Re: VAMPYR: masterpiece of horror or pretentious and overrated?
To me saying a film has "bad acting" is basically saying it's "crap"Exactly, to you. No one else said the movie is crap. Most movies have their good parts, and most have their bad parts. The problem...
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"Exactly, to you. No one else said the movie is crap"???I never said the movie was crap."Vampyr looks the way it does partly due to budget"Most Art looks the way it does because of its budget.But...
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>btw~speaking of painters are you aware many Artists hire other people to paint their "vision"?< Yup. And musicians, and writers, and... Ghosts are ghosts, but that's not the situation here.
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"Exactly, to you. No one else said the movie is crap"???I never said the movie was crap.Hi Koukol,No you didn't, but no one else did either. You put those words into other folks mouths with this "To...
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Wich2 wrote: I just know that - for instance - if I was looking at a painting by Gauguin, and over in one corner there was a little palm tree that he had let a 5 year old niece fill in, I would notice...
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Film is first and foremost a visual art. While it involves other means of expression all coming together, ultimately everything is made to serve the moving image. I believe the imagery in VAMPYR is...
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Couldn't de Gunzburg's neutral expressions be interpreted as an attempt to provide a blank slate over which the audience superimposes its own feelings? Remember the one photo of James Stewart that...
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A viewer's engagement with a film will differ widely depending on the experience of that viewer. For me, I can't watch a movie and not be aware of a multitude of details. All of these details --...
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ryanbrennan wrote:Couldn't de Gunzburg's neutral expressions be interpreted as an attempt to provide a blank slate over which the audience superimposes its own feelings? Remember the one photo of...
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Casey62 wrote:Film is first and foremost a visual art. While it involves other means of expression all coming together, ultimately everything is made to serve the moving image. I believe the imagery...
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ryanbrennan wrote:A no budget student film can be just as impressive as a Hollywood super-production. A filmmaker with a low budget achieves harmony between the film's elements by not overreaching,...
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pulp novelties wrote:ryanbrennan wrote:A no budget student film can be just as impressive as a Hollywood super-production. A filmmaker with a low budget achieves harmony between the film's elements...
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I wasn't aware this was a competition.
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Wiki has this tidbit about the casting of the doctor, Jan Hieronimko, who plays the village doctor, was found on a late night metro train in Paris. When approached to act in the film, Hieronimko...
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"I hope this clears things up. "Yeah it does.I thought you were saying it looks low-budget.But I wonder f Plan 9 would look as bad as it does if Wood had money for some decent sets.Was he a serious...
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I think Plan Nine would then just be big-budget crap. Wood, though not thoroughly incompetent is also a very bland director displaying no real sense of style or vision, I don't think more money would...
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Wich2 wrote:>btw~speaking of painters are you aware many Artists hire other people to paint their "vision"?< Yup. And musicians, and writers, and... Ghosts are ghosts, but that's not the...
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A lot of cartoonists have done that through the years too, Brian (Bob Kane, are you out there?) Some say, "well, that's accepted practice." I say, "it sucks."
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pulp novelties wrote:I think Plan Nine would then just be big-budget crap. Wood, though not thoroughly incompetent is also a very bland director displaying no real sense of style or vision, I don't...
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