Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on October 30, 2006 at 09:57:39

In Reply to: It's a shaggy-dog story that only AuPh could love. posted by Dalton on October 28, 2006 at 18:32:19:

...than at least one *spoiled* member of it's audience and still managed to be great entertainment in spite of it's flaws.

Here's a clue, master Dalton: Not every film has to obey the laws of natural physics in order to be good rousing entertainment; suspension of disbelief is a job of the actors and, to a slightly lesser degree, scriptwriters. If there was any failure with this film it's that the visual effects crew got carried away trying to create too many dazzling images to fool both the period theater audience and cinema audience that seem to preclude the possibility of Victorian smoke & mirror trickery. Personally, I had no problem with the "electrifying" elements (via Tesla) that eventually ventured into the supernatural and the grisly shaggy-dog subplot, but the Director could've dialed back the FX in post-production to better effect in a couple of scenes.

AuPh