Tuesday 13 April 2010

Platinum Dunes Vs. Twisted Pictures




Twisted Pictures and Platinum Dunes are similar film companies that which specialize in making horror films. Both companies have a habit of making almost ultra-violent and sometimes extremely gruesome horror films. Although both companies have made very big, successful well-known horror films around the world Platinum Dunes is the slightly more expensive and better known of the two. Platinum Dunes films are usually more expensive than that of Twisted Pictures. The most famous spawn of Platinum Dunes is the Saw franchise. A film series that is profound for it's disturbing torture scenes and the fact that there have been so many Saw films. Both film companies were founded round about the same time 2002/3 but Twisted Pictures since that time have made more slightly cheaper films than Platinum Dunes. Platinum Dunes is most famous for the string of remakes rooted from Dunes'. These include Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, The Hitcher, Amityville Horror and the upcoming Birds and Friday the 13th. I found that one of the big differences between the two companies is that Twisted Pictures have a habit of emphasizing more on the violence and the brutal nature of certain scenes of the films as opposed to more storyline based with Platinum Dunes. Although neither of the two companies have brilliant remakes! Hence the long string of dragged on no-story torture films from Twisted Pictures and the silly amount of remakes with Platinum Dunes, can they not think of any ideas themselves instead of wearing out older films and dead franchises?

Out of the two companies I prefer Twisted Pictures. One reason is that I have a guilty likeness to the Saw films. The other and the main reason is that I hate the idea of american directors who can't think of any original ideas thinking they can improve cult classics and older brilliant, highly influential franchises by constantly remaking them. It's pretentious and there is no such thing as originality any more! And also every remake that Dunes have spouted out have been dreadful (apart from Texas Chainsaw, but it blatantly stated that it was a true film at the start when it's only roughly based on the crimes of Ed Gein; how bad of a lie is that?!). The only things remakes like these do to brilliant cult classics is disrespect the originality and the genius film-making of these franchises and use them by awful american film directors who can't write films for shit to to cash in on these hard-worked franchises by great influential directors. Platinum Dunes is one of the main roots of these paradoxes and exposures of bad writing and destroying what's good and original in the film industry and that's why I'm against Platinum Dunes.

Although the music of the Platinum Dunes screen is more suspenseful and darker the strength of the visuals is more harshly effective in the Twisted Pictures' title screen. Whereas the Platinum Dunes is more mysterious and it seems like more of a mini build up. to the start of the film.

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