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[kingandy]

Am currently resisting the urge to respond to this post on Pagga.  The discussion has moved on, and it wouldn't really serve any purpose to drag it down into the gutter, but it's so tempting.

Originally Posted by Daisy

We run a University club system, and get a lot of 17 year old boys, who generally, do not meet the oh-so-high standards that us older folks are used to. But some of them blosson into beautiful LARP butterflies

Or beautiful 18-year-old boys.

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[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Tcha. Put it down to my advancing senility. You should have been the French "vous" there, in a collective sense. The Dex+Scientists+Bruderschaffe is my own interpretation of the post-credits sequence, due to the sinister science=non-standard-sexuality subtext of the movie. Which I have decided is there.

The Robots at the beginning were mmmmarvellous.

[kingandy]

The robots all the way through were marvellous. Though the free-floating torsos later on didn't quite fit the idiom, I will forgive them for being cool. (And maybe they're restricted to inside the lair on account of special impeller coils fitted throughout the structure ... or something.)

My favourite touches, though, were the ring-pattern ray of Dex's heat pistol, and the "BOOWOOWOO" noise of the robots' laser eyes - sound FX lifted from the WAR OF THE WORLDS movie of course.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

I can't rave enough about the monolithic horrors that stomped New York. I liked it a lot as an homage to Rocketman and the like (nostalgia city - the sound FX from WotW made me chuckle when I was watching it), but I feel there was something indefinable lacking from the movie as a whole. I couldn't put my finger on quite what that was, though.

[kingandy]

Sets?

I think sound quality and post-processing may have had something to do with it - they did a reasonable job of echoey metal rooms, but the "outside on the mountains" scenes were quite poor. The actors did not look at all cold, there was clearly no wind to speak of, and they sounded like they were in a studio. Which they were. I get the impression that, in sound engineering, adding walls (i.e. echoes) is easy - taking them away is hard.

ps. RAR! so cool.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Nah, if anything the "stagey" feel added to the movie rather than subtracting from it. But maybe it would have worked better in the theatre? Presuming, of course, that the technology exists to create 3-D holographic scenery.