THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: WrikaWrek on August 17, 2008, 05:00:29 PM
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Fuck Cloverfield, fuck Godzilla, fuck all that shit.
You guys need to see The Host. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468492/
This movie is unlike anything you would ever see from Hollywood. This movie is clever, funny, and thrilling, and has a couple of sequences that will stay with you long after the movie is over.
Must Watch.
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Saw it in the theater last year, really enjoyed it.
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Hated it. The SFX were garbage.
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I love the Host, one of my favorite monster movies.
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I didn't really think it was anything special. It was sufficient. Then again, I'm not much of a monster movie guy.
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I didn't really think it was anything special. It was sufficient. Then again, I'm not much of a monster movie guy.
I was going to say "I've been meaning to watch that movie for a while now..." and then was distracted by the lovely Munn-juggling:
(http://i36.tinypic.com/34ta134.gif)(http://i36.tinypic.com/34ta134.gif)(http://i36.tinypic.com/34ta134.gif)
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Yeah, it was alright. Sure it's better than Godzilla or Clovercrap, but so is 90 minutes of my dog running around barking at shit.
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Hated it. The SFX were garbage.
It's Korean, what did you expect? Well, cheeseburgers, I guess, and I'm sure you were let down there.
The Host is neat. A lot like Oldboy, it's basically completely unpredictable, going from wacky family comedy to monster movie to wacky family monster movie. This is why I pay attention to whatever the hyped Korean movie of the moment is--it seems like cinema in Korea is to basically take the successful elements of foreign cinema and stick them in a blender. Actually, that same metaphor works for Korean music and video games, too.
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Hated it. The SFX were garbage.
It's Korean, what did you expect? Well, cheeseburgers, I guess, and I'm sure you were let down there.
The Host is neat. A lot like Oldboy, it's basically completely unpredictable, going from wacky family comedy to monster movie to wacky family monster movie. This is why I pay attention to whatever the hyped Korean movie of the moment is--it seems like cinema in Korea is to basically take the successful elements of foreign cinema and stick them in a blender. Actually, that same metaphor works for Korean music and video games, too.
But does that metaphor work for their cheeseburgers? Let's prioritize here.
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Hated it. The SFX were garbage.
It's Korean, what did you expect?
i think weta did the effects
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Hated it. The SFX were garbage.
It's Korean, what did you expect?
i think weta did the effects
The Orphanage did the fx for The Host, actually. (http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/host-orphanage-led-100-shot-t9569.html?s=6e9de561f75f5a53b93ef9b05cc66b92&)
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In The Host, Weta was given responsibility for constructing exceedingly detailed and realistic miniature models of the Creature
ah, my mistake
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Whenever I see that Munn loop, I'm always drawn more to the parade of expressions that cross her face than what's in the lower half of the frame. There's a moment of dawning comprehension, then a flash of what looks like disgust, then an overcorrection into a forced playful response.
Oh, yeah, The Host was playful and fairly intelligent, but at the end it veered right off a cliff into that sort of tragedy the Koreans seem to love to include in just about everything. Not my cup of tea, especially when I can predict it.
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It was my first time seeing that Munn loop. Who's fondling her, and how do I get that job?
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The Host = awesome.
I actually watched it for the first time in a film class.