Fantasy

Night Watch

BigSugar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:33:41 +0000

No, not the old Ewan McGregor/Josh Brolin movie. This one's actually really fucking good.

Here's
the deal; the forces of Light and Dark call a truce ending a centuries
long war, but the truce is in trouble when a kid is born who, it has
been foretold, will tip the balance of power in favor of whatever side
he chooses to join. Fuckin' weird, crazy-assed shit ensues.

Okay,
see if you can follow this; as part of the truce, two enforcement camps
are created to police illegal activities of the respective sides. Members of the Light
who watch the fuckups on the Dark side are called Night Watch (their
opposite numbers are called Day Watch, the title of the sequel to this
flick). The story follows one of the Night Watch as he goes in to
protect the boy who will shift the balance of power. Now,
apparently, neither side can influence the decision of the boy (it's
against The Rules), but certain Dark assholes are working overtime to do
just that. Add in a broad who's cursed as a motherfucker and you've
got this flick.

As you can tell, the story is complicated and
what's above is only the bullet points. It's a fuckton more
complex than what I've managed to boil it down to, so get ready for a
two or three sitting event here. With that out out of the way, let
me tell you this is one hell of a movie. That fucking Russkie
managed to put together a flick that goes straight against everything
you know about how boring and pain-in-the ass pretentious foreign films
often are. I'll put it to this way; even the fucking subtitles are cool as hell.

Add
to that a visual style that takes equal parts Tim Burton and Tony Scott
and slams them into each other at a fucking velocity that spot-welds
the two together and you've got a movie that shames pretty much every
tentpole summer flick that's come out in the last five years. I
don't know where they dug this cat Bekmambetov up from, but if the Iron
Curtain's got anymore like this one, Red Rover, Red Rover, send those
motherfuckers on over.

As a side note, I know many of you don't
know who in the purple Jesus fuck this Bekmambetov is, but don't
worry. In a couple of weeks when a little Angelina
Jolie/Morgan Freeman movie called Wanted comes out, you won't be able to escape this cocksucker.

Get it and Love it.

Save yourselves,

'Nuff Sugar

Krull

BigSugar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:45:21 +0000

Remember New Coke? How about Crystal Pepsi? Well, this flick is kinda like those bad corporate ideas.

Here's
the deal; a rather pissed-off bitch of an alien called The Beast is
tooling around the stars looking for planets to "enslave" when he runs
across a system called Krull. Swords vs. laser adventure ensues.

Now, before I get started, read this part carefully:

I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS MOVIE!!

I
like this movie a lot, but I also like big-tittie porn and Adrian Belew
records. Let's start there. The opening shots of The
Beast's rock (with engines) floats past the camera like early animatics
for an Imperial Cruiser. Basicaly saying to the audience
"Yes! We're ripping off Star Wars! " And just to
drive the point home, James Horner's score comes on like a drunken frat
brat. I swear, the first five minutes of this movie come
dangerously close to date-rape (don't ask me how I know that one
either). The giant rock then lands on a lush, green planet that
we will come to discover is Krull.

Here's where it get's a little
sticky. The Beast's henchmen, called Slayers, exit the rock to
take over the planet. On horseback. Yeah, horseback.
So, this fucker's riding hither and yon on an intergalactic mission
from hell and he gives his boys fucking horses. And laser spears
that fire once, and then have to be turned around and used as
swords. Darth fucking Vader, he ain't. (As a side note: the
movie goes out it's way to explain how The Beast is going to enslave
the planet, but doesn't ever address to what end he needs a planetful
of slaves. I mean, at least Storm Troopers were building some
shit, right?)

Turns out Krull is inhabited by the super-hot
Lysette Anthony and disturbingly gay-looking Ken Marshall (he's in
Spandex for the whole movie). Their marriage will unite the
people of Krull and repell The Beast! Not so much. In the
middle of the ceremony, The Slayers crash the party and nab Lysette
'cause apparently The beast has a mean hard-on for her and no way to
self-flagelate (hey, I'd be pissed off too). The Slayers take
this fine peice of ass back to the rock where The Beast sits on her for
a few days, all the while begging her to come off some ass. Ken
is, in the meantime, whipping up a posse and going on the hunt for this
motherfucker so's he can get freaky before The Beat goes all long-dong
and Lysette decides not to go back. Got all that?

This was
another of those HBO staples that I never missed, and I'll tell you
why: the Glaive. The Glaive is this movie's Old Painless.
The only difference being that Ken has to pull it out of a river of
lava. For those of you who've never seen this flick, The Glaive
is basically a ninja throwing star on massive fucking steroids.
It's got blades that Fred Kreuger would be proud of and the ability to
fly at the will of its master. Yeah, baby, I wanted one badly.

There are some cats over at IMDB that seem to feel as though this movie has no debt to Star Wars,
and they're fucking wrong. Shall we count the ways? How
about Freddie Jones as the mystical old man from the mountains?
Obi Wan. Ken Marshall's a pussy who becomes manly.
Luke. Lysette Anthony is a fucking princess for Christ's sake.

Now,
if you can get past all of that and take the movie for what it is, it's
a cool flick. I love the scene where Liam Neeson and company are
pressganged into service. We get what is perhaps the best description
of fame I've ever heard. I love the Cyclops' sub-plot and the
whole fire-mares thing is cool as shit. Essentially, this movie
boils down to this; they ripped off Star Wars, no doubt about
it. But, if you're gonna rip something off, don't you want to rip
off the best? I mean, they could've tried to go after Howard the Duck, right? So, give it a shot, but don't say I didn't warn you.

'Nuff Sugar

"The Tektrix" (Teaser)

Sunlight_Digital — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:18:28 +0000

Short based on "The Matrix". Here's a trailer/teaser.

CGI, cable work, roto & cable removal was involved in the post-production.

The sound on this trailer is a quick treatment.

The DVD version includes a precisely finished soundtrack as well as a 5.1 surround mix.

I'm not on KC very much these days - so private messages are missed for weeks, remarks & queries sent to info@sunlightdigital.com are welcome.

Our website has changed quite a bit:

http://www.sunlightdigital.com

Mister Muerte: Trial Of The Undead trailer

iainsclater — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:57:16 +0000

This is my trailer submission for the Grindhouse SXSW competition. A zombie-western-fantasy written and directed by Iain Andrew Sclater.