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I really love the network page. I've read very interesting posts there. ♥ I just haven't commented because I'm sort of fuzzy about the etiquette in those cases.
I saw Tetsuo: The Iron Man yesterday. It's a 1989 cyberpunk Japanese movie. A very surreal movie. This is my reaction in a nut shell. At least it made more sense than Eraserhead? IDK
I got a little dizzy when the characters went through the streets so fast with the camera right behind them, but I think dizziness was the intended purpose. And it's also great that this movie is in black-and-white because it wouldn't have been half-as-nightmarish in color.
I can see why it is a classic, and I'm ver curious about the sequels.
Today, I saw Alucarda, a 1975 horror Mexican film, mainly because of the title. (Funny things happen when you role play the main vampire from certain a gorn manga.) All the dialogues are spoken in English. No clue why. Other than that, it had all the cheese and narm and all the feeling from a Mexican film from the 70s. ♥
I'm not really good at criticizing the technical aspect of movies, but this one lacks horribly in the editing department. For example, there's a scene where Alucarda and Justine find a church in the middle of the forest, but it's so obvious that church is actually in the middle of a town. The girls are running through the forest, there's a cut and then they are in the atrium. My reaction was to jump and ask "what did I miss?" There is not establishing shot before that and that kind of churches aren't just built in the middle of nowhere; they are always surrounded by a town or a convent. The establishing shot was needed if only because of that. They wasted a perfectly good opportunity to show it as the oddity it was.
It also seems like the person in charge of continuity resigned early on (for example, in one scene, one of the possessed girls was curling up after being bathed in holy water only to be replaced by a skeleton in a different posture).
And the writing, OMG. Whoever wrote the script deserves a prize for eluding the concept of a Chekhov's Gun so magnificently.
I was laughing so hard when the priest decapitated that dead body with a sword that came from hammerspace AND THAT NEVER SHOWED UP AGAIN! :'D Also, when the nuns were walking like nothing had happened after they were whipped. With whips that were obviously made of yarn.
Yet, nothing compares to the image of the idiosyncratically-dressed nuns bursting into flames. And the rescue team that approached to the convent walking and, when they heard the screams, went inside walking. Big Damn Heroes, you're doing it wrong. XD
My take on this film is that, given all the profanity, it was made only to shock. I see no redeeming value in this--unless the fact that it made me laugh so much counts.
Now, for a change of pace, I'd probably be watching The Book of Eli tomorrow.
I saw Tetsuo: The Iron Man yesterday. It's a 1989 cyberpunk Japanese movie. A very surreal movie. This is my reaction in a nut shell. At least it made more sense than Eraserhead? IDK
I got a little dizzy when the characters went through the streets so fast with the camera right behind them, but I think dizziness was the intended purpose. And it's also great that this movie is in black-and-white because it wouldn't have been half-as-nightmarish in color.
I can see why it is a classic, and I'm ver curious about the sequels.
Today, I saw Alucarda, a 1975 horror Mexican film, mainly because of the title. (Funny things happen when you role play the main vampire from certain a gorn manga.) All the dialogues are spoken in English. No clue why. Other than that, it had all the cheese and narm and all the feeling from a Mexican film from the 70s. ♥
I'm not really good at criticizing the technical aspect of movies, but this one lacks horribly in the editing department. For example, there's a scene where Alucarda and Justine find a church in the middle of the forest, but it's so obvious that church is actually in the middle of a town. The girls are running through the forest, there's a cut and then they are in the atrium. My reaction was to jump and ask "what did I miss?" There is not establishing shot before that and that kind of churches aren't just built in the middle of nowhere; they are always surrounded by a town or a convent. The establishing shot was needed if only because of that. They wasted a perfectly good opportunity to show it as the oddity it was.
It also seems like the person in charge of continuity resigned early on (for example, in one scene, one of the possessed girls was curling up after being bathed in holy water only to be replaced by a skeleton in a different posture).
And the writing, OMG. Whoever wrote the script deserves a prize for eluding the concept of a Chekhov's Gun so magnificently.
I was laughing so hard when the priest decapitated that dead body with a sword that came from hammerspace AND THAT NEVER SHOWED UP AGAIN! :'D Also, when the nuns were walking like nothing had happened after they were whipped. With whips that were obviously made of yarn.
Yet, nothing compares to the image of the idiosyncratically-dressed nuns bursting into flames. And the rescue team that approached to the convent walking and, when they heard the screams, went inside walking. Big Damn Heroes, you're doing it wrong. XD
My take on this film is that, given all the profanity, it was made only to shock. I see no redeeming value in this--unless the fact that it made me laugh so much counts.
Now, for a change of pace, I'd probably be watching The Book of Eli tomorrow.
