proving you can't go wrong with retro
Catch Me If You Can, Speilberg's latest little film (and for once, you can actually describe a Speilberg film as little without watching pigs fly into the sunset) is a surprisingly good film. Particularly so when you consider it's come from Speilberg, who's stayed well away from the drama/comedy mix for a while, and even got pretty depressed (in a kinda saccharine, Speilberg way) with Minority Report and AI, which were pretty devoid of the usual Hollywood lightness.
But anyway, the opening titles rocked. Funky retro is a pretty safe bet, but these were particularly well conceived and animated. Almost worth checking out the film for them alone. That, and the surprisingly restrained acting from Hanks and DiCaprio.
It's the sort of film Hollywood hasn't made in a long while. Almost a sixties flick, but with that hint of self-awareness that comes with filmmaking right now.
I'd link above to the official site for the movie at Dreamworks, but it's a whopping 1.7 megs worth of Flash. I think it's safe to assume it's all pointless fluff — I didn't bother waiting around. Is it just me, or is that pretty damn rude?
Posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 and filed under Movies.
