TurquoiseB wrote: > No copies of the last episode "Epitaph Two: Return" > have showed up on the torrent trackers or any of > the streaming sites, so I checked the IMDB again and > the "play date" seems to have been shifted back a > week to next Friday. Sigh. > > So, to amuse myself while waiting for the last epi- > sode, I'll dash off a quick review of the series as > a whole. This assumes that the final episode is as > good as the previous ones, which I think is a fair > assumption. Besides, this is just for fun... :-) > > Overall, my assessment of "Dollhouse" the TV series is: > > 1. One of the best science fiction TV series or movies > ever made. 26 hours of mind-stretching imagineering. > Fuckin' brilliant. > > 2. Not everybody's cuppa tea. > > 3. I don't know yet. > > Re Door Number One above, I think that "Dollhouse" > stands easily alongside "Firefly/Serenity," but also > easily alongside the masterpieces of SciFiCinema. I > am SO grateful that FOX -- money-grubbing, clueless > bastards that they are -- gave Joss the opportunity > (and the money) to finish the series (to some extent). > I honestly believe that in future years it will be > seen as incredibly visionary and incredibly masterful. > > Door Number Two has to do with the fact that "Dollhouse" > pushes buttons. It deals with issues like sex and ethics > and sex and the abuse of technology and sex and What Is > Identity? and sex and Who The Fuck Am I, Anyway? and sex. > These are not comfortable subjects for many, many people. > > Door Number Three is really why I think it's cool. There > are episodes of "Dollhouse" that I have seen seven times > now. I've *studied* them, the way a scholar would, to > try to figure out why they knocked my socks off. And you > know what? Not only did they not get "old" with subse- > quent re-viewings, they got better. So I expect them > to get better in the future as well, and thus to learn > even more from them. > > If you've got 26 hours of the incarnation to invest, you > could do a lot worse than to invest them in "Dollhouse."
First off, I liked "Thirst" which is a fine dark comedy. Great recommendation. Everything about the film was superb especially the direction, editing and cinematography. I was thinking of how Hollywood would ruin this in a remake but then was reminded of my favorite vampire comedy "The Vampire's Kiss" with Nicholas Cage running down the streets of New York screaming "I'm a vampire!" and nobody noticing him. Perhaps "Thirst" was a little bit inspired by that movie (and maybe a little by Charlene Harris). "Dollhouse" was pre-empted by the Haiti telethon that ran on all the networks. It will finish up next Friday. I have my own spoof on "Dollhouse" called "Dullhorse" about a Hollywood producer, James Dullhorse, who keeps searching for a muse to get his lagging TV series off the ground and all he can find is beings imprinted as false muses that make his situation worse. His series is about a South American dictator, "Paco Lipz", who threatens the world with destruction. Actually I think you would like Neveldine and Taylor's films so if you come across "Gamer" you might want to check it out if for anything to see "Dexter" with a southern accent and sniffing quirk not to mention Amber Valletta. And you would probably like "Crank" and "Crank 2" for similar irreverence (right up your alley).
