WETA's latest movie venture
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WETA's latest movie venture
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<gasp>
That can't be for real.
Tell me it's not.
The mint sauce. . . .
Oh, and (puts on shirriff hat) I should mention that the linked film trailer is quite funny, but might be a tad gory for some even with the quick, er, cuts. It's absolutely fine to have the link here—I just think people should know before they click.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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I thought the mint sauce was great!Primula Baggins wrote:
<gasp>
That can't be for real.
Tell me it's not.
The mint sauce. . . .
Oh, and (puts on shirriff hat) I should mention that the linked film trailer is quite funny, but might be a tad gory for some even with the quick, er, cuts. It's absolutely fine to have the link here—I just think people should know before they click.
Don't forget the movie site:
http://www.blacksheep-themovie.com/
The warning about gore applies to this as well, as well as a warning for bad sheep jokes.
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Oh, it is real, all right!JewelSong wrote:This cannot be for real. I mean, please tell me it is an elaborate spoof of some kind!
Because...because it just cannot be for real!
Here is the IMDB listing.
It opened in NZ in late March.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/
It has a 6.9 rating on IMDB, which isn't bad.
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What got me about it (and made me giggle in an unseemly way) was the genuine gore and the dead seriousness of the presentation of the story, when it's a movie about killer sheep.
A New Zealand movie about killer sheep that eat human flesh.
Oh, my stars.
A New Zealand movie about killer sheep that eat human flesh.
Oh, my stars.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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I can't remember whose joke this is:
But this trailer made me giggle because of the tension between the almost boringly traditional horror-film-trailer tropes and the fact that the monsters are . . . sheep. And there was no acknowledgment of the silliness of the idea. That's what made it work.
Mahima, I am another scaredy-sheep who would never actually see this movie and avoids extremely violent movies because I don't have any fun; the violence flavors everything and I don't like that flavor.Yeah, I've always been scared of clowns—think they're creepy.
I guess it probably goes back to the time when I was a kid? And I went to the circus? And a clown murdered my father.
But this trailer made me giggle because of the tension between the almost boringly traditional horror-film-trailer tropes and the fact that the monsters are . . . sheep. And there was no acknowledgment of the silliness of the idea. That's what made it work.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
You both are silly scaredy-sheeps!!
I have my fears, but this movie is so rediculous...no matter how serious or suspensful, I just don't think I could watch it without a grin and a giggle.
Sorta like zombie movies...they're just too beyond belief for me. The ones that scare me have to be totally realistic.
And I don't watch those. :D
<--- monster sheep!!
I have my fears, but this movie is so rediculous...no matter how serious or suspensful, I just don't think I could watch it without a grin and a giggle.
Sorta like zombie movies...they're just too beyond belief for me. The ones that scare me have to be totally realistic.
And I don't watch those. :D
<--- monster sheep!!
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