It was readily apparent this was made by the same people who made "Machine Girl" and "Tokyo Gore Police"; the grue starts almost immediately and is really cheesy looking and a lot of the "plot" to this point makes no sense and my experience with these filmakers is that I shouldn't expect much plot resolution. They make these things for the over-the-top, in-yer-face, "never-saw-or-even-thought-of-that-before" shock value.
And that's exactly what I wanted from this movie.
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Cardinals vs Astros. Another reason it's nice to work from home; I get to see the day games.
Cards won 5-4. Still hanging on to the second NL wild card spot.
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Subject: Re: TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2012 Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:55 am
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Subject: Re: TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2012 Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:48 am
"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (2004)
Jude Law is an ace mercenary fighter pilot who has to save the Earth - and his plucky girl-reporter love interest - from a mad scientist who's threatening the world with an army of giant robots. This big-budget retro-futuristic action flick set in an alternate-universe 1930s is kinda like a high tech "Rocketeer."
Visually "Sky Captain" is a trip - the film mixes influences from Indiana Jones, Tim Burton's "Batman," 1930s pulp magazines, and Max Fleischer's WWII "Superman" cartoons. Story-wise it's pretty basic, old fashioned movie-serial action - i.e. nothing to write home about - but the film's unique look makes up for it. Oh, and Gwyneth Paltrow is cute as hell as the Lois Lane-style damsel in distress.
This flick tanked when it was released in 2004 but it's worth a look!
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Subject: Re: TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2012 Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:00 am
Fat Freddy wrote:
"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (2004)
Jude Law is an ace mercenary fighter pilot who has to save the Earth - and his plucky girl-reporter love interest - from a mad scientist who's threatening the world with an army of giant robots. This big-budget retro-futuristic action flick set in an alternate-universe 1930s is kinda like a high tech "Rocketeer."
Visually "Sky Captain" is a trip - the film mixes influences from Indiana Jones, Tim Burton's "Batman," 1930s pulp magazines, and Max Fleischer's WWII "Superman" cartoons. Story-wise it's pretty basic, old fashioned movie-serial action - i.e. nothing to write home about - but the film's unique look makes up for it. Oh, and Gwyneth Paltrow is cute as hell as the Lois Lane-style damsel in distress.
This flick tanked when it was released in 2004 but it's worth a look!
I liked the movie, and the setting was a great idea. Some of the CGI was brilliant, but some looked awful, which was frustrating, as that was a big selling point.
Anyway, just finished Easy A, a very quirky and funny film.
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Subject: Re: TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2012 Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:04 am
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Some of the CGI was brilliant, but some looked awful, which was frustrating, as that was a big selling point.
They certainly could've used a larger color palette. Nearly everything was dark - grey, black, brown, dark green, or dark blue. Even the daytime scenes look like they take place in the middle of the night.
Those giant robots stomping through 1930s Manhattan were pretty cool though. I swear they copped them straight out of the old "Superman" cartoon, "The Mechanical Monsters":
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Subject: Re: TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2012 Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:51 am
Sutekh wrote:
Anyway, just finished Easy A, a very quirky and funny film.
They certainly could've used a larger color palette. Nearly everything was dark - grey, black, brown, dark green, or dark blue. Even the daytime scenes look like they take place in the middle of the night.
They were going for the "mood" of B&W without actually having the film be in B&W (which the studio wouldn't have allowed anyway).
They certainly could've used a larger color palette. Nearly everything was dark - grey, black, brown, dark green, or dark blue. Even the daytime scenes look like they take place in the middle of the night.
They were going for the "mood" of B&W without actually having the film be in B&W (which the studio wouldn't have allowed anyway).
Yeah, supposedly the director wanted to do the movie in B&W originally, but the studio said "Um...nope."
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Yeah, supposedly the director wanted to do the movie in B&W originally, but the studio said "Um...nope."
Frank Darabont wanted "The Mist" to be released in B&W but the studio wouldn't allow it, however they did release a 2-DVD set with the B&W version on the second disc. It's a creepier film in the B&W version. It's a shame that studios are so short-sighted when it comes to that medium, there are very interesting things you can do with lighting and texture in that format that you can't duplicate in color, it's mostly a lost art-form...thankfully there are still independent movies being released that use it.
Last years Best Picture winner was a B&W film and Joss Whedon's upcoming "Much Ado About Nothing" is also in B&W.
Yeah, supposedly the director wanted to do the movie in B&W originally, but the studio said "Um...nope."
Frank Darabont wanted "The Mist" to be released in B&W but the studio wouldn't allow it, however they did release a 2-DVD set with the B&W version on the second disc. It's a creepier film in the B&W version. It's a shame that studios are so short-sighted when it comes to that medium, there are very interesting things you can do with lighting and texture in that format that you can't duplicate in color, it's mostly a lost art-form...thankfully there are still independent movies being released that use it.
Last years Best Picture winner was a B&W film and Joss Whedon's upcoming "Much Ado About Nothing" is also in B&W.
Tim Burton's 'Ed Wood' comes to mind. I love that film. The B&W works brilliantly. 'Clerks' too, but that might have been more of a budget issue.
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Yeah, supposedly the director wanted to do the movie in B&W originally, but the studio said "Um...nope."
Frank Darabont wanted "The Mist" to be released in B&W but the studio wouldn't allow it, however they did release a 2-DVD set with the B&W version on the second disc. It's a creepier film in the B&W version. It's a shame that studios are so short-sighted when it comes to that medium, there are very interesting things you can do with lighting and texture in that format that you can't duplicate in color, it's mostly a lost art-form...thankfully there are still independent movies being released that use it.
Last years Best Picture winner was a B&W film and Joss Whedon's upcoming "Much Ado About Nothing" is also in B&W.
Sad that most of the children (my neices and newphews) will not watch anything in B&W. Absence of color automatically makes something unwatchable. Hopefully they grow out of it but I've met several kids in their late teens/early 20s with the anti-B&W mentality.
What a movie this is! A two hour series of WTF? moments. What little plot there is doesn't make much sense and a lot of the FX are in cheap CGI but just the concepts presented are completely insane. I swear the writers sat around after doing some shrooms and dropping acid and they came up with this movie. This makes the director/writer's previous flick "Tokyo Gore Police" look like Citizen Kane. Gotta admire the creativity and inventiveness however. The most arterial sprays I've ever seen; even spraying from body parts not populated with arteries. They must have had one person who's sole job was to wipe off the camera lens.
EDIT: One other thing. One of our newer members goes by the name of ZombieHavoc. That would be a great alternate title for this movie; although technically these aren't actually undead zombies. They behave simlarly except these people aren't dead but still try to maintain the society of their former selves.
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Subject: Re: TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2012 Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:38 am
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - US version
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