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Saturday, August 16, 2014
Thursday, August 14, 2014
TERRIBLE STOP-MOTION - PART 1: "ROCKY'S RESTORATION... BABY!"
MY TERRIBLE STOP-MOTION
PART 1: "ROCKY'S RESTORATION"
These are some of my first and only attempts at stop-motion animation. It's a very long and boring process. For three hours of work, you might get 30 seconds of useable footage. That's why there is only three of these... and naturally, I was watching a lot of Robot Chicken at the time, so that was easy enough to steal.
PART 1: "ROCKY'S RESTORATION"
These are some of my first and only attempts at stop-motion animation. It's a very long and boring process. For three hours of work, you might get 30 seconds of useable footage. That's why there is only three of these... and naturally, I was watching a lot of Robot Chicken at the time, so that was easy enough to steal.
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Monday, August 11, 2014
BAD MOVIES THAT SHOULD BE SCENE (34 OF 100)
"Crank: High Voltage" (2009),
Dir: Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor
Dir: Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor
$20,000,000 Budget vs. $13.630,226 in Gross
The Crank films (or better yet Grand Theft Auto: The Movie)
are about as puerile entertainment as you can get, and that's exactly what makes them so
great. Logic is thrown out the window to keep the mindless entertainment a-comin'. But whereas the first Crank is actually a good
film, the second is an excuse to bring all these characters back and throw just
about everything including the neighbor's dog and the kitchen sink into the
mess. It doesn't try to be a better film than its predecessor, just louder,
ruder, and more excessive... which deserves viewing.
Crank: High Voltage opens with a two-bit video game sequence recreating
the final events of the last film. Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) falls from a
helicopter to what-should-be his glorious death, but bounces off a car and hits the
street, still alive. And convenient for Chev, a gang of Chinese organ
thieves nab his less-than-shattered-body and keep Chev alive for about three months. They remove
his heart and give him a shoddy pacemaker, keeping his body going for them to harvest the rest of his organs. One day, Chev wakes up in the middle of
surgery as they are about to remove his dong. He miraculously springs into action
(very limber considering he's been immobile for months), and sets to get his heart back.
No
one can blame Neveldine and Taylor for taking their
brainchild to the next level. The first film saw Chev on a crazy suicide
run in which the only
way to keep his heart from exploding was to partake in as much sex,
drugs, and
rock 'n' roll as he possibly could (pretty much the rules to Grand Theft
Auto). The second film removes the heart from the equation and adds a
masochistic twist where Chev requires electrical shocks to recharge (a
still very video game-inspired plot device). This is less of an
evolution on the original concept and more of a
vehicle for more violence, more sex, and more insanity.
For an example, in the first Crank film, we meet
Chev's girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart) half-way through the movie. She's the typical easy-going L.A. girl and probably the only good thing Chev has
in his life. In the second Crank, Eve shows up about fifteen minutes into the
movie working as a stripper and wearing electrical tape over her nipples. Her and Chev's big scene in the first film comes when Chev is forced to, well, rape Eve in
the streets of Chinatown in order to get his adrenaline up. Eve is reluctant at
first, but then joins in, actually enjoying it, as can be seen below....
The scene turns into one of the
cinema’s most lewd and degrading public sex scenes (but it’s fantastic). In the
second film, their big scene comes when Chev’s “strawberry tart” is suddenly running out of juice and
Chev needs to create some friction to recharge. Eve, without a second thought, jumps Chev at the horse races and the two proceed to repeat the
same scene of
the first film, about forty minutes earlier this time and in front of a
stadium of
hundreds of Chinese people all watching. After that, Eve's character
just kinda exists. Point is, though, that Crank 2 exists to dethrone
whatever Crank 1 threw out there (and it’s even more fantastic)... So, you get the logic...
As it is a movie designed to push every
button it can, there is actually only two
items that irk me about this movie. The objectifying of women was definitely present in the first
film, but much more increasingly in the second. In the
first film, hookers were paid to hang out in bikinis in plastic bubbles as part
of the scenery (which no one really objected to in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi).
In the second film, for the most part, they just lay around completely
naked, covered in scum, and do nothing but being naked bodies on
display. (There is actually so much nudity in Crank 2, I’m surprised it
only got an R rating.) And aside Eve, the only other female character is
Ria (Bai Ling), the crazy, motor-mouth, crack-head
hooker. Though funny, her character is pretty much an abomination for Women's Rights, setting them back about a thousand years...
SPLILER ALERT!!! The second is that it brings back the villain from the first
Crank movie, Verona (Jose Pablo Cantillo), in the most logic-defying scene of
the film. Whereas Chev survived the helicopter fall, unscathed, Verona is now a
talking head in a giant fish-tank, still running the show... Nah. That's where
this movie feels like an episode of Ninja Turtles for me with Krang as the villain, and
I gotta just say nah...
In
comparing the two, Crank 2 is not as good as the first. The first had
moments of heart and questioned its own nature at
times. Crank: High Voltage is much like its protagonist: heartless and
psychotic… But what it lacks in humanity, it makes up for in pure gonzo.
MORE SPOILERS!!!! To name a few things Crank
2 has that I've never seen in a mainstream action film before,
(1) Man
getting shotgun up ass. (2) Stripper’s fake boobs leaking everywhere.
(3) Men transforming into Godzilla-monsters. (4) Flashback in the form
of British talk show starring 12-year-old Chev
Chelios and Geri Halliwell as his mother. (5) Movie's hero beating the bad guy and kissing the girl while burning alive...
In
short, if nothing on that list sounds appealing to you, skip Crank:
High Voltage. But if it sounds about up your alley, it's a definite
guilty pleasure.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Thursday, July 31, 2014
FITL ON FILMS: "NEVER ENOUGH" - A FILM ABOUT COLLECTING
"NEVER ENOUGH" A DOC BY DOUG BROWN
For the last couple years, I have been editing a documentary for Doug Brown...
and now it's here,and coming to your town!
Check us out at
For now, here's a couple of snazzy photos!
"NEVER ENOUGH" - A FILM ABOUT COLLECTING
"NEVER ENOUGH" A DOC BY DOUG BROWN
For the last couple years, I have been editing a documentary for Doug Brown...
and now it's here,and coming to your town!
Check us out at
For now, here's a couple of snazzy photos!
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