this may be the coolest fucking thing i've ever seen:
between this and AMCs The Walking Dead, i think hollywood is starting a fucking awesome new trend, and i hope it takes off: B-movie/comic book style stories that aren't played for laughs, but taken seriously as legit, smart, intelligent films! granted, both Walking Dead and Cowboys and Aliens were comic books, but they're not being made into films as tongue-in-cheek nerd films for fanboys and Comic fans, but being taken seriously as Art and Entertainment! its fucking AWESOME!!!!!!!!! first, David Cronenberg took the campy 50s horror film The Fly and turned into a terrifying sci-fi classic in the 1980s, with a great storyline, realistic acting, and gory special effects. Then came Harry Potter, a seriously unexptected worldwide phenomenon that got more adult and more serious with every published book, leading up to its dark and oddly terrifying finale. in between all of that, you had Christopher Nolan's two very dark and moody Batman films, which treated its hero not as a comic book character brought to life, but a tragic anti-hero with real human emotions and fears and capabilities. compare that to those cheesy, over-the-top, special fx loaded Lord of the Rings films, and notice the difference in how we are treating great comic books. back in the 1980s, when Alan Moore's Watchmen was released, the special effects at the time would never allow for such a great story to be accomplished without it looking tacky and stupid. now, thanks in no small part to George Lucas and company, these films are getting made with A-list celebrities and Directors who really care about the films! these are not Ed Wood styled, cartoonish, easy to swallow crowd-pleasers. these million dollar films and series are filled with angst. they're filled with terror. they're filled with dirty, sullen heroes and bad guys who look like they will kill you! Goodbye Adam West, hello Christian Bale! Jack Nicholson's over the top, laughable, mob boss turned psycho? Gone...Heath Ledger's vicious, terrorist with a philosophy of anarchy? that's a game-changer.
i think its time we re-visit the goofy, cheap Cult and Drive-In movies of the 50s-70s and see what else we can make into a serious work of cineman. as Jean Luc-Godard said, "Everything can be put into film. Everything SHOULD be put into film." i agree. why limit ourselves to the plausable? if Star Wars can be nominated for Best Picture in the 1977, isn't it time, 33 years on, we learn to love what we once considered camp?
between this and AMCs The Walking Dead, i think hollywood is starting a fucking awesome new trend, and i hope it takes off: B-movie/comic book style stories that aren't played for laughs, but taken seriously as legit, smart, intelligent films! granted, both Walking Dead and Cowboys and Aliens were comic books, but they're not being made into films as tongue-in-cheek nerd films for fanboys and Comic fans, but being taken seriously as Art and Entertainment! its fucking AWESOME!!!!!!!!! first, David Cronenberg took the campy 50s horror film The Fly and turned into a terrifying sci-fi classic in the 1980s, with a great storyline, realistic acting, and gory special effects. Then came Harry Potter, a seriously unexptected worldwide phenomenon that got more adult and more serious with every published book, leading up to its dark and oddly terrifying finale. in between all of that, you had Christopher Nolan's two very dark and moody Batman films, which treated its hero not as a comic book character brought to life, but a tragic anti-hero with real human emotions and fears and capabilities. compare that to those cheesy, over-the-top, special fx loaded Lord of the Rings films, and notice the difference in how we are treating great comic books. back in the 1980s, when Alan Moore's Watchmen was released, the special effects at the time would never allow for such a great story to be accomplished without it looking tacky and stupid. now, thanks in no small part to George Lucas and company, these films are getting made with A-list celebrities and Directors who really care about the films! these are not Ed Wood styled, cartoonish, easy to swallow crowd-pleasers. these million dollar films and series are filled with angst. they're filled with terror. they're filled with dirty, sullen heroes and bad guys who look like they will kill you! Goodbye Adam West, hello Christian Bale! Jack Nicholson's over the top, laughable, mob boss turned psycho? Gone...Heath Ledger's vicious, terrorist with a philosophy of anarchy? that's a game-changer.
i think its time we re-visit the goofy, cheap Cult and Drive-In movies of the 50s-70s and see what else we can make into a serious work of cineman. as Jean Luc-Godard said, "Everything can be put into film. Everything SHOULD be put into film." i agree. why limit ourselves to the plausable? if Star Wars can be nominated for Best Picture in the 1977, isn't it time, 33 years on, we learn to love what we once considered camp?