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Post by Simey on Sept 7, 2008 10:05:06 GMT -5
Saw Black Sheep on DVD last night - missed it in the cinemas earlier in the year. It's a New Zealand film about the perils of genetic experimentation. Now, that could sound like a serious, thought-provoking film - this isn't. It's a hilarious gore-fest in the style of pre-serious film-making Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Brain Dead), and one thing's for sure: if you see it - and I recommend it - you may never look at a sheep in the same way again!  |
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Post by Beowuuf on Sept 7, 2008 10:18:59 GMT -5
Lol, yeah, I got it on DVD ages ago, but only watched it relatively recently. Pretty funny, it's got the comic horror of say original tremors, etc
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Post by Simey on Sept 7, 2008 10:34:42 GMT -5
And far more reliance on excellent animatronics than CGI, which is always a good thing, to my mind.
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Post by Beowuuf on Sept 7, 2008 14:06:34 GMT -5
Havin just watched Kong, and finding it oddly lacking in CGI in many places for some reason, I agree! I will refrain from taking a swing at Kong in this thread |
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Post by Simey on Sept 7, 2008 17:08:55 GMT -5
I will refrain from taking a swing at Kong in this thread I quite liked it. Would've been much better with an hour lopped out of it, but pretty good nonetheless. I think it's testament to just how good the beginning and - particularly - the end is that even though the middle is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar too long, often very stupid and actually a bit dull in places, the film still feels good by the closing credits. Well, I thought so anyway.  I don't remember the CGI being that dodgy, though there is waaaaay too much of it, of course. But at least in Gollum and Kong Peter Jackson had the sense to have an actor create a complete performance and have that performance animated rather than leaving it to the animators to create the visual performance themselves, 'cause that way lies dodgy CGI Yoda and....Jar-Jar Binks. |
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Post by Beowuuf on Sept 7, 2008 18:01:20 GMT -5
Hmm, see I found the homage to the old king kong in the central characters jarred with the more gruesome aspects of the film. Not in a 'oh, that makes these really dark/scary' kinda way, just in a 'that felt like the film changed gears badly' sort of way
And maybe I'm just being cold hearted, but I felt the very end was drawn out too long, and then JB's last line just really clunked for me!
Still, i found it amusing people complained about the 'ice skating' scene, when it was basically no more or less than the earlier first scene in the jungle where Naomi Watts was doing her schtick. The way people talked it down, I thought kong had skates on!
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Post by Simey on Sept 8, 2008 18:36:47 GMT -5
The way people talked it down, I thought kong had skates on! Aww - they missed a trick there! That would've been cool! |
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Post by Beowuuf on Sept 9, 2008 0:24:07 GMT -5
Did you ever see the april fool's joke of king kong 2 - son of kong?
Shoulder mounted bradley guns and fighting zombie nazis would have been sweet
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Post by Simey on Sept 9, 2008 17:02:55 GMT -5
No I didn't - but I agree! ;D
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Post by Izziel Darkblade on Sept 24, 2008 21:51:02 GMT -5
Just wanted to say thaT i really loved the Dark Knight. Blew my mind, the joker did. On a related note has anyone seen the Clone Wars... "movie"? |
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Post by Black Cat on Oct 19, 2008 10:35:19 GMT -5
Went to see Max Payne yesterday. Very disapointing. I know that when making a movie based on a book (or, in this case, on a video game), there are a few things that are changed, ignored, added, etc. Well, in this case, what they kept from the game were not the best things, and what they changed didn't help to make the movie better. They added new characters, removed all the mafia connection, and the movie ends with no real conclusion and two big holes in the plot. I'm very disapointed. At least, I got my first glimpse of Olga Kuryulenko, the new Bond girl in Quantum of Solace, due next month.
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Post by wildhare on Oct 20, 2008 15:00:04 GMT -5
You can see all of her and I do mean all of her, by renting the Hitman unrated DVD FYI
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Post by zipp on Oct 20, 2008 23:48:38 GMT -5
That's too bad about the MP movie, really it is. I'm especially sad because the original movie was going to be made by an independent company, and while the actors weren't as good as the ones they use in the main movie, the script was really close to the original game. They even had a "Max, you're in a movie" segment ^_^ It all made sense suddenly... I was in a movie. My actions predetermined by nameless faces, an unseen director giving me all the right cues at the wrong time. I wasn't even really who I thought I was, just some nameless two bit wrapped up in something beyond his measuring. I didn't know why, but it was the most frightening thing I could think of. You can see all of her and I do mean all of her, by renting the Hitman unrated DVD FYI It is true, but it's sort've like renting Bloodrayne to see what's-her-face's tits... a whole lot of pain for not much good. |
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Post by Beowuuf on Oct 21, 2008 1:26:24 GMT -5
But tim olly then bypassing sex with her using a needle is so funny!
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Post by wildhare on Oct 21, 2008 10:02:07 GMT -5
Come on folks it's a video game turned into a movie. Lower your expectations a little its exactly what it promises to be 90 minutes of sex and violence.
Why do you play the video games in the first place? To blow off steam and alleviate stress by I don't know imagining your targets as your co-workers? customers? Bosses?
So why is it the minute you hear they're making a movie all of a sudden you expect shakespeare in the park.
How about this then every time you feel jaded by a bad movie from your favorite video game go and rent either the super marios bros. or street fighter movies (you remember those i'm sure) and then you can see the great strides they have made in video game adaptations. And count your lucky stars that they don't make them like that anymore...
Or you can go read some shakespeare...
The dawn, red mantle clad o'er the hills...
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