BAJA'S BLOG

Just came from watching Poltergeist with my classmates as part of our unheimlich experience. Poltergeist is Directed by Tobe Hooper and Produced by Steven Spielberg. The build up of the story is done in a very friendly approach with a warm family side to it. The story slowly develops more into grime and spine chilling effect. The sound effect is excellent along with the visual effects, since it is produced by Steven Spielberg the quality of the movie was stunning and as expected from him.

Steven Spielberg is not known in making many horror movies but this is one of the movies that can make quite a lot of people feel uneasy. Especially when I was observing the guys in the Theatre Room, most of them kept fiddling about with their phones, or even pretend that they are tired just at the time when some jumpy scenes were expected like in every other horror movies. Most of us don't like the idea of horror movies, something that will scare your soul but we still try to be brave and pretend we can handle all the scary stuff.

Anyhow poltergeist and these ghostly activities are real and not a fiction except the part with taking the humans into the TV. It is important to know not to play about with the spirits.

In the meantime I really enjoyed this movie as I always have and it was refreshing to watch it again after some odd years later.

Written and Directed by James Cameron, The Avatar movie was the most beautifully directed movie ever. After watching the movie with my mates in 3D, I was thrilled with the CG world and I was sucked in to the movie instantly. Everything about the movie was EPIC, literally everything. I absolutely loved it, the whole concept of connecting to the mother nature through your hair is just brilliant and mind blowing especially how everything in Pandora can be connected to you if you only attach the tip of your hair to one of the creatures or the trees. To be able to feel everything what the horse is feeling through the tip of your hair is magnificent.

If only Pandora existed, I would do anything to live there. I have fallen in Love with this movie and I just want to read the book and understand the story in much greater detail.
I Also found that there is a book called The Art of Avatar, I will seek to buy, when I get the chance.

I wish my vocabulary was much wider, so that I could elaborate the feeling that I have and things that I want to say and write in much more beautiful way to gulp my readers into my mind.

James Cameron never rushed in telling the story and it was definitely worth watching it for 2hrs without going to toilet.

If anyone wishes to disagree, then that is your opinion but before you start being harsh on the movie, just imagine of all the hard work that has been put into to produce such high quality work and on top its mostly on CG. This is a top quality work of art.

Meanwhile, if you haven't seen the movie just yet, enjoy the trailer below in HD and I highly recommend you to go and watch it whether it be on 3D or just normal screen but both experience is a must.

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.

Gee, what can I say about this movie?...

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.

Finally having some time for myself and its 10pm. It really sucks the enthusiasm out of you, when you only get the time to do stuff at this time. By 10pm am already tired and sleepy. However I am going to write my two reviews as I promised before.

Looking back, I have just realized this review would be my second review, ever since the start of the course. My first one was The picture of Dorian Gray.

Been quite bad with the reviews. However, here is my review

Having watched the classic movies that was made in mid 50's or 60's I have come to start liking the style of movies and preferring more of it (Thank you Phil ^_^). Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a fun and an interesting one. The story begins with a Doctor arriving in his old hometown and everything seems so fine like every other day. Until some time during his day, a child was reported to be claiming his mother is not his mother. The case seemed quite unusual and he thought the kid was going through some sort of illusion/brain occlusion. On the next day, he hears the same case being occured to someone who relatively knew and was quite familiar. He starts to become suspicious of the behaviours and starts to observe the people around him. To cut the story short, almost every single person becomes infected by an Alien specie and only the Doctor and his Girlfriend was left to become one of the aliens. They start to take over your body as soon as you go to sleep

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Just watched 58mins of Metropolis the anime version and my mind is blown into pieces with the amount of detailed artwork has been applied and also the storyline is so beautiful, however I have yet still got more than an hour left to watch. But for now, I will leave it at this point and write more about the anime and the story when I have fully finished watching the movie.

To be continued...