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Topic Started: Oct 7 2009, 09:18 PM (814 Views)
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Oct 19 2009, 10:17 PM
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Oct 19 2009, 08:57 PM
I'm pretty sure that wasn't a Goosebumps book. They would have nothing nearly that explicit. lol

And did he show anything by Orson Welles or Hitchcock at least?
Nawww, nothing from Orson Welles or Hitchcock … the two best "films" I saw at that college were "The Demo Reel from Hell" and fvckin' 45 seconds of color bars and tone. I personally wish the latter was longer. I could've literally watched bars and tone for five hours straight and call that the best class ever at the time. XD

And no, that wasn't Goosebumps. I just found out that it was actually from the "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" series. I'm pretty sure that was it. And better than Boosegumps.
That's the one with the girl who died of fright int he grave-yard right? Yeah, Goosebumps is about as mature as an episode of Barney.

And your professor was a dumb ass. He probably didn't actually work in SFX anyways. His job was probably involved getting everyone their coffee and Dunkin Donuts.

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And your professor was a dumb ass. He probably didn't actually work in SFX anyways. His job was probably involved getting everyone their coffee and Dunkin Donuts.
I refuse to address him or any of the instructors as something as fancy-sounding as "professors". The best work he's done, as far as I can acknowledge from his crazy-ass rants, was editing low-budget crap that would've looked like something directed by Tim & Eric, only not intentionally funny. Although, recharging parking meters and fetching coffee & donuts booze & crystal meth* would've been a promotion.

* One of the other classmates' habit and presumably a way to keep up in class. Allegedly.
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And your professor was a dumb ass. He probably didn't actually work in SFX anyways. His job was probably involved getting everyone their coffee and Dunkin Donuts.
My friend's audio tech professor actually was involved in the field. I think the best story is that on some local radio station's unplugged CD, he had to go and play guitar on Maroon 5's song cause their guitarist sucked at it.
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Ok, saw this film. I know it seems like a cop-out, but it was at the three dollar theater and the movie is already a certified bomb that will end up tanking to the tune of something like negative forty five million dollars. Its not like me giving it three dollars is going to save it from being a huge bomb.

I honestly gave this film an honest chance though. The beginning was good. Some what thematically dark involving death, trauma, rejection by parents, and all that. Other themes such as tolerance or anti-war weren't too bad. The movie I think crashed and burned by the second half. The movie was just too short to play out the things it wanted to achieve thematically and plot-wise correctly. It just ended early.

Second thing wrong with this film is that it wen way to far away from its origins. I mean fine you can add new story elements to something and I'll be fine with it. Take Rintaro's version of Metropolis, its not exactly word for word the original manga it was based on, but it worked becuase it still paid incredible deffernce to the source material.

Not so much the case here. It definitely felt very Disnified/Pixarized, which I didn't feel was appropriate at all. They had the opportunity to introduce the American public to a different kind of animated film for kids, but they had to add bullshit comic relief characters to make it like Cars, Finding Nemo, or whatrever other cliched garbage CGI kids movie. They had to make the characters look like the characters from those films, thinking people would react badly to anything else. The dark storyline also had to be messed up by cheery, moronic characters constantly popping up who served no purpose then to get cheap laughs out of four year olds. Honestly I thin Hollywood has no balls with kids movies anymore. They can't make them dark like they used to or else they'll be tagged as "too scary," which is bullshit. Kids love dark stuff, that' goes back hundreds of years. Its only now we have over-protective parents who want to baby their children by hiding them from anything remotely scary, which is dumb.

I will give the film-makes some credit for pressing more mature themes, but give them bad marks for trying to go overly commercialized stylistically. They may have thought they had to do that to make a movie that can sell, but it flopped anyways. At least if they had done that they would've made a movie that would've stood the test of time and be remembered in the future as something broke the cliche CG kids movie mold.
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but they had to add bullshit comic relief characters to make it like Cars, Finding Nemo, or whatrever other cliched garbage CGI kids movie.
But bullshit comic relief characters sell merchandise!
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