I am impressed with the other students on how much research that they have made and the film reviews are (like Phil says...) delight to read. My last post about The Invasion of the Body Snatchers was meant to be draft and published for later...but...I fell asleep while I was typing and the post was published accidentally and never finished as the way I wanted it to. However, today I am going to write the remaining reviews. Hopefully I would upload quite a lot of things by tonight and tomorrow.
My Maya Street Project is going slow because I am having to spend more time on fiddling with the UV Texture Editor and it is quite a complex texturing method. However I am still working on it. The door is left for Maya and hopefully I can finish it by tomorrow evening before I leave Uni around 8pm.
Watching a movie that was made in 1953 it is bound to be funny in some perspectives but this movie was funny throughout the whole running time. Classified as Science fiction film and Directed by William Cameron Menzies. It is believed to be one of the most expensive film ever made in that period of time. However, the movie failed to please me with its repetitive scenes and endless amount of running and eventually I got tired and bored in the end. I found the beginning to be interesting and a strong start to the movie but lost interest at the end.
One of the things that I found a bit odd was about the actors. They didn't seem professional enough to do a better job, however I think the little kid did the best job in terms of acting.
The costume design for the aliens was good at the time and they designed the eye as the same as an insects eye such as Fly. Also they did good job with the boss of the alien, the editing was good enough to make it believable - that character in a big round fish aquarium.
Overall - the only good thing about the movie is that it was funny in some aspects because of the way they acted and behaved. I think the director could have made the movie so much better if they had enough funding from their distributor.
....am falling asleep once more...will update tomorrow.
Looking forward to those reviews - but remember, the movies are all associated with ideas of the 'unhomely', so be sure to pick up on these thematic ideas in your reviews - also, cross-reference your observations with film reviews from other sources...