I thought it was actually supposed to be really scary? Like, I thought the point was that you didn’t see the monster for a long time, and that when it came out the shaky camera thing hadn’t gotten completely overdone yet, so it was supposed to be pretty terrifying? IDK, I never saw it, and I think I must’ve been in high school when it came out.
People tend to write it off as a fairly good monster movie and not much else- -but when you find out it’s actually about 9/11* it just becomes SO unsettling. Which is intentional…but there’s bits of it I literally can’t watch, I fast-forward through them. :( *Stuff what I learned in Film Studies. I did my dissertation on 9/11 imagery in blockbuster films…although it wasn’t a good dissertation. *sheepish*
Oh! What kind of dissertation did you do? Like an undergraduate degree or a graduate degree?
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sarah531 October 12, 2012 @ 6:39 pm
It was for my last year of university before I graduated- I did joint honours, film studies and creative writing. :D
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ladymercury_10 October 12, 2012 @ 8:36 pm
Oh, cool! I did creative writing, too. But I didn’t do honors, so I didn’t have to do a dissertation, just a portfolio. :P
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marence October 11, 2012 @ 2:31 pm
Everyone tells me it’s great, it’s scary, it’s got a great “surprise” ending. Never seen it. I HATE shaky-cam. Left a showing of Blair Witch Project after 10 minutes because of it. (Although that movie had the best [at the time] viral marketing scheme…) Have you ever seen Event Horizon ? I thought it was a space movie; it turned out to be one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen. It’s topped only by The Birds and Eraserhead. (Disclaimer: I am a SPFX makeup artist and was a haunted house actor for 15 years. Blood and gore don’t scare me, they take me out of the movie and get me interested in “how’d they do that?”)
Surprise ending? Hmmm…not really. *puzzled* I can see why the shaky-cam would put you off, I actually get really motion-sick, so I’m still not sure why I didn’t feel sick watching it. Yet 3D makes me feel sick sometimes. Weird… I’ve never seen Event Horizon, but I saw the other two in Film Studies class back in high school. And oh god yes, Eraserhead is horrifying. :O That sounds like a FANTASTIC job to have! :D
I don’t get motion-sick in the real world, but give me 5 minutes of shaky-cam and I’m woozy. 3D gives me headaches, except once – we got to see a demo reel of James Cameron’s explorations with 3D (just before Avatar) and Sony passed out these well-made, crystal-clear glasses that actually fit over regular glasses and didn’t distort! That was the only good 3D experience I’ve had, and I found out years later that these are the same $$$ glasses that you get with a high-end 3D TV. No wonder the guy at the door was so cautious about getting the pair back from each attendee! The haunted house stuff was for one of the few remaining charity haunted houses here. All volunteer, although after working with experienced SPFX artists, I learned enough to get hired to do stuff for movies (all low-budget crap, although I did help create a vagina dentata for one of the Troma movies) and run teaching seminars. We’ve had a few of our artists go to Hollywood, one (so far) has been on the show “Face-Off”, and a few have gone on to open or run big professional haunted houses – one of our friends (who I taught basics to, way back when he was a teen) is running the new Goratorium on the Las Vegas Strip! About the horrifying – I try to warn people off of Event Horizon unless they want to be terrified. And Eraserhead is what made me love David Lynch, because the movie haunted me. It didn’t help that when I first saw it, I had an infant at home. OK, I’ll stop – I could talk about SPFX and movies all day. I can’t type about it all day, tho.
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sarah531 October 12, 2012 @ 6:45 pm
I used to work at a cinema that only handed out cheap, easily broken 3D glasses but still wanted them back at the end. Humph. That sounds like so much fun! :D There aren’t really any big proper haunted house attractions round here in my part of Britain, or none that I’ve heard of. I’ve heard America does them very, very well though…
October 11, 2012 @ 12:19 am
I thought it was actually supposed to be really scary? Like, I thought the point was that you didn’t see the monster for a long time, and that when it came out the shaky camera thing hadn’t gotten completely overdone yet, so it was supposed to be pretty terrifying? IDK, I never saw it, and I think I must’ve been in high school when it came out.
October 11, 2012 @ 11:14 am
People tend to write it off as a fairly good monster movie and not much else- -but when you find out it’s actually about 9/11* it just becomes SO unsettling. Which is intentional…but there’s bits of it I literally can’t watch, I fast-forward through them. :( *Stuff what I learned in Film Studies. I did my dissertation on 9/11 imagery in blockbuster films…although it wasn’t a good dissertation. *sheepish*
October 11, 2012 @ 4:30 pm
Oh! What kind of dissertation did you do? Like an undergraduate degree or a graduate degree?
October 12, 2012 @ 6:39 pm
It was for my last year of university before I graduated- I did joint honours, film studies and creative writing. :D
October 12, 2012 @ 8:36 pm
Oh, cool! I did creative writing, too. But I didn’t do honors, so I didn’t have to do a dissertation, just a portfolio. :P
October 11, 2012 @ 2:31 pm
Everyone tells me it’s great, it’s scary, it’s got a great “surprise” ending. Never seen it. I HATE shaky-cam. Left a showing of Blair Witch Project after 10 minutes because of it. (Although that movie had the best [at the time] viral marketing scheme…) Have you ever seen Event Horizon ? I thought it was a space movie; it turned out to be one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen. It’s topped only by The Birds and Eraserhead. (Disclaimer: I am a SPFX makeup artist and was a haunted house actor for 15 years. Blood and gore don’t scare me, they take me out of the movie and get me interested in “how’d they do that?”)
October 11, 2012 @ 4:04 pm
Surprise ending? Hmmm…not really. *puzzled* I can see why the shaky-cam would put you off, I actually get really motion-sick, so I’m still not sure why I didn’t feel sick watching it. Yet 3D makes me feel sick sometimes. Weird… I’ve never seen Event Horizon, but I saw the other two in Film Studies class back in high school. And oh god yes, Eraserhead is horrifying. :O That sounds like a FANTASTIC job to have! :D
October 11, 2012 @ 5:31 pm
I don’t get motion-sick in the real world, but give me 5 minutes of shaky-cam and I’m woozy. 3D gives me headaches, except once – we got to see a demo reel of James Cameron’s explorations with 3D (just before Avatar) and Sony passed out these well-made, crystal-clear glasses that actually fit over regular glasses and didn’t distort! That was the only good 3D experience I’ve had, and I found out years later that these are the same $$$ glasses that you get with a high-end 3D TV. No wonder the guy at the door was so cautious about getting the pair back from each attendee! The haunted house stuff was for one of the few remaining charity haunted houses here. All volunteer, although after working with experienced SPFX artists, I learned enough to get hired to do stuff for movies (all low-budget crap, although I did help create a vagina dentata for one of the Troma movies) and run teaching seminars. We’ve had a few of our artists go to Hollywood, one (so far) has been on the show “Face-Off”, and a few have gone on to open or run big professional haunted houses – one of our friends (who I taught basics to, way back when he was a teen) is running the new Goratorium on the Las Vegas Strip! About the horrifying – I try to warn people off of Event Horizon unless they want to be terrified. And Eraserhead is what made me love David Lynch, because the movie haunted me. It didn’t help that when I first saw it, I had an infant at home. OK, I’ll stop – I could talk about SPFX and movies all day. I can’t type about it all day, tho.
October 12, 2012 @ 6:45 pm
I used to work at a cinema that only handed out cheap, easily broken 3D glasses but still wanted them back at the end. Humph. That sounds like so much fun! :D There aren’t really any big proper haunted house attractions round here in my part of Britain, or none that I’ve heard of. I’ve heard America does them very, very well though…