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Saw Chronicle a few days ago
saint:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 27, 2012, 12:08:30 am ---Why? I mean, he's done some very good stuff. But he also did Black Hawk Down. Gladiator. G.I. Jane. He's not exactly a sure thing. What has me more excited for Prometheus than anything is the brilliant advertising they've done. That one with the Robot guy who played Magneto in the new X-Men . . . .where he has the tears run down his face . . . Jesus . . . that was amazing.
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(Gladiator was good)
wp34:
--- Quote from: saint on July 13, 2012, 12:25:35 am ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 08, 2012, 05:35:35 pm ---We've all seen Blair Witch. We've seen Cloverfield. We've seen Paranormal Activity. It's retarded. There is absolutely nothing about Chronicle that makes it a good fit for the home-video style.
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Not true - I saw 5 seconds, literally about 5 seconds of Blair Witch, and almost threw up. Can't watch movies with that kind of camera work (see my rant elsewhere about some other movie recently) as I get nastily motion sick for hours. Didn't see Cloverfield because I was warned, or Paranormal Activity, and now Chronicle goes in that pile. Sucks.
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They actually do a pretty decent job of minimizing the "shaky camera" effect in Chronical. It is there at times but nowhere near as bad as Cloverfield. I've not seen Blair Witch or Paranormal to compare.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: saint on July 13, 2012, 12:26:35 am ---(Gladiator was good)
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The Roman emperor personally goes into the arena to fight a slave in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat in front of thousands of his subjects. You can't win this one, Saint. :cheers:
shmokes:
--- Quote from: saint on July 13, 2012, 12:25:35 am ---I saw 5 seconds, literally about 5 seconds of Blair Witch, and almost threw up. Can't watch movies with that kind of camera work (see my rant elsewhere about some other movie recently) as I get nastily motion sick for hours. Didn't see Cloverfield because I was warned, or Paranormal Activity, and now Chronicle goes in that pile. Sucks.
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This is such a shame. The film gains absolutely nothing from the found-footage gimmick. As lame as Blair Witch was, the gimmick worked for it. It was part of the story. The whole point was to present this thing to the audience as though it were a real thing that really happened. Here it's just, a movie. It's not like when you watch a normal movie you're thinking the whole time, "WTF? Why is all of this being caught on camera? Why are these people's lives set to music?" Doing found-footage just for the sake of it, as though it is a technique on equal footing with traditional cinematography . . . that's just crazy. And like I said, it's a shame. I'm sure you'd love this film. So much so that I almost recommend at least giving it a shot. It's probably not so shaky and amateurish as Blair Witch (though I haven't seen Blair Witch since it was in theaters so I have no idea what I'm basing that statement on). Maybe swallow a Dramamine before watching it.
saint:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 13, 2012, 09:03:35 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on July 13, 2012, 12:26:35 am ---(Gladiator was good)
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The Roman emperor personally goes into the arena to fight a slave in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat in front of thousands of his subjects. You can't win this one, Saint. :cheers:
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78%/85% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.4 on IMDB, $187 mill at the box office, 5 Oscars -- I didn't say it was intellectually stimulating, I said it was good as in entertaining. :)
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