Just watched this amazing film called Monsters http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/ . I had heard about it ages ago and that it only had 2 proper actors and the rest of the cast were actual locals and all the background posters, signs etc were all added in post-production.

You can look at the link for the story but this to me was a breath of freash air, concentrating on the 2 characters rather than the aliens/monsters although you do see tham and they look great. It had a tiny budget of $15,000 and Gareth Edwards was Director/Writer/DP/VFX Artist!!

"Facts from the Director Q&A: -Filmed on a Sony EX3 with a Nikon 50 MM Lens -Used almost exclusively natural light except for a couple tiny LED lights for when it was pitch black -Effects were done in Adobe CS4, editing in Premiere -The majority of filming was shot with just a sound guy the director and the 2 main characters."

Anyone else come across this? Like it?

Liked it.

Watched this with the wife last night and we both enjoyed it too. Art house does Sci-Fi/ Romance. I didn't know anything about the film before seeing it and was pleasantly surprised by the non-Hollywood style and plot of the film. Also the two leads had great chemistry. Only fault I could find with the film is the ending was rather abrupt.

Thanks for the heads up. I may watch this.

... and the daft reason why they had to go across the restricted zone.
Why not head south and get in an aeroplane? Or a boat?
Both those would avoid the infected/restricted zone by quite a distance.

They bought boat tickets but they were stolen, and later the harbour was closed. The restricted area wasn't a battle zone so they thought the risk of passing through it was acceptable.

The boat tickets were something like $5,000 - Why not spend about 10% of that on an airfare from somewhere further south?
There had to be a reason why they couldn't use an aeroplane or boat from further south but they never broached the issue.

The boat tickets were something like $5,000 - Why not spend about 10% of that on an airfare from somewhere further south?
There had to be a reason why they couldn't use an aeroplane or boat from further south but they never broached the issue.