Sorry about deleting your blank post there Pedro. But I thought it might lack in reply comments.
The following is not book related.
Watched a couple movies this weekend worth mentioning. Firstly, that Peter Jackson guy rules. And not for LOTR's hours of mind pounding reproducing of JRRT's fine fantasy books. I am talking about Bad Taste . At first I thought I was in trouble for the noticably incomprehensible New Zealand accent. It felt as though they might have used the same dubbing technology popular in the Mad Max/Road Warrior films. Yeah, us Americans have a real hard time understanding english spoken with an accent. Take the Texan dialect for instance. I can't help but think a person is lying to me when I hear Texan.
This fear was only held for about 2 more minutes. When the superbly low budget gore kicked in, I knew it would be alright. Yeah, the special effects at times made me feel like they had picked up the props from roadkill sheep. In fact I would almost be certain they did.
The storyline is pretty simple. Agents from an interplanetary food distributor have decided to come to Earth to harvest human meat for a new product line. Somehow four completely unlikely nerds who are also members of an elite anti-alien SWAT team of sorts deploy to thwart the alien invasion. Massive sploding takes place. Sure you can't tell what people are saying because the NZ brogue is thick and fast, but who cares. I laughed so hard several times in viewing that I nearly sprayed my own guts on the screen. Especially humourous was one RPG induced sheep sploding. No Dingoes were harmed in the film.
I give it 5 out of 5 cricket bats for gratuitous sheep sploding, ridiculously cheap gore, bad metal tunes in soundtrack, bad dubbing.
Alternately, I watched I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse by Fernando Arrabal. For the most part it was ... It took on the usual ... As a surrealist film it ranks with ... You know I am having a hard time putting my finger on it. It tried to hard to point things out. It was too overt when it should have been covert. It felt as if it was trying to borrow too much from things that had been done before. It doesn't hold up to The Holy Mountain, but is very similar in it's attempts to contrast the simple life to the material life. Lot's of suggested poop eating. The French can't get enough of that action. I don't feel I gained anything by watching this film.
The following is not book related.
Watched a couple movies this weekend worth mentioning. Firstly, that Peter Jackson guy rules. And not for LOTR's hours of mind pounding reproducing of JRRT's fine fantasy books. I am talking about Bad Taste . At first I thought I was in trouble for the noticably incomprehensible New Zealand accent. It felt as though they might have used the same dubbing technology popular in the Mad Max/Road Warrior films. Yeah, us Americans have a real hard time understanding english spoken with an accent. Take the Texan dialect for instance. I can't help but think a person is lying to me when I hear Texan.
This fear was only held for about 2 more minutes. When the superbly low budget gore kicked in, I knew it would be alright. Yeah, the special effects at times made me feel like they had picked up the props from roadkill sheep. In fact I would almost be certain they did.
The storyline is pretty simple. Agents from an interplanetary food distributor have decided to come to Earth to harvest human meat for a new product line. Somehow four completely unlikely nerds who are also members of an elite anti-alien SWAT team of sorts deploy to thwart the alien invasion. Massive sploding takes place. Sure you can't tell what people are saying because the NZ brogue is thick and fast, but who cares. I laughed so hard several times in viewing that I nearly sprayed my own guts on the screen. Especially humourous was one RPG induced sheep sploding. No Dingoes were harmed in the film.
I give it 5 out of 5 cricket bats for gratuitous sheep sploding, ridiculously cheap gore, bad metal tunes in soundtrack, bad dubbing.
Alternately, I watched I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse by Fernando Arrabal. For the most part it was ... It took on the usual ... As a surrealist film it ranks with ... You know I am having a hard time putting my finger on it. It tried to hard to point things out. It was too overt when it should have been covert. It felt as if it was trying to borrow too much from things that had been done before. It doesn't hold up to The Holy Mountain, but is very similar in it's attempts to contrast the simple life to the material life. Lot's of suggested poop eating. The French can't get enough of that action. I don't feel I gained anything by watching this film.
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