You look like a hood ornament...

Remember the 1991 film Rocketeer? Check this 20th Anniversary animation...

Beep beep...

Coyote Falls, brilliant CGI interpretation of an old Warner Bros. favorite...

Hate...

Firstly Thank you Cosmo for letting me contribute to your blog.

Secondly I'm in a bad mood with old film directors so apologies if I cause offense but I think I have a point and I welcome any discussion on this matter... and no I don't care if they are all old men now there's no excuse, most of them are multi-millionaires so why not just give up....Maybe this is the correlation. Young director = Good Film... Old Director = Bad Film... I'm starting to get sick of shit movies by old school, over the hill, once were good directors. I'm sick of the shit that they keep rolling out. I'm sick of them riding on their old reputations to get their films bankrolled, and I'm concerned that they think that huge budgets and CGI usage will help their shit films be good...

Were good, now shit old school directors. In order of shittest longest time since their last good cinematic release...

No.1 Francis Ford Coppola (Last good film made - Godfather: Part 2 1974)
No.2 Peter Weir (Last good film made - Mosquito Coast 1986)
No.3 John 'The Killer' Landis (Last good film made - Coming to America 1988)
No.4 James Cameron (Last good Film made- Terminator 2 1991)
No.5 Brian Di Palma (Last good film made- Carlitos Way 1993)
No.6 Steven Spielberg (Last good film made - Jurrasic Park 1993)
No.7 Robert Zemeckis (Last good film made - Forrest Gump 1994)
No.8 Terrence Malick (Last good film - The Thin Red Line 1998)
No.9 Ridley Scott (Last good film made - Black Hawk Down 2001)
No.10 Martin Scorcesse (Last good film made - The Departed 2006)

Whilst Im on this rant. Stone...WTF...!! Why have I left you out you tripped out sorry ass vietnam vet... What were you on making Wall Street 2? Having a flashback... It's desperation mate, we haven't seen a good film off of you since... Hang on I will just check imdb... (5ins later) Since JFK, or perhaps Platoon...? You are a has been. Not even if you shouted like Pacino in Any Given Sunday would you convince me of your skills. Your twisty turny craney cgi mixed shots in Wall Street 2 were shit by the way. I want my £5.90 back. I'm sooo cross with you I'm excluding you from my hate list...

More to follow. Sorry for the cursing.
Peace out.

Geeagle

Elevator to hell...

Original...

CG version...

Clever but pointless...
Although not as pointless as this video:

Give me some sugar baby...

Only last night I watched a possessed old lady spew maggots into a young girl's open mouth!!! That's right I am of course talking about the latest offering from Sam Raimi: Drag Me To Hell. There are good points and bad points but if I'm honest there's not many of the latter. This is horror almost at it's purest form. It makes you laugh, it makes you jump and it makes you deeply uneasy. The story is simple but effective, thanks to Sam and his brother Ivan and pretty much hits the ground running. From the off you know that this will not be an easy ride.

Without giving too much away we follow a young loans officer, Christina Brown, as she works her 9-5 with sights set firmly on a promotion. Her life gets a little more complicated after she denies an old Gypsie lady an extension on her mortgage. The elderly woman places a curse on her which sees our young heroine being stalked by a malevolent Demon that torments it's victims for three days before, you guessed it, dragging them to hell.

So far so simple. But it's not the story alone that sets this film apart, it's the innovative devices that Raimi uses, and uses so well. From possessed hankies to shifting shadows and flash imagery it soon becomes apparent that there will be a jump at every turn. This is back to grass roots Raimi that we haven't seen since a certain heroic chinned Ash waved his boomstick about. Sure we sure a glimpse of Raimi being let off of his leash somewhat in the hospital scene in Spiderman 2 but not until now has he been given the freedom to really let rip. And boy does he let rip. If I can urge you to see one film this year It would be this amazingly fun and pulpy offering from a master of his genre.

Right, the bad points. Or should that be point? Basically there are only a few moments where CG is favored over more organic effects, effects that Raimi has proved that he can do in his sleep. So why opt for the almost cartoonist use of, if I'm honest, poorly executed CG? This is the director after all, who convinced us that a man could swing with ease around the skyscrapers of New York. It seems a shame then that whilst watching DMTH there seemed to be areas of "special" effects wizardry that were anything but. However, this I feel is largely me being overly picky about a truly great film which is already destined to become a cult classic...

Big up...

Heads up from the brilliant Marcus Yau, Big Man Japan.

Looks awesome...