William
Member since January 15, 2010
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| Joined: | Fri, Jan 15th 2010, 05:00 | Total Topics: | 0 | Roles: | Administrator |
| Last Login: | on 08/24/2011 | Total Posts: | 5 | Moderates: | N/A |
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| Truly Unique Movie | MuleD | on 08/08/2010 |
| Cube was a massive rip off of half a dozen Twilight Zone and Outer Limits shorts. That's not a judgment of quality, just of inspiration. Seven Samurai pioneered certain storytelling elements, but was clearly derived from American westerns. Of all the suggestions I've seen here, the only one that didn't owe its entire existence to the cinematic accomplishments of others was probably Melies. If you want some really unique ideas, you'd have to go back pretty far in the history of film. The Great Train Robbery was the first movie with the idea to tell an extended narrative, even just for a few minutes, and to break the fourth wall visually. Intolerance had the original idea to tell parallel narratives, connected only via thematic material, across different timelines. The Man With The Movie Camera. Battleship Potemkin. Citizen Kane had some original ideas, but not nearly enough to qualify as a whole. Vampyr would probably have blown your minds 80 years ago. Kenneth Anger was about as unique as he could get in the 1960's. See Scorpio Rising if you haven't already. Get ready to avert your eyes when the shit goes down. Of course the problem with watching a lot of these older movies is that their influence on everything - sometimes quite literally - is so pervasive that it's almost impossible to view them as the groundbreakers they were upon their release. What was unique has become familiar, and now we sometimes view the familiar as unique because it puts little twists on something. But if MuleD really just meant "Not based on material previously produced," this gets a lot bit easier. Bubba Ho-Tep is fairly original. Unleashed made the most of a very unexpected concept. Wall-E was pretty daring. The Human Centipede sure seemed to come out of nowhere. But again, that doesn't mean they're "original," just distinctive and not based on a book, comic book, movie or TV series or what have you. |
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| Happy Birthday Jake108! | DarknessOrchid | on 03/25/2010 |
| Your birthday, Jake. Live it. Love it. Earn it. You're going to live forever and we think that's awesome. | ||
| What are your top 20 movies in your Netflix Queue? | SaintMort | on 03/10/2010 |
I believe this cross-section of films says a lot about me. 1. Universal Soldier: Regeneration 2. Zombieland 3. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever 4. Orphan 5. Bad Biology 6. The Broken 7. Surrogates 8. The Roost 9. Habit 10. Automatons 11. Megafault 12. Howards End 13. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie 14. Black Rain 15. The Omega Man 16. Screwballs 17. Book of Blood 18. The Dark Crystal 19. Kagemusha 20. An American in Paris Instant: 1. The Guild: Seasons 1 & 2 2. Antichrist 3. The 49th Parallel 4. Green for Danger 5. The Red Shoes 6. Child's Play 3 7. Samurai Rebellion 8. All About Eve 9. Howard the Duck 10. The Other Side 11. Party Down: Season 1 12. Paris 36 13. Il Divo 14. Return of the Living Dead 2 15. Tales of the Black Freighter 16. Stage Fright 17. The Odessa File 18. It's Alive 19. Eight Legged Freaks 20. 3:10 to Yuma |
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| Happy Bitrhday Gojira and William B! (March 8) | Fushna | on 03/10/2010 |
| Thanks, guys! I'm 28 now, meaning that I've officially outlived Kurt Cobain, even though I've accomplished about 5,000% less. That's a fair trade, so far... | ||
| My face when I saw the new site. | superdeformed | on 03/07/2010 |
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- Name:
- William Bibbiani
- Location:
- Los Angeles
- Birthday:
- March 8, 1982
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