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todayiamadaisy) wrote2011-01-10 11:55 am
todayiamadaisy) wrote2011-01-10 11:55 am
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My Concrete Enrolment
There is a show here, and I use the word 'show' loosely because it only goes for a minute, called Crimestoppers. Now it's all security camera footage, but it used to have terrible actors (so terrible I suspect they may not actually have been actors, but regular people chosen because they looked vaguely like the real people) re-enact recent crimes hoping to jog the memory of someone who may have seen something. I'm sure you've seen the same sort of thing, probably even called Crimestoppers. The Crimestoppers catchphrase used to be 'Help put the finger on crime!' and as the voiceover man said that, a giant finger would come down and accost a man dressed as a burglar, pinning him wriggling to the ground like an insect in a display case. If I ever find myself in charge of a television network I will make a list of my favourite small TV moments that will be played as filler when needed. The crimestopping finger will be one of them.
A few years ago I watched the remake of Psycho with Vince Vaughan. I mean, I didn't watch it with him, obviously. I watched it with him in it. But you knew that. If you've not seen it, it's not a re-imagining or an update or anything like that. It's a shot-by-shot re-enactment of the original. I had the strangest feeling watching it. No matter how rubbish a film is, I am normally happy to go along with the idea that the characters actually are people and they're doing these things, even if what they're doing is unbelievably stupid. But watching the Psycho remake felt like watching Crimestoppers because I knew it wasn't real.
Last night I watched the Robert Downey Jr Sherlock Holmes. It was... it was like watching Crimestoppers. I had the same feeling as when I watched the Psycho remake. Or when you see a film about a film being made, and the the film-within-the-film is ridiculous (and now Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, will duel with pistols!). This was like watching the film-within-a-film, in that you could tell it was a film. Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy it, because I did, sort of. I liked Jude Law in it, which is a first.
Also: a horse bicycle.
A few years ago I watched the remake of Psycho with Vince Vaughan. I mean, I didn't watch it with him, obviously. I watched it with him in it. But you knew that. If you've not seen it, it's not a re-imagining or an update or anything like that. It's a shot-by-shot re-enactment of the original. I had the strangest feeling watching it. No matter how rubbish a film is, I am normally happy to go along with the idea that the characters actually are people and they're doing these things, even if what they're doing is unbelievably stupid. But watching the Psycho remake felt like watching Crimestoppers because I knew it wasn't real.
Last night I watched the Robert Downey Jr Sherlock Holmes. It was... it was like watching Crimestoppers. I had the same feeling as when I watched the Psycho remake. Or when you see a film about a film being made, and the the film-within-the-film is ridiculous (and now Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, will duel with pistols!). This was like watching the film-within-a-film, in that you could tell it was a film. Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy it, because I did, sort of. I liked Jude Law in it, which is a first.
Also: a horse bicycle.