ione skye in the retiring room with the firebrand!

saw Identity Saturday, which was actually pretty decent. the Cusack/Liotta thing was actually quite a good idea, and they played off of each other very nicely. was v. happy that the score (done by Alan Silvestri) knew when to pop up and when not to---i swear, as time goes on, i have less and less patience for overly intrusive, repetitive, obnoxious scoring. this was none of those things---and in fact, the coolest thing about it was that it not only wasn't repetitive, but it actually allowed large gaps for "natural" noises from the movie to occur. it wasn't constantly going in the background. 'twas very nice.

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what was established: everything we thought would happen did, but in a completely different way to how we had thought it. which was cool. perhaps not quite the grand headfuck they were intending, but it was still fairly interesting and not a waste of time or money, which is definitely more than i can say for a lot of things. XD the look of the film was really nice, too. ending felt a teensy bit rushed, and it's my understanding several different endings were shot in order to keep the actual ending secret. i also would bet this was the ending most positively responded to by test audiences. XD at any rate, i hope whatever alternate endings actually exist are put into an extras section when this gets released on home video & DVD.

overall, fairly decent. there was a trailer for Pirates of the Carribbean beforehand which made me start hearing bits of Leftfield's "Open Up" in my head, v. softly (O/~burn, Hollywood, burn...take down Tinseltown...) mostly cos there are some good people involved, but it really really looks like it's going to grate mightily. le sigh. i wish i wish Bruckheimer'd go away. >P thankfully Identity wasn't like that. it feels like it wasn't quite what was intended by the people who made it, but it wasn't bad, either.

(Cusack is beginning to show his age. is v. weird. he really kinda sorta has looked exactly the same for awhile now, hasn't he? it's not a bad thing, it's just kinda weird. XD)