G'day mates! This week's blog is pure extra credit. You answer the question 'ere, and you get yourself some extra points. Brilliant!
Here's the question: We watched three films and a short from Australia/New Zealand.
Short Film: Cargo
Gallipoli!
Mad Max
Bad Taste
First: What did you think of a short Australian take on Zombies? Did you like cargo, why or why not?
Second: Of the other three, which film was your favorite - and why? Give me a good thoughtful paragraph of why you liked it!
Thanks mates!
Short Film: Cargo..
ReplyDeleteCargo was an amazing short film! I wish they actually carried it out to an actual movie I bet it would have made a bunch of money and viewers emotional with the whole wife turning into a zombie and him finding out he got bit and hes trying to protect his baby and estimating time that he would turn and ugh! that show was amazing!!! seriously would have been my favorite movie if it was an actual movie. I just love the emotional roller coaster it has.
Mad Max...
This movie wasn't really what I expected. I was expecting an over dramatic action movie! like you can totaklly tell the punches and kills were fake. but no it was actually pretty good. I didn't like it cuz its not my kind of taste I don't prefer movies like that. but the whole story to it was pretty good I guess but the only thing I didn't understand was the cop part of max like all the sudden he gave up on being a cop and all the sudden he gets back in his uniform?
and I didn't do the other movies cuz I don't remember the movie ill get back to this.
I thought cargo was fantastic. It wasn't the stereotypical Rambo-man plowing through zombies with a baseball bat; it was a thoughtful take on what is usually a lifeless genre. It was touching too, which is awesome. I liked how it didn't take time and try to explain zombies to the audience. We all know a zombie is. Honestly, this had just as complete a story as many full length zombie films I have seen.
ReplyDeleteOut of the full length movies, Mad Max was my favorite. It was just a super fun movie, full of action. It's acting wasn't too great but it was just enchanting. I enjoyed all of the characters (excluding the night rider).
Gallipoli was a really great movie too. I really loved how brutally honest it was about the fighting, and the end was awesome. It was super refreshing to see a different take on war films. The protagonist was a star athlete, and he would have been a super soldier in any modern american film; but in reality, he would have been shot down just as easily as anybody else.
First:
ReplyDeleteCargo is so intense. It’s really awesome. it’s so dramatic and honestly it leaves me at a loss of words.
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Honestly i don’t think i can pick one, but i shall. They were all so great. Bad taste was so great but was not the best. Mad Max was really great it wasn’t over action-y like i thought it would be. But I think my favorite was Gallipoli. It was a war movie but it wasn’t at the same time. It was such a beautiful film. It was paced differently than you see in a lot of american movies. It wasn’t slow but it was slower than we are used to seeing. You really got to see the characters grow and see a friendship blossom. The end was something that you would almost never see here. It was so abrupt and was literally was a boom dead ending. It was just a great movie.
I liked the short film about zombies it was really interesting and probably one of the best short films I've seen. I can't choose my favorite between the three movies, I liked them all very much. I really liked Gallipoli because you got to watch the characters grow and become friends instead of actually watching the war and even though the ending was really sad and made me cry, I liked it. I think it was a good ending cause it was more real and I liked how the last shot was a freeze frame because that's kind of what death is like. You just die and you don't know or see what happens next. I liked Mad Max a lot too because it was strange and I liked the story, surprisingly because I've never really like those kinds of movies. I also liked Bad Taste because it was such a goofy and dumb movie but so funny and just interesting to watch. It was also cool to see how Peter Jackson's films were then and compare them to his films now.
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