I recently watched Feng Shui starring Kris Aquino (or however you spell it). I finally applaud the Philippines for making a technically sound film. It looks like they finally used up to date cameras. What kills the movie technically is that it is full screen and that the movie looks like video instead of film (wrong fps I guess).
Here comes the worst parts. Feng Shui is labeled as a horror movie, yet it puzzles me because I was laughing throughout the entire film. If I was to make a horror movie (hmmm....maybe I will), I would make the scares subtle without booming sounds or horrendously placed scare shots. What was funny about one of the scenes is that it seems like they ripped it from Ring where the face is all messed up minus the really awesome makeup effects. The twist at the end couldn't be any more predictable. They probably thought it would be a cool twist, but it has a "been there, done that" feel. It didn't make any sense because she did what she was told yet it didn't work.
The premise of the movie is a bit original where you have spirits invading your house because of this one item that sucked them into this dimension. What makes me wonder about this plot is how off track it gets towards the middle of the movie. The movie begins as a horror movie but in the middle, it becomes a drama about marriage problems. Then, at the very end, it goes back to the horror aspect. Weird, if you ask me. I was confused when the husband goes to the ex-girlfriend. They were planning to get the children and go off somewhere.......why?....she is not their mother....what the hell does this have to do with the movie in the first place?
I loved one scene though. It's the scene where the ex-girlfriend gets fucking BLOWN away by her husband. Absolutely terrific. I clapped for several seconds and pleaded for an encore.
It was a good try Philippines. But not good enough. They still need to learn HOW to make a film, both technically and story wise. I have to admit that they are finally advancing. It would be nice to see an actual widescreen movie where the cinematographer would utilize the aspect ratio.
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I have been watching the ultimate Matrix boxset. The documentaries are great to watch since you get to see how they developed most of the shots in this film. The only downside is that it feels like I was left shorthanded or unfinished. The documentaries ranged from 5-30 minutes long. Some of them weren't interesting because it felt like they were just placed there for the heck of it.
One documentary I enjoyed watching was the making of the Burly Brawl. They had this clip where they had a CG sequence of Neo kicking major ass. Very entertaining to watch because it was at a faster pace and you could feel the hits. Too bad the final version wasn't as fast paced as that pre-production movie. It was cool to hear what the people had to say about the making of any CG sequence. I still think they could have done a better job of how the people animate. They talked about how they cleaned up the animation. I think that cleaning up most of the animation from mo-cap resulted in making it look artificial, rather than have the random, chaotic motion of actual human movement. The cloth and smoke effects are clearly not up to realistic levels, but take a couple of years and they could perfect it.
Well later ev'rybody.
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