Moderator: malducin
Serkis is invited up with the Weta folks, grabs the Oscar out of their hands, and yells into the mic, "I'm the king of the world!"...cut to commercial.
Serkis is invited up with the Weta folks, grabs the Oscar out of their hands, and yells into the mic, "I'm the king of the world!"...cut to commercial.
After all, according to Serkis, everything comes from the actor.
I've been thinking that the fact two ape movies were nominated this year, they could cancel each other out and BLADE RUNNER 2049 could take it. Though I don't mind either BLADE RUNNER or APES taking it...but I do think BR '49 was the better movie.Hmm. I didn't even make the connection that 2/5 of the nominees are for them giant monkees. It could either way: they cancel each other out or the Academy notices that 40% of the nominees are digital apes, so there must be something to them, and give it to one of them.
Finally saw BR, and while I wasn't terribly impressed with the movie (understatement), I also wasn't impressed with all of the effects work. The model shots seemed to be deliberately from the wrong angle, looking down and blowing the scale on low-level street flyovers. And the spectacle was undercut by the lack of color. Rachel was pretty close to right, though.Interesting to hear that. I have it rented on iTunes, so I'm planning on watching it in the coming weeks - I'll keep my eye out for those model shots.
As you can tell, it really stuck with me.I saw the original a week or so after it came out in the mostly glorious summer of 82, and I don't think I knew what to make of it, except that I liked it and thought Ford brought a lot of nuance. I probably watched it five or six times on vid BEFORE the Criterion laserdisc came out, so I can't imagine the number of times I've seen it since then, though only once more (for the director's cut) in a theater.You forgot E.T. Kevin! I loved that movie. Made me cry. Something tells me it made you cry too....but crying in pain.
I think it spoke to me because it was pensive in a summer that seemed very explosive, what with FIREFOX and KHAN and POLTERGEIST (though I think I skipped that and THE THING) and TRON and my guilty pleasure of that spring, WRONG IS RIGHT (which seems less farcical and more real with every passing decade.)
Don't think I saw CONAN or THE THING till VHS, though I wish I'd caught it in the theater. same for BLUE THUNDER, though maybe that was 83, not 82. I did manage to miss MEGAFORCE, and give myself props for that call.Damn I forgot Road Warrior. Always liked that one more than Mad Max. I think Blue Thunder was 83. I remember I used to watch it and Airwolf episodes over and over. Megaforce had a cool poster Marvel comics always ran in the months leading up to its release but the movie was terrible. One more that might not be one of your favorites but one I loved at the time was The Dark Crystal. I ran out of the theater when the Skeksis fired that laser at the little peaceful muppet in chains and melted his face.
I'm thinking I might have seen BLADE RUNNER a second time in the theater, because I seem to remember catching ROAD WARRIOR for a second time at the Pruneyard theaters in Campbell, and I KNOW that there was a ROAD WARRIOR / BLADE RUNNER double bill there briefly in late summer 82. I was without a car for about a year, and if I missed the last bus home from work I had a 7 mile walk, which took me right past that theater (and passed Tower Records, so I'd spend quadruple the bus fare when I'd stop in there), so that is pretty accurate I think. Am also thinking a BR/RW double bill might have been better than the ALIENS/FLY and ALIENS/TERMINATOR ones I remember from a few years later as being pretty incredible.
Lot to like about that era, once you get over all the damn smoke on the sets.
