Showing posts with label Attack the Block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Attack the Block. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2011

'Attack the Block' Clips

Not a single ultra-expensive CGI effect or even a monster in sight but these totally work. Clicks. Must-see.









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Friday, July 29, 2011

Shiny and Glossy vs Heart and Soul



A clip from Jeffrey Wells on 'Cowboys & Aliens' vs 'Attack the Block':

...Attack The Block is a smarter, more character-flavored, more tightly constructed entertainment than Cowboys, and I don't mean solely in terms of tension and thrills. Block is also about something -- i.e., community values and urban-jungle teens learning to take responsibility and fly straight and become men -- while Cowboys is...what? About kissing the behinds of ComicCon fanboys and their low, sloppy taste in comic-book movies? About wanting to make money?

As usual, Wells cuts to the core. Can't say I'd go that far re: 'Cowboys & Aliens' but, have to agree on 'Attack the Block'. From what I've seen 'Attack the Block' delivers a better experience and is something you'll remember, something you'd be glad you watched, whereas 'Cowboys & Aliens', while an effective popcorn flick, is probably pretty ephemeral.

There's just something, that rare quality that's hard to capture when making a movie but easy to spot when watching one, in every second of trailers and clips from Block that tells me the script is tight, the story delivers, and the movie is a lot of fun. Cowboys goes for it, stretches. It's sort of there, in a professional, mechanical way. They just don't quite deliver. I don't quite feel it. And, this hard-to-capture quality -- you don't see it you feel it.

I can see re-watching snippets of 'Attack the Block' over the years just because I want to relive it -- feel it again. I do that with some films -- watch for a certain camera technique, an edit, a line of dialogue, or even just a shot. I'll spin the DVD and review maybe as little as a minute or two, get that feeling, that uplift some movies provide, then move on to the next flick. 'Attack the Block' will be one of those. On the other hand, I'll probably watch 'Cowboys & Aliens' once to get it under my belt and review it maybe every ten years.




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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Director Joe Cornish talks 'Attack the Block'

No new footage, but some good lines, which the movie seems loaded with.

"I've got one text left! This is too much madness to explain in one text!"

WOMAN: Jesus, he looks about six!

BOY: I'm nine and a half!







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Monday, July 25, 2011

Thursday, July 21, 2011

New Trailer for 'Attack the Block'

Cannot believe how good this plays. First good look at the aliens.

Great trailer. Movie is probably one of the best of the year.





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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Clip from 'Attack the Block'

With French subtitles, which are about as easy to understand as these guys' accents.

Smart stuff. Good movie.





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'Attack the Block' B-Roll



Part II
Part III





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Thursday, June 16, 2011

'Attack the Block' Red Band Trailer

'Hobo with a Shotgun' was the best trailer I'd seen this year, now this one is.

Monday, May 09, 2011

'Attack the Block' Featurette

With writer/director Joe Cornish

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

'Attack the Block' Featurette

With a couple seconds new footage

Friday, April 01, 2011

Clips from 'Attack the Block'

This movie is going to rock



Thursday, March 03, 2011

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