A lot of summer blockbusters take kind of a fun, adolescent idea — giant robots! — and insist on stretching it out over two mind-numbing hours.
Explosion #48 is usually about 45 too many explosions, even for a sci-fi fan like me.
That’s why I love Panic Attack, a story about — yeah, okay, you guessed it — giant robots.
The whole experience takes less than five minutes, and according to the director — a Uruguayan named Fede Alvarez — it cost about 300 bucks to make.
Take that, Jerry Bruckheimer!
And did I mention…giant robots?
Coming tomorrow, the Sci-Fi film festival continues with a Canadian film about a man hounded to death by a nightmarish stone golem. It’s bleak and corny and beautiful all at the same time.
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300 bucks to make? No WAY!
Heck, one custom hydraulic cylinder about 12″ diameter with a 10 or 12 foot throw in the leg of one of those robots would easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Thanks for this film… you saved me 2 hours of watching giant robots blowing stuff up… which I wouldn’t have taken the time (or spent the money on a movie ticket) to watch. I can handle about, oh say, 4 minutes and 49 seconds of giant robots. This worked perfectly for me. I’m now set for the summer with giant robots.
Now I’m going to have to time how long it took the giant robots in the second Star Wars movie to invade the rebel’s Echo Base on the ice planet of Hoth (I love that whole scene) I think it was around 5 minutes… just enough.
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300 bucks to make? No WAY!
Heck, one custom hydraulic cylinder about 12″ diameter with a 10 or 12 foot throw in the leg of one of those robots would easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Thanks for this film… you saved me 2 hours of watching giant robots blowing stuff up… which I wouldn’t have taken the time (or spent the money on a movie ticket) to watch. I can handle about, oh say, 4 minutes and 49 seconds of giant robots. This worked perfectly for me. I’m now set for the summer with giant robots.
Now I’m going to have to time how long it took the giant robots in the second Star Wars movie to invade the rebel’s Echo Base on the ice planet of Hoth (I love that whole scene) I think it was around 5 minutes… just enough.