10-04-2010, 05:01 PM
From BDH regarding Monsters:
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/4465/review
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->When it comes to horror films, there are a few central complaints that everyone makes about why many of them turn out so lackluster. But one of the big – and most prevalent – reasons is that there isn’t enough emphasis on plot and compelling characters. And if you find that’s normally your beef with the increasingly large number of dreadful duds, then perhaps MONSTERS is the film you’ve been searching for. That is, if you don’t mind it really not being a horror film.
What it is, however, is a fairly thought-provoking tale about the human condition and an entertaining romantic drama road movie that just happens to have a sci-fi horror setting. Several years after a probe crash lands in a Mexican region, it becomes infested with giant monsters and is dubbed an “infected zone.” The creatures are Lovecraftian – read: tentacled – and quite large, leaving a path of devastation wherever they go. Oh, and they also discharge hazardous fumes that are deadly to humans, which causes pretty much everyone living in, or around, the infected zones to wear gas masks. The presentation of the creatures is what proves the most ambitious and noteworthy about them: director Gareth Edwards has a background in digital effects so he created and animated the CGI creatures by himself. He also chose to show them as little as possible, only giving them about 20 minutes total of screen time – and that might even be overestimating it a bit. What he does with this tactic is give the creatures an almost omnipresent sense of dread by merely showing the destruction and human anguish left in their wake.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I am still interested.
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/4465/review
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->When it comes to horror films, there are a few central complaints that everyone makes about why many of them turn out so lackluster. But one of the big – and most prevalent – reasons is that there isn’t enough emphasis on plot and compelling characters. And if you find that’s normally your beef with the increasingly large number of dreadful duds, then perhaps MONSTERS is the film you’ve been searching for. That is, if you don’t mind it really not being a horror film.
What it is, however, is a fairly thought-provoking tale about the human condition and an entertaining romantic drama road movie that just happens to have a sci-fi horror setting. Several years after a probe crash lands in a Mexican region, it becomes infested with giant monsters and is dubbed an “infected zone.” The creatures are Lovecraftian – read: tentacled – and quite large, leaving a path of devastation wherever they go. Oh, and they also discharge hazardous fumes that are deadly to humans, which causes pretty much everyone living in, or around, the infected zones to wear gas masks. The presentation of the creatures is what proves the most ambitious and noteworthy about them: director Gareth Edwards has a background in digital effects so he created and animated the CGI creatures by himself. He also chose to show them as little as possible, only giving them about 20 minutes total of screen time – and that might even be overestimating it a bit. What he does with this tactic is give the creatures an almost omnipresent sense of dread by merely showing the destruction and human anguish left in their wake.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I am still interested.