Do animals talk in this dimension?

[sovay]

I had been looking forward for several months to tonight's screening of Scarred Hearts (Inimi cicatrizate, 2016) at the HFA, but at the last minute I decided that perhaps I did not actually feel like watching a movie about being chronically-terminally ill in the face of rising fascism and instead spatch and I walked to the Brattle Theatre and saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).

I'm delighted we did. It was great. The visuals were as excellent as promised and the storytelling just as strong. I may or may not write up it properly whenever my ability to think returns, but it was definitely a better choice than TB and World War II.

Comments

[sholio]

Into the Spider-Verse was such fun! I didn't see it until just about a month or so ago, and I really loved it.

[cyphomandra]

I really liked this! To the extent that we were 2/3rds through before I realised that the air con wasn’t working, and it was super muggy :D Such a solid, well characterised story, and the art was fantastic.

[umadoshi]

Into the Spider-Verse is pure magic. *^^* I'm glad you went and saw it.

[rmc28]

It's such a delight; I intermittently have the soundtrack on repeat.

[kore]

I loved that movie! It was such a great example of what CGI CAN do. I even got the artbook, which has a lot of great concept sketches in it.

[asakiyume]

So glad you enjoyed it! I thought it was a lot of fun.

[moon_custafer]

Max Blecher and Scarred Hearts must be one of those “notice a character actor and suddenly they’re everywhere” situations – I came across mention of the writer two weeks ago, AFAIK for the first time, while googling “spinal tuberculosis.”

[larryhammer]

It is indeed tons of fun. Finally saw it when it reached Netflix last month, and would love to watch it again.

"Nice haircut."

[starlady]

The best American animated movie of this century by such a large margin--it was beyond refreshing to see people in this country finally realize that animation is a medium that can be used to do other things than mimic live action realism. And everything else about it is amazing too.

[ranalore]

I love that movie. It is, in my opinion, the only Spider-Man movie that ever needed--or needs--to be made.

[a_reasonable_man]

I'm glad you saw it! I found myself googling a lot of stuff afterwards, and I found a pretty plausible fan theory that Peter B. Parker is actually "our" Spiderman--that is, the one from "our" universe.

By the way, the B. apparently stands for Benjamin. Also, although I didn't notice it, some people caught that at the flash image of this Peter's wedding to Mary Jane, he steps on a glass. Hmmmm ....

[rinue]

I loved Into the Spider-Verse! I did not expect to, because I have not liked other recent comic book movies much, but I found it completely delightful in every aspect - storytelling, performance, visuals.

There is a song on the soundtrack with the refrain "I gotta elevate" but Ciro and I both hear this as "I got a elephant" which is an excellent brag we now use all the time.