There is some conjecture that this movie “replaced” Shazam, Sinbad’s missing film...
https://youtu.be/t2XdeUum9n8
I just watched the whole thing, fascinated by the possibility it’s an entire film created by AI of some kind.
I’ll just write down some random observations I had while watching:
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characters seem wooden, lacking a soul. Which is interesting, because one of the major themes is of an alien not understanding human emotion.
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mathematics. Two times, a character almost obsessively pays attention to how money is divided into smaller parts.
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geometry. For a class project, the “alien” crafts a perfect pyramid. A lot of attention is paid to “building pyramids” perfectly.
And the most interesting quote is all the way at the end.
Savage says “so, no one at the party even remembered Dorf.”
Sinbad, the alien responds, “once a Drain is defeated, his past, present and future goes with him.”
An interesting concept, the idea that by taking something out of reality, history changes in response. A perfect description of the Mandela Effect, within a Mandela Effect.
I don’t have any real opinion on this movie, since I’d never heard of it before.
But if it really is the creation of some type of computer program, there are a lot of things in Aliens for Breakfast that provide food for thought.
I’m not sure... everybody just seemed “off”... it’s especially evident when juxtaposed with the McDonalds commercials.
P.S. I know the skeptics will downvote this post into oblivion. I’m not saying this is related to ME, I’m simply providing my analysis. By the way, why are you trolling this sub? It’s like atheists trolling a Christianity sub.
I was watching "The Crow" again and I noticed it ticks almost every box there is for a movie. It has:
Action: hand-to-hand fight scenes, gunfights, a knife fight, a car chase, explosions, stunts, parkour, swordplay including the final sword fight
Drama: pretty good acting, tragedy and revenge
Horror: there's plenty of gore, what happens to the protagonist and his fiancee is horrific, and they do a good job of showing how horrific he becomes to his enemies
Sex: there is some sexy stuff, some partial nudity, mild sex scenes
Comedy: there are some pretty funny lines for comic relief here and there, a lot better than what most serious movies throw in and it doesn't seem forced
Romance: the whole thing is centered on a depressing love story and I think they do a lot to establish the love with all the various flashbacks
Music: the soundtrack is very good and plays a prominent role in the plot including various performances, lots of great rock songs as well as an atmospheric score
Cinematography: there's a lot of artful cinematography that uses the graphic novel style
Miscellaneous: the movie features weather (rain), an anti-drug message, racial tension, a cool long haired villain, hot dogs, over easy eggs, child and animal actors (including a cat), Ernie Hudson
The only things "The Crow" doesn't have that I can think of is elderly people. I didn't remember seeing an elderly person in the entire movie though I could be wrong. I could say it didn't have any dildos or space ships, but dildos falls under "sex" for me which it covered and it's not a sci-fi movie so you can't really expect space ships.
Bottom line, it's really fun for the whole family. What more could you want besides elderly people? Sure it has some corny parts, but overall I think it's the closest thing I can think of to a complete movie in so far as including all the things I've mentioned. If you can think of a movie that has ALL the stuff I just talked about please let me know! I think "Ghostbusters" (1984) is close being that it has action, comedy, drama, horror, romance, great music, and Ernie Hudson, but it doesn't really come close to having everything "The Crow" has. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986) is another one that has a lot, it even has parkour, but it's very light on the horror.
Does a bear scat in the woods?
(Zee-ba-da-zap-dooey)
Going into the Stargate franchise, I wasn't sure had I seen this before as a kid. It had the familiar feeling of what I grew into, watching all 90s sci-fi and action broadcast on the cable channels during late Friday evenings.
26 years after it's initial release, Stargate still holds up. It's an interesting plot with the Egyptian mythology woven into science fiction. They could've gone further with the Egypt stuff, which I'm hoping they'll do in SG-1. The effects aren't dated as badly as they could have and won't snap you out of the movie experience. Some parts of the film felt a little bit rushed, but overall the story is well written.
Today, after work I'll be finally starting SG-1, which to me is only familiar by random episode and clips of them on TV as a kid. I kinda know the premise but nothing more. Totally excited!
This is not only the largest budgeted Newfoundland film ever, but simply one of the greatest science fiction films of the 1990s. What Anchor Zone is able to accomplish on such a relatively conservative budget is nothing short of astounding. An absolutely fascinating piece of Canuxploitation history, and perhaps the highest quality Canuxploitation film. With a larger budget and/or a wider release, the masses would be heralding this shimmering, highly inventive gem for the cult classic that it is. This is the sort of outsider SciFi film that true cinephiles dream of discovering
Anchor Zone was to be the feature film that would place Newfoundland on the map as not only a desirable shooting location for bigger budget pictures, but as a viable cinematic force in it’s own right. But alas, it was not meant to be. Thankfully, we got Anchor Zone out of it
Here is a brilliant retrospective piece on the storied production of the film: http://thescope.ca/onscreen/a-tale-of-future-past-a-short-oral-history-of-anchor-zone
https://boxd.it/8WcY
Precious Gems: https://boxd.it/4B0pm
Edit: Okay so, this post gained a lot more traction than I was expecting. I woke up to over 150 replies and that's obviously more than I can realistically be expected to engage with. I want to thank the redditors who actually took the time to come up with a thoughtful response either to the original post or one of my follow-up comments, and there were plenty of you who offered good points that did change my viewpoint, so I'll be awarding deltas when I get time. There were also plenty who did not afford me such a courtesy however; one redditor went so far as to claim that I should be put on medication because I disagree with their opinion. Obviously, worthless comments like this are a dime a dozen on reddit but I wanted to focus on this one because as un-constructive as it is, I don't know if the commenter realized how hilariously dystopian their suggestion was. "You don't buy into the hype for Lion King 2019? Better drug yourself so you fit in with what my vision of a society is." Sorry to hear my opinion about kids movies about talking animals is such an affront to you that I need to change my brain's chemistry to appease you, sire. On this note I also think people have misinterpreted how ardently care about this topic. I don't lay awake at night cursing the Disney company because they made remakes of my childhood movies and replying to my original post with a response that implies that i take it that seriously is founded on false premises. Perhaps I worded my original title too negatively, because I don't care that much. What my overall point was, was that I don't buy into the hype. /edit
The most common arguments I see in support of seeing these remakes produced have been: 1. Makes me nostalgic. 2. It’s what we love but made with better effects / production value. 3. It’s like a Shakespeare play, we haven’t seen this version of X story. And here’s why I think each of those arguments completely fails:
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Yeah, that’s exactly the point. Disney KNOWS it makes you nostalgic and that’s why they’ve chosen these properties. Not because they want to create greater art than the original, but because they know they have a guaranteed market before they even start pre-production.
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This argument, to me, is just all kinds of infuriating. The Transformers films had “better effects” than the TV show. Doesn’t mean they weren’t steaming piles of garbage. Surprise surprise, one of the most powerful and wealthiest corporations in all history can make a technic
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This is not only the largest budgeted Newfoundland film ever, but simply one of the greatest science fiction films of the 1990s. What Anchor Zone is able to accomplish on such a relatively conservative budget is nothing short of astounding. An absolutely fascinating piece of Canuxploitation history, and perhaps the highest quality Canuxploitation film. With a larger budget and/or a wider release, the masses would be heralding this shimmering, highly inventive gem for the cult classic that it is. This is the sort of outsider SciFi film that true cinephiles dream of discovering
Anchor Zone was to be the feature film that would place Newfoundland on the map as not only a desirable shooting location for bigger budget pictures, but as a viable cinematic force in it’s own right. But alas, it was not meant to be. Thankfully, we got Anchor Zone out of it
Here is a brilliant retrospective piece on the storied production of the film: http://thescope.ca/onscreen/a-tale-of-future-past-a-short-oral-history-of-anchor-zone
https://boxd.it/8WcY
Precious Gems: https://boxd.it/4B0pm
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