It has been 20 years since the original Independence Day radically changed what we thought about a summer blockbuster. When the first trailer was released for the movie, Will Smith was only that guy from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Jeff Goldblum was an established actor who is was coming off the major hit Jurassic Park, and Bill Pullman was destined to be quoted for his speech in the movie up until now. The trailer for the movie was and probably still is one of the best trailers to a film every to be cut. The alien ship coming through the atmosphere hover over NYC is still jaw-dropping when you watch the movie again. I'd know since I bought the Director's Cut of the film and have watched it over and over because having that movie on in the …show more content…
Will Smith isn't making a return to the franchise because the producers don't want to spend 1/4 of the budget on catering to his needs. It's a growing trend that a film doesn't need a super A-list star to become a hit, it just needs the appeal of the movie itself. Take a look at After Earth... he couldn't save that mess and it practically hindered his …show more content…
The first movie still looks pretty damn good, but as I pointed out in a feature about special effects getting worse, this movie is no different. The special effects in this movie are heavy, but they look so fake that I wondered again how this type of thing keeps happening. How do special effects 20 years later look worse? When Jurassic Park hit, that movie made me think that the T-Rex was real it was done so well. The new Jurassic Park looked like bad CGI. It's the same with this film. The overuse of special effects makes it no longer special. Since so much time is dedicated to all the effects, it's no wonder why everything looks so incomplete. Just watch the trailer again. You can see the whole damn thing is computer generated, but if you go back to the original, you see they used miniatures and blew up models. It looked real because it was. The brain can tell when something looks like a cut scene from a Playstation 1 RPG. If you're going to reboot something, at least try to match the
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The pristine 1933 King Kong was constructed as a movie: to convey a story to entertain an audience. Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake took the substructure for King Kong and expanded upon it in virtually every way in order to “make again” the astoundment of the original for a modern-day audience. Audiences received the first King Kong very well. The stop-motion sequences of Kong were astounding for their time and the movie grossed over $90,000 in its beginning weekend. In order to bank upon its prosperity again, sequels were made and thus in 1976 a remake was made to amend upon the original. Paramount updated the movie to color, altered the story, and cast Jeff Bridges, a widely popular actor of the time, as the lead actor. Although the movie received stirred reviews, it did exceptionally well in the box office and tripled Paramount’s initial budget for the motion picture. Even though the movie wasn’t “as good” as the original, audiences still paid money to view it because of that hope that they would feel like they once did when they visually perceived the first King Kong. The remake add...
Sidewalks are different shapes and sizes, people tend to make their own decisions to which way they would want to go. Going through the motions on a sidewalk is similar as going through the motions of life. There are many turns that could get you to your final destination and turns that can also get you into places you would not feel so comfortable being. Staying on the right path and trying to get to where you need to go isn’t so hard but when you have other sidewalks with nice grass and big beautiful street lights that can be a very big distraction to the eye and that could cause problems in your life. Nice sidewalks sometimes don't always tend to continue a nice path so they can be very believing at first but when you make it to the end
Final thoughts, I really liked this film and really can't think of anything I had an issue with. The musics fitting, the cinematography is good and the ending is great. That said the whole time I was watching Re-Animator I kept thinking of how much this film feels like Return of the Living Dead and that made me just want to watch that instead. But that's just me and I still heavily recommend you watch this film should you find yourself with time to watch a true cult classic.
On page 202, Amir states “He knew about Assef, the kite, the money, the watch with the lightning bolt hands”. Why does he compare the “watch” to “lightning bolt hands”?
The Matrix raised the bar, in terms of special effects, and kept it there for an awful long time before being topped of. Then comes The Matrix Reloaded which has once again proved the Wachowskis are undoubtable the most imaginative and innovative directors this side of Zion. The two stand out scenes come with neo kicking 100+ agents cyber punk asses and a 14 minute car chase that cost $40, 000, 000 to produce and upon seeing the movie its not hard to see why, with cars being blown up left, right and centre, death defying motorcycle stunts and a car being cut in half by an ancient samurai sword among other things. This is by far the most elaborate movie ever made and with a crew including Yuen Wo Ping, arguably the best fight choreographer in the world and the visual effects mastermind John Gaeta everyone saw it coming, but it still managed to blow away all pre-conceptions and expectations.
Now, I think a huge reason why I didn't find this movie so horrible is because I went in with hugely low expectations based on the trailer, so the few funny and likable parts of the film to me were a huge success. But yes, I do agree with many of those out there, it's still shameful compared to the series, and even the last film. I don't even understand why they even bothered with a sequel, to me that's beating a dead horse and tarnishing the success that is Sex and the City.
Restaurants should ban tipping. There, I said it. Please refrain from stoning me or if you choose to applaud, go on ahead. Let me elaborate why tipping should be abolished in American restaurants. If you live in America: You, Have. To. Tip. If you don’t, you’re considered a selfish person. However, just because that’s the system that we have, does not mean it is a good one. Tipping is a custom that: shortchanges servers, inconveniences customers, and makes the whole dining experience unbearable (Collegehumor). Ask yourself, why should you be responsible for paying the employees humanly?
McKay's is not the only one returning since director Peyton Reed and Evangeline Lilly are confirmed to return for the sequel as well. Lilly will surely have more fighting scenes in this sequel. If you would still remember, Hope Van Dyne (Lilly) was shown with the super-suit, the first Wasp in the post-credits. As for Ant-Man himself, he's also reprising his superhero role though it is not yet clear if Paul Rudd would also resume his work on the screenplay area.
The film 1776 was set to cover the events surrounding the acknowledgement, for the newly form America which consisted of the thirteen colonies, the need for independence from Great Britain. It also addressed the occurrences leading up to the process of the creation, acceptance and signage of the Declaration of Independence. The main purpose of the film was centered around the delegates identifying the need for independence. This was a successful Broadway musical comedy that was adapted to film to explain the process of achieving independence. The issues the film raised was the need for independence from Great Britain, the was support efforts and anti-slavery clause which addressed the process to either acknowledge slaves as free men or
Why shouldn’t I shoot my friends or club a baby seal? Is there any reason not to bomb a village of 1,500 people I never met and have no problem with? How is my friend going to deal with the chronic hemorrhoids he got as his battle scars? Will Hunting asks these and other questions in his speech about working for the National Security Agency, which is packed with rhetoric and somber condemnation that the NSA certainly deserves.
Computer Generated Imagery began with awkward and dull effects in the early 1980’s. The 1982 film “Tron” was a desperate attempt from Disney to jump on the CGI bandwagon and start a revolution in film making technologies (imdb.com). Although this film showed an attempt at something that had never been done before in the history of cinematics, it was weird and confusing. This broke the door down for other companies to start up and aid films in creating better and better effects that appealed to a larger market. Although the effects were not good in the early days, the general film going public was astonished by computer generated effects and flocked to the theaters to see these cheesy attempts to use basic technology that did not transfer well to the silver screen. It was not until later films like “Jurassic Park,” “Toy Story,” and “The Lord of the Rings” until CGI became a film making powerhouse and the killer application for high budget movies.
Have you ever stopped to take notice of how expensive it’s become to go on an outing to the movie theaters? How the tallest people always tend to sit in front of the shortest movie guests? How even when you try to beat those odds, and rent the movie from the Redbox to watch at home. You still wind up having to wait about six months to see the movie everyone has been talking about. If you haven’t experienced these particular troubles than your considered one of the lucky ones.
1.Fred told Tony that polka-dotted underwear was showing through the ripped seat of his dress pants.
Since you were little you have been shaped by the media. The media tells you everything