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There Will Be WHAT?
Mar. 14th, 2010 09:56 am I spent yesterday afternoon in the fandom toilet, and goshdarnit I had a good time.
See, one of my favorite movies EVER is There Will Be Blood, so when I heard of a Nintendo-themed parody, I was obliged to check it out. Well, There Will Be Brawl has nothing to do with the film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, aside from that characters in both works get their heads bashed in. It's a lot more like Watchmen as filtered through the Nintendoverse-- complete with a few well-placed and deliberate shout-outs to the graphic novel. And it's brilliant. Seriously, this thing is well-scripted, well-acted, and has production values. I'd rather rewatch this than sit through a half-hour of any broadcast TV show I can think of right now. Sure, it's dark-- the makers are not kidding when they say that it's for those aged seventeen and up. It's gritty noir in which Our Heroes, most of whom aren't particularly heroic, drink, use drugs, have affairs, swear, beat one another up, and die horribly. But there is an actual plot-- three plot threads, all of which are actually resolved-- and it's clearly done out of the same perverse love that makes any of us write or re-read darkfic. If your fanboyism can stand to see your childhood favorites filtered through a black lens, and if you can recognize the likes of Jill Dozer, Barbara the Bat, and Saki from Sin and Punishment on sight-- watch it.
PS-- the Italian accents are so-so, but the Russian accents are brilliant. I've lived with native speakers of Russian and Ukrainian for years, and the syntax is spot-on. Everything that comes out of Fox's mouth is a riot.And Fox was awfully attractive for a furry....
PPS-- I swear to god, the characterization of Marth in Episode 10 is the closest I've seen to canon in any SSB-derived work that features him.
( Cut for spoiler if you're inclined to watch the thing.... )
See, one of my favorite movies EVER is There Will Be Blood, so when I heard of a Nintendo-themed parody, I was obliged to check it out. Well, There Will Be Brawl has nothing to do with the film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, aside from that characters in both works get their heads bashed in. It's a lot more like Watchmen as filtered through the Nintendoverse-- complete with a few well-placed and deliberate shout-outs to the graphic novel. And it's brilliant. Seriously, this thing is well-scripted, well-acted, and has production values. I'd rather rewatch this than sit through a half-hour of any broadcast TV show I can think of right now. Sure, it's dark-- the makers are not kidding when they say that it's for those aged seventeen and up. It's gritty noir in which Our Heroes, most of whom aren't particularly heroic, drink, use drugs, have affairs, swear, beat one another up, and die horribly. But there is an actual plot-- three plot threads, all of which are actually resolved-- and it's clearly done out of the same perverse love that makes any of us write or re-read darkfic. If your fanboyism can stand to see your childhood favorites filtered through a black lens, and if you can recognize the likes of Jill Dozer, Barbara the Bat, and Saki from Sin and Punishment on sight-- watch it.
PS-- the Italian accents are so-so, but the Russian accents are brilliant. I've lived with native speakers of Russian and Ukrainian for years, and the syntax is spot-on. Everything that comes out of Fox's mouth is a riot.
PPS-- I swear to god, the characterization of Marth in Episode 10 is the closest I've seen to canon in any SSB-derived work that features him.
( Cut for spoiler if you're inclined to watch the thing.... )
