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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 19, 2012 15:08:02 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong its still enjoyable, but the effects could've been better.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 19, 2012 15:25:35 GMT -5
I am not going to make this an absolute statement, but I think CGI effects in the horror genre mostly take away from the movie. My absolute statement will be that CGI doesn't belong in zombie movies. It stuck out in Tokyo Zombie and Shaun. If you can't make a scene with practical effects, then skip the shot. Night of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead had perfect zombies to me as did Zombi 2.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 19, 2012 22:50:39 GMT -5
I don't totally hate CGI ,but I think overeliance on it has lead to some really bad movies. I think it should be used to enhance practical effects ,but more of as a last resort thing.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 20, 2012 0:04:04 GMT -5
Agreed. With zombie movies though, you just need human actors, make-up, latex, fake blood, squibs, or prosthetic limbs, torsos, and heads for the truly tricky and memorable zombie kills which is what most fans want to see in their zombie flicks. We might hate a certain character, hope he/she gets shot, but we (at least me) don't like to see the humans eaten. In slasher flicks we sometimes root for the kills, but I don't think that is the case with zombies. So that said, in the undead genre, I don't see the need for CGI. I think it totally fucked up the last episode of the first season of The Walking Dead for me. Enough about that.... for now.
A huge "Fuck you, you evil sick fuck, please die" to Charles Manson. I do think the murder of Sharon Tate led to Roman Polanski's depraved sexual act which keeps him out of our borders. I am a huge Polanski fan (except for The Seventh Gate) and I do not condone his actions.
That said, my favorite vampire movie is directed by and stars Polanski and also features the beautiful Sharon Tate. "The Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me but Your Teeth are Stuck in My Neck".
LOB-31
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 20, 2012 1:57:50 GMT -5
Pausing the movie.
My thoughts. Clint Eastwood is my favorite actor. Sergio Leone was a genius and I have a double standard for the Nerf Herder. "The Man With No Name" is one of the most badass badasses ever in film.
A Fistful of Dollars. A Spaghetti Western. If you stare at the screen with all your heart and listen oh-so-carefully, you will hear Akira Kurosawa in the church bells and the galloping hoofs of horses and see him in the desert hills.
And speaking of horses, please, please, please, don't laugh at a man's mule. And here is my favorite badass moment in cinema.
Drinking a Brooklyn East India Pale Ale. A very good beer, but not as good as the Real Ale The Devil's Backbone Tripel (Blanco, Texas, brewed by Tim Schwartz, a good man, and an artist of a brewer) or Victory Hop Wallop which I drank tonight through my movie watching. Oh, Cheers! me, I'm a day or two from passing my criminal background check and a new job selling beer! And Cheers to y'all!
Half way to LOB-32, and resuming the flick.
Oh, an anniversary passed yesterday. Do me a favor and watch Waco, The Rules of Engagement my fellow Americans. Good night and good luck.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 20, 2012 3:08:20 GMT -5
I'll sneak it in here, go burn a tree and Happy Holidaze!
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Post by luditesupreme on Apr 20, 2012 3:22:15 GMT -5
sins of the past must be catching up with me , took a second to catch that . have a good one lob
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 20, 2012 3:57:36 GMT -5
Thank you kind sir it is a good day worth celebrating excepting the anniversary of the BC Gulf Oil Spill from two years ago, TODAY.
And that pig-farmer story is just not right. I'm glad that is the extent of your story. Glad nothing happened to your moms. That is creepy as hell.
Would you believe that a cousin of Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker serial killer in L.A. in the mid-eighties, who was from El Paso, Texas, my hometown, was an employee of my father's? I swear, there is less than six degrees of separation. Hey with Rudy Ray Moore I have two, and with John Lee Hooker I have one, twice over! Drinking St. arnold Santo which has a Dia de los Muertos skull on its label. Salud hermanos!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 20, 2012 15:07:25 GMT -5
I agree with Polanski I really like his work ,but it's not an excuse for what he did and yeah I think a guy with an already dark view of the world was pushed over the edge after what happened to Sharon Tate. Some people aren' able to ,but I think I'm usually able to separte the person and their work.
See zombies are different I just don't mind CGI being used when theres no possible choice or to possibly layer up enhancing something that's already good. I think one of the problems with CGI is that it ages really horribly and also you know the actors have to guess at what's there.
Where I'm from there was this guy known as the Southwest Prowler who went around raping and killing people and it just happens my area of the city was the Southwest. After he was caught it turned out that my aunt who also lives here had taken a college class with him, she said he seemed like the nicest guy ,but that usually seems to be the case.
Another story my dad picked up a serial killer and I probably unknowingly aided one.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 23, 2012 4:45:54 GMT -5
Black Sheep.
Starts of as an ordinary horror movie, a sheep ranching family in New Zealand with one bad son, the black sheep. And almost immediately the movie turns into a creature feature with beautiful sets and locations (like a minor Lord of the Rings). The lead Creature Designers (Oscar nominees) worked on Revenge of the Sith previously.
There is comedy, gore, mutant sheep, perfect puppets fx and props, and a textbook example of how to use a minor amount of CGI to augment a scene, pepper it, not make the scene. The puppet sheep were identical to real livestock. I believe Peter Jackson's people helped out on the film.
And there is a nod to An American Werewolf in London. It has a bit of that early Jackson feel, like Meet the Feebles meets Heavenly Creatures meets The Frighteners meets Frodo. Very good stuff and fun.
I have never and will never eat "mountain oysters". LOB-34
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 24, 2012 2:34:06 GMT -5
Sorry about the long post.
First off, I'm drunk. I drank in memory of a Jack-and-Coke lover and a Belgian beer lapper.
Tried to watch a movie last night but the last 48 hours have been very heavy, all about waiting.
That said, watched a war movie I would put up there with Apocalypse Now, Full metal Jacket, Catch-22, and M.A.S.H. Better than The Longest Day or Platoon in the war films department.
War is ALL Hell. War is not glamorous, and neither are nineteen year old kids wasting ammo like scared or bored bunnies, shooting out of fear, and being accomplices to slaughter.
A must watch. A must watch. Dance with Bashir, an Israeli movie about massacre during the Lebanese Civil War. Check out the Wikipedia entry, I just don't have it in me to paste what I read a few nights ago.
LOB-35
Now to the personal.
My problem dog, my fifteen and a half year old, almost passed three weeks ago. TLC gave him a few weeks. He was a pain in my rear end for over a decade. He was my own personal gulag, my albatross, my ball and chain. Saturday night I brought him two burgers, first time ever he didn't finish human food in a decade and a half. That was his final meal. I've drank a Pacifico, a He'Brew Hop Manna IPA 22 oz. and followed that with a He'Brew Bittersweet Lenny's R.I.P.A. My next beer is waiting. The Bittersweet Lenny is a tribute beer to Lenny Bruce; R.I.P.A. for Rest in Peace Ale or Rye India Pale Ale. I dedicated my R.I.P.A. to Oscar, the first dog I took in as an adult fifteen years ago. You finally are at peace. Cheers 'Scer!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 24, 2012 9:20:34 GMT -5
Watched Zulu a british war movie about the battle of rorkes's drift. It was Michael Caine (one of my favorite actors) first starring role. It's a good movie ,but there's certain parts that don't hold up during the battles, while others do so I'd like to see it get remade.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 24, 2012 23:30:21 GMT -5
A Canadian/American classic, filmed in Florida. I guess Florida doesn't totally blow. Porky's.
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EDIT: There is so much eighties vagina in this movie. By that I mean lots of hair. From a young Kim Katrell (sp?), to comments about so much fur you can knit a sweater, to the bonus documentary talkin' about "furkinis". Fur bikinis, good times, good times.
A Modelo Mexican cerveza Cheers! to modern grooming. Arriba!
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Post by luditesupreme on Apr 25, 2012 3:31:40 GMT -5
A Canadian/American classic, filmed in Florida. I guess Florida doesn't totally blow. Porky's. LOB-36 EDIT: There is so much eighties vagina in this movie. By that I mean lots of hair. From a young Kim Katrell (sp?), to comments about so much fur you can knit a sweater, to the bonus documentary talkin' about "furkinis". Fur bikinis, good times, good times. A Modelo Mexican cerveza Cheers! to modern grooming. Arriba! can there really be to much80s vagina
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 25, 2012 16:00:22 GMT -5
Hair gets in the way.
Brotherhood of the Wolf, the director's cut (DVD release). A beautifully shot epic of a film at a whopping 155 minutes.
This movie has so much going on. Iroquois Kung-Fu, French ju-jitsu, a love triangle, a Papal spy/asassin, lupine justice, mystery with red herrings, horror, basis on historical fact, a monster of a beast, madness, bad Roma villagers, sword play, silver bullets, custom arms (in-cheek humor for those who have seen the film), Templar ruins, hallucinogenics, poison, murder, incest, conspiracy against the crown, and finally the eve of the Freench Revolution, and visual glory.
Based on historical truth, and for that I turn to the noble Wikipedia.
Beast of Gévaudan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beast of Varia (La bête du Gévaudan (French)
First reported 1764 Country, France Region, Gévaudan (modern-day Lozère)
The Beast of Gévaudan (French: La Bête du Gévaudan; IPA: [la bɜt dy ʒevɔdɑ̃], Occitan: La Bèstia de Gavaudan) is a name given to man-eating wolf-like animals alleged to have terrorized the former province of Gévaudan (modern day département of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire), in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France from 1764 to 1767 over an area stretching 90 by 80 kilometres (56 by 50 mi). The beasts were consistently described by eyewitnesses as having formidable teeth and immense tails. Their fur had a reddish tinge, and was said to have emitted an unbearable odour. They killed their victims by tearing at their throats with their teeth. The number of victims differs according to source. De Beaufort (1987) estimated 210 attacks, resulting in 113 deaths and 49 injuries; 98 of the victims killed were partly eaten. An enormous amount of manpower and resources was used in the hunting of the animals, including the army, conscripted civilians, several nobles, and a number of royal huntsmen. All animals operated outside of ordinary wolf packs, though eyewitness accounts indicate that they sometimes were accompanied by a smaller female, which did not take part in the attacks. The story is a popular subject for cryptozoologists. Although several explanations have been put forward the exact identity of the creature remains unexplained to this day.
The first attack that provided a description of one of the creatures took place on June 1, 1764. A woman from Langogne saw a large, lupine animal emerge from the trees and charge directly toward her, but it was driven away by the farm's bulls.
On June 30, the first official victim of the beast was Jeanne Boulet, 14, killed near the village of Les Hubacs, not far from Langogne.
The beast also seemed to target humans over farm animals; many times it would attack someone while cattle were in the same field.
On January 12, 1765, Jacques Portefaix and seven friends, including two girls, were attacked by the Beast; they drove it away by staying grouped together. Their fight caught the attention of King Louis XV, who awarded 300 livres to Portefaix, and another 350 livres to be shared among the others. He also directed that Portefaix be educated at the state's expense. The King had taken a personal interest in the attacks, and sent professional wolf-hunters, Jean Charles Marc Antoine Vaumesle d'Enneval and his son Jean-François, to kill the beast. They arrived in Clermont-Ferrand on February 17, 1765, bringing with them eight bloodhounds which had been trained in wolf-hunting. They spent several months hunting wolves, believing them to be the beast. However, the attacks continued, and by June 1765 they were replaced by François Antoine (also wrongly named Antoine de Beauterne), the king's harquebus bearer and Lieutenant of the Hunt. He arrived in Le Malzieu on June 22. Antoine killing the Wolf of Chazes, 18th-century engraving.
On September 21, 1765, Antoine killed a large grey wolf measuring 80 centimetres (31 in) high, 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) long, and weighing 60 kilograms (130 lb). The wolf was called Le Loup de Chazes, after the nearby Abbaye des Chazes. It was agreed locally that this was quite large for a wolf. Antoine officially stated: "We declare by the present report signed from our hand, we never saw a big wolf that could be compared to this one. Which is why we estimate this could be the fearsome beast that caused so much damage." The animal was further identified as the culprit by attack survivors, who recognized the scars on the creature's body, inflicted by victims defending themselves. The wolf was stuffed and sent to Versailles where Antoine was received as a hero, receiving a large sum of money as well as titles and awards.
However, on December 2, 1765, another beast emerged in la Besseyre Saint Mary, severely injuring two children. Dozens more deaths are reported to have followed. Death of the second beast
The killing of the creature that eventually marked the end of the attacks is credited to a local hunter, Jean Chastel, at the Sogne d'Auvers on June 19, 1767. Later novelists (Chevalley, 1936) introduced the idea that Chastel shot it with a blessed silver bullet of his own manufacture. Upon being opened, the animal's stomach was shown to contain human remains.
Sorry for the long post, but I found it interesting.
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