Opening Friday at Galaxy Cinema. Showtimes are 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, and 9:25.

7/10/2006 10:33:08 PM

Snappy. I'll try to see it on Friday, I suppose.

7/10/2006 11:40:59 PM

YAAAAY

this is gonna be sweet

7/10/2006 11:56:05 PM

http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/theater?id=1499&date=20060711

8pm showing

7/11/2006 11:03:27 AM

friday it is, ive been waiting a while, it damn well better be worth it

7/11/2006 6:21:06 PM

what a crazy fucking movie - very weird ending with a nice explanation though - i think the twist is kind of obvious though

7/12/2006 12:07:44 AM

k keep me updated on bjork film plz spookyjon

7/12/2006 10:15:11 PM

Quote :

"i think the twist is kind of obvious though "

they realize they're really cartoonish and not really real?

7/12/2006 10:15:49 PM

"woah"

7/12/2006 10:17:17 PM

I might have to go see it, when does it open wide?

7/12/2006 10:23:30 PM

http://wip.warnerbros.com/ascannerdarkly/releasedates.html

It's not a wide release.

[Edited on July 12, 2006 at 10:56 PM. Reason : .]

7/12/2006 10:33:35 PM

so i guess it's not gonna come to rocky mount then, huh? lol

7/12/2006 10:41:47 PM

Man, the reviews say it sucks but I will have to see for myself

7/12/2006 10:45:50 PM

Yeah, only a 64 on Rotten Tomatoes. Here's hoping it doesn't suck.

7/12/2006 10:47:41 PM

watch carefully - i think there are a few scenes where background images are still real and not "cartooned" - if you do drugs i think you'll appreciate it a lot more

7/13/2006 11:21:53 AM

I think they prefer the term "rotoscoped." It makes it sound more serious, aside from the fact that it's a completely different technique.

7/13/2006 11:24:18 AM

Ahahaha.

I'll post my thoughts after watching tonight. I'm really looking forward to it.

KEANU 4 LYFE, B.

7/13/2006 11:25:57 AM

If it's terrible, don't tell me. I've assembled a retinue for tomorrow and I don't want to have to disband it at the last minute.

[Edited on July 13, 2006 at 1:44 PM. Reason : .]

7/13/2006 1:43:59 PM

I'm awesome at lying.

That's what it says on my business cards, at least.

7/13/2006 2:55:46 PM

this movie looks like those stock market trader commercials

7/13/2006 3:03:31 PM

7/13/2006 3:05:55 PM

Quote :

"this movie looks like those stock market trader commercials"

no, those stupid commercials look like THIS movie, as well as Waking Life.

the commercials ripped off the movies

7/13/2006 3:30:40 PM

To be fair, it's not like Linklater invented rotoscoping.

The god-awful Lord of the Rings from 1978 was rotoscoped. And then they ran out of money like halfway through it. But they still made the movie.

7/13/2006 3:38:14 PM

[Edited on July 13, 2006 at 4:08 PM. Reason : wtf]

7/13/2006 3:47:03 PM

I really liked it. It kind of falls apart, but that's kind of the point. Robert Downey Jr. was highlarious.

7/14/2006 12:59:13 AM

oops

[Edited on July 14, 2006 at 12:38 PM. Reason : oops]

7/14/2006 12:38:08 PM

the colony had a free showing on this last wednesday. didn't care to go, it looks really damn boring after seeing the preview. i see nothing impressive in the little technique/gimmick they use either.

damn i'm cynical.

7/14/2006 12:46:02 PM

Quote :

"The god-awful Lord of the Rings from 1978 was rotoscoped. And then they ran out of money like halfway through it. But they still made the movie."

That movie is absolutely hilarious. It's about a million times better than the new LotR movies.

7/14/2006 1:21:02 PM

Quote :

"To be fair, it's not like Linklater invented rotoscoping. The god-awful Lord of the Rings from 1978 was rotoscoped. And then they ran out of money like halfway through it. But they still made the movie."

Linklater and a friend of his created RotoShop, the software that is used in the two movies and those commercials

And like always, the commercials are riding a trend

7/14/2006 2:04:08 PM

Max Fleischer invented rotoscoping, and Bob Sabiston programmed RotoShop.

Linklater just uses the techniques and tools.

[Edited on July 14, 2006 at 2:20 PM. Reason : .]

7/14/2006 2:18:40 PM

Damn, people.

KEANU IS BRINGING 'EM IN.

7/14/2006 7:37:40 PM

Quote :

"Smoking Car Productions invented a digital rotoscoping process in 1994 for the creation of its critically-acclaimed adventure game The Last Express. The process was awarded U.S. Patent 6061462: Digital Cartoon and Animation Process. Using a similar technique, Richard Linklater produced a digitally rotoscoped feature called Waking Life, creating a surreal image of live action footage, a technique which he also used in the production of the film A Scanner Darkly. Linklater licenced the same proprietary rotoscoping process for the look of both films. Linklater is the first director to use digital rotoscoping to create an entire feature film. Additionally, a 2005-06 advertising campaign by Charles Schwab uses rotoscoping for a series of television spots, under the tagline "Talk to Chuck." This distinctive look is the work of Bob Sabiston, an MIT Media Lab veteran who brought the same "interpolated rotoscoping" technique to the Richard Linklater films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope

7/14/2006 9:48:46 PM

Johnny fucking Utah.

What else do you need?

7/14/2006 10:15:44 PM

why isnt crossroads 20 showing the movie? they're fucking showing worse shit.

7/14/2006 10:30:58 PM

Because Crossroads is a mainstream theater and this is an independent movie.

7/14/2006 10:31:55 PM

Quote :

""In a Mirror, Darkly""

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/ENT/episode/9440.html

7/14/2006 10:32:42 PM

Quote :

"For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."

--1st Corinthians 13, b.

[Edited on July 14, 2006 at 10:36 PM. Reason : ]

7/14/2006 10:35:52 PM

i wouldnt have guessed the reference was that old

[Edited on July 14, 2006 at 10:39 PM. Reason : 234]

7/14/2006 10:39:45 PM

There was also an episode of Daria called "A Lens Darkly".

Yeah, I'm cool for knowing that.

7/14/2006 10:42:11 PM

^ I knew that. Daria still comes on the Noggin channel really late at night. Wow, I hate that I know that.

Also, not too bad, Linklater.

Although seeing that preview for The Science of Sleep makes me wish it were August already.

[Edited on July 15, 2006 at 12:54 AM. Reason : .]

7/15/2006 12:46:27 AM

I'm not trying to oversell it, seriously, but the Science trailer does not in any way do the film justice.

7/15/2006 12:56:04 AM

7/15/2006 12:56:36 AM

pretty good movie, i think it got the point across really well. and the science of sleep looks like a winner

7/15/2006 8:49:13 AM

Good movie. I thought it would be more about the Scanner and less about drugs, but whatever. Woody and Downey are hilarious. Good story, writing, and plot. The rotoscope technology has definately improved.

7/15/2006 10:47:43 AM

Very good film, but I think they let the ending slip.

Great use of live action backgrounds too. There were a bunch of times I was questioning whether the background was live action or rotoscoped.

7/15/2006 2:23:09 PM

^same here

when they were on the highway i couldn't tell with some of it, it was bloody amazing.

spoiler:
was the girlfriend actually in love with Arctor, or was she just trying to get close to him so she could be closer to Barris? You could tell that she liked him on some level, but i want to know how far that went.
/spoiler

the science of sleep looks fantastic too

7/15/2006 2:35:25 PM

I thought the ending was awesome. He gathered flowers for Donna just like the shrinks told him.

7/15/2006 2:37:37 PM

^ Exactly. I think they could've done more with the ending (made it a little more explicitly terminal), but it wasn't a bad way to end it at all.

^^ I think she cared more for him than she wanted to, really. She asked her fellow agent how Arctor was doing towards the end and seemed to have a sense of remorse for making an empty shell out of him. Though that could just be her job wearing on her, too.

7/15/2006 3:05:04 PM

I fell asleep a little bit during the middle of the film. It started to feel too much like "Waking Life" in how it was reveling in its coolness. The end really brought the film together for me and I really liked it. The animation was great. I love the art direction. The acting was great and the story was good as well.

7/15/2006 5:31:10 PM

We've got these livestrong-style bracelets they sent us that say things like doom, death, and desertion. If I were goth I would totally wear them.

7/15/2006 5:52:06 PM