Clerks review

For me, one of the best ever made. It's simplistic nature is what gets me about this. Sure the acting is amateurish, and a little lame, but it works. The perspective of a clerk is accurate enough to someone who's been in said position.

An inspiring piece of work, despite smith saying it was his worst, which is understandable, when comparing it against his later work.

This, for me will always be what got me into film.

Karan.

Transformers: The Revenge of The Fallen review

Pathetic attempt at a sequel, all over the place. All that was visible was welding if two metals constantly. Only thing that saved it was the end.

Ok, so I know that wasn't much of a review, but I guess thats all it deserved. Well thats a little harsh. At least it got it's own banner.

Karan.

The Matrix review

Truly a historic movie, took me a while to actually get round to watching, but definitely worth the wait. Yeah, Keanu has the same old wooden acting, but who gives a damn?? Suits him. Movie itself was pretty intense, had my attention throughout, didn't feel like going for a piss at anytime during this.

Karan.

Race To Witch Mountain Review

Ok, not bad in places, but other parts were just corny as balls. It amazes me how kidscan still be amused by stupid one liners. It really boggles the mind. I mean, "I have older brothers" really??? If you've seen it you'll know what talking about. I wouldn't say it was a bad movie but at the end, I was just left with a 'thats it?' sort of feeling. To be honest, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson took this for me. Yes, I'm aware he's dropped that name, don't care. 3.5 is me being pretty generous. Overall, not a bad movie, just leave it to the kids.

Karan

Special FX/ Mini reviews

Maaaaan..I've been checking out some tutorials on how to do some amazing Special Effects using only After Effects, and I have to say- it's pretty effing sweet. I'll hopefull be working on some of these during the course of the holidays sometime, because it'd be badass to learn how to do it. You've probably seen the Lightsaber one by now, and I want to go a step up from that- A fight scene, using Lightsabers. It'd take a mother of time to do, but I'm willing to take that time out to do it.

My god how awesome would that be- I invisioned it earlier today, when a friend gave me the idea. Just makes me want to do it even more. Wrong time at the moment lol. It's like 22:19- too dark.

I'm posting up some mini-reviews of some movies in a sec, just so I can get them out here.

Karan.

P.S. I figured i'd use my name from now on to sign off, keep a little professional courtest at least. Ha!

Lightsaber V2

You may remember me posting a video of me being a Jedi- http://kkd2010.blogspot.com/2008/08/crappy-attempt-at-lightsaber-effect.html

This video is a huge improvement, even though it's long overdue. Instead of manually rotoscoping it, I used Andrew Kramer's Lightsaber preset:http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/lightsaber.php

It's relatively simple to do, just a little time consuming, hence a short clip.

Enjoy!

K2010

Incredible Hulk Review

I'm baaack again, but for a review I haven't promised. But I just watched it, so I thought I'd publish it.

So just watched this for a second time, and rightly so. Watching it a second time just further solidifies it's place in Comic Book-Movie history. It's just an amazing movie, well thought out, getting right into the plot from the start was a good way of introducing new comers to the story. There are scenes in the movie that just annoyed me, but then nowadays it's just expected. I'm referring to the romantic antics lol that rhymes. Understandably, that's going to be in there anyway, but what can I do. The action scenes in this are just..wow..It never ceases to amaze me how each Marvel film is just a step up from it's predecessor.

The final battle was so well done, in my opinion, it was refreshing seeing some hardcore brutality, granted there were some brutal scenes in Spider-Man, but I think this one has to take the cake. The CGI..Oh the CGI. The Hulk in this was probably one of the best pieces of work I've seen in a Marvel film. Not THE best, but one of. Just the first time that he's fully revealed was pretty damn awesome, his veiny, muscle brutish appearance was effing sweet. Sounds pretty gay lol. Acting was what I'd expect, how Edward Norton portrayed Banner as the quiet geeky, science lab- Hang on..Sounds like Peter Parker to me..Anyway, Liv Tyler's was abit..meh. I just didn't feel it from her. Blegh. I think I'm going on far too long than usual.

K2010