…but Gareth Edwards’ Monsters (2010) proves that, even with a budget of $200,000 a filmmaker can craft a movie to be proud of. (Better not let Hollywood know, or Michael Bay might never work again.)
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#1 by Blake on December 10, 2010 - 6:37 am
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Dang it, guys! You keep reviewing films that I wanna watch, thus expanding my list of film-to-see!
#2 by Nathan Shumate on December 10, 2010 - 7:01 am
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Trust me, I’ll do better next week.
#3 by The Rev. on December 10, 2010 - 8:33 am
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“(Better not let Hollywood know, or Michael Bay might never work again.)”
Which means we should immediately contact Hollywood, right?
#4 by Nathan Shumate on December 10, 2010 - 9:19 am
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Come on, it’s Christmas. I’m never going to advocate that someone lose his livelihood in December.
#5 by The Rev. on December 10, 2010 - 12:48 pm
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Psssht. Softie.
#6 by Nathan Shumate on December 10, 2010 - 12:56 pm
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All part of getting old.
#7 by The Rev. on December 13, 2010 - 2:59 pm
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That’s what I have coming for me in a few years? Getting soft? No way, man! I’m gonna be hard forever!
#8 by MatthewF on December 10, 2010 - 9:28 am
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Monsters looks fantastic for such a low-budget production. I believe that the director did all the effects himself. But having said that he’d been doing them for other people for years so again, it isn’t the budget that really tells, it’s the skill of the person spending it.
As such I really wanted to like this film but in the end just thought it was boring, the endless scenes of semi-improved banter and the wierd air of emotional flatness to the whole thing just killed it stone dead for me.
Like Cloverfield mated with Before Sunrise. It seemed to be a film in which dull characters have a dull experience while really exciting things are happening just over the hill to someone else.
Humbug.
#9 by Blake on December 10, 2010 - 9:58 am
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Ring of Death! Ring of Death!