New screen shots

[Rob]

Check out these new stills from the film.

[HTT]

[glow=purple,2,300]Some good stills there - thanks Rob.

I note that the Tripod in the 5th pic is holding the Heat ray in a three pronged claw - like someone rolling a coin over their fingers. Actually, in the trailer, it looks like the Tripod is doing just that with it! In the book, it does say that the heat ray was on a form of "arm"... Not exactly as I'd seen it, but accurate.

I've got my DVD now, and can't wait to watch it...but I've got so much on I won't be able to watch it 'till weekend. [/glow]

[DanMacK]

Nice looking shots Rob, thanks for posting them.

[BrutalDeluxe]

Thanks for posting the shots Rob. The stills look very presentable. I wonder what people who have seen the film will have to say about them.

[Mr Kellogs]

brutaldeluxe said:

Thanks for posting the shots Rob. The stills look very presentable. I wonder what people who have seen the film will have to say about them.

the stills give the impression that the film looks good. shame, really.

[Ashe Raven]

ermmm....

Thats the point

[mctoddridesagain]

But I suspect Mr Kelloggs is saying that it's misleading, as the film is crap.

[Ashe Raven]

And I said thats the point

misleading or not, it's advertising. What do you think if he's released a film he's going to come out and say it's crap? I made my point, it's not really a discussion matter, as advertising is a matter of fact.

Whether you think the films crap or not for the review thread isn't it?

[mctoddridesagain]

Well, it would be if I'd said the film is crap, but as I haven't seen it yet, I can only comment upon Mr Kelloggs' view, can't I?

[Ashe Raven]

The pictures are great

the film is crap (probably)

Lets leave it that shall we?

[mctoddridesagain]

Yup.

To be fair (and God knows it's difficult with Timbo) the second picture is, an many ways, a quite competent bit of work; the crashed machine is nicely rendered, even the buildings are quite well done (unlike some of the animatic style toytown jobs in other shots), and the glint of sunlight behind is a nice touch - only the Martian itself lets it down, he's really rather shoddy, isn't he?

Likewise with that shot of another crashed machine in a field and the Narrator walking past. Shame nothing else quite measured up.

[recumbentrider]

mrkellogs said:

the stills give the impression that the film looks good. shame, really.

This reminds me of an old episode of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' where the cast of the show took clips from the (really bad!) monster film "Godzilla vs. Megalon" and used these clips to make a 'trailer' for a ficticious film they called 'Rex Dart - Eskimo Spy'. This 'trailer' actually made the movie look pretty good!

I don't think this was Rob's intent however; I think he was simply posting screenshots from the movie. I personally think that the screenshots do make the film look far better than it was, since they do not convey how bad the effects were, how bad the editing was, and how bad the acting was. As an example, the first picture shows the writer and his wife at the table while the writer is relating the events at the cylinder pit when Ogilvy and his party were killed. I thought that scene in particular showcased the horrible acting of the actress portraying the writer's wife; the wife's response after the writer told him of the deaths was a very languid and dreamy 'how tragic..'.

[MarkG]

the crashed machine is nicely rendered,

I disagree: if nothing else, the lighting looks seriously wrong (sun behind, yet shadows and specular highlights lit from the front or above).

[mctoddridesagain]

markg said:

the crashed machine is nicely rendered,

I disagree: if nothing else, the lighting looks seriously wrong (sun behind, yet shadows and specular highlights lit from the front or above).

It's all relative, though, I meant in relation to most other shots in the film. At a casual glance it looks okay, as if they've actually made an effort instead of just slapping something together and saying 'right lads, shovel that one out', whereas even at a casual glance, many (most) other fx shots are crap.

I was looking more closely at the crashed tripods on the actual DVD rather than these screengrabs, and I suspect that it's actually a miniature.

[Lensman]

brutaldeluxe said:

I wonder what people who have seen the film will have to say about them.

I say: If the movie as a whole looked as good as the majority of the carefully-selected stills do, then it would be a good film, perhaps even a very good one, and not one which many have called "the worst movie I ever saw", nor would it have been given the nickname "Plan 9 from Mars".

As I said in my review: There are parts of this movie I do like. But for the vast majority of its running time, it's awful.

[nervouspete]

""Fredo, you're nothing to me now. I don't want to see you. I don't want to know you. If you visit our mother, I want to know a day in advance. You're dead to me."

[quaderni]

Nice line, Pete. I thought of the young Clemenza and Tessio!