Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="Fullofkittens"][quote name="Choson"][quote name="Bitter"][quote name="Fullofkittens"]...the first one is against three mutant dogs, and it would be really kickass if it wasn't so fucking dark. [/quote] What the fuck was up with that? Here I am, in a pitch black theater, and yet I'm squinting at the screen. The graphics weren't that bad that they needed to be hidden, so I don't understand why they had to mire it all in darkness. Maybe part of the same anti-violence asthetic that informed the rest of the movie?[/quote] Man, it wasn't that dark. I mean, I could tell throughout the fight what was going on, and if that was anti-violence, it was pretty violent anti-violence -- wasn't there a part where he punches right through one of the dogs? That got a bit of a response in the theatre. I actually dug how the fight went completely off-screen at one point, just like this distant pounding in the far distance (I think this is when it was from Jennifer Connelly's perspective), instead of being right in front of our faces. I guess everyone else wanted spotlights on the fight or something? I'm still not sure what making the mutant dogs look so stupid looking was about -- a poodle and something that appeared to be a Macy's parade float. It would have been cooler to just have like, three giant rottweilers or something.[/quote] It could be that this is an example of some-but-not all exhibitors thinking they can save on projector maintenance by showing their movies at less-than-optimum light levels, but I'm thinking that the movie was made this way on purpose. Do I want spotlights on the fight? YES, ABSOLUTELY! Why, when the movie is so low on kickassity in the first place, would Lee make us work to enjoy one of the few places where it does make an appearance? The bit where it went off in the distance was cool, sure, I'll grant that. But the bits where it was right in front of the camera were NOT cool, because I had no idea what was going on. "Ooh, I think he threw something! Was that one of the dogs? Holy shit! He just punched through a dog! Aweso-wait, it just got back up. Guess not. What the fuck is going on up there?" Also - where were the dead dogs the next morning? Did they turn back to normal-sized, punched-through dogs? I didn't mind that they had different breeds of dogs, because you could tell them apart, except in the section when all three became undifferentiated grey blobs. I liked that they used a Death Poodle, because everybody hates those creepy looking big poodles. FoK[/quote]