DRAWMA KINGG Movie Reviews

Tag: satirical-review

  • ANGEL’S EGG 1985 Movie Review – What Is It About?

    What is Angel’s Egg? This question, as well as the question in the title card (What is it about?) are both things I do not know the answer to. Why not muse on them, explore them? Super spoiler alert: you probably should not read this epic on the scale of Beowulf if, by chance, you have not seen the aforementioned extremely obscure movie yet!

    We can get the first question out of the way quickly. As to the question – What is Angel’s Egg? A movie. I am probably right on that one but far from definitely right. To say it is a movie is to assert that movies exist and that I am an existing thing that experiences. Awful bold of me, isn’t it? If I ignore all of that, I would still have trouble telling you what KIND of movie it is. I am pretty sure it is animated and not live action. I am probably right on that too. You could argue it to be an avant-garde film, a drama film, a dystopian film, a surreal film, a horror, film, or perhaps not a film at all.

    Lots of possibilities here, but if I roll with Angel’s Egg being a movie that is probably animated and not live action – that leads us to the next question — What is it about? I have no idea what this movie is about! There is a girl running around with an egg of unknown origin. She is trying to keep it safe when she meets a man with an odd weapon. These are arguably the only two “characters” in the movie, and they both barely speak.

    Shadow fish! One other thing I am pretty sure this movie is about is shadow fish being all fishy and chips. Shadows of large fish appear randomly and are hunted by groups of soldiers. Their weapons are completely ineffective to deez fisheez, yet they still try every time. I kinda liked the shadow fish. Not sure why the soldiers were so mad at ‘em.

    Oh yeah, ABOUTNESS — the original bit I came up with for today’s episode and totally almost forgot to include. Taking a step back, why does a movie have to be about something? What is this aboutness that must be tied to it? Angel’s Egg objectively defies the notion that a movie has to clearly be about something! Mad respect to the filmmakers for that accomplishment. So maybe movies don’t ever have to be about anything, and why should they? What a ridiculous expectation of them when you really think about it!

    Final Thoughts: 7/10 Crowns, but I don’t even know what Angel’s Egg is or what it’s about, so my opinion on this is worth nothing (as always). I have a feeling it’s a movie I will like even more on a second and third watch. OK, non-silly best guess – This Drawma Kingg thinks it may be about cycles of life and death.

  • TRON: ARES 2025 Movie Review – Ending Explained

    In this age of grand cinematic competition, what really sells tickets is the presence or absence of Gillian Anderson. At least, for Dis Drawma Kingg anyway. I admit that I am assuming this holds true for all other ticket buyers. Tron: Ares was surely not the disgusting pile of garbage I expected it to be. It was a lovely pile of garbage! Well… I suppose I shouldn’t say “pile of garbage” since I really liked the film. Let’s say it was a lovely GARDEN of garbage. The filmmakers couldn’t possibly be offended by that, could they? Y’ see, rather than a Morbin Time sequel with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack, it turned out to be a philosophical DEPECHE MODE movie with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. If you’re a lover of electronic music, you can’t get any luckier than that!

    Visually, Tron: Ares was excitingly exceptional! Green screen movies are not generally my favorites, but the special effects quality did not have me complaining at all. Early on, you see a creepy face talking to the Morbin Time guy. This is the real world creator of these digital entities communicating with his progeny. We experience a dialogue between God and his creation. Sacrilege! Not the being able to have a direct conversation with your creator part, more so the insinuation that Morbin Time is God’s most powerful and beloved of all his constructs!

    “I can’t put my love of Depeche Mode into words” says M. Time. Never have I related more to a movie in my entire overly dramatic life! This came after an earlier conversation about Depeche Mode. That’s right, not just one, but TWO Depeche Mode conversations occur in Tron: Ares. After the first one, I wrote myself a little note to jokingly write about how it’s a movie about Depeche Mode. When the second conversation happened near the end, I was like OMDMG (Oh My Depeche Mode Gods!) this really is about the philosophy of what it means to love Depeche Mode! This is when I realized I love Tron 3, because it was legitimately a movie made for people who love both Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode.

    Two main criticisms need to be addressed. First, Gillian Anderson was the best actor by far, and yet her character served no particular purpose to the plot. I wanted her to be the protagonist or perhaps turn out to be the primary villain. Instead, her character is written in such a non-crucial way that you could take her out of the whole script and the main plot would not change at all. In one scene she is attacked by one of the data peeps, but fortunately Dana Scully is a medical doctor. You can’t kill a doctor! They can just use their heal abilities. The implication is that she really dies, which makes no sense when she could have done doctor stuff to herself! I really disliked that plot hole. 

    Second criticism, the only Depeche Mode song we get to hear is Just Can’t Get Enough, a song from their first album written by Vince Clarke. Don’t get me wrong, I love Vince Clarke for his contributions to the first Depeche Mode record as well as his later groups, Erasure and Yaz/Yazoo. When discussing the glorious unmitigated beauty of Depeche Mode, Martin Gore’s songwriting is key! Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode after the first album, and Martin wrote almost every Depeche Mode song after that. Just Can’t Get Enough is literally the ONLY Depeche Mode song the average person might know that WASN’T written by Martin Gore. This was absolutely the wrong track to use in a movie that discusses the philosophical beauty of Depeche Mode’s songwriting. I’ve noticed that Just Can’t Get Enough shows up a lot in movies, TV shows, and commercials. I can only guess that it is somehow easier/cheaper to license Vince Clarke compositions than it is for Martin Gore compositions. That is just one of my many Depeche Mode conspiracy theories though. Another for example — keyboard player, Andy Fletcher supposedly has an unreleased solo album called Toast Hawaii that is said to have never surfaced because it was weak material, but maybe it is really due to it accidentally summoning evil demons when audible OR even more plausibly, because it was so epic that it outshined the band’s entire discography.

    Ending Explained: Ares realizes Depeche Mode’s music makes a human life worth living.

    Final Thoughts: 8/10 Crowns. Tron: Ares would have been 9/10 Crowns if we got a Martin Gore song and more Gillian Anderson in the plot. During the credits, I noticed Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were also executive producers in addition to composing the score. A sci-fi movie about questioning God’s commandments and loving Depeche Mode? Doesn’t that kind of sound like Trent Reznor secretly had a hand in writing the movie as well? Enough of Dis Drawma Kingg’s conspiracy theories, I want to take a moment to thank YOU, the reader, for tuning in to the 30th episode of drawmakingg.com. My nonsense could not exist without the continued support of offbeat comedy lovers such as yourself!

    Much love,

    -Drawma Kingg