10-09-2024, 12:39 AM
Watched POOR THINGS, really ended up enjoying it. Visually arresting, philosophically stimulating, and no shortage of belly laughs. It's problematic premise required that I recontextualize the entire thing as a faerie tale, which is clearly the director's intent, throughout. It just caught me off guard. Still, just fantastic.
Watched ALIEN COVENANT, thinking it was a re-watch, but I guess I was either drunk or asleep when I last saw it because I only remembered a couple scenes. It's beautiful, visually, but everything about its storytelling is frustrating by the end. It's difficult to understand what the point of the movie is. Walter and his over-emphasized American midwest accent, leaning on his soft Rs, in comparison to David's posh British-English accent and readily-detailed exposition on any topic, consistently sure of his own superiority — which eventually proves itself true by the end of the film. WTAF? If Ridley wants to turn this franchise into a treatise on Man's relation with God, fine; but please at least have a coherent set of statements, or theory, to wrap around. What a load of bullshit. Makes Prometheus look coherent and well-considered.
I feel like using CG in that prequel is one of the biggest signs that they didn't understand what they were doing.
I AM LEGEND, too, apparently had entirely practical VFX at one point, was redirected to use CG for the hemocytes. Hemophiles? What did they call their damned vampires?
Watched ALIEN COVENANT, thinking it was a re-watch, but I guess I was either drunk or asleep when I last saw it because I only remembered a couple scenes. It's beautiful, visually, but everything about its storytelling is frustrating by the end. It's difficult to understand what the point of the movie is. Walter and his over-emphasized American midwest accent, leaning on his soft Rs, in comparison to David's posh British-English accent and readily-detailed exposition on any topic, consistently sure of his own superiority — which eventually proves itself true by the end of the film. WTAF? If Ridley wants to turn this franchise into a treatise on Man's relation with God, fine; but please at least have a coherent set of statements, or theory, to wrap around. What a load of bullshit. Makes Prometheus look coherent and well-considered.
(10-08-2024, 10:57 AM)Snoopy wrote: Noticed The Thing on sale
It's the 2011 remake
I feel like using CG in that prequel is one of the biggest signs that they didn't understand what they were doing.
I AM LEGEND, too, apparently had entirely practical VFX at one point, was redirected to use CG for the hemocytes. Hemophiles? What did they call their damned vampires?
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