This week is going to be a celebration of dark depressing movies with sci-fi themes where it is always raining and dystopia is the enforced zoning code. These movies are influenced by German Expressionist cinema, Graphic Novel style comics and 40' Film Noir. Then on Thursday morning I'll post my review of The Matrix Reloaded.
Just of the top of my head my favorite trench coat clad movies are
Metropolis (Lang)
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Dark City
Metropolis (Tezuka)
Blade Runner
Nosferatu
The Matrix
Cowboy Bebop
Johnny Mnemonic
New Rose Hotel
Blade
The Crow
The Big O
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Jin Ron
Neo Tokyo
The Killer
A Better Tomorrow
The City of Lost Children
One might be so bold as to call them. "Columbinesque" ( I am so going to hell. )
well, let's see how many off that list i've seen...um...just 7! heh...but i loved all the ones i HAVE seen...so maybe i'll check out the rest ;)
Do you mean "The City of Lost Children"?
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112682
I think anything with Keanu Reeves *the matrix is exempt because by some miracle he's actually kinda good in it* but anything with him in it, should be taken off the list. I can't watch his movies without laughing my ass off because he's so.. bad. And I feel that detracts from the depression/film noir factor. Just a thought...
Jake, no one, and I mean NO ONE is Adam Beach. I can't believe that you referenced him and Keanu "Dude" Reeves in the same sentence. I mean, who in modern day cimema could pull off what he did in Windtalkers. I think the acting risk he took in portraying a Navajo in WWII when he's NOT Navajo was tremendous, but what really got me was the part where he switches from Navajo to Japanese and then back to Navajo and made it so believeable. I wish more actors would take those kinds of risks in their works. Whoever thought of that is a frickin' genius! *For those of you unaware, Adam Beach is the hottest man on the planet. And he really can act, Windtalkers was just a crappy movie, with a skewed sense of direction. I don't recommend that anyone watch it, unless you buy into stereotypes and like explosions.*
I love Tezuka's Metropolis. For those of you who want to know, Dark Horse translated the origonal manga. Picked it up while I was in LA. So if you want to see how Tezuka's story compares to what Rintaro and Otomo did with it, I suggest you take a look.