Fawst wrote:Ok, I'm going to stop everyone for a moment. I can't continue reading the rants about the fucking battery life anymore. I just can't do it.
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I'm not saying you guys are wrong for commenting on this stuff, but I think that if you can walk out of that movie and take only those things with you, and product placement woes... if all you came out of that movie with was complaints like that, then you just didn't like the movie, because the whole of it was far better than that.
But Fawst, I can turn that right back around dude. The movie was loaded with problems, and as an audience member, I expect better than that in this day and age. I loved the concept, but as far as the execution goes, but it wasn't the TOTAL EXPERIENCE you are making it out to be. It was a standard studio-made film that tried to be all "indy" POV, but it just came across as a prefabricated effort carefully market researched up the wazoo to get butts in seats and to showcase various 3rd-party products that also have a hand in the making of the film.
If we just brush it all off and say "yeah, but it's just a giant monster movie" then we'll get more giant monster movies that are just as shitty. It's like all you guys saying "TRANSFORMERS RAWKED!! GIANT FARKING ROBOTS MAN!!!!!" and looking past what an utter piece of shit that movie was.
It's that kind of attitude that has given us two REALLY crappy Fantastic Four movies.
It's one thing to watch an old Flash Gordon or a Godzilla and forgive the bad FX work and hackneyed plots. Haven't we become more sophisticated as an audience to say "ok, show me something I haven't seen before... and do it well, 'cos I've seen a lot by now, ya bastards." In this case, we got "Godzilla 98 meets the Blair Witch Project" and while it was probably better than Godzilla 98, Blair Witch had a better viral marketing campaign (they may have even invented it) and their use of the POV was much more credible and well-thought out. You talk about how a modern-day camera can last a long time on a single battery, but surely even you admit that's a stretch when the guy is (arguably) using the viewfinder, fast-forward, rewind, camera light, and night-vision. The camera light alone would drain that thing like whole in the bottom of a water barrel. Whereas in Blair Witch we at least see them stock up on a shitload of batteries.
So for you, maybe (barely) seeing a giant monster attack NYC is enough to keep you stuck to your seat in geek-spewn "GIANT FARKING ROBOTS!!" bliss, but for some of us, all of the little things that add up to the big picture took us right out of the film and forced us to start paying attention to the problems instead