November 2007
Great balls of Beowulf Batman! Okay, okay I’m no super hero sidekick, but thanks to the great folks over at moviehole.net (they hooked me up with free tickets) I have witnessed the future of motion picture entertainment: Beowulf in Imax 3D!
I can’t lie, and I can’t deny, there’s no going back. I’ll never be able to watch traditional projection films again.
Robert Zemeckis has bought us all some great films in the past, Back to The Future and Forest Gump come to mind, but much praise and heaps of thanks to Bob for going with the 3D on Beowulf. I admit that I never watched Beowulf’s predecessor The Polar Express, for whatever reason that film did not appeal to me, but Beowulf
did appeal to me, and I’ll be forever grateful that it was this film that busted my 3D cherry!
Beowulf just sucked me in and filled me with the wild giddy excitement of a 10-year-old boy. It is by far the best film I have seen in over ten years. The 3D was not so much about stuff coming out off of the screen as it was about literally drawing you into the world the filmmakers created. For 1 hour and 54 minutes I was there! Right @#$% there!
Killer kudos to Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery for writing something with an adult audience in mind. Beowulf has some blood and guts amid some of the best action sequences since the original Star Wars trilogy.
No big spoilers here but a quick plot outline. There is a creepy monster haunting a small kingdom and Beowulf is called upon to rid the world of Grendel, the monster. Grendel scared the crap out of me. I was terrified when Grendel first appeared. Thankfully Grendel’s mom just happens to be played by Angelina Jolie! I swear I am not making that up. Angelina Jolie. Naked. In 3D! Why I’d pay to see that! And so should you!
Beowulf is pure cinema magic, total entertainment from start to finish!
The future of cinema has arrived!
KGD
11-17-2007
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007
3-D's Second Coming
September 2007
3-D’s Second Coming
Or is it 3-D’s 3rd Coming?
Tell me I don’t have way too much time on my hands! I’m worried about summer 2009. I’m worried about the assault of 3-D! With Jim Cameron’s Avatar and Dreamwork’s Monsters vs. Aliens slated to hit theaters Memorial Day 2009, the final iteration of 3-D may become a reality in the very near future, some time in my lifetime.
I’ve been keeping up with the ins and outs of it. I have read at least one article that said using this new technology it may be possible to present an old film in a whole new format. The film mentioned was Star Wars. I’m such a geek. I would kill to see Star Wars in 3-D. I’m such a geek, I would camp out to be first in line to see Star Wars in 3-D. But there’s a lot I would not care to see in 3-D. And that’s the problem. Do we need to watch every film in the future in 3-D? What is this new format, what is this new 3-D really going to be able to do for a film like Superbad, or L.A. Confidential? Do you get where I’m going with this? There are plenty of great movies that are all about dialogue and not much else. Great stories to be sure, but not a lot of action, not a lot of stuff blowing up, not a lot of chases. Not much action! So what kind of dimension would 3-D add to a film like that?
My biggest fear is 3-D porn. Do I really need a 3-D money shot? How long before or after 2009 till it’s not even an option. How long before you’ll have to duck for fear of um…getting some on you? I guess with those 3-D glasses on at least you won’t have to worry about getting any in your eye.
I’ve seen 3-D done well, but only once. And I’ve seen 3-D done the same way everyone else has with those silly red and blue glasses. The 3-D that I watched that was done well was somewhere in Orlando. It would have been a film called Captain Eo, but
Walt Disney pulled it after the star Michael Jackson was accused of being naughty. So what I saw was a really generic flick with no plot but stunning 3-D effects. I remember a brief scene with kites flying shot from up above the kites looking down at the people flying them. I actually put my hands up to reach out and touch the kites.
What’s to be said about the cheesy red blue 3-D? Not much.
…until summer 2009?
KGD
09-21-2007
3-D’s Second Coming
Or is it 3-D’s 3rd Coming?
Tell me I don’t have way too much time on my hands! I’m worried about summer 2009. I’m worried about the assault of 3-D! With Jim Cameron’s Avatar and Dreamwork’s Monsters vs. Aliens slated to hit theaters Memorial Day 2009, the final iteration of 3-D may become a reality in the very near future, some time in my lifetime.
I’ve been keeping up with the ins and outs of it. I have read at least one article that said using this new technology it may be possible to present an old film in a whole new format. The film mentioned was Star Wars. I’m such a geek. I would kill to see Star Wars in 3-D. I’m such a geek, I would camp out to be first in line to see Star Wars in 3-D. But there’s a lot I would not care to see in 3-D. And that’s the problem. Do we need to watch every film in the future in 3-D? What is this new format, what is this new 3-D really going to be able to do for a film like Superbad, or L.A. Confidential? Do you get where I’m going with this? There are plenty of great movies that are all about dialogue and not much else. Great stories to be sure, but not a lot of action, not a lot of stuff blowing up, not a lot of chases. Not much action! So what kind of dimension would 3-D add to a film like that?
My biggest fear is 3-D porn. Do I really need a 3-D money shot? How long before or after 2009 till it’s not even an option. How long before you’ll have to duck for fear of um…getting some on you? I guess with those 3-D glasses on at least you won’t have to worry about getting any in your eye.
I’ve seen 3-D done well, but only once. And I’ve seen 3-D done the same way everyone else has with those silly red and blue glasses. The 3-D that I watched that was done well was somewhere in Orlando. It would have been a film called Captain Eo, but
Walt Disney pulled it after the star Michael Jackson was accused of being naughty. So what I saw was a really generic flick with no plot but stunning 3-D effects. I remember a brief scene with kites flying shot from up above the kites looking down at the people flying them. I actually put my hands up to reach out and touch the kites.
What’s to be said about the cheesy red blue 3-D? Not much.
…until summer 2009?
KGD
09-21-2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Blast From The Past
September 2007
On Remakes
How long before Hollywood starts to remake remakes? I’m just wondering because I watched Halloween recently and the original has only been around since 1978.
Am I really going to have to live through yet another Night He Came Home, if I should
live that long? I’m starting to think that I might. That’s like someone deciding to go ahead and remake Star Wars.
My next huge beef with remakes is how come they are always remaking films that were great to begin with? Don’t get me wrong I realize that from a business standpoint it’s a no-brainer, you do a remake of something good because it at least has a built in audience. I get it. But I don’t get it!
Why don’t they freaking remake movies that could have been good, should have been good, but were not any good. Want a list:
Battlefield Earth
Water World
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Van Helsing
Deep Blue Sea
Scooby Doo
I could go on forever of course. And I know that you can easily add a few of your own. Go ahead, think about it. There’s a movie you almost like, it just needed a little more work to make it work, to make it great. That’s it! That’s the remake I want to see.
I want Hollywood to fix their damn abominations! Break out the shovels, dust off the money men, I wan to see a risky remake of something that should have been box office gold in the first fucking place!
That’s it. That’s my pitch on remakes.
Kenneth G. Donnelly
09-09-2007
On Remakes
How long before Hollywood starts to remake remakes? I’m just wondering because I watched Halloween recently and the original has only been around since 1978.
Am I really going to have to live through yet another Night He Came Home, if I should
live that long? I’m starting to think that I might. That’s like someone deciding to go ahead and remake Star Wars.
My next huge beef with remakes is how come they are always remaking films that were great to begin with? Don’t get me wrong I realize that from a business standpoint it’s a no-brainer, you do a remake of something good because it at least has a built in audience. I get it. But I don’t get it!
Why don’t they freaking remake movies that could have been good, should have been good, but were not any good. Want a list:
Battlefield Earth
Water World
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Van Helsing
Deep Blue Sea
Scooby Doo
I could go on forever of course. And I know that you can easily add a few of your own. Go ahead, think about it. There’s a movie you almost like, it just needed a little more work to make it work, to make it great. That’s it! That’s the remake I want to see.
I want Hollywood to fix their damn abominations! Break out the shovels, dust off the money men, I wan to see a risky remake of something that should have been box office gold in the first fucking place!
That’s it. That’s my pitch on remakes.
Kenneth G. Donnelly
09-09-2007
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