Comic Book: the Movie
Jun. 21st, 2004 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laurierobeyJust finished watching Mark Hamill's Comic Book: The Movie. Let me preface this with, "If you've never been to a large convention before, you will find it more entertaining than if you have been to a large convention because quite a bit of time is spent just showing what a large convention is like." Having said that, I think this movie's primary audience is people who would go to conventions.
Now that that's over with...it's one hour and 47 minutes long. There were times I picked up the remote and fast-forwarded through the end of a scene that was dragging. But it was entertaining. The cameos are plentiful: Stan Lee, Ray Harryhausen, Matt Groening, Bruce Campbell (which I thought was one of the best parts of the movie), Kevin Smith, Peter Mayhew (which was awebitifying), and many others. Mark Hamill is definitely a "true fan." No one who hasn't experienced the comic/science fiction/fantasy/fantastic media from the side of both a fan and a producer could have made this movie the way he did. It's done as a mockumentary, but an affectionate one, and it even has a corny, heartfelt speech at the end. Not as laugh out loud funny as many times as This is Spinal Tap was, but still funny.
And Bruce Campbell's cool.
Now that that's over with...it's one hour and 47 minutes long. There were times I picked up the remote and fast-forwarded through the end of a scene that was dragging. But it was entertaining. The cameos are plentiful: Stan Lee, Ray Harryhausen, Matt Groening, Bruce Campbell (which I thought was one of the best parts of the movie), Kevin Smith, Peter Mayhew (which was awebitifying), and many others. Mark Hamill is definitely a "true fan." No one who hasn't experienced the comic/science fiction/fantasy/fantastic media from the side of both a fan and a producer could have made this movie the way he did. It's done as a mockumentary, but an affectionate one, and it even has a corny, heartfelt speech at the end. Not as laugh out loud funny as many times as This is Spinal Tap was, but still funny.
And Bruce Campbell's cool.
