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Dead Like Me movie
So I finally saw the Dead Like Me movie. I've had it sitting around to watch for basically forever, but the husband and I have been so busy during the school year -- he teaches, I attend -- that we didn't really have time for more than keeping up with the handful of shows we're still watching. Right now I have more time on my hands than he does, plus I sometimes like to draw with the TV on, so I gave up on waiting for him. XD
... and so, WTF. Seriously, WTF was that?
I was squeeful for about the first half-hour or so (and, ahahaha, the guy playing Cameron was the guy who plays Desmond on Lost, right? that was WEIRD) and then, slowly, my squee began to turn to sort of a mix of boredom and annoyance with a lot of WTF mixed in.
It ... had all the right ingredients, but they just didn't add up to much. There were neat moments scattered throughout, but so many MORE scenes that just dragged on and on, or completely missed the emotional boat, or went for humor and just belly-flopped ... I DON'T KNOW. *flappy hands*
There was a huge continuity hole, too -- whatever happened to not being able to talk to people from your previous life without forgetting things? That was a big deal in the series! And now suddenly George is having long conversations with Reggie without her brain getting swiss-cheesed? What? And that throws a giant monkey wrench in everything, because without the memory-loss problem, there's really no logical reason why she couldn't go ahead and establish a connection to her family again, as long as she could get them to believe her -- and Reggie obviously did! So then you have characters doing nonsensical things because the plot says so, which is especially annoying because the show already explained that issue, and then the movie goes and cocks it up. *vexes*
Other stuff -- I think one of my big sources of vexation with the movie was the general lack of interaction between the whole group. George was basically off doing her own thing for the whole movie, which made me sad! No team! The others did get a few cute bits (I will never not be a sucker for Roxy and Mason bonding, especially after the show referring to them explicitly as family) but spent a whole lot more time at odds or sort of not really being themselves or ... bonding over dismembering Cameron and setting him on fire.
....
.... yeah.
I like black humor, but there's black and then there's ... I mean, these are the good guys! And they're sort of a bunch of screw-ups, which is part of their charm, but they're generally well-meaning screw-ups. Horribly maiming someone who CAN'T DIE, dismembering him, setting him on fire and then shooting him into space -- you know, I really think that if they wanted to sell me on that whole sequence, they really needed to make Cameron a lot more evil than they did. He was dissolute and hedonistic and callous, but mostly what he did to them, what they were punishing him for, was nothing worse than giving them enough rope to hang themselves. I think he needed to be several orders of magnitude more evil in order to have me cheering about him being SET ON FIRE AND SHOT INTO SPACE while unable to die. True, we did FINALLY get some bonding between the team, but George wasn't really included in it, which makes me sad. (And slightly confused.)
I just wish we'd gone out on a high note, with more cute teamy bits and less, well, everything else. I don't think there was any part of the movie that I'm inclined to rewatch except a couple very short Mason and Roxy bits, and some snippets of the George and Dolores scenes. (And you know, even there I was frustrated with how they handled Dolores, because she's always been weird and silly and obsessed with her cat, but she kept coming off delusional and ludicrous instead of amusingly strange.)
ANYWAY. I was glad to see them again, but as far as the movie goes, I'm more glad it's over than squeeful and bouncy about it.
... and so, WTF. Seriously, WTF was that?
I was squeeful for about the first half-hour or so (and, ahahaha, the guy playing Cameron was the guy who plays Desmond on Lost, right? that was WEIRD) and then, slowly, my squee began to turn to sort of a mix of boredom and annoyance with a lot of WTF mixed in.
It ... had all the right ingredients, but they just didn't add up to much. There were neat moments scattered throughout, but so many MORE scenes that just dragged on and on, or completely missed the emotional boat, or went for humor and just belly-flopped ... I DON'T KNOW. *flappy hands*
There was a huge continuity hole, too -- whatever happened to not being able to talk to people from your previous life without forgetting things? That was a big deal in the series! And now suddenly George is having long conversations with Reggie without her brain getting swiss-cheesed? What? And that throws a giant monkey wrench in everything, because without the memory-loss problem, there's really no logical reason why she couldn't go ahead and establish a connection to her family again, as long as she could get them to believe her -- and Reggie obviously did! So then you have characters doing nonsensical things because the plot says so, which is especially annoying because the show already explained that issue, and then the movie goes and cocks it up. *vexes*
Other stuff -- I think one of my big sources of vexation with the movie was the general lack of interaction between the whole group. George was basically off doing her own thing for the whole movie, which made me sad! No team! The others did get a few cute bits (I will never not be a sucker for Roxy and Mason bonding, especially after the show referring to them explicitly as family) but spent a whole lot more time at odds or sort of not really being themselves or ... bonding over dismembering Cameron and setting him on fire.
....
.... yeah.
I like black humor, but there's black and then there's ... I mean, these are the good guys! And they're sort of a bunch of screw-ups, which is part of their charm, but they're generally well-meaning screw-ups. Horribly maiming someone who CAN'T DIE, dismembering him, setting him on fire and then shooting him into space -- you know, I really think that if they wanted to sell me on that whole sequence, they really needed to make Cameron a lot more evil than they did. He was dissolute and hedonistic and callous, but mostly what he did to them, what they were punishing him for, was nothing worse than giving them enough rope to hang themselves. I think he needed to be several orders of magnitude more evil in order to have me cheering about him being SET ON FIRE AND SHOT INTO SPACE while unable to die. True, we did FINALLY get some bonding between the team, but George wasn't really included in it, which makes me sad. (And slightly confused.)
I just wish we'd gone out on a high note, with more cute teamy bits and less, well, everything else. I don't think there was any part of the movie that I'm inclined to rewatch except a couple very short Mason and Roxy bits, and some snippets of the George and Dolores scenes. (And you know, even there I was frustrated with how they handled Dolores, because she's always been weird and silly and obsessed with her cat, but she kept coming off delusional and ludicrous instead of amusingly strange.)
ANYWAY. I was glad to see them again, but as far as the movie goes, I'm more glad it's over than squeeful and bouncy about it.
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Final analysis: Fun to watch - once. Not worth paying money for, or watching again.
However, watching the guy who played Desmond on Lost was kinda fun, and catching the occasional snippet of Callum Blue (Mason) currently playing a villain on Smallville is a bit of a mind-blower. He's all evil and I keep expecting him to come out with some adorable Mason-ism. And then he doesn't.
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I know! It took me about half the movie to be sure that it was actually the same actress and not a recast. Amazing how much difference a few years makes to a teenager.
And I'd forgotten that Callum Blue is on Smallville now! I remember seeing the casting news and wondering if it was worth it to catch an episode or two (I gave up on Smallville after about a season). Obviously, it wasn't. *g* But I'm happy that he's getting work.
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