Today, Nick wanted to go to Scarecrow and rent... something. We didn't know what. I ended up pulling up the list we maintain of Shit We Might Want To Rent; at the top was Rango.
We watched it.
What a *strange* movie. I'm really not sure who the people making it thought the target audience was. I'm really not sure they *cared* about it working for anyone but themselves; it feels like a movie made by film nerds, for film nerds. Like a Tarantino picture, you know? Except in the American West, with Johnny Depp as the voice of a chameleon who has no personality until he stumbles into a Role that needs someone to Play it.
And the thing is, it's so damn gorgeously made that after a while you're just like, okay, sure, we've kinda stumbled sideways into the plot of Chinatown, as played out by a bunch of scraggly desert animals, whatever, I'll roll with it.
Also the rattlesnake villain was super hot. The turtle villain who brought him into the story, not so much.
Today, Nick wanted to go to Scarecrow and rent... something. We didn't know what. I ended up pulling up the list we maintain of Shit We Might Want To Rent; at the top was Rango.
@anthracite Rango is so shockingly stylish for a "children's" movie
Today, Nick wanted to go to Scarecrow and rent... something. We didn't know what. I ended up pulling up the list we maintain of Shit We Might Want To Rent; at the top was Rango.
@lizardsquid I really don't think I'd be comfortable showing it to kids. It's... it's too full of grownup concerns. Too many references to have to fill in.
And this is coming from someone who would happily show a LOT of crazy stuff to a kid if she had one. I gave a friend's son a copy of L'Incal when he was on the cusp of puberty, ffs. Rango feels like it's going a place kids just should not be taken.
I kinda think that place might be the Jodorowsky references in it, tbh. Jodo For Kids should not be.