stylofone wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:31 am
This week I watched the remake of Nosferatu. It didn't quite work on me, but it had some excellent bits in it. I will go back and re-watch the Herzog version from the 70s and also Andy Warhol's Blood for Dracula, which I remember fondly.
Then last night I got around to watching "Mad God" which is a surreal arthouse cult animation. I really enjoyed it, it reminded me of being young and pretentious and going to see Koyaanisqatsi, 2001, Robot Monster, that sort of thing.
I loved mad god but i don't know why, i didn't know what was happening and i still have no idea what it was about but i was totally immersed.
I saw an interview with its creator and he said it's like the inversion of reading a book, where you have all the words laid out by the author, but it is up to the reader to create the visual image, different in the mind of every reader. ("Reader Response Criticism"). With "Mad God" he provides all the visual creation but leaves a lot of the rest to the viewer.
It also looks like Phil Tippett has had a lifetime as a creative contributor to a genre based on mythic, archetypal stories - especially the monsters, and it has somehow allowed him to drill into the subconscious with this mind-fucking imagery, in a way which is not normally allowed in commercial film making.
After receiving woeful reviews upon its Thursday release, it was predicted the new Minecraft movie would sensationally bomb at the box office.
But the game has only just begun for the $US150 million Warner Bros. film, which made a staggering $US301 million globally in its opening weekend.
There are over 200m players of Minecraft across the world, even if the film was truly terrible, you can bet every single one of those players, given the opportunity, will go and watch it at least once! It's a kids moving, it's about Minecraft, going to go through the roof.
