With very little money and very little experience, brothers Todd and Tim Wynn wrote, produced, directed, edited, and starred in the independent feature film “Very_Little_Time.” The Wynns originally intended the 80-minute movie as a personal hands-on learning experience to help jump-start their film careers. Their original intention was just to go through the motions - from start to finish - of making a movie.
Although they didn’t plan for other people to watch their work, “Very_Little_Time” was such a successful experiment they released it on DVD along with a behind-the-scenes version.
“For a long time we’ve been writing scripts and wanted to come up with a small project that we could film right now,” Todd Wynn says. “The idea was that we would practice making a film, maybe just a 30 second commercial, but then we decided that the only way it would really do us any good would be to actually tell a story with it. We looked around and saw what we had to work with and based the story on that.”
The story centers around Ryan Telnifer, an Australian product tester who discovers a mysterious box buried on his property. Strange things start happening - or rather stop happening - as the box’s contents throw Ryan into a seemingly inescapable time loop. His best chance of returning to his normal life appears through the Internet when a stranger identified as “very_little_time” contacts him with advice.
Working with virtually no budget, the Wynns used a digital home movie camera, home appliances, home-made props, and shot (where else) in their family’s Florida home. They decided to make the character a product tester so they could save money by using everyday household items as props.
They also built their own equipment to keep costs down, such as using a ladder as a track for rolling the camera. They also built equipment out of PVC pipes and wood, constantly experimenting with new ways of doing things. In fact, the brothers claim they didn’t use anything in the movie production that was actually made for a movie production.
“Normally you come up with an idea first, but in our case it worked the other way,” Tim Wynn says. “We didn’t go to film school, but we had wanted to make a film for a long time and put a lot of mind power into it…We avoided outside influences because we didn’t want to study the way that other people do it. We didn’t want to go down a path that had already been set. We had everything shot-for-shot before we actually filmed the movie.”
The Wynn brothers, through their company Pretend Pictures, are developing new projects and are circulating two new scripts, the slightly racy “Pants” and a tamer family film “Inventor’s Day.” One completed film and a couple of finished scripts certainly make the next project easier to envision, but there’s no magic formula for finding investors in independent films.
“It still leaves us searching for the right investor, but it seems that our little DVD Very_Little_Time” is helping in that search,” they say. “We’re looking forward to using some real equipment in a real studio this time.”
More information is available on their website: www.toddandtim.com.
Copyright 2006 Leslie Halpern
Central Florida entertainment writer Leslie Halpern is the author of more than 1,300 articles in trade and consumer magazines. She wrote the books “Reel Romance. The Lovers’ Guide to the 100 Best Date Movies” (Taylor Trade Publishing), which reviews movies for couples and suggests romantic ideas inspired by these films, and “Dreams on Film: The Cinematic Struggle Between Art and Science” (McFarland & Company), an analysis of representations of sleeping and dreaming in more than 125 movies. Both books are available at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. Visit her website at
http://home.cfl.rr.com/lesliehalpern/leslie_halpern.htm
The Japanese: among which thrives a breed of exceedingly innovative individuals, whether in art or science. It was them who created Casshern: the most capturing and emotionally enchanting sci-fi fantasy ever put together on film. Never mind the unknown director and actors in the eyes of western entertainment, never mind the troublesome but necessary reading of English subtitles, Casshern is a refreshing breath of air for Anime-lovers and sci-fi fans alike.
Kazuaki Kiriya, director, had employed the use of striking filming techniques which are relatively new and slightly experimental. Layered in thick renderings of CGI and heavy filtering, the scenes were shot in styles and angles familiar to Manga of serious action adventure genres. The entire movie is photo-realistically picture perfect.
Armed with a flawless storyline, Casshern unfolds its plot scene by scene with minimal predictability. Elements include life and death, man and machine, hope and despair, peace and war, as well as love and hate. Set in a post-apocalyptic future (which is by now a bit common), mankind waged war between themselves, drying up the Earth to the last blade of grass. In the face of a growing health crisis due to excessive pollution, Dr. Azuma answers the call with a discovery of a miracle cure.
Upon nearing the completion of his research as funded by the military instead of the health board of the Great Eastern Union, disaster strikes. Rising from the depths came the mutants who became a bigger threat than everything else. It is now up to Tetsuya son of Dr. Azuma, who unintentionally became the only person strong enough to possibly end the war. No other live-action flick to date has a moving ending like Casshern’s; when humanity itself is questioned.
The contents of the movie is obviously far more meaningful than what I have just described. Even though the story may not impress as many viewers, the captivating visuals and concepts will. Casshern will be released in the US sometime 2005; when it does, it will set a brand new benchmark for mainstream portrayal of fictional world-saving acts in moviedom. Buck up, western film-makers.
Rating: A+
Written by: Justin Wong
A communications student at HELP University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A Chinese urbanite making sense of the world and spilling creative juices. Just a amateur blogger aiming for the sky.
I just got off the phone with a friend and we were talking about Flight 93, the movie is out. I heard that it is excellent, actors were like the real people, and it was done tastefully and was very realistic. A very well know movie critic said if you went to see the movie then would be with the people who died on that flight.
So, my friend and I talked about whether she was going to go or not. We were saddened by just talking about the movie. We still pray for all those people on 911. We talked some more and our usual bright conversation was like that at a funeral.
I got off the phone and was deeply disturbed about what happened to the people on that flight. I am not talking about the anger, or the sorrow or anything like that. I expressed that since 911.
Why was I so disturbed by talking about that movie? I did not know any of the people who got killed, their friends or relatives either. I’m beyond the hurt, grief and disbelief.
SO WHAT DISTURBED ME TALKING ABOUT THAT MOVIE? WHAT?!
I finally realized what made me so disturbed beyond what we all can feel seeing tragedy.
These people were not in combat clothes or mode. They were not trained to be the enemy. They did not kill anyone. Nor had they done anything to deserve a fate like they got.
What disturbed me was that they were people just going about life. The right to live was taken from them without the right of any human being on this planet to do so. That was disturbing enough. Then I realized that the killers did it in the name of their god. The one true GOD is all giving, loving and does neither contain nor dispense evil. For a true GOD is all good. EVIL cannot exist in ONE TRUE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE. EVIL is the absence of good or GOD. This evil that was done to the people on flight 93 was EVIL, therefore if it was done for the high-jackers god then their god. Their god exists in hate, vengeance and EVIL. That is not the GOD of the Universe.
May the one TRUE GOD have mercy on the souls of the victims of 911. May GOD continue to use THE United States of America as the hammer of the world. This great nation is why there are chances at true peace on this planet for without this nation how much more evil would be allowed to grow unchecked and without challenge?
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Thanks for reading …peace.
RICH
It all started with a simple statement scribbled across a blank page of an
examination answer-book: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” Sixty some-odd years and several volumes later, Middle Earth is one of the most well-known and beloved fantasy worlds.
Last year, 2005, marked the 50th anniversary of the complete publication of J.R.R.
Tolkien’s masterpiece. The Lord of the Rings, a multi-volume epic that
followed The Hobbit, was first published in London in 1954, with an
American edition following in 1955. This tale of unlikely heroes has been made into
a radio play (the BBC’s Third Programme aired it in 1956); an animated film (1978);
a trilogy of live-action films (2001, 2002, 2003); several video games (1985, 1990,
1992, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) with more being planned; and now is being made
into an ambitious live-theatre musical production.
“The responsibility is huge,” says Mathew Warchus, the man chosen to direct the
stage version of The Lord of the Rings, “but the opportunity is huge as well,
because you can do some things you always dreamed of doing on the stage.”
Lord of the Rings opened at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto in
February 2006, cost about $27 million (Canadian) to produce and faced many
challenges.
“People feel so strongly about Tolkien’s work,” Warchus says. “I studied the books
very carefully. I vowed I would not trivialize the piece in any way, but honor it and
perhaps even add something to all the available incarnations of the story.”
With so many adaptations of the work on hand, why would someone tackle a stage
production? “To read the novel is to experience the events of Middle Earth in the
mind’s eye; to watch the films is to view Middle Earth as though through a giant
window. Only in the theatre are you actually plunged into the events as they
happen,” says Warchus. “The environment surrounds us. We participate. We are in
Middle Earth.”
Fans who have seen the preview agree. One said, “It was unlike reading or watching
Middle Earth, it was like being there!”
The biggest question, however, was why a musical? Do we really want Frodo to sing,
orcs to dance? “We have not attempted to pull the novel towards the standard
conventions of musical theatre,” says Warchus, “but rather to expand those
conventions so that they will accommodate Tolkien’s material.”
There is “music virtually the whole way through,” says Kevin Wallace, producer of
the show, “Like in the books, the characters in the stage adaptation use songs that
are already part of their culture to express themselves. They do not sing as in a
traditional musical, … but as in a culture with a strong singing tradition, they use
music as part of their everyday life.”
The music is a collaborative composition of A.R. Rahman, a composer from India,
Värttinä, a vocal group from Finland, and Christopher Nightengale, the show’s
musical supervisor. Since, Tolkien used Finnish as a basis for Elvish, having a
Finnish group as part of the musical collaboration has given the music for this
production an authentic and unique sound.
“It’s not really a musical in the tradition sense,” Liam Kearns, a fan from Vancouver
who traveled to Toronto just to see the show, told The Canadian Press. “It’s
really a stage extravaganza. There’s music, but it’s a dramatic play.”
When rumors of this production first surfaced, there was fear that the result would
be cheesy or would stray too far from the original work. To help keep the adaptation
in line with Tolkien’s material, Laurie Battle, Head of Licensing at Tolkien
Enterprises, worked as Creative Consultant, advising the director and producer
directly, as well as pointing the way to further research when necessary.
The effort paid off. “I highly recommend any and every Tolkien fan to watch this
production,” said one fan who saw the preview.
Lord of the Rings is appropriate for children aged 8 and older. Wallace
advises, “People should use their own discretion and bring children who are old
enough to enjoy the performance.” This is especially true, since it is about three and
one-half hours long.
Knowing the story and its characters isn’t necessary to enjoy the musical, according
to Kearns. You can follow the story, which takes in all three books, even if you don’t
know the difference between an ent and an orc.
Previews of Lord of the Rings started Feb. 4, 2006 and the Gala Opening is
scheduled for March 23. Toronto will be the only place to see this production for at
least nine months, when the London production premieres later this year. And
Wallace says that Toronto will be the only place to see this musical in North America
for at least 18 months.
A Kevin Wallace Limited Production, Lord of the Rings is presented by Kevin
Wallace and Saul Zaentz, in association with David and Ed Mirvish and Michael Cohl.
Tickets, which are $78 or $125 (Canadian), are available at http://www.lotr.com or by
calling (416) 872-1212 or (800) 461-3333.
About the Author:
C.S. Pothitt is the editor of The Genre Traveler, an online travel magazine
for science fiction, fantasy and horror fans. You can find it at
http://www.thegenretraveler.com In May, The Genre
Traveler, in cooperation with Beyond Boundaries Travel, is taking readers on
an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the World Premiere Lord of the Rings musical. If you’d like to join, or you’d like to learn more, go to
http://www.thegenretraveler.com/LOTRTour.htm before the April 1, 2006 deadline for
reservations.
I must admit I was first beguiled by the panorama of it all. The scenes were beautifully shot and the emotions of Ennis and Jack really got to me. I even shed a tear at the end of the film as I realized the love so desired would never be.
Of course, I’m speaking of Brokeback Mountain. The story of two gay sheepherders struggling with a love that could never be. But, could it?
It wasn’t until much later when the fog of the beautiful music and the lush scenery that Ang Lee so beautifully brought to the screen faded from my memory. It wasn’t until my heart stop pining away for all the loves lost in my own life could I begin to see that this story is a depiction of lies.
Ironically, this Brokeback Mountain is supposed to be a story of two very strong men. Two men who brave the elements and aren’t afraid of hard work. What they are afraid of is the truth. The truth that should have been revealed to their spouses and families.
The only moral to this story is that there are people in this world who are clinging to relationships built on false hope and lies with partners that, once the going gets tough, pine away for someone else rather than placing their concentration at home—where it ought to be.
Of course being with someone who brings laughter, and no stress, is alluring. It’s not nearly as much fun to remain with a partner worrying over paying the rent and electric bill.
Even as much as we all yearn for a relationship full of passion and no worries of money, the reality is that life (and relationships) comes with the full package, including all the boring stuff required to keep life going.
This movie idealizes love affairs outside the primary relationship and does nothing to depict how lives can be shattered when the people involved are too weak to stand up to their responsibility and place their emphasis on the home they helped create.
I have a strong feeling Brokeback Mountain will win best picture at the Oscars, but I’m left wishing a movie about men who stick with their relationship regardless of hardship, whether they be gay or straight, were up for nomination. Now, that movie would hold my interest.
And, That’s Worth Thinking About!
David Zack Holmes is a writer telling his tales with a southern flair. To read more features see: http://www.davidzackholmes.com
Nominated for 5 Golden Globes and 7 Academy Awards, including Best Motion Picture of the Year, Million Dollar Baby opened to widespread critical acclaim and excellent audience reviews. Director Clint Eastwood, whose career spans multiple decades in Hollywood, creates perhaps his greatest film to date, and co-stars Morgan Freeman (Shawshank Redemption) and Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry) light up the screen with their deft character portrayals and unique charisma. Combining all the inspiration of Rocky with all the drama of a Greek tragedy, Million Dollar Baby is well-deserved of its Best Picture victory (despite the many protests of competing directors who think Eastwood won based on nostalgia for his heralded career and his personal likeability)…
Million Dollar Baby focuses on tough-skinned boxing manager Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), proprietor of a local training gym who has long been estranged from his lone daughter and seems to have only one friend of note - Eddie “Scrap-Iron” Dupris (Morgan Freeman). Eddie lives in and helps manage the gym, and he was once one of Frankie’s fighters. With Big Willie Little (Mike Colter, who once appeared in ER) under Frankie’s management, the gym hosts the daily workouts of a legitimate heavyweight title contender. But Frankie’s reluctance to move Big Willie along prompts him to switch to a less conservative manager, and Frankie must watch his years of hard work pay off for someone else. Meanwhile, 30-something Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) has scraped together the pennies and nickels necessary to train at the gym on a daily basis. Despite Frankie’s advice to quit making a fool of herself, she borrows equipment from Eddie and works out until all hours of the night…
With Big Willie out of the picture, Frankie finally confronts Maggie and agrees to train her. Over time, the two develop a close relationship akin to father/daughter. Maggie rises in the ranks of the female circuit until she reaches the title fight where a cheap sucker punch leads to tragic consequences… With emotional depth and colorful characters, Million Dollar Baby brings one of the most controversial issues of modern society into the forefront for an up-close-and-personal glimpse of the conflict and struggle experienced by trauma victims and their loved ones. Hilary Swank’s Oscar winning performance is on full display, and Morgan Freeman is his usual mesmerizing presence…
In the end, Million Dollar Baby beat out a number of excellent films in order to claim the Oscar for Best Picture - Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways, and The Aviator (which prompted director Martin Scorsese to flee the awards ceremony in a huff). A case could be made for each of these fine films, but needless to say, Million Dollar Baby’s victory is highly indicative of the film’s enduring value. Each of the main characters comes across as likeable, the relationships as believable, and the storyline as inspirational and stirring. Million Dollar Baby is one of those rare films that stays in your head for hours on end long after you’ve walked out of the theater. Its subject matter is serious fodder for debate, and few viewers will fail to develop a strong emotional connection to Eastwood, Swank, and Freeman as they spring to life on the big screen. Quite simply, Million Dollar Baby is one of the best films of the decade and one you won’t want to miss…
Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Million Dollar Baby (DVD).
First airing in November 2001, 24 quickly established itself as one of the best television series around and solidified itself as a cult classic icon. Utilizing a novel premise, each season of 24 comprises a single day in lives of its characters, with each of the 24 episodes representing a one-hour time segment of that day. Kiefer Sutherland stars in the imminent role of Jack Bauer, a government agent periodically faced with enormous challenges within a single day. Each season is reminiscent of a fast-paced Hollywood action thriller, but it’s only a busy day in the life of the heroic Bauer…
Season three begins almost three years after Jack’s successful thwarting of a terrorist conspiracy to nuke Los Angeles. An extremely powerful drug kingpin, Ramon Salazar, has recently been captured and imprisoned due to Jack’s efforts, but the Salazar case is far from over. Ramon’s brother contacts federal authorities and threatens to release a deadly virus on the American public unless his brother is immediately freed. Yet again, Jack is tasked with hunting down the terrorists in a 24 hour timeframe… Will he succeed? Or will innocent people die in mass?
The 24 (Season 3) DVD features a number of breathtaking episodes including the season premiere in which a dead body is tossed just outside of a healthcare facility in Los Angeles. The Counter Terrorism Unit quickly learns that the body is infected with a deadly virus, a blatant signal of blackmail when the unit learns of a threat to release the virus at large unless drug lord Ramon Salazar is let out of prison. Meanwhile, President Palmer is preparing a presidential debate in the company of his brother (also his chief-of-staff) and his doctor (also his girlfriend), and Kim who now works at CTU with Jack has secretly been dating her father’s partner, Chase Edmunds… Other notable episodes from Season 3 include (#53) in which Jack is taken hostage in an inmate riot while trying to break Ramon out of prison, and (#71) in which Jack is on the verge of discovering the location of the deadly vials…
Below is a list of episodes included on the 24 (Season 3) DVD:
Episode 49 (12:00 A.M. - 1:00 A.M.) Air Date: 10-28-2003
Episode 50 (1:00 A.M. - 2:00 A.M.) Air Date: 11-04-2003
Episode 51 (2:00 A.M. - 3:00 A.M.) Air Date: 11-11-2003
Episode 52 (3:00 A.M. - 4:00 A.M.) Air Date: 11-18-2003
Episode 53 (4:00 A.M. - 5:00 A.M.) Air Date: 11-25-2003
Episode 54 (5:00 A.M. - 6:00 A.M.) Air Date: 12-02-2003
Episode 55 (6:00 A.M. - 7:00 A.M.) Air Date: 12-09-2003
Episode 56 (7:00 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.) Air Date: 12-16-2003
Episode 57 (8:00 A.M. - 9:00 A.M.) Air Date: 01-06-2004
Episode 58 (9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.) Air Date: 01-13-2004
Episode 59 (10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.) Air Date: 01-27-2004
Episode 60 (11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.) Air Date: 02-03-2004
Episode 61 (12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.) Air Date: 02-10-2004
Episode 62 (1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.) Air Date: 02-17-2004
Episode 63 (2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.) Air Date: 02-24-2004
Episode 64 (3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.) Air Date: 03-30-2004
Episode 65 (4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.) Air Date: 04-06-2004
Episode 66 (5:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.) Air Date: 04-18-2004
Episode 67 (6:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.) Air Date: 04-20-2004
Episode 68 (7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.) Air Date: 04-27-2004
Episode 69 (8:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.) Air Date: 05-04-2004
Episode 70 (9:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.) Air Date: 05-11-2004
Episode 71 (10:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.) Air Date: 05-18-2004
Episode 72 (11:00 P.M. - 12:00 A.M.) Air Date: 05-25-2004
About the Author
Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the 24 (Season 3) DVD.
The Big Brother house is always unpredictable during its lengthy run and the most dangerous thing punters can do is try and pre-empt who will be up for eviction before the nominations are announced and then bet accordingly.
This very occurrence took place this week, with Grace Adams-Short seemingly in the firing line. Grace had been seen all week seemingly picking on Nikki and bitching about her behind her back and also bed-hopping between Mikey and George, before the latter left the house on his own accord.
Also, being a female in the house is usually bad news as far as eviction survival is concerned because should they go head to head with a male house member, they are usually voted out by the public, very often by a large percentage.
On the betting exchanges, Grace was trading at around 6/10 and had been as low as 1/2, making her the firm favourite to be the second person evicted from the house, but this all changed on Tuesday when it came to nominations.
Grace received just two nominations, one unsurprisingly from Nikki and the other from Glyn, who was sick of her talking about herself non-stop. Two nominations were not enough to put formerly odds-on Grace up for the public vote as Richard received four and Lea and Sezer received three each, putting the trio up for eviction instead.
Sezer, following a fortnight of arrogant behaviour, vowing to “bully” new housemates Aisleyne and Sam and having a dramatic fall-out with Richard midweek and reducing him to tears seems to have sealed his fate. He instantly became the favourite to face eviction and traded as low as 1/33 (Bet3on Friday from a high of 1/5 following the announcement of the trio up for eviction. Some lucky punter had backed Sezer at a high of 29/1 earlier on in the week while the lemmings jumped on the Grace bandwagon.
Sezer is the overwhelming favourite to leave but there could be a final twist in this tale. He could survive at the expense of Lea, who was booed considerably upon her entrance into the Big Brother house for having, as she put it, “blonde hair and big boobs”. As we established earlier, women up for eviction in the Big Brother house are in a rather precarious position.
Value hunters could be onto a winner if they back Lea at more tempting odds of 18/1 while Richard looks safe and should not be supported at comparatively massive odds of around 25/1.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, and others like them, are what I like to consider true horror movies, or even terror movies. They have the ability to really put a fear into someone. At least they’re the type that puts a fear into me. Friday the 13th, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, these movies are of the fantastic, not what is real; therefore they have little scare power. They may be able to get you to jump, if my wife sneaks up on me she’ll be able to momentarily frighten me, but she’s not scary. Quick thrills, or quick scares are not horror movies to be. Horror is beyond such simple tricks, to truly be horrified you have to care, and who cares about a bunch of pot smoking punks taking a summer off to have sex when they should be working to pay for school!
You may be thinking to yourself how the Texas Chainsaw movies are any different. They’re not real either, and you’re right they aren’t technically real. But what they represent is an actual part of society. Tobe Hooper, the creator of the Texas Chainsaw, based the main horror figure on a real life person. Ed Gains. Now Hooper was young when he first learned of Gains and the image of him became distorted, Hooper based Leatherface (the manic who wears womens faces and skins) on what he picture Gains to be like. Now of course Gains looked normal, but he was very similar to Leatherface. Gains would rob graves for body parts to make almost anything, furniture, soup bowls, whatever he wanted. He also did some other things that are much worse but I won’t delve into too much detail on those. These people actually do exist. Murders who haven’t been caught, mass murders that haven’t been caught.
Sure the original Friday the 13th was based on a concept that might be true, child drowns, mother seeks revenge, sure it’s possible. But what about the next 10 movies? The characters in these movies are indestructible, or so it seems, by the end they have some kind of plan that will usually work. In the Texas Chainsaw movies however, most don’t even get a chance to fight, the family knows they are regular people who can be damaged just like anyone else. It is realistic.
Fear to me only exists if I think it is possible that what I’m afraid of might exist. I don’t think it’s possible that a psycho family in Texas will kill me, but maybe there’s a psycho family right next door to me, or down the street, or in the next place I intend to visit. These are practical fears in my mind. Of course I’m not as worried of being murdered as I am of getting into a car accident or something much more probable, but when I’m watching the movie I let myself be drawn into the fear, that’s the fun. Movies that don’t even stand a chance of being even remotely true just don’t do it for me. The Ring for example, yes some good effects but when I got home that night I wasn’t bothered by the TV. However I watched the Blair Witch Project at a cottage and the forest was suddenly frightening, not because I thought a witch might live in it, but because I could easily get lost in it.
True terror, and maybe you don’t want to experience true terror, but if you do, watch the Texas Chainsaw with an open mind, think how you would handle yourself in that situation. The good thing that comes from horror movies is that we get to experience an emotion that we really don’t want to experience in real life. I don’t want to be in a position that causes real fear, but I want to get a rough idea of it, and true horror movies do just that. They give you a taste of the real thing. There are two very good reasons for wanting to feel what it’s like to be afraid, one, it can be a huge rush adrenaline is the best drug, the movie is the method, roller coasters accomplish the same feat. The second reason is that you may have some insight into how you’ll react in a real life situation. Obviously you’ll never really know until you are in a bad situation and hopefully most of us won’t even be in such a situation. If you even have a taste though, you may know if you’re a fight or flight kind of person.
Understanding why your brain is reacting in any given way will allow you to make rational decisions in irrational situations. You may want to run but if you know why you want to run you may be inclined to stay when staying it really the right thing to do. This does not only apply to life or death situations it can apply to almost anything. Have you ever felt bullied by a car salesman? These are confident people you’re dealing with and if you’re not as confident as they are, you should still be able to walk out without being ripped off. So what am I saying? I guess I’m saying if you want a deal on a car, go shopping after you watch a good horror flick. Saw II is in the theatres as of the writing of this article that would be a good example of what I call a true horror movie. Go show that car dealer who’s boss, just don’t bring your chainsaw.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis’ imaginative and compelling story of four siblings who take a journey to a magical world by venturing through a wardrobe has finally arrived on DVD. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe had a very successful tenure while in theatres and the DVD has been packed with some pretty nice features and extras to make the purchase worth it whether or not the viewer has seen the movie in the theatres.
The movie lacks a little in terms of acting and doesn’t contain the big name stars of most big Hollywood movies, but the package comes together extremely well through the work of excellent scriptwriters and set designers. The story stayed right on track with the novel and contained most of the underlying Christian themes that were portrayed in C.S. Lewis’ classic book series. The dialogue was superbly done and the interaction of characters and plot development moved extremely smoothly.
But the real star of the show was the environments in which the scenes were placed. Great set designers, green screens, and on-sight filming combined to grasp all of the majesty of the vast fantasy world of Narnia. C.S. Lewis’ vision of the magical world was brought to life in amazing fashion and kudos goes out to those who put in all the hard work to make everything happen.
The movie carries a PG rating and, although it contains a few action scenes and one big climactic battle at the end, the violence was held to a minimal and blood was withheld for the most part in order to hold that PG rating. The younger crowds will be enticed by the fantasy setting and relatable characters and the older crowds who have read the Narnia novels will want to see the world and story portrayed accurately and done proper justice.
The bonus features included in the DVD include two commentaries, three featurettes, deleted scenes, and dozens of other features. These extras and bonus features are truly outstanding and make the purchase of the DVD well worth it even for those who took the trip to see the movie while it was in theatres.
The DVD version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is simply an excellent release that all fans of the movie and the book will want to be able to own and enjoy. The bonus materials are well worth it and the quality of the movie itself make revisiting it and watching it again well worth it.
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