Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
I wasn't going to call you out...,i got the joke. However, since someone either didn't get the joke or just insisted on being an ass and call you out...,don't call me stupid, dumbass. IT hurtz my feelingz 🙁
Yes, I did fail at getting Mild's joke.
Facepalming myself.
facepalm
4 out of 5 review:
Where once the point of CGI in cinema might have been to produce images of crystalline, almost architecturally detailed clarity, now its future seems to lie in smudging, smearing and making indistinct. This terrifically exciting sci-fi movie from smart young British film-maker Gareth Edwards is a case in point. His digitally created beasts, and the exotically wrecked landscape they inhabit, seem to have been created from a kind of social-realist grime. It's strictly 2D: Edwards is the anti-James-Cameron. The effects don't draw attention to themselves: tentacle-waving aliens are all part of the general, grubby absence of law and order.
Monsters has been widely, and with good reason, compared to Neill Blomkamp's apartheid satire District 9, which also imagined extra-terrestrials in a post-awe spirit. These dirty, ramshackle creatures were just another species of the dispossessed, to be feared and hated by the white overclass. Edwards's movie imagines that Nasa received news of alien life out in the galaxy, sent up a space probe to recover some of its seeds and spores, but that the returning craft crashed in Mexico, where the aliens came to grow and roam, turning that entire nation into a bio-hazard zone. Could the panicky US authorities have deliberately allowed the alien-bearing spacecraft to crash down Mexico way, thus keeping the yucky immigrant aliens well out of American territory? Either way, the situation is now a Swiftian cartoon: the rich nation fearing its poorer neighbour. It is here that photojournalist Kaulder, played by Scoot McNairy, finds himself on assignment, snapping the aliens and their human victims. He is furious to be ordered to "babysit" his boss's beautiful, vulnerable daughter Samantha (Whitney Able), accompanying her through the ultra-dangerous alien zone to the US border. Inevitably, their relationship begins to change.
Both the satire and the human story are more involving than in District 9, and McNairy, in particular, gives an excellent and very convincing performance. This is a very postmodern sci-fi, with its downbeat approach to the monsters themselves, but with a hugely involving love story. Edwards's movie – he writes, directs, produces and creates visual effects – has also drawn explicitly on classic models. He channels the upriver nightmares of Herzog and Coppola, with a strong streak of Spielbergian wonder at the sight of two aliens apparently dancing, or communicating, or having sex – an epiphany that sets the seal on the humans' relationship. And the final sequence in which Kaulder and Sam gaze at the protective great wall America has created, musing on how America looks from the outside, is a superb final gesture: mysterious, daunting and sad. The idea of a "journey" has become absurd in the age of reality TV. Yet this one has really meant something.
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[QUOTE=13103601]Originally posted by dadudemon
Wait a minute...this movie sucked and it had a really really low budget? DAMN IT!
I thought it looked good. 🙁 I wanted to see it. 🙁 [/QUOTE
Suck isn't a strong enough word. Although, i'm not sure what word to use in place of suck. I have poor articulation and a limited vocabulary. What ever word describes, the worst thing ever, would be a good word. So, until i find that word i'll stick with painful.
Originally posted by MildPossession
4 out of 5 review:Where once the point of CGI in cinema might have been to produce images of crystalline, almost architecturally detailed clarity, now its future seems to lie in smudging, smearing and making indistinct. This terrifically exciting sci-fi movie from smart young British film-maker Gareth Edwards is a case in point. His digitally created beasts, and the exotically wrecked landscape they inhabit, seem to have been created from a kind of social-realist grime. It's strictly 2D: Edwards is the anti-James-Cameron. The effects don't draw attention to themselves: tentacle-waving aliens are all part of the general, grubby absence of law and order.
Monsters has been widely, and with good reason, compared to Neill Blomkamp's apartheid satire District 9, which also imagined extra-terrestrials in a post-awe spirit. These dirty, ramshackle creatures were just another species of the dispossessed, to be feared and hated by the white overclass. Edwards's movie imagines that Nasa received news of alien life out in the galaxy, sent up a space probe to recover some of its seeds and spores, but that the returning craft crashed in Mexico, where the aliens came to grow and roam, turning that entire nation into a bio-hazard zone. Could the panicky US authorities have deliberately allowed the alien-bearing spacecraft to crash down Mexico way, thus keeping the yucky immigrant aliens well out of American territory? Either way, the situation is now a Swiftian cartoon: the rich nation fearing its poorer neighbour. It is here that photojournalist Kaulder, played by Scoot McNairy, finds himself on assignment, snapping the aliens and their human victims. He is furious to be ordered to "babysit" his boss's beautiful, vulnerable daughter Samantha (Whitney Able), accompanying her through the ultra-dangerous alien zone to the US border. Inevitably, their relationship begins to change.
Both the satire and the human story are more involving than in District 9, and McNairy, in particular, gives an excellent and very convincing performance. This is a very postmodern sci-fi, with its downbeat approach to the monsters themselves, but with a hugely involving love story. Edwards's movie – he writes, directs, produces and creates visual effects – has also drawn explicitly on classic models. He channels the upriver nightmares of Herzog and Coppola, with a strong streak of Spielbergian wonder at the sight of two aliens apparently dancing, or communicating, or having sex – an epiphany that sets the seal on the humans' relationship. And the final sequence in which Kaulder and Sam gaze at the protective great wall America has created, musing on how America looks from the outside, is a superb final gesture: mysterious, daunting and sad. The idea of a "journey" has become absurd in the age of reality TV. Yet this one has really meant something.
🙂
See, it sounds good, there, but my boy jinXed by JaNx is telling me something different.
I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST!
I'll see it. If it sucks, I'll be sad.
Came away very disappointed by this film...The setting and plot are completely irrelevant as it's entirely about the forming of the relationship between the 2 main characters. It had some very choice shots in it though...Some beautiful imagery but that's about it. Calling it "Monsters" is highly misleading though..."Lack of Monsters" is more like it...
Originally posted by MildPossession
^ Thank you. I have mentioned a lot, all over the internet, not to expect a big action film and so on.Jaden, were you impressed that this film only cost around £250,000?
There's only really 1 scene with a large amount of CGI which would appear expensive...The rest is token gestures and look bad being so...Grainy night vision TV footage of tentacled monsters mostly...
So hydraulic work with a couple of pick up trucks flipping over and the like.
Like "The Road" most of the footage of devastation is clearly on location in places such as New Orleans in areas still abandoned since Katrina and possibly cities in southern America that have been hit by earthquakes so there wasn't much cost involved.
I knew I wouldn't be getting a huge action movie for the budget but the problem is that even in most of the scenes where you expect some kind of incident to happen as the build up occurs...there is nothing.
Granted though...Some of the camera work is exceptional...I small scene is executed beautifully...Namely when they are travelling up river in a motor boat and the sun is setting and the camera is focused on the reflections in the rippling water...It looks amazing.
Apart from some choice cinematography and good acting by the lead male there isn't a lot going for it.