Post by Marcus on Sept 2, 2009 5:39:05 GMT -5
Pulled from previous thread
"Plot: Space man comes to earth during the time of the vikings, chasing an alien beast. The alien beast looks and acts very like a dragon. Vikings and spaceman fight the alien/dragon.
It was originallly supposed to have a big budget and the effects by Weta, but one of the backers pulled out, so it was filmed for less in America - but as I said the trailer looked pretty good.
The stars are: John hurt and Ron Perlman, James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston."
Got this film yesterday.
The monster was fantastic, it looked great, moved well, and felt like it was in the scene rather than added latter. The monster had a cool bio-illuminesence effect that it could generate (instead of breathing fire) which worked really well. - For me the monster stole every scene it was in.
Didn't notice any accents on the vikings, and they tended to speak in a modern phrases from what I could hear (I'm not very good with accents so they tend to pass me by unless their heavy). But it didn't distract from the feel of the setting - and even kinda made sense on how the spaceman learned the nordic language.
The setting worked well, looked authentic with just a dash of romantic license, apart from one bit near the end which felt wrong, even if it did look cool.
Found it to be fast passed with no long pauses in the film, which is good. The characters were not particularly deep, but not done badly either. A couple of their names could have done with being different - one of them is called boromer (ie LoTRs) which is a viking name, but a little too strongly linked with LoTRs so it was a little jaring at first.
If you like monster films than it's definately worth watching.
"Plot: Space man comes to earth during the time of the vikings, chasing an alien beast. The alien beast looks and acts very like a dragon. Vikings and spaceman fight the alien/dragon.
It was originallly supposed to have a big budget and the effects by Weta, but one of the backers pulled out, so it was filmed for less in America - but as I said the trailer looked pretty good.
The stars are: John hurt and Ron Perlman, James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston."
Got this film yesterday.
The monster was fantastic, it looked great, moved well, and felt like it was in the scene rather than added latter. The monster had a cool bio-illuminesence effect that it could generate (instead of breathing fire) which worked really well. - For me the monster stole every scene it was in.
Didn't notice any accents on the vikings, and they tended to speak in a modern phrases from what I could hear (I'm not very good with accents so they tend to pass me by unless their heavy). But it didn't distract from the feel of the setting - and even kinda made sense on how the spaceman learned the nordic language.
The setting worked well, looked authentic with just a dash of romantic license, apart from one bit near the end which felt wrong, even if it did look cool.
Found it to be fast passed with no long pauses in the film, which is good. The characters were not particularly deep, but not done badly either. A couple of their names could have done with being different - one of them is called boromer (ie LoTRs) which is a viking name, but a little too strongly linked with LoTRs so it was a little jaring at first.
If you like monster films than it's definately worth watching.
