The Amazing Colossal Man
- sombre
- brisk
Sombre, kinetic, measured atomic-age / giant, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.
Our read · The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive atomic-age · giant · b-movie entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Amazing Colossal Man
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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