Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Pepe Le Loco (A) on July 08, 2006 at 21:34:51

In Reply to: "The Birds" posted by rico on July 5, 2006 at 07:15:41:

The Birds is a just a great picture. Stunning in so many ways.
Most obviouse of course are the visuals. The production design, the cinematography. the sound design, the editing....

And in my opinion the effects are audacious and spectacularly conceived and executed. Not only in themselves, but in the way they mesh with the overall design of the film. Is the procsess work terribly inferior by today's standards? Of course. By the standards of twenty odd years ago at the culmination of the age of the photochemical special effect? Also, yes.

So?

And that's just the craft and technique of the film. Story, direction- the film as an oganic whole? Fucking awsome.

Try to imagine something like this coming from mainstream big budget Hollywood today.