D.o.S. wrote:Oh yeah, I'm not saying that you don't have to love it--just that you missed out on a lot of what made it great. It really revived/pioneered the 'found footage' style for better or worse.
Also, while TCM is a low-budget film (and Gunnar Hansen is a really sweet person in real life), A Clockwork Orange and Halloween are not--Halloween had four times Blair Witch's budget, even before you calculate the fact that it was in late 70's dollars), and ACO cost 2.2 million (in '72 cash).
There's also a big difference between low-budget and no-budget. the union cutoff for low-budget film is somewhere around 1.5 million dollars.
Interesting, I didn't know that.
Have you seen the movie "V.H.S," it's in the "Found-film" style - if I'm understanding what you mean by it.
ew. Paranormal Activity. the first one was just meh, but then... then they kept MAKING THEM. UGH.
i just watched The Woman. it was kinda not that good. had a friend recommend it that i want to slap in the taint now.
sucks too 'cause i was looking at the back while i was entering it in my database app and saw that it was directed by Lucky McKee, which i did NOT know. and i fucking adooooore May. the other one he did with her about bugs in that horror collection series was fun. this was..... blegh.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
lol. yah, that's in my pile. that's another one that got here and i didna know it was Noe that directed it. i.... don't know if i LIKE Irreversible, but it's a very effective movie. makes me sad and angry and all that.
i've never watched El Topo straight through, just seen pieces. that also is IN THE PILE.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
You know what is overrated? The opinions of anyone whose central gripe about a movie, book, album, etc. is that it's "boring". I mean, I've seen probably a thousand or more movies in my life, and some were great, some were awful, alot were everything in-between, but nothing I've seen could simply be summed up as "boring".
nope. i could nooooot disagree more. to me that's the cardinal sin of a movie. being boring. and i'm jealous that you've seen ones that are consistently entertaining at some level.
off the top of my head, the new Wolverine is a great example. there was one interesting fight scene (the thing on the top of the shinkansen), but the rest of it was just......... not interesting at all. like i couldn't even be offended and nerd rage at the silliness of him getting his claws cut off and drilling the bone marrow transferring his powers. 'cause i just didn't care.
um... what else? a friend talked me into going to Lincoln Lawyer with them, that was just a vapid piece of repetitious blegh that didn't need to be made. that new Gosling joint Only God Forgives was just not interesting. i saw what they were going for, but it was so poorly done that it didn't really hold my interest.
i'm still glad i saw it, there were a few scenes that were interesting, and i like the guy having a hammer space sword that AUDIBLY APPEARED FROM NOWHERE, but that was it's main failing, is that at least two thirds of it was not engaging at all.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
I guess a two hour loop(or however long the movie is) of sex and drugs would be entertaining to an idiot. Its the same shit over and over throughout the movie. The dialog alone could not save the movie. It was boring and I could not wait for it to end. What do I know? My opinion is overrated
oop. i lied. Kickass 2 might be neat, even though i loved the og graphic novel and the second was mehhhhhhhhhh and i DO get three or four erections for Simon Peg/Nick Frost movies so World's End could be tits and bears.
Enter Teh Voyeur - yah. i'm gonna get to it after i watch through at least the first season of Tiger And Bunny. i gots no opinions until then.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
