Post by obliv326 on Sept 4, 2005 5:41:24 GMT -5
i have just moved to a new apt, and have the good fortune of living near what may be the greatest video shop in the world...so far, in 2 weeks, i have rented 16 videos, and pretty much all of them were things i had never seen for rent anywhere else...stuff i would have had to buy in the past, if id wanted to see it...
at any rate, a couple of those films have been directed by the pang brothers jointly or separately. i have been curious about their stuff since seeing the eye, which scared me so muc, even on repeat viewings, that i wont watch it alone, at night, or all the way through in one setting (see prior threads for my notorious unwillingness to scare easily)
in the past couple weks, i have seen the eye 2, bangkok haunted, and i am watching abnormal beauty right now. i was wondering if anyone here had seen these, or any others, and if so, what they thought.
briefly, i think these guys are visual geniuses. the ability to turn an image so effectively has probably not been done at this level since, i dont know, spielberg? the films arent just beutiful, but evoke intense emotions through the imagery alone...
i will get more into the specifics if someone wants to discuss a particular film, but i would say, at this juncture, that anything hey do is worth watching, if only(although so far, not merely because of) the visual style of these diectors.
if you are an aspiring filmmaker, you could do worse than rip these guys off. i am in film school, and i know i will be!
anyway, please, if you have an opinion, id like to hear it...or information, criticism, whatever. i am sort of overwhelmed by interest for these guys and havent found a ton of stuff on them, so please, fire away.
at any rate, a couple of those films have been directed by the pang brothers jointly or separately. i have been curious about their stuff since seeing the eye, which scared me so muc, even on repeat viewings, that i wont watch it alone, at night, or all the way through in one setting (see prior threads for my notorious unwillingness to scare easily)
in the past couple weks, i have seen the eye 2, bangkok haunted, and i am watching abnormal beauty right now. i was wondering if anyone here had seen these, or any others, and if so, what they thought.
briefly, i think these guys are visual geniuses. the ability to turn an image so effectively has probably not been done at this level since, i dont know, spielberg? the films arent just beutiful, but evoke intense emotions through the imagery alone...
i will get more into the specifics if someone wants to discuss a particular film, but i would say, at this juncture, that anything hey do is worth watching, if only(although so far, not merely because of) the visual style of these diectors.
if you are an aspiring filmmaker, you could do worse than rip these guys off. i am in film school, and i know i will be!
anyway, please, if you have an opinion, id like to hear it...or information, criticism, whatever. i am sort of overwhelmed by interest for these guys and havent found a ton of stuff on them, so please, fire away.