Received: by 10.68.213.68 with SMTP id nq4mr14196753pbc.2.1328624730787;
        Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:25:30 -0800 (PST)
Path: lh20ni270740pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!y10g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: nick <nickmacpherso...@AOL.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.current-films
Subject: Re: CHRONICLE (no spoilers)
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:23:45 -0800 (PST)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 32
Message-ID: <a7e0e02b-5ea2-4ccf-a2f0-ff59bab000b1@y10g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>
References: <5464df3b-6903-460b-86d7-8e4a42b95630@s7g2000vby.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.230.72.179
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1328624730 23264 127.0.0.1 (7 Feb 2012 14:25:30 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:25:30 +0000 (UTC)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: y10g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=108.230.72.179; posting-account=i611ZAoAAABKxD6nYEFG4C6m_zUKeis4
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0;
 Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR
 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 3.0.30729;
 AskTbFTB/5.11.3.15590; GTB7.2),gzip(gfe)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Feb 3, 4:27=A0pm, moviePig <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
> In the category of one-of-a-kind movies, how about a sciFi horror
> fantasy for and about teens that profits from substantial adult
> restraint? =A0CHRONICLE is yet another "found footage" (well,
> *assembled* footage) flick that proves the efficiency of this
> narrative style. =A0It's reminiscent of lots of other movies, but a
> spoiler-free one I can mention is TROLLHUNTER, for its nonchalance
> about some fairly creative f/x work. =A0For all those reasons, CHRONICLE
> strays enough from the beaten path to wind up as a winter
> release ...but, in comparison, e.g., the "big" spring and summer
> trailers with it left me cold. =A0Especially for being smarter than it
> had to, CHRONICLE is solidly recommended.
>
Did you know Chronicle was written by Max Landis, John's son?  I knew
that going in and kept eyes open for any Landis touches and counted
three, including the stucture of Chronicle (small to big to really
big).  A couple things to add to what you said:  this is the most open-
ended franchise beginner ever.  There's going to be Chronicle movies,
TV shows, cartoons, comic books for decades to come.  Wait and see.
Even if it suffers the usual found footage rapid decline in box office
(not likely).  Speaking of the found footage style . . . I couldn't
tell if the framing was too tight, making a lot of the visuals too
closed in, or if it was being screened wrong in my theater because it
looked like information was being cut off the top.   I tried to Google
any possible discussions of the technical aspects of Chronicle to see
if anyone was talking about it but all I got was hundreds of sites
offering me the chance to watch Chronicle for free.

So when you're referring to the "big" spring and summer trailers,
you're surely not including The Three Stooges in the bigness
category?  I've seen that twice now and if I see it again I might
start having nightmares.