Am I the only one who didn't like it?
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maxi13 — 10 years ago(December 05, 2015 09:42 AM)
comparable with E.T. in the basket of the bycicle in front of the moon.
maybe even better,
because it had really this fairy tale book flair.
really great!
(though such a big and heavy creature which is jumping in that speed from roof to roof
would have cleared away all of the roof tiles
or even the whole roof trusses :'D
but. reality is no scale here, right?!
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maxi13 — 10 years ago(December 05, 2015 02:44 AM)
yes, that was a thing which they have taken from the tradition, you are right!
but that doesnt mean it was a good decision to stick to the tradition here.
because in the tradition there are humans under the mask
and everyone knows that.
the film claims those creatures are real,
so the masks were - i think - out of place.
the whole scene when the earth opens was somewhat cheap looking
and that was the time it was obvious that they were wearing just masks
edit: it threw me completely out of the illusion. this scene was too obvious just a played one. -
maxi13 — 10 years ago(December 05, 2015 02:54 AM)
to be honest, i am not quite sure about this.
i grew up WITHOUT CGI-stuff,
but if they are not able to make oldschool-masks which can express anything,
maybe it would have been better, if they had used CGI- or a mixture.
i would be happy if it works without CGI,
but i dont think it worked here
- or a mixture.
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TheArtofHorror — 10 years ago(December 05, 2015 09:16 AM)
I agree thank you. Just because they are traditional, doesn't necessarily mean it is right for the movie. It's called screenplay, and sometimes literary things are changed from script to screen for a visual reason.
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xMartyMcFlyx — 10 years ago(December 05, 2015 03:57 AM)
There's one scene I enjoyed where we first see Krampus jumping from house to house. That had a nice visual flair and a storybook feeling, but that's the best I can say about the entire movie.
That was the only scene I liked too. I liked the howling noises too.
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svalinanikola — 10 years ago(December 05, 2015 05:24 AM)
Those are not movie's faults, those are just personal preferences.
About the creatures wearing masks, that's the creative decision made by the people who worked on the movie, it's what they wanted.
That's like if I watch Halloween and complain how Michael Myers shouldn't wear that William Shatner mask, he should wear a pumpkin mask instead.
Or if I watch a zombie movie and complain how the zombies should burn people by touching them, not eat them.
As for the movie being a horror comedy, again a personal preference. The director did say it was going for a Gremlins feel, so you shouldn't have expected something dead serious. There's a ton of Krampus movies coming out anyway, at least one of them will be the dead serious one the OP expects.
Again, that's like if I watch something like Alien and say: This should've been a horror comedy, it's not good because it's serious.
