colin sproule :-);-)

This post is a lit­tle overdue!

I was caught up in the awe­some­ness of the Cal­gary Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val and a cou­ple mid­night show­ings in a row made it dif­fi­cult to choose blog­ging over sleep. Just to put a pin in it here are my quick thoughts on the other films I saw:

Art & Copy

Over­all I found not hav­ing much back­ground on the movers and shak­ers in the adver­tis­ing indus­try I lost inter­est quickly. This film was less on adver­tis­ing and more inter­views with peo­ple that ran big agen­cies. I also found the exten­sive stock footage of a cityscapes and a rocket ship launch site almost unbear­able at the end.

Rat­ing: meh.

Day­break­ers

This is a straight up pop­corn flick. Check your brain at the door and you can enjoy this. I strug­gled too long grasp­ing at facts and not­ing plot holes. I really loved the con­cept and it could have made for a com­pletely dif­fer­ent movie but over­all it was pretty enter­tain­ing. Willem Dafoe speaks strictly in ter­ri­ble one lin­ers and there is an insanely ridicu­lous slow-mo vam­pire feed­ing frenzy that had the entire the­atre bust­ing a gut.

Rat­ing: fun

Gigan­tic

I won’t say much because I greatly dis­liked this movie. There were some clever parts and inter­est­ing char­ac­ters but the story has lit­tle going for it and there is an unnec­es­sary side story that I am still unable to find an expla­na­tion for. I was con­fused and when it ended wanted answers that don’t seem to exist.

Rat­ing: wtf?

Vam­pire Girl vs Franken­stein Girl

Hah! gotta love the over the top ridicu­lous non­sen­si­cal gore. There was all sorts of hilar­i­ous and offen­sive stuff in this flick. You’ll love it or hate it.

Rat­ing: offen­sively hilarious

That’s a Wrap!

The fes­ti­val was great fun this year. It’s hard to remem­ber but it seemed fairly well attended in com­par­i­son to pre­vi­ous years, but I have noth­ing to back that up with. Hard to believe the Fes­ti­val is 10 years old now!