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someone stop me
2006-07-29 07:03:58
I'm seriously considering making a non-anime music video to Rocky Erickson's "Burn the Flames". A Halloweeny music video without anime. No anime. That's heretical. I'm only in this hobby for the anime. I hate editing music videos. I don't even watch normal (non-anime) music videos. And most of the sources I would be using are vhs tapes captured onto my comp. God help me. I'm honestly about to clear space off my harddrive so I can start scanning through tapes and capturing scenes for this video. All because of one addictive movie soundtrack and the sudden realization that I have a shitload of horror/dark movies at hand and a capture device able to treat them the same way I do my anime sources.
Who would I even show it to? I'd pop it up on you-tube just to see if anyone's insane enough (like me) to get a kick out of it. wtf. Editing 'real' footage is supposed to be a lot harder than anime footage. I seriously need someone behind me to tell me what to work on when I get the sudden urge to start a new project. And someone to turn off the distractions that give me out-of-nowhere inspiration for things I shouldn't even think of. -
Gagh! New idea~
2006-07-29 05:37:56
So I've been obsessing over zombie movies lately, right? Well, I was listening to the "Return of the Living Dead" soundtrack and I just realized one of the songs would be a hilarious (but great) match with Kimera. Heh, it even works better if you consider Kimera a female (the dub and subtitles all refer to it as a "she/her" despite the complete lack of breasts). I'm not so sure about parts of the song, almost a rap/fun sort of style there, but the lyrics are just great. It would be an explicit video, since it's the oral rape scene in the anime that fits the best (that, and the vampire style murder that follows immediately afterward). I think the flashback scenes and modern romance with the scientist would fit the non-chorus lyrics if I keep them as flashbacks. The editing would be odd, and the quality would be awful. I've used that dvd once before and there are so many blended frames (before or after inverse telecine, with or without a deinterlace filter) that I don't think the quality *can* be fixed. I've tried all those different methods in the avtech guide for quirky horrible encoded dvds, but none of them make the footage look better. So...the quality would suck compared to normal dvd footage (and compared to nice subs/raws). But OH WOW I wanna try it. Just the idea of a video using this song - or ANY song from this soundtrack. And I'd pretty much given up on ever using Kimera in a video since it's such a screwed up and short anime.
I don't know if I'll actually go for it, but if I do it will be Thursday and through the weekend, maybe done by next Monday. Yeah, my mom and her boyfriend went to...Disney Land (or World...the one in Florida)...for a tax seminar. o.O I know, sounds like a very bad lie. But she swears that's where they're holding it this year and she has to go. He's going for the theme park, I'm sure. Anyway, since her boyfriend is my sister's boss, that means she'll have two days off this week. So no brat to babysit and no office downstairs. I hate editing with headphones.
One other drawback about the vid idea is the song quality. The rest of the songs sound fine, but that one is almost fuzzy before I even compress it. I think it's actually *meant* to sound that way. It's sort of neat with the instruments, but I'm so used to crackling fuzz being a BAD thing in songs. I don't remember it sounding like that in the movie - but the song is much quieter in the movie, anyway. Meh.
Such a fun idea. I'd like to see it made whether by me or anyone. Makes me glad I decided to look up that screwy anime, Kimera. 80s music kicks ass. ;p -
@ x2
2006-07-29 03:22:45
Yeah, Deep Blue Sea. I actually like that movie. I would have liked it a lot more without the preacher scene and the obligatory teenage partiers getting chased scene at the beginning. Most of the movie takes place with the adults in the underwater lab. They have a cook...I think he's an actual rapper or something, and he's hilarious - him and his parrot. They're like the comedy relief, but I would have watched the movie just for him. I remember the heroine annoying me (why is it I *want* strong female characters, but when they try to give me one she inevitably comes off as bossy and on a power trip?) The sharks were fun, though. I was hoping for a Jaws revisited, but it came off more like Jurassic Park since the sharks aren't wild so much as created to look like they're wild. The idea of smart predators is just fun. ;p
I've seen Jurassic Park. I had a major obsession with Jeff Goldblum in my teenage years so I own every movie he's ever been in, excepting one cancelled tv series (think the name is The Tall Man or something weird and campy like that). I used to do the "Kevin Bacon" game with Jeff Goldblum - connecting any actor I recognized to one of his movies. I was surprisingly good at it, too, since my mom had a huge movie collection. Now I can barely keep my names straight. ^_^;
I'm trying to remember where Jackson fit into Jurassic Park, but all I'm getting is a guy with a cigar (wrong movie, maybe) and a severed arm. I don't actually remember if he's the severed arm guy or another of the expendable characters. I watch that movie for the dinosaurs and Jeff, everything else is blurry and peripheral.
I'm sure I've seen Pulp Fiction, maybe when it first came out. But I can't remember actually *watching* it. It's campy and I've heard about it for years, and I know it was in my house for a long time (my brother bought it). So...I'm *sure* I watched it at one point. But, no, I don't remember it. I just know when I hear about it, I shrug and feel uninterested. I guess if I watched it, it didn't make a lasting impression on me. That, or I tried watching once and turned it off early. I used to do that a lot with movies my brother contributed to the collection. Reminds me of Dazed and Confused - sort of funky the first time, but I could have lived without ever watching it. My brother had bad taste, that's all there is to it.
A Time to Kill. I know I've seen that title before. I probably have the book in a box somewhere. But I never read it. I used to read some of Grisham's murder/mystery/courtroom novels and I got bored with that genre really fast. The last movie like that I remember watching (aside from Aerin Brochavich) was the one where Sandra Bullock (or someone similar) gets her identity stolen and has to hack into computers, run around on boats, and a bunch of other weird stuff trying to get her life back. Ah, my bad memory will get me in trouble one of these days. All those movies I watched (and memorized so we could play the "identify that quote" game) and now I can barely remember any of them. :( -
@Flint, Samuel L Jackson
2006-07-29 00:34:16
Oh, wow, that was a really dumb mistake. I'm trying to picture the two of them in a movie together now and they really don't look anything alike. I guess it's the roles they play. But, you know, I kinda like Samuel L Jackson, too. At least, I liked him in Die Hard 3 when he played opposite Bruce Willis. I can't remember watching (and liking) any non-comedies with him. That may be why I was so quick to forget him.
Hey! He's that preecher in the smart-shark movie, too, isn't he! I was complaining about that guy, too, and it turns out they're the same damn guy! Maybe. Now I'm really confused. But I'm sure haven't seen 'straight' movies where I liked him. Put him in a comedy or leave him out. -
RE: the village
2006-07-28 10:51:42
I actually like that movie. I didn't mean to say I didn't like it. I've read a lot of critic reviews, and I don't agree with them. I love the concept, even if it isn't portrayed well at all. And the villagers are all so stilted it's funny thinking about them. All of the 'teenagers/young-adults' have the maturity of 8 yr olds. They don't just *talk* like little kids trying to read Shakespeare, the movie (the village itself) makes them as stupid as little kids trying to read Shakespeare. I love the idea of a cult trying to protect young people by making them so weak and immature that they have to read off a piece of paper to say three sentences to their elders. It's just great. Girls (who look 24+) get their kicks by spinning around while they sweep the porch off. Younger girls quietly splash each other with water while doing the dishes. They're all like a summer camp of intellectually challenged children (aka retarded kids, mentally handicapped, special children, etc). And it makes sense. They're raised to spend half their time crying in the cellar while their elders protect them by keeping them isolated, terrified, completely cowed to the point of lacking any and all self-thought or motivation, and in a society where scratching yourself on a piece of metal gets you killed - either because it reveals "The Bad Color" or because an infection = death since medicine isn't important enough to risk the kids no longer being cowed and brainless.
Really, I adore the concept. That's why I keep letting it play while I'm doing boring things like building up my characters (ff8). I did a report once on the purple coolaid cult that (that probably dates me - yeah, I'm old, wako wasn't anything new to me). I like reading about crazy people who take their ideas and torture their children with them while society either looks the other way, or pays them to adopt/teach/molest even more unwanted kids. It's the whole "I find humans fascinating" thing. The whole 'scary unseen monster' angle of that movie is the reason my mom bought it, but she lent it to me because of the *real* story. Yeah, it was anticlimactic - Shyamalan really screwed up in the placement of the revelations with this one. But I wasn't watching for a climax. I never found it scary to begin with. I watched it for the mystery because I suspected, from the previews, that it was a lot less "monster" and a lot more "crazy people." Okay. It was *very* predicatable. Honestly, Shyamalan went to so much trouble making reviewers promise not to reveal the plot twist and quite a few people figured it out just from the trailers. What kind of monsters use paint to give warnings? Where would they get red paint in a forest surrounding villagers who don't even have basic things like penicilin?
I still like the movie. I like it more than The Sixth Sense (which was just plain boring to me, dispite being less predictable). I liked his Unbreakable, too, though I could have done without the whole "comic strip" thing. I just wanted the unexplained 'super power' popping up out of nowhere. The token black guy with the unhealthy obsession just annoyed me. Which is sad since I really liked him in Shawshank Redemption and Robin Hood. I hated the way he screwd up "Signs" with the extremely drippy focus on religion. Melodramatic, boring as crap, and annoying to boot. What kind of faithless man would bother listening to his rebelious children when he can slap them with a belt, put them in the car, and get them to safety instead? The kids wanna stay home, so we'll just board up the house and die together after an uneaten last meal. Yeah. Whatever. Really screwed up a great concept - the first half of the movie was enjoyable and then Shyamalan went all drippy again. He's really bad about that, preaching to the audience he's *supposed* to be entertaining. That's what daytime television is for - he's rich, he could buy a spot if he wants to preech to people who could care less. >.<
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