Renaissance, Into the Wild, & In the Loop

Renaissance is an animated film about a future Paris, where a large company controls everything, and a cop starts to investigate a kidnapping of a researcher, and eventually gets involved in crazy genetic experiments and weirdness. The animation is very stylish, but the plot is nonsensical. It's kind of like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: occasionally pretty, but mostly not worth the money spent on it. How they got Daniel Craig, Ian Holm, Romola Garai, Catherine McCormack, Jonathan Pryce, and Sean Pertwee in it, I have to imagine it was only about the money.

Into the Wild is a pretty film, and depressing as hell. I somehow never knew Christopher McCandless's story, so I really didn't expect the ending, at least, not until I started to pick up on the foreshadowing. Also, Kristen Stewart may be the least expressive actress in years. Just a terrible actress. Emile Hirsch, however, helps anchor the film.

In the Loop is a gloriously profane and awesome film. I wish that The Thick of It were available on DVD in the US. Because I want to spend much more time with Malcolm Tucker. Another depressing film, although in a much bigger fashion than Into the Wild, a personal tragedy rather than the destruction of American moral superiority that was the completely trumped up war. See this film.