Post by unanimous on Feb 8, 2008 14:34:35 GMT 3
8:00 am 9 February
I had just about had it up to HERE with jerkily shot action films, that leaving it after watching it gives me a headache. I blame this 'reality shot' to the tv show NYPD Blues. I think the fad all started in that show - it was good, it was edgy, it was fresh, it was the 90s. However, along with this genre sprouted blair witch project and memorable action films - where you get the feel of the violence and chaos of duking it out with whichever bad guy --- but without actually seeing a clear cut action sequence. Everyone from Bourne to the better/best batman series (christian bale) had it - and seriously, it was Matt Damon's salvation and helped made bourne good and believable coz common, white dude? preppy type? but not really that handsome? believable to an extent? you'd pay to play KICKASS?? not gonna happen unless shot that way. The viewers will have to have strabismus to achieve that. and strabismus is what i'll soon get if i dont stop watching these films. but they are good though, but like potato chips, they are not good for you - your eyes, mood and generally for people you are likely will gonna have to hang out with.
so......CLOVERLEAF.
It was shot by a hand-held#$%$#%@#camera. the entire 90 minutes or so. shot in as close to real-time as it would get where the only editing/cut happened and 'visible' is when the one holding the cam would turn it off or rest it somewhere to help the other characters. but if u have a little masochism in you as mentioned in the first paragraph above, and have accepted your fate that you've spent your 30 riyals watching someone else's home movie - then it's all good. i went home so tired from watching this movie as it's the closest you'd get from a film to feel what it's like to be young, slightly drunk, and running for your life - screaming most of the time in shock, credulity, terror and whatever else one would imagine to feel confronted like that.
this film is when all its fault made it work for the film built in the foreground that neither the characters in it could believe what is happening around them and their youth and where they are in their lives just accentuates the fact that nobody is nor will be ready for this and everything else including one's current perception of reality is gonna be suspended/cut abruptly - including battery life of a handheld camera which if the film would acknowledge what brand it was would be one of the best coups in advertising.
Anyhoo. the film is nothing new, it had all the cliche's of all the b monster movies but it was presented in such a way and the actors were decent enough in it that though u'd want to smack a couple of them in the head, u'd still be into the film - and i'd say the experience is fresh in a film formula so stale and already been brought up to the limits of good film technology and CGIs, that to have presented it this way is original in itself...and luckily, after the first third of the film where it was depicting blandly successful young people talking to each other about problems that would seem to relatively pampered youth of today as insurmountable. Yes, luckily, and i never thought it's possible that i'd be grateful that most of the characters will JUST have to scream and say: OMG!!! OMG!!!OMG!!! - not OMG MY MY FAKE BOOBIES! not OMG THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS OF IT ALL, THE SCIENCE, THE HISTORY THE BLAH BLAH BLAH.....but OMG WTF WTF!!! - and it worked. stuck in underground tunnel where's theres no choice to wait it out or go up with just the NO EXIT sign taunting over their heads...no need for elaborate script right? no live fornothing die for sumthing @#5%@...right? (LOL)
Just when you think uve had enough of their lives, and so are they, they were shaken by a powerful earthquake with everyone else screaming outside. this film made use of 911 events that made it full circle i suppose esp to those who were closest to it - where 911's disaster is so unbelievable as it unfolded that it was like out of a movie, and here so it is - scratching the lines between art and life and fudging realities a bit making it believable in an incredulous way.
It is the freshest take to a monster movie but it ss neither artsy nor pretentious - the dumminess and doucheness of some of the characters pulled the film to the ground in a good way and snatched the film (hopefully) from the orgasmic artsy film critics. it is a home movie, presented now as a Government property recording what happened to a place formerly known as Central park, with the dates switching from april to may to keep the slow people from forgetting which time stamp to relate to and showing the stark contrast of their lives, past and 'present'.
And like how i suppose archived secret govt properties are that would be tied to any conspiracy or whatnots, this film offers no explanation, root cause or anything else explaining the plot. just a clear reminder at the beginning of the film that this: IS A GOVERNMENT PROPERTY recording accounting a part of what went down to a place formerly known as central park...and yest there are some alien form like thingies in it - and FEMA and military have improved, able to set up a triage and quarantine stat in a department store just hours after NY went down in chaos.
freaking emotionally draining though and will force me to wear bifocals from here on. brilliant but................it burnsssssss!!!
*see what i did there with the time stamps? huh? huh? ;D*
*****
1:30 pm 8 February
I cant believe they already have cloverfield showing here this weekend!!!
it's the movie of the week here in my blah world! see yah there tonightssssssssss!!!
we're having dinner before the movie, any old member we kno that's drifting lost tonight n wanna have dinner and/or movie, see yahs, send me a msg.
xoxo
;D
I had just about had it up to HERE with jerkily shot action films, that leaving it after watching it gives me a headache. I blame this 'reality shot' to the tv show NYPD Blues. I think the fad all started in that show - it was good, it was edgy, it was fresh, it was the 90s. However, along with this genre sprouted blair witch project and memorable action films - where you get the feel of the violence and chaos of duking it out with whichever bad guy --- but without actually seeing a clear cut action sequence. Everyone from Bourne to the better/best batman series (christian bale) had it - and seriously, it was Matt Damon's salvation and helped made bourne good and believable coz common, white dude? preppy type? but not really that handsome? believable to an extent? you'd pay to play KICKASS?? not gonna happen unless shot that way. The viewers will have to have strabismus to achieve that. and strabismus is what i'll soon get if i dont stop watching these films. but they are good though, but like potato chips, they are not good for you - your eyes, mood and generally for people you are likely will gonna have to hang out with.
so......CLOVERLEAF.
It was shot by a hand-held#$%$#%@#camera. the entire 90 minutes or so. shot in as close to real-time as it would get where the only editing/cut happened and 'visible' is when the one holding the cam would turn it off or rest it somewhere to help the other characters. but if u have a little masochism in you as mentioned in the first paragraph above, and have accepted your fate that you've spent your 30 riyals watching someone else's home movie - then it's all good. i went home so tired from watching this movie as it's the closest you'd get from a film to feel what it's like to be young, slightly drunk, and running for your life - screaming most of the time in shock, credulity, terror and whatever else one would imagine to feel confronted like that.
this film is when all its fault made it work for the film built in the foreground that neither the characters in it could believe what is happening around them and their youth and where they are in their lives just accentuates the fact that nobody is nor will be ready for this and everything else including one's current perception of reality is gonna be suspended/cut abruptly - including battery life of a handheld camera which if the film would acknowledge what brand it was would be one of the best coups in advertising.
Anyhoo. the film is nothing new, it had all the cliche's of all the b monster movies but it was presented in such a way and the actors were decent enough in it that though u'd want to smack a couple of them in the head, u'd still be into the film - and i'd say the experience is fresh in a film formula so stale and already been brought up to the limits of good film technology and CGIs, that to have presented it this way is original in itself...and luckily, after the first third of the film where it was depicting blandly successful young people talking to each other about problems that would seem to relatively pampered youth of today as insurmountable. Yes, luckily, and i never thought it's possible that i'd be grateful that most of the characters will JUST have to scream and say: OMG!!! OMG!!!OMG!!! - not OMG MY MY FAKE BOOBIES! not OMG THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS OF IT ALL, THE SCIENCE, THE HISTORY THE BLAH BLAH BLAH.....but OMG WTF WTF!!! - and it worked. stuck in underground tunnel where's theres no choice to wait it out or go up with just the NO EXIT sign taunting over their heads...no need for elaborate script right? no live fornothing die for sumthing @#5%@...right? (LOL)
Just when you think uve had enough of their lives, and so are they, they were shaken by a powerful earthquake with everyone else screaming outside. this film made use of 911 events that made it full circle i suppose esp to those who were closest to it - where 911's disaster is so unbelievable as it unfolded that it was like out of a movie, and here so it is - scratching the lines between art and life and fudging realities a bit making it believable in an incredulous way.
It is the freshest take to a monster movie but it ss neither artsy nor pretentious - the dumminess and doucheness of some of the characters pulled the film to the ground in a good way and snatched the film (hopefully) from the orgasmic artsy film critics. it is a home movie, presented now as a Government property recording what happened to a place formerly known as Central park, with the dates switching from april to may to keep the slow people from forgetting which time stamp to relate to and showing the stark contrast of their lives, past and 'present'.
And like how i suppose archived secret govt properties are that would be tied to any conspiracy or whatnots, this film offers no explanation, root cause or anything else explaining the plot. just a clear reminder at the beginning of the film that this: IS A GOVERNMENT PROPERTY recording accounting a part of what went down to a place formerly known as central park...and yest there are some alien form like thingies in it - and FEMA and military have improved, able to set up a triage and quarantine stat in a department store just hours after NY went down in chaos.
freaking emotionally draining though and will force me to wear bifocals from here on. brilliant but................it burnsssssss!!!
*see what i did there with the time stamps? huh? huh? ;D*
*****
1:30 pm 8 February
I cant believe they already have cloverfield showing here this weekend!!!
it's the movie of the week here in my blah world! see yah there tonightssssssssss!!!
we're having dinner before the movie, any old member we kno that's drifting lost tonight n wanna have dinner and/or movie, see yahs, send me a msg.
xoxo
;D
