Author: James Partridge

Cool Stuff: And who says Michael Bay loves to waste money??

Posted by | Jul 5, 2011 |

Before I post my review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and be berated by all for liking it, and then see a barrage of abuse hurled at Michael Bay (or ‘the Devil’ as he is more commonly known) for wasting a sum of money that could’ve been used to cure cancer or eliminate world hunger… check this out. On this Transformers outing Mr Bay actually reused footage from one of his old movies, The Island, in order to save money! Ok, that money was probably wasted somewhere else in the bloated monstrosity that is his latest creation but, even still, it’s kinda cool. I love the fact that he’s used unwanted camera angles from The Island too, and cleverly made it all work. Say what you want about the film, the special effects in Transformers: Dark of the Moon are phenomenal so it must have taken days (probably weeks) to get the timing right on these sequences. It’s not often you’ll hear this Michael but… nice job! It would be interesting to know how many other filmmakers do this? Quite a few I’d imagine – especially with the price of a blockbuster these days being nothing short of several hundred million dollars. Transformers fan or not, I hope you enjoy the clip… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHA7K5JZ-TA Pretty cool huh? Anyone know of other films where this has been...

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NZIFF 2011: Wellington tickets go on sale tomorrow! Here’s what we’re going to see…

Posted by | Jul 5, 2011 |

Tickets for the Wellington line-up of the New Zealand International Film Festival go on sale tomorrow. Wellington is Admit One‘s home town, so as you can imagine we spent the entire weekend pawing through the programme and selecting the films we just have to see – and review for you guys. With it being Admit One’s first year at the fest, and us still being part-time bloggers (for now), some tough calls had to be made because pesky things like ‘a full-time job’ kept getting in the way – stupid, I know. For some film clashes it really was a case of flipping a coin – a credit to the film fest team for bringing us such an incredible line-up this year. So we’ve narrowed it down to 24. Yep, 24! And if you think that’s bad, you should’ve seen the list we started with. Check out our final picks below. The Wellington line-up isn’t all that different to the Auckland one, which we announced a few weeks back. But the big coup for Wellington is the closing night film, Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive – starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. Click on any of the film names below to see the session times for Wellington. As with our Auckland post, if the film was listed in more than one section we’ve only added it once in order to...

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