Free tickets... in a SMALL preview theatre tucked in some corner of an office building (the Shaw Center, 13th floor to be precise) Thx Baobei for the free preview ticket... 4 free invitations to preview the movie Doomsday.
The movie itself was a whole different matter... I think even if someone PAYS me... I wouldn't watch it again in the preview theatre...
1) No food and drinks allowed... No popcorn even... =( I was starving at 6 already
2) The movie was.... pointless
3) The theatre was small... free seating. The person in the control room should've at least lowered the volume as there were few people to absorb sound, and save our eardrums from Doom.
The movie was about a disease that wiped out the whole city of Glasgow. The entire city was quarantined and millions of civilians left to die. A young girl makes it out alive but her mother was left behind.
30+ yrs later the virus resurfaces again in New York and the girl, all grown up, is sent with an elite team back into Glasgow to find survivors and the cure. In there, everyone is killed one by one...
By a barbaric/cannibalistic tribe of tattooed, mohawk-hairstyle cannibals in punk rock clothing =.=
30+ yrs into the future in a city with no supply, no outside help and hardly any electricity and food, and people dress themselves in punk rock clothes & tattooes???
Then comes the wierder part... the main characters escape the punk rock tribe... only to run into a group of people wearing even wierder clothing... MEDIEVAL clothes.
Full suit of metal armour, cloak, helmet, sword/spear/arrows & big saddled horses included. They get brought into a CASTLE where everyone wears FULLY MEDIEVAL TIME CLOTHING. (Think Robin Hood, King Arthur, Eragon, Lord of the Rings with none of the beauty or flair) Talk about wierd! 30 yrs into the future when there's no more clothing left, the seamstresses design MEDIEVAL CLOTHING?
Hey, at least come up with something that's more original and less ripped off from "King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table". Even throwing in something from modern times, like a baseball cap, would make a big difference to the scenes.
The female protaganist gets thrown into an... ARENA... first thought that comes to your mind. GLADIATOR + TOMB RAIDER. Sure enough... everyone's prediction came true. The chick with sexy matte black tomb raider clothing beats up the gladiator n kills him. Then she and her remaining comrades break out.
By now, i was praying for the movie to end.... >_~The end...~
Talk about bizarre. The movie stank of deja-vus.
1) There was rip-off from 28 days/weeks later, Resident Evil trilogy storylines. The movie parts were a collage of scenes reminiscent of other movies thrown together.
2) The costume, props and make up was ripped-off from Starship Troopers (the quarantine armor-suit for the soldiers and technological weapons), Apocalypto (the tattoos), Robin Hood/King Arthur (medieval armours), James Bond (super cool, sleek black car), Resident Evil/Tomb Raider/Underworld(sexy matte black clothes for the female main character)
It resembled some badly-done horror movies in which the producers probably got a paint company to sponsor gallons and gallons of red paint for free. Then the effects-artists were told that they had free reign. There was excessive gore everywhere... not to mention an innocent rabbit was harmed in the process of production. And of course, the castle of "Camelot" that appeared out of nowhere topped it up and into the world of CRAAAAAZY...
To fully express how I felt after the movie, here's a Quote from movie's main character SinClaire when she answered the bad guy's qn.
Baddie: What did you have to lose?
Hot chick: I lost my fucking mind. (chops off enemy's head)
17 million pounds was wasted on the production of this pointless movie. I would like to congratulate the scriptwriter on managing to sell the script to the suckers who actually used it to produce a movie. Congrats too to the production company who managed to suck 17 million from the sponsors.
As for the director, erm, how about try harder next time... or... try a documentary next time... at least you will be forced to do some actual research on FACTS before u can make anything... and a few diploma classes on how to take proper cinematic shots would be good too... Please don't try to copy Resident Evil or 28 Days Later again... and hire some voice actors too.
Total waste of time... it granted me nothing but a headache... the trip to Carl's Junior burger at Far East Plaza was much better than the preview itself. The tiny theatre was pretty nice... too bad the movie was not. I think my IQ dropped a few points and I lost a few brain cells.
The movie itself was a whole different matter... I think even if someone PAYS me... I wouldn't watch it again in the preview theatre...
1) No food and drinks allowed... No popcorn even... =( I was starving at 6 already
2) The movie was.... pointless
3) The theatre was small... free seating. The person in the control room should've at least lowered the volume as there were few people to absorb sound, and save our eardrums from Doom.
The movie was about a disease that wiped out the whole city of Glasgow. The entire city was quarantined and millions of civilians left to die. A young girl makes it out alive but her mother was left behind.
30+ yrs later the virus resurfaces again in New York and the girl, all grown up, is sent with an elite team back into Glasgow to find survivors and the cure. In there, everyone is killed one by one...
By a barbaric/cannibalistic tribe of tattooed, mohawk-hairstyle cannibals in punk rock clothing =.=
30+ yrs into the future in a city with no supply, no outside help and hardly any electricity and food, and people dress themselves in punk rock clothes & tattooes???
Then comes the wierder part... the main characters escape the punk rock tribe... only to run into a group of people wearing even wierder clothing... MEDIEVAL clothes.
Full suit of metal armour, cloak, helmet, sword/spear/arrows & big saddled horses included. They get brought into a CASTLE where everyone wears FULLY MEDIEVAL TIME CLOTHING. (Think Robin Hood, King Arthur, Eragon, Lord of the Rings with none of the beauty or flair) Talk about wierd! 30 yrs into the future when there's no more clothing left, the seamstresses design MEDIEVAL CLOTHING?
Hey, at least come up with something that's more original and less ripped off from "King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table". Even throwing in something from modern times, like a baseball cap, would make a big difference to the scenes.
The female protaganist gets thrown into an... ARENA... first thought that comes to your mind. GLADIATOR + TOMB RAIDER. Sure enough... everyone's prediction came true. The chick with sexy matte black tomb raider clothing beats up the gladiator n kills him. Then she and her remaining comrades break out.
By now, i was praying for the movie to end.... >_
Talk about bizarre. The movie stank of deja-vus.
1) There was rip-off from 28 days/weeks later, Resident Evil trilogy storylines. The movie parts were a collage of scenes reminiscent of other movies thrown together.
2) The costume, props and make up was ripped-off from Starship Troopers (the quarantine armor-suit for the soldiers and technological weapons), Apocalypto (the tattoos), Robin Hood/King Arthur (medieval armours), James Bond (super cool, sleek black car), Resident Evil/Tomb Raider/Underworld(sexy matte black clothes for the female main character)
It resembled some badly-done horror movies in which the producers probably got a paint company to sponsor gallons and gallons of red paint for free. Then the effects-artists were told that they had free reign. There was excessive gore everywhere... not to mention an innocent rabbit was harmed in the process of production. And of course, the castle of "Camelot" that appeared out of nowhere topped it up and into the world of CRAAAAAZY...
To fully express how I felt after the movie, here's a Quote from movie's main character SinClaire when she answered the bad guy's qn.
Baddie: What did you have to lose?
Hot chick: I lost my fucking mind. (chops off enemy's head)
17 million pounds was wasted on the production of this pointless movie. I would like to congratulate the scriptwriter on managing to sell the script to the suckers who actually used it to produce a movie. Congrats too to the production company who managed to suck 17 million from the sponsors.
As for the director, erm, how about try harder next time... or... try a documentary next time... at least you will be forced to do some actual research on FACTS before u can make anything... and a few diploma classes on how to take proper cinematic shots would be good too... Please don't try to copy Resident Evil or 28 Days Later again... and hire some voice actors too.
Total waste of time... it granted me nothing but a headache... the trip to Carl's Junior burger at Far East Plaza was much better than the preview itself. The tiny theatre was pretty nice... too bad the movie was not. I think my IQ dropped a few points and I lost a few brain cells.
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