24th August 2010, 11:09 AM
So everyone is basically saying movies with serious and dramatic overtones are ridiculous but this movie with disembodied cultural references and random events pieced together from already existing sitcoms from the past 40 years is a "must see".
There's a strong biased towards the faux indie scene these days where a studio makes a low budget film written by the same people who produce Collegehumor clips (apparently) and rake in the cash with (usually) no-name talent, all because there's usually a borderline watermark of indecency pushed for each film, someone gets hit with a dildo, a girl queefs in public, tubs of semen or "blah blah blah Halo" where the punchline is that a film made a reference to something you know that is not usually talked about in a film beyond the generic eyebrow raise to sex or "video game" moniker. Real writing? actual characters? arcs? movies that make you feel good? the last one I saw was Hot Tub Time Machine but it still had to go in to piss and cum jokes, old fashioned shock imagery and again the punchline is "I cant believe they showed that!" no ACTUAL joke, no actual writing, just an image or scene to surprise you.
"Night is too serious and somber". So the preacher living by himself and his two kids out in the country who is invaded by aliens should have more Independence Day quips like "welcome to earth" or MIB's sarcastic view of humanity? Signs isn't a comedy by any stretch of the imagination, it's also not a blockbuster. It's not mean to please everyone, its meant as a very particular style of film. Not everyone likes Star Trek for the same reasons you mentioned DJ, or Twilight Zone. But the idea that you think its less credible or an inferior product because of your personal opinion is bullocks. Night's movies have a flow of dialog that flows realistically. If you want to talk about unrealistic dialog look at almost any Spielberg film. Night captures dialog as fluently as Kubrick where real-life scenarios play out and create actual human conflict, another supporter of that style did a little movie called Inglorious Bastards. Instead of pretending the realism was there and then dramatizing it, its laid out as realism AND THEN dramatized through photography which is something Spielberg and Cameron only do during slow scenes and magically forget about during action so they dont 'overload the audience'.
Night also wrote Stuart Little and I remember reading that the film script was doctored by several of Hollywood's golden boys of comedy before being finalized. Maybe comedy just isn't his thing, but creating something very serious for something extremely fantastic is exactly what a good film should do. And then complaining that they were running from the wind in the Happening? are you serious? Haven't you ready ANY King or Koontz? like, ever? they ran from fog, rain, wind, darkness, light, trucks, cars, bicycles, snow and a fucking clown. And you're upset that a movie that tells you at the start of the film that AN AIRBORNE VIRUS IS INFECTING HUMAN BEINGS which causes the players of the film to avoid strong winds???? REALLY?
REALLY???
If we were talking about Day after Tomorrow's ULTRA ICE WIND that literally CHASED THE CHARACTERS UP STAIRS then yes I would see your point, but then again its DAY AFTER FUCKING TOMORROW.
There's a strong biased towards the faux indie scene these days where a studio makes a low budget film written by the same people who produce Collegehumor clips (apparently) and rake in the cash with (usually) no-name talent, all because there's usually a borderline watermark of indecency pushed for each film, someone gets hit with a dildo, a girl queefs in public, tubs of semen or "blah blah blah Halo" where the punchline is that a film made a reference to something you know that is not usually talked about in a film beyond the generic eyebrow raise to sex or "video game" moniker. Real writing? actual characters? arcs? movies that make you feel good? the last one I saw was Hot Tub Time Machine but it still had to go in to piss and cum jokes, old fashioned shock imagery and again the punchline is "I cant believe they showed that!" no ACTUAL joke, no actual writing, just an image or scene to surprise you.
"Night is too serious and somber". So the preacher living by himself and his two kids out in the country who is invaded by aliens should have more Independence Day quips like "welcome to earth" or MIB's sarcastic view of humanity? Signs isn't a comedy by any stretch of the imagination, it's also not a blockbuster. It's not mean to please everyone, its meant as a very particular style of film. Not everyone likes Star Trek for the same reasons you mentioned DJ, or Twilight Zone. But the idea that you think its less credible or an inferior product because of your personal opinion is bullocks. Night's movies have a flow of dialog that flows realistically. If you want to talk about unrealistic dialog look at almost any Spielberg film. Night captures dialog as fluently as Kubrick where real-life scenarios play out and create actual human conflict, another supporter of that style did a little movie called Inglorious Bastards. Instead of pretending the realism was there and then dramatizing it, its laid out as realism AND THEN dramatized through photography which is something Spielberg and Cameron only do during slow scenes and magically forget about during action so they dont 'overload the audience'.
Night also wrote Stuart Little and I remember reading that the film script was doctored by several of Hollywood's golden boys of comedy before being finalized. Maybe comedy just isn't his thing, but creating something very serious for something extremely fantastic is exactly what a good film should do. And then complaining that they were running from the wind in the Happening? are you serious? Haven't you ready ANY King or Koontz? like, ever? they ran from fog, rain, wind, darkness, light, trucks, cars, bicycles, snow and a fucking clown. And you're upset that a movie that tells you at the start of the film that AN AIRBORNE VIRUS IS INFECTING HUMAN BEINGS which causes the players of the film to avoid strong winds???? REALLY?
REALLY???
If we were talking about Day after Tomorrow's ULTRA ICE WIND that literally CHASED THE CHARACTERS UP STAIRS then yes I would see your point, but then again its DAY AFTER FUCKING TOMORROW.