Your “Australian “ gets so much wrong. For exampleThey aren’t saying gasoline they are saying guzzleine which is actually quite clever. Plus many , many other errors. Just 💩
Frankenstein: The True Story is not particularly close to the Mary Shelley book, but the film does bring in many aspects that have been dropped from other versions of the story - the climactic pursuit into the Arctic, and most importantly the intelligent (as opposed to dumb and brutish) creature and his relationship with his creator, and the levels of Biblical metaphor. The film also borrows strongly from Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - it includes an equivalent of the Pretorius character and his blackmailing plans for a female creation, as well as the violin-playing blind hermit.Jack Smight’s direction lags at times but there a number of strong sequences, especially the scene where the monster invades a ball and rips the female creation’s head off. It is mounted in lavish period style. Particularly good is the rooting of the film inside the historically accurate charnel houses and the appalling sanitary conditions of the hospitals of the period. Although the use of solar power rather than electricity seems an overly strained attempt to avoid the cliches of electric storm resurrections from previous films.
A funny thing sbout dutch angles. Usibg them is tricky. Unlike other cinematographic tricks, dutch angles are very obvious to the audience, and misuse runs s risk of being comically misapropriate. Unless, of course, your location is an ally. The entire damned city of San Francisco is a dutch angle, which enhanses or masks the directirs use if them with the camera work and REALLY heightens the sense iof unease. As I write this, the picture is frozen on what can only be described as a double-reverse dutch angle, woth the background and fireground leaning in opposite directions and the actor seemingly walking cantee sideways, in defiance of gravity, no matter how you turn your head. It has to be noted that the Mystery Spot, a tourist attraction based on optical illusions like this, with uphill appearing to be downhill and where opjects appear to roll upeards. Is less than an hour away from San Francisco. Looking at this shot, I'm certain Kaufman and his photographers spent hours there, figuring out how use those illusions to contribute to the mood of this movie.
I always kinda felt that this movie was made specifically for me, long a sci-fi geek with a special liking of tine travel movies AND a serving Marine who watched it during its first release at an open-air theater at Camp Pendleton. There really wasn't much story, though, and we never got the face-off between the Nimitz and Kido Butai that the movie promised us.
As a sci-fi geek, I'm a little surprised you missed this. u watched this as a young man and initially dismissed it as just another light-weight sci-fi-ish fantasy that were so common in the 80's....until the final scenes showing the saucer in flight in deep space. Ron Howard is the ONLY fillmaker to get that right. It gave the movie instant credibility, and I watched it a lot more closely when it next came on cable.
Gotta point out that Donald Kingsbury's "The Moon Goddess and The Son" has a number of plot parallels with Frau im Mond, probably deliberate. I highly recommend it, though it can be hard to find these days. It was a Hugo nominee in 1980, though, it might have been reprinted in one of the retrospectives for the year.
Everbody says that this version largely obliterataes Matheson's original story. I knew nothing of that story when I first saw this movie. But despite the Christ imagery despite the novie's glorification of Heston's character abd despite every attempt to make Tfe Family look and seem as evil ss possible, I had no problen seeing Matheson's central point. The Family had survived, thet were numerous, they had a civilization of sorts, and luke ut ir nor they were the future of ab otherwise dead humanity, abf Heston was a lone monster, murdering them. It goes to show you how powerful Mathesion's original idea was.
FWIW, Millennium is not one of Varley's best works, although the ending is kinda supposed to be a mess. He is following the lead of other writers like Bester and Niven who deliberateky trash the logic of time travel as a plot device, although Varkey doesn't do it as well as they did and a deconstruction of his central plot device wasn't really a great fit for the noirish dystopic disaster-avoidance story he'd been writing until then. I'll be honest, I'm not really a fan of the novel (although the earlier short story was pretty good), but it does make you think a bit. Varley would get into similar themes with Steel Beach, but without the time travek aspects, and it worked a lot better.
I may be a bit older than the Geek, here. When I first saw this movie, Eco movies were the rage, and it was kind of expected that they'd be preachy, so the heavy-handedness of Lowell's portrayal was a bit of an annoyance, but not really off-putting. Keep in mind, you'd have been comparing it to Planet of the Apes, which was at least as heavy-handed. Anyway, I liked it a lot. The drones were great, and Dern did a fantastic job with the tragedy of his character.
I.was luxky enough to catch Dark Star in it's original theatrucal run, all thise years ago. I was thirteen years pld, and completely amazed. I had no idea how little money Carpenter spent to make the movie at that time, all I knews was that it was completely competitive with any science fiction the big stufios were making (granted, only a couplr if titles a year, then) and it was completely unknown! And of course, it was a rare case of a really effective science fiction comedy AND the first appearance of blue collar space. There was genius to this little movie that I coukd see even ss a kid.
Sadly, I am seeing this all over from content creators. You and the others are giving these companies free advertising. People like you expose me to shows I never heard about, or get me take time to watch the movie or TV show. Enjoy your work. Thank you.
When it first came out, I rather liked it and could never understand how people couldn't follow the plot. I don't think I'd put it on my "Must See" short list, but it certainly isn't a bad film. I'[d call it more of a darned good try that failed to knock it out of the park. The only incomprehensible thing about this film is that people tried to adapt it into a single film instead of two or three.
You reminded me today why I would never start any kind of channel on RU-vid. That being said, Im grateful for yours. It has provided some really enjoyable and interesting content Good luck as your continue
It's deja vu on Public Domain Theatre. By the way, we still haven't seen you bite the head off a chicken so your sobriquet was meant to be taken figuratively? At any rate, good luck on your new conquest.
I've seen the Japanese anime called "Metropolis," but all I remember about it is that it had little to do with Fritz Lang's film, and it just didn't grab me. I'll admit, however, that with the exception of the films of Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii, and the late Satoshi Kon (that is to say, giants), very little anime does.
Just keep watching my channel and giving me likes! As far as I know, there's not much else you can do. Thank you for asking, though. If I ever need to circle the wagons or something, I'll let you know.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek You got it!! I will always watch your channel, even if you just narrate and put up photos instead of videos of the content, and if that doesn’t work, then you can put drawings or sketches……..you need to stay and take a stand my friend, we will be your army, continuing to watch no matter what. They can’t run you out of town, they can try, but keep up the good fight, and the long marathon of plugging away at their total nonsensical business policies will cause them to see what they are doing, and you will still be standing holding the flag of your beliefs high up for all to see. ☺️
This and The Lost Boys are still two of my favorite modern vampire movies. And I loved Roddy McDowell in this. He seemed to have genuinely enjoyed the role. But, I can only imagine how marvelous it would have been to have had the great Peter Cushing in the role, spoofing himself from the Hammer movies. It would've been a delight to see him in this slightly hammy and somewhat comedic role. As much as I loved McDowell in the film, what a missed opportunity.
YTs broken fair use killed my channel years ago ….. now i just speak to the camera and don’t use any images cutaways …. its boring but haven’t been flagged in a while
You are in my opinion the best thing on RU-vid. Your format should be what all others strive for. . You're right about them basically receiving free advertising on there stuff and that's amazes me.others have it happen over stuff I've hardly ever heard of so it makes no sense to attack it. But there it is with a movie like CHUD getting taken down but popular movies having no problems. BTW great job oacoon it just shows how much work you put into it.
Sorry for the grief you're getting. Thanks for the information. Are MGM and Universal stand out bad players, or is what they do standard for major studios? I take it neither the company nor RU-vid share a reason how it's a copyright violation. Could you have avoided the studios' wrath by using just stills?
As I understand it, Universal tends to be the most trigger-happy about copyright, but most of the major studios will do it. Personally, though, when it comes to the films, Universal is the only studio that has noticed my channel so far, but when it comes to TV, I've gotten hit by NBC (Quantum Leap) and MGM (The Outer Limits) in short order. As for the latter suggestion, I'm probably going to start using more still images, because yes, that should help avoid the problem.
Man... The Creator Community needs to just go all class action against this kind of thing. And if there's a Kickstarter/GoFundMe for it, I'm in for a few bucks!
It is ridiculous that they would go after you. your videos cause people to go out and buy either the physical Media or streaming versions of the shows or movies.
Yup, RU-vid and copyright do not gel. I thoroughly enjoy your reviews and to think that RU-vid can block your recognition for all your hard work is plainly wrong. I do not see things changing in your favour, so change from you is inevitable. I fully endorse your decision and I wish you all the best for your future.
God what an awful situation. When I first started creating videos I never imagined I'd be dealing with this, but even as a low-subscriber nobody, people came after me for anything.
