You just ruined my week :( Well, YOU didn't....Abrams did. I HATE HATE HATE first perspective movies, with shaky cameras and all that shit. If i wanted to watch that crap, I'd watch my own home videos.
This sucks. 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 > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:251513 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
