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March 30, 2005
Steamboy at the Arclight in El Ley, 3/29/05
The follow-up to Akira is enjoyable, but there's not much going on here. It's a movie about a kid whose father and grandfather are famous Victorian scientists who discover a way to increase the amount of steam power in tiny containers. I'm assuming they're like superpowered steam batteries. Strangely, there's a little girl who is the daughter of a weapons dealer whose name is Scarlett O'Hara. It takes place during the London Worlds Fair that the weaponeers turn into a demostration for their product. Robert Louis Stevenson is an inventor/spy master. Somehow, they discover a way to increase the amount of steam power in tiny containers. I guess they're superpowered steam batteries.
After awhile, the movie just gets silly. The action sequences aren't bad, but after awhile, as my friend Roddy pointed out, there's only so many ways you can watch steam blow up in a pipe. The sequence in London starts to look like one warped cross between Godzilla and War of the Worlds, but a lot of the sequences here simply echo one you've already seen. And everytime the plot slows down to expound on war or science, it just sounds non-sensical. I wished this were better.
The Arclight Theaters were amazing though. They're big and look a lot like the Sony Metreon. I wished we could have seen a movie where you could take in a beer, but guess that wasn't to be.
Posted by deaconmf at March 30, 2005 07:04 PM
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