Monday, June 11, 2007

There are Apex of things in this world, the tallest is Himalayas, widest are the oceans and the biggest is the Niagara Falls. The best written words are which create images in the mind for the things read.

The film Anaconda had its glory in special effects and computer animations, the visuals are moving and effective, they easily stick in the mind, the lighting was superb, the great outdoor locations were green and relaxing to look at, exotic superb acting by Jon Voight(Paul Sarone) and the praise stops here only.

The beautiful object to watch in this film was Anaconda the big snake, its a creepy, slimy and hissy thing which could never sprout in me affectionate feelings, all the actors including the snake were like cartoons moving around, it was crazy to see big snake overtaking humans in its chase on the land, its a very slothy animal in reality, the crazy indigestible sound made by Anaconda was a downer, the sound of Anaconda was a big setback to this film.

Owen Wilson was wasted in this film, he is a watch able actor, alas money wasted, I always say stick to the field of specialization, Jennifer Lopez (Terri Flores) should remain a singer, she is good at that, she will have value as a singer, her face is too familiar for us to accept her as a actor or a character in a film, here she is representing a scientist from National Geographic expedition whenever I see Terri (Lopez) I have strong images floating in front of my eyes of her taking a bath under a waterfall and singing songs in a beautiful voice, how do I divorce myself from this image, could we the viewers force ourselves to give her identity of a National Geographic Scientist, it is beyond me, we should not be subjected to these useless experiments by directors or story writers, I will accept Jennifer Lopez as one of the Charlie’s Angels, but not a documenter of a native South American tribe. She has a larger than life image only roles with bigger landscape will suit her, LARA CROFT can suit her, but phuleeeese TOMB RAIDER what a dumb name ever given to a film, who will in his right senses will root for a person disturbing the tombs of other people. Lara Croft can do other adventure works, the film will work with Jennifer Lopez, she is good, but the Head of Expedition in Anaconda is bad.

Lets take a brief look at the story of Anaconda.
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Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) leads a National Geographic expedition in the Amazon, also there is Steve Cale (Eric Stoltz) they want to document a South American tribe. But they rescue a strange man (Jon Voight) from a sinking ship, this stranger takes over the boat and forces everyone to hunt down the anaconda, the biggest freak snake in the world. This is a movie Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Owen Wilson wish they have never acted in it.
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There is no humor in our film, only 2 hooks provide us some interest, the special effects and the terror of Anaconda killing people without any reason at all, does Paul Sarone know people are dying in his hunt to capture Anaconda ? There was this one special effect which hindered me from taking my regular meals, the man shape in the tubular belly of Anaconda, filmed beautifully under water, its a powerful visual effect.

The blood and killings were useless, the illness of Eric Stoltz was useless, some repulsive scenes like the vomiting of Anaconda was vomit evoking scene. It did gave me vomiting sensations, but I would like to ask the makers of this film, Why is it necessary to show us all this adverse visuals, are they entertaining ? I mean are we sick to enjoy these type of things ?

This proves my point that the film was hijacked by the director of computer animations and visual effects experts from the hands of the director of this film (Luis Llosa) the visual effects people fried a giant Anaconda for the taste of us all viewers, this dish was to highlight their skills more than the story or the actors. This dish is unpalatable by any standards.

Expert Animators are no authority on entertainment, neither are they capable of stitching scenes of their zappy graphics with live actors well, this all lent a ugliness to anaconda and it looked very silly in the end. The jumping, the standing on its tail and catching the prey in mid air, I know Cobras can stand on its tail. Seeing Anaconda stand on its tail looked silly.

Jon Voight is a very talented actor, he did great acting in this film, he looked more sinister than all the snakes combined shown in this film, believe me there are many snakes, its a giant 60 feet long Anaconda which is supposed to be very rare in this world. Jon Voight looked watch able when he was alone in the frames, with Anaconda no one looked any good, even Lopez looked cold and glamour less shown along with the snakes, moreover Lopez is wearing T-Shirts which was a reminder to us of her video clips, all these small things made this only one time watch able film.

Now that this film is made and seen, lets give credit to its animators and special effects team and put it under seal and lock never to distribute it again.

Yo creepy creatures are not entertaining !!!

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