In the Library: Levana, Luna and Lightcycles!
**disclaimer- this is a pretty old post I never got around to posting due to being busy, and I finally sucked it up and just finished up this post.
My dad and I have been watching more movies over the summer, and recently we watched Tron: Legacy. I'll be reviewing that movie first, and just seeing how the rest of this post flows.
The movie isn't very original. The plot is pretty bland, the characters aren't that well thought out- but there's something intriguing about the movie all the same. The music is Daft Punk at it's finest, the graphics set the scene perfectly... I loved this movie.
Don't go into this thinking, I hate cyberpunk and futuristic styled movies, and this movie, since Indigo rates it so high, is the absolute thing against which to judge all science fiction movies and if it sucks, I have the right to diss the cyberpunk culture in general. Nope. This is pretty unrealistic, it's bland, as I've said... but it's got a certain something about it, that makes it a wonderful watch. It has the style of a music video, almost, and I could see myself rewatching it just for the music; but the world adds so much.
This movie is a fast paced dash through a sinister world, a mixture of neon and darker shades. There's little original content, but what content there is catches your eye and is hard to let go of.
I watched this movie over two nights, starting it on one and watching about three fourths, and finishing the last fourth the next night. In the time between, I continued in my cyberpunkian vein with a reading of Winter by Marissa Meyer, in the Cinder series (which was written at least partially for Nanowrimo. SQUEE! Just some more inspiration for 70,000 words I want to go for this November...)
"Winter" was incredible. It brought together all of the loose strings of the series and brought them to a stunning conclusion. While still staying true to the characters, I also felt like they blossomed into their skills.
Winter begins with the new addition to the set of main characters, Winter, stuck in the the white-walled Lunar palace, playing a delicate game of intricacies and subtle threats. Scarlet is stuck in the zoo, being gawked at and taunted by Lunars with only a wolf for company. Cinder, Iko, Kai, Wolf, Cress and Thorne are holding onto a semblance of normalcy as they work out the last kinks in their plan. Though their time on the Rampion is one of relative happiness, Cinder worries that the outcome of their rebellion will not be a good one, that her plans won't work... even wishing just to stay in her little secluded bubble of happiness.
Cinder is right in a respect. Her plans start out going smoothly, but soon fall to pieces, with the group becoming seperated. Chaos insues, and the reader barely has time to think as they're pulled along on a wild ride. Though the plot twists and turns seem so abrupt and shocking you almost think even the author didn't know where they were coming from, you can see the hints of the fairy tale undertones that make the story so layered.
You'll notice, if you've read the Cinder chronicles and watched Tron, they're both quite different, but still are all classified as cyberpunk (at least in my book).
More on the classifications in the next post, because otherwise this is going to be hecka long.
My dad and I have been watching more movies over the summer, and recently we watched Tron: Legacy. I'll be reviewing that movie first, and just seeing how the rest of this post flows.
The movie isn't very original. The plot is pretty bland, the characters aren't that well thought out- but there's something intriguing about the movie all the same. The music is Daft Punk at it's finest, the graphics set the scene perfectly... I loved this movie.
Don't go into this thinking, I hate cyberpunk and futuristic styled movies, and this movie, since Indigo rates it so high, is the absolute thing against which to judge all science fiction movies and if it sucks, I have the right to diss the cyberpunk culture in general. Nope. This is pretty unrealistic, it's bland, as I've said... but it's got a certain something about it, that makes it a wonderful watch. It has the style of a music video, almost, and I could see myself rewatching it just for the music; but the world adds so much.
This movie is a fast paced dash through a sinister world, a mixture of neon and darker shades. There's little original content, but what content there is catches your eye and is hard to let go of.
I watched this movie over two nights, starting it on one and watching about three fourths, and finishing the last fourth the next night. In the time between, I continued in my cyberpunkian vein with a reading of Winter by Marissa Meyer, in the Cinder series (which was written at least partially for Nanowrimo. SQUEE! Just some more inspiration for 70,000 words I want to go for this November...)
"Winter" was incredible. It brought together all of the loose strings of the series and brought them to a stunning conclusion. While still staying true to the characters, I also felt like they blossomed into their skills.
Winter begins with the new addition to the set of main characters, Winter, stuck in the the white-walled Lunar palace, playing a delicate game of intricacies and subtle threats. Scarlet is stuck in the zoo, being gawked at and taunted by Lunars with only a wolf for company. Cinder, Iko, Kai, Wolf, Cress and Thorne are holding onto a semblance of normalcy as they work out the last kinks in their plan. Though their time on the Rampion is one of relative happiness, Cinder worries that the outcome of their rebellion will not be a good one, that her plans won't work... even wishing just to stay in her little secluded bubble of happiness.
Cinder is right in a respect. Her plans start out going smoothly, but soon fall to pieces, with the group becoming seperated. Chaos insues, and the reader barely has time to think as they're pulled along on a wild ride. Though the plot twists and turns seem so abrupt and shocking you almost think even the author didn't know where they were coming from, you can see the hints of the fairy tale undertones that make the story so layered.
You'll notice, if you've read the Cinder chronicles and watched Tron, they're both quite different, but still are all classified as cyberpunk (at least in my book).
More on the classifications in the next post, because otherwise this is going to be hecka long.
Oh my goodness, you ish-reviewed the Lunar Chronicles! Squeeeeee yay, fellow book blogger! (Heh. I'm a bit overexcited.)
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