Re: [scifinoir2] Monsters: Could This be This Year's Cloverfield/District 9?
Does sound good, B! On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:49 AM, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: I heard about this movie earlier this year and the teaser footage is awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH9NswxZyAQfeature=player_embedded http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/24/movie-trailer-gareth-edwards-monsters/ The breakout hit of this years SXSW, Gareth Edwards' groundbreaking new film is as much a poignant contemporary romance as it is an epic science fiction adventure. Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of two, Gareth Edwards' team traveled through Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, finding and utilizing their locations and supporting actors as they went. The result is a film as cutting edge as it is classically composed, as emotionally satisfying as it is visually stunning, and the bold announcement of a major new talent. Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures… Our story begins when a jaded US journalist (McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his bosses daughter, a shaken American tourist (Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Monsters: Could This be This Year's Cloverfield/District 9?
I loved the clip! That was the last thing that I thought that I would see floating out of the water. Unfortunately, I had the misfortune of watching a review of it thinking that it was an additional clip. :( Cool tidbit: The director made a lot of the effects on his laptop. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:49 AM, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: I heard about this movie earlier this year and the teaser footage is awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH9NswxZyAQfeature=player_embedded http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/24/movie-trailer-gareth-edwards-monsters/ The breakout hit of this years SXSW, Gareth Edwards' groundbreaking new film is as much a poignant contemporary romance as it is an epic science fiction adventure. Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of two, Gareth Edwards' team traveled through Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, finding and utilizing their locations and supporting actors as they went. The result is a film as cutting edge as it is classically composed, as emotionally satisfying as it is visually stunning, and the bold announcement of a major new talent. Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures… Our story begins when a jaded US journalist (McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his bosses daughter, a shaken American tourist (Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border. Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
