digress). This could very well be a true to life depiction of how conflicts roll over there between the Police and Triad. Why else would everyone learn martial arts? Tis a dangerous place and the only logical explanation. But beyond my silliness is all the violence in this film for the sake of being violent? Well lets just take into fact the incredibly high body count of 307. Now that's 307 confirmed kills from the good people over at Movie Body Counts dot com. In order to make it to that list you gotta be confirmed to be waiting for your toe tag not just a punch in the face. Thus many more people simply come away with flesh wounds and broken arms and such leading to about 200 more or so. One might say this is quite a lot, and that one would be perfectly justifiable in saying that but the point I'm trying to make is that Hong Kong had a population of 5.8 million people at the time of 1992 and one of the largest networks of gangs if not the highest at that particular time in the entire world THUS there would be A LOT of people involved in any big conflict between cops and the Triad. If this movie was set in backwoods Wyoming yeah it would be ridiculous, but here in Hong Kong it makes sense. Nevertheless is this gratuitous though? Without a doubt. Did all these people have to get mowed down in this film? No of course not. But with that, it would have been a very different film. I was going to say boring but retracted because with the same story with the two cops, one seeking revenge and the other deep undercover they could have crafted a nice little tale with lots of intricate tension. The bottom line is this film knows what it is and does gratuitous action and violence the best I've ever seen and asks for no apologies. It is what it is. And it is awesome.


I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of action films and over the top cinema. Definitely do not watch if you dislike violence/blood/subtitles.

Review: Flash Point (Dau Fo Sin)

Watched the Hong Kong martial arts film Flash Point today on Netflix instant watch. It stars Donnie Yen who's a super star in China for acting and stunt choreographing a slew of martial arts films as well as directing a hand full of them. The film takes place in Hong Kong during 1997 thus right before the handover to mainland China from British Authorities. If you were sleeping in History class this was a pretty big deal. What's important to note is that during this time there were a whole bunch of gangs doing gang things around Hong Kong. Keeping tried and true to the super cop genre of martial arts film our hero played by Donnie Yen is out to take down the bad guys while saving his partner in the process.

Here is the Americanized trailer with a really cheezey voice over:



Looks pretty sweet huh? Well ladies and gentlemen that would be the magic of movie trailers. Cut all the good stuff into a minute and a half. Nothing too cutting edge here. But lets break it down:

The Good: The highlight of this film is the seriously awesome fights. The choreography is the best you will see anywhere. As you can see in the trailer there are shots where Donnie really does punch dudes full contact in the face. Was that a camera trick or did he really just do that? I'm pretty sure he really did just do that, and that's what makes these fights sweet. I really enjoyed the realism conveyed instead of going the tired wire-fu route. When someone gets hit, you feel it. What's different about this martial arts films fights is the implementation of mixed martial arts by our hero. Here we see him fighting with elements of Judo, Jujitsu, Karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, Wushu, and Taekwondo. This creates some fresh fights to those who may be tired of the same old same old. The 8 min final fight between Donnie and Collin Chou is brutal as hell and well worth checking out by itself. It's on YouTube under a couple different things I saw but both had crappy Nu Metal overlayed on it and crappy video quality.

The Bad: I sometimes find that foreign films can hide their bad acting through me just not being able to understand what they are saying. Here is not the case at all. How all of the characters deliver their dialog is pure cheese whiz. I don't know if it was just a bad translation for the subtitles but what they were actually saying was wicked lame. The story is silly and hard to follow for the first hour. Even beyond the cliche story and bad acting is that the fights are few and far between. All the good parts are crammed into the trailer. The rest is pretty boring.

I only recommend this to people who enjoy martial arts films. Other than the fights it has nothing cool/interesting/cinematically noteworthy to offer. Check it out on Netflix instant watch and just fast forward to them.

Genre Shorts on Vimeo

Inspired by Piranha 3D I made a new "Channel" on Vimeo to showcase short films in the horror, sci-fi, fantasy and action genres. It's called "Genre Shorts".

There were some other channels and groups that dealt exclusivly with sci-fi or horror but I want this one to really be open to anything heavily influenced by one genre or the other, or a mixture of any of them. If you have any films yourself or find any while browsing vimeo put a comment in the shoutbox and i'll put them on. vimeo.com/channels/genreshorts

Review: Piranha 3D

Went and saw Piranha 3D yesterday afternoon high on junior mints and sour patch kids.

The film is directed by my favorite modern horror director Alexandre Aja. If you haven't seen his film High Tension stop reading this review and go see it. Its so intense and well shot, superb horror. The film stars Marty McFly's girlfriend, Tom Cruises black friend, some kid, Will Ferrell's mean brother Derek, Matt Hooper, a pornstar, and mutha fuckin Doc Brown!


What a movie this was. As stated in interviews with Aja during the films development and leading up to its release he wanted to make a film he would want to see as a 13 year old kid. The kind of movie you're parents wouldn't want you to see. The kind of movie you would have to sneak into the theatre or get your older sibling to buy you tickets to see. The kind of movie you rent from the video store and watch with all your friends on a Saturday night. And by god he did exactly that. I remember as a kid and early teen my favorite movies to rent were horror and creature features, Friday the 13th, Children of the Corn and other movies based on Stephen King, Carnasaur (hell yeah bitches!), The Birds, Aliens, Arachnophobia, and of course the Baconfest Tremors. That was my bread and butter. People getting eaten by animals is just entertaining. I really can't explain it. It just is. I still like watching all the SyFy original movies in the genre. Just watched Lake Placid 3 the other night, absolutely terrible yes, but still entertaining enough. Now we have Piranha 3D which stays true to all the cliche's of the creature feature genre with great talent behind and in front of the camera. What does that make? A bloody fun ride that's what.

The film starts out with a fantastic cameo by Richard Dreyfus playing the same role he did in Jaws. Minding his own business and fishing out in the middle of the lake a tremor occurs and breaks open a gap at the bottom of the lake. What comes out of that gap you ask? Sharks? No. Octopuses? No. Sharktopuses? No. Piranhas, and lot's of them. You can guess what happens to our old fisherman. It rhymes with "sweeten arrive". We are then introduced to our main characters, Elisabeth Shue as the tough Sheriff of the Lake Town Julie Forester, her son Jake the 17 year old kid trying to get the girl Kelly who has the overbearing jock boyfriend, and Jerry O'Connell as the Girls Gone Wild inspired entrepreneur Derrick Jones of Wild Wild Girls along with his posse of scantily clad ladies. We see that it's spring break in our little lake side town and shit is going crazy, lots of college kids here to party. The lake is littered with boats as it looks like one of those floating trash islands but only with 100,000 thousand dollar speed boats and bikinis. Sheriff Julie Forester tells her son Jake to stay away from the festivities as he must baby sit his two cute as a button precocious kid siblings all weekend because she'll be busy patrolling the college kids. Jake then encounters Jerry O'Connel and his ladies and is enlisted to be a location scout for his Wild Wild Girls movie. Guess what he chooses to do... Then of course the shit starts to hit the fan. And by shit I mean lots of Piranhas and lots of eating.

Sound familiar? Yeah of course, it's Jaws, but in a lake with Piranhas. The creature feature genre has tried and true elements that this film again adhere's to. Small town, big event, an over worried sheriff, teenagers who don't give a fuck, cute little kids, out of towner scientists, and something that wants to eat them all. These are just the basic ingredients. Sure all pizza's are essentially dough, sauce, cheese and toppings, but it's how you put them together and how you bake it is where the magic comes out. Here is where you have all those essential horror elements but constructed in a way that still keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. You know the rules of the game, and this film delivers and then some. What takes this film above you're general creature features and made for SyFy movies is that you can see the love and work put into it, and the tone is spot on where everyone is having fun with the genre expectations.

The gore displayed on screen here ridiculous and gnarly. Viewer be seriously warned. Definitely NOT for the kids. Definitely NOT for the squeamish. The 3D is used well to display the schlock onscreen very similarly to My Bloody Valentine 3D. It's not trying to be an "immersing experience" to draw you into the story. It's exploitation through and throughout and having a blast with the medium.

It's a sad day in America when you see a rated R horror film today that does not have any nudity. The recent Friday the 13th remake had a decent amount which was one of the only good things going for it. This film more than makes up for all the wussy horror films of the past decade. There is an nude underwater ballet sequence between the gorgeous English model Kelly Brook and American adult film star Riley Steele that is well worth the price of admission for any male or lesbian or anyone who really just appreciates good underwater cinematography.

Really this is only enjoyable on a "brain turned off" level. The main problem here is that the best characters are not the main ones. We have the two most engaging characters of the overacted soft core porn director Jerry O'Connel and his mysterious lady played by Kelly Brooke, and then the wonderful cameo's by Christopher Lloyd and Richard Dreyfuss. Adam Scots character of Novak is a pretty cool guy as a seismologist who was definitely underused. His delivery throughout brought a good "matter of fact"ness to the entire film. Our three leads of Jack, his mother, and Kelly are pretty boring and one note. It would have been nice to see some more range and depth with them. The other main problem I had with the film was the ending. It really just pissed me off. I won't spoil it, but it pretty much just ends the movie at the exact moment after Plot Point Two. Plus the ending shot is in all the TV spots so you see it coming. Stupid Stupid Stupid.


By far the best thing about this movie is seeing Christopher Lloyd on the big screen. It's really physically impossible not to smile as he delivers his lines during his couple scenes in this film. He's like you're favorite Uncle who's full of crazy stories and is a blast to listen to. Though I wish he was in the film a little more it was just cool as hell seeing him as a raving scientist. (fun fact: they are going to re-release Back to the Future in theatres this October for its 25th Anniversary!)

If you like creature features this is a must see. If you can't deal with boat loads of gore take a rain check. It's a bloody fun ride from beginning to end with some definite flaws. Go with some buddies and drink some beers before you go and you'll have a wicked swell time.

Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World last night second last night in my double feature theatre viewing. The film is directed by Edgar Wright who you may know from directing two most rad British films Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz. This film stars the skinny Superbad kid, John McClanes daughter, Superman, the Home Alone kids brother, and Max Fischer. If you don't get all these references, congratulations you are not a total film nerd and have a life.

The film follows the titular character of Scott Pilgrim, 22 year old bass player of three piece rock band Sex Bob-omb. He's you're average slacker who's between jobs and between girlfriends living in the frozen tundra of Toronto Canada. The story kicks off as he falls for the girl of his dreams, who in fact is the girl of his dreams, Romona Flowers and must defeat her Seven Evil Exes. He does this and learns some stuff too along the way in this highly kinetic coming of age story.



This movie freaking rocked. Here is everything that is awesome about in no particular order.

The Characters: A lot of people criticize Michael Cera for playing the same character in ever film. He's a 22 year old skinny white kid from Canada. What more do you want? The next team member of The Expendables? No. For better or worst he is essentially the face of a generation of shy awkward nerds across this land. But as Scott Pilgrim he really isn't that character. On the surface he looks at sounds the same as ever but most importantly he's not the same on the inside, he's not shy around girls, is proactive and can rock. Scott's love interests are played quite well by Ellen Wong who plays his initial 17 year old girl friend Knives Chau and Mary Elisabeth Winstead as the girl of his dreams Ramona Flowers. Both do a really good job at two completely different female characters. A big highlight of the film is the fantastic supporting cast. Some of the shining stars are Jason Schwartszman as the delightfully smarmy Gideon Gordon Graves, Kieren Culkin as Scott's sardonic roommate Wallace Wells, Aubrey Plaza as the "girl with issues" Julie Powers, Alison Pill as the deadpan drummer of Sex Bob-omb Kim Pine, Brandon Routh as the vegan bassist Todd Ingram, and honestly I could list everyone else in this cast as they all did a rocking job.

The Story: What really made this film work was that It would still be fully entertaining and interesting to watch all these characters in this story without all the fights. The fights are just icing on the cake, very excellent funfetti icing. The core of the film is about a guy falling in love and taking over whatever obstacles outward and inward which involve defeating Ramona's seven evil Exes in your typical progression into the ultimate boss fight at the end. It's really one of the oldest stories in the book: Boy Meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy must do "x" to attain girl. But what makes Scott Pilgrim special is the video game presentation of it all with the spot on characterization of today's youth and culture.

The Writing: Insanely quotable.

The Fights: This was a huge step in the right direction for fights on film. Some of the most pure fun fight scenes to watch in any film. They were vivid, excellently choreographed, and most importantly inventive. Too often you see the same old stuff over and over again, for a recent example The Expendables. Yes, they were well done and fun to watch. But really, how many different ways can you punch a dude. Well Dan you can punch a dude that's on fire. Yeah but what I'm trying to say is this film cranked it up to a level not scene before using heavy video game influences infused throughout. It reminds me of this Jim Jarmusch quote (well it's kinda a quote within a quote):

"...don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”"

This really applies to everything about this film. It's a celebration of video games and garage band rock and roll. The other great thing about the fights in this film is that they are all different. It's similar to Bruce Lee's Game of Death and Tony Jaa's Tom Yung Goong where each of the hero's opponents throughout the film fight in a different style of martial arts. Here we have the Seven Evil Exes who are all have their different strengths and weaknesses. One of the most inventive fights is when Scott must defeat Ramona's only woman Ex. As like most guys he does not feel comfortable fighting a girl thus the fight that ensues is something truly original.





The Music: The soundtrack of both diegetic and non-diegetic songs are fantastic. What has the most resonance in my head and was the most enthralling to listen to was the songs played by Scott Pilgrim's band Sex Bob-omb. It was really cool and well done how the band performing was such an integral part of the story and Scott's development. The band even "battles" one of Ramona's Exes with its sound (you'll see) which was radtastic. Definitely see the film in a theatre with a good sound system. I didn't even find this out until after I saw the film but Beck wrote all the songs for Sex Bob-omb, so it's really no wonder why they are so awesome.

The Cinematography: Excellent job by Director of Photography Bill Pope who's known for such big films as The Matrix, Spider Man 2 and Team America: World Police. The world created for this film visually is really quite stunning.

The Editing: The transitions in this film are some of the best I've seen in any film. They move the film along at a really great pace. Some of the cuts were very jarring and totally disoriented me in time and space of the film, in a good way though as they drew me more into the world of the film.

The Directing: Simply put, Edgar Wright is the man. I have not read the graphic novel's by Bryan Lee O'Malley so cannot say if he did a good job adapting them or not. Nevertheless on a purely cinematic level this film worked on hyperdrive on all levels as described above. An amazing job from everyone on the film. High Fives to all.



I had an awesome time watching the film and am now very interested in checking out the graphic novels. If you have ever been in love, played video games, or like to rock and roll you'll love this film. This is a must see. It's amazing and by far my favorite film of the year.