Ishtar??? 10 blown goats???!!!   You must not recognize the genius
that was Ishtar :)

I've been noticing more and more shows doing that constantly moving
camera crap lately.  The most recent thing was "Design on a Dime".  I
almost got sick watching it (It was on TV at the in-laws and I was too
lazy to change the channel).

My take on it is that they're trying to hide the crap, be it
disappointing monster or cheaply constructed furniture....



On Jan 19, 2008 5:08 PM, Adam Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay.  been waiting for this one since the first trailer sighting many
> months ago, and Mike (#2 son) and I had been really amped about going on
> opening day (picked him up from school and went straight to the theater for
> a 4:40 showing).
>
>
>
> So the movie starts. and starts. and starts.  It's only an 84-minute film,
> but there are twenty minutes of self-absorbed over-privileged
> twenty-somethings whining as they simply must do, and a camera being slung
> around on a lanyard.  Great for making you feel like you want to vomit from
> motion sickness.  I'm thinking, "okay, pay attention, because this somehow
> has to have something more than trivial significance later in the film."
>
>
>
> Not a chance.
>
>
>
> So the first thing happens (and I wake up), which on retrospect didn't make
> any sense for the monster to be able to create a reaction like that.  Then
> you can't see anything that's causing it, which you expect was the writer's
> intention for building suspense, but it was only frustrating.  And then at
> the end when you finally get a decent look at the monster, it not only is of
> an entirely different scale than what you saw earlier, it doesn't really
> look anything like what you saw earlier.
>
>
>
> Alright, I get that it's a first-person perspective film.  But for the sake
> of all that is decent in this world, get a minimal Manfrotto SteadyCam mount
> and just loosen the spring tension to give it more slop than normal, then
> film it that way.  Feeling like I want to spew chunks doesn't increase the
> value of the film - or the entertainment.
>
>
>
> At best, this thing will become a half-assed video game for little kids.
>
>
>
> Adam's Rating: 9 Blown Goats (on a ten Blown Goat system, with ten Blown
> Goats being something like Ishtar or Muriel's Wedding, and zero Blown Goats
> being something like Godfather or American Beauty).
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
>
>
> Adam Phillip Churvis
>
> President
>
> Productivity Enhancement
>
>
>
>
>
> 

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