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Post by benedictjjones on Oct 28, 2008 13:07:44 GMT
^i can see exactly why you didn't like then! perhaps if watched in one chunk then the development of characters might be better... again a perhaps - do you think it s because we were already thought to be well of the characters we were seeing and formed their characters in our minds anyway (again due to the stereotypes that BB pushes) a couple of people at work said they turned over after ten minutes because they were bored (hows that for the big brother generation attention span!) so even though this got into the 'zombie' stuff relatively quickly it was obviously not quick enough.
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Post by weirdmonger on Nov 1, 2008 10:58:58 GMT
In many ways I'm not surprised that people are raving about DEAD SET. It seems to fit in with many things I've said about BB over the years. BB is its own satire - and like two negatives, a fabrication upon a fabrication can result in a positive (a suspended-disbelief non-fabrication). I shall have to watch DEAD SET for real...
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 1, 2008 13:54:29 GMT
all in all i enjoyed it although i felt that the half hour episodes made for slightly disjointed viewing.
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Post by weirdmonger on Nov 4, 2008 15:59:27 GMT
Thanks to a kind soul who provided me with a DVD of the whole BIG BROTHER: DEAD SET (without break or e4 logo!), I’ve now been able to watch it in one sitting. And I take it all back from what I said after watching just the 1st episode. I’m enormously impressed with this simply good and honest horror film. Yes, extremely gory, but with seeds of what makes me watch BB itself over the years. With moments of gory humour, eg: Brian – a ‘real’ past winner of BB - emerging from behind a life-size poster of himself as the feasting dead - plus a character in the mould of Jade Goody! Davina McCall’s body being butchered for bait. The (staged?) hate still lasting from the frothy BB scenario that preceded the mayhem. The atmospheric scenes on the river – like Blackwood’s WILLOWS. It was just as if the film was an attempt to transcend unreality with the residual ‘reality’ of a Reality TV programme. And it worked. Even the laughable things (such as the E4 streaming of the BB House still on TV in the farmhouse or the moustachioed ‘hero’ still nagging away even as the mob disembowelled him) became unlaughably grim and uncannily ‘real’ by the prestidigitation of the reality layers. It was like the film itself was the mob surrounding me – defiling me with its presence in my living-room, just as I defile myself by watching BB over the years and now a film like this... and I have succumbed, the mob have taken me. I no longer have the right to praise or criticise it. I am dead meat. Metaphorically.
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Post by redbrain on Nov 5, 2008 14:34:31 GMT
Thanks to a kind soul who provided me with a DVD of the whole BIG BROTHER: DEAD SET (without break or e4 logo!), I’ve now been able to watch it in one sitting. And I take it all back from what I said after watching just the 1st episode. I’m enormously impressed with this simply good and honest horror film. Yes, extremely gory, but with seeds of what makes me watch BB itself over the years. With moments of gory humour, eg: Brian – a ‘real’ past winner of BB - emerging from behind a life-size poster of himself as the feasting dead - plus a character in the mould of Jade Goody! Davina McCall’s body being butchered for bait. The (staged?) hate still lasting from the frothy BB scenario that preceded the mayhem. The atmospheric scenes on the river – like Blackwood’s WILLOWS. It was just as if the film was an attempt to transcend unreality with the residual ‘reality’ of a Reality TV programme. And it worked. Even the laughable things (such as the E4 streaming of the BB House still on TV in the farmhouse or the moustachioed ‘hero’ still nagging away even as the mob disembowelled him) became unlaughably grim and uncannily ‘real’ by the prestidigitation of the reality layers. It was like the film itself was the mob surrounding me – defiling me with its presence in my living-room, just as I defile myself by watching BB over the years and now a film like this... and I have succumbed, the mob have taken me. I no longer have the right to praise or criticise it. I am dead meat. Metaphorically. For whatever reason, that seems kind of familiar.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 5, 2008 15:45:09 GMT
^
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Post by weirdmonger on Nov 5, 2008 16:48:13 GMT
For whatever reason, that seems kind of familiar. That's probably because the cross-fertilisation of threads across the universe started with me writing above on my blog.
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Post by weirdmonger on Nov 12, 2008 10:17:34 GMT
Further, I think the film was meant to be a satire on BB, but also on horror films - indeed a symbiosis of the two creating something greater than either separately. I would have guessed the maker of the film was a fan of both BB and Horror as constructive 'trash', and had recognised the symbiosis. (Real BB ex-housemates and Davina (who all apperaed in it) and Channel 4/ E4 Executives (BB's broadcaster) must have recognised this, too?)
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 12, 2008 11:14:51 GMT
-can't it just be about eating brains? ;D
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Post by weirdmonger on Nov 12, 2008 15:17:59 GMT
-can't it just be about eating brains? ;D I think the symbiosis created (which was made possible by the film's BB masterstroke feeding off 'Reality' TV) made the eating of brains more real, more horrific...
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 12, 2008 15:49:30 GMT
^i'd have to agree! there is something almost cannibalistic in watching stuff that you know will eat your brains, rather like throwing yourself into a horde of zombies (if you can't beat them join them) when fighting them gets to be too much of a struggle.
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Post by caminoreal on Nov 20, 2008 0:08:49 GMT
I loved this too, although the desaturated colour scheme and shaky-cam are old hat now the ideas were good. I especially liked the Producer literally throwing a BB contestant to the mob outside the studio to be consumed and discarded !
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