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The Visuals...

posted 16 years ago by user-19604
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...were obviously made by someone who's never been on ANY sort of trip in his/her life... total Cheese. Usually I don't care, but those SFX visuals are so bad, it breaks the continuity of the film horrendously.

Please agree...

[–] dogorkat 16 years ago

I'm afraid i can't agree with you. Afew years ago I was tripping on ketimine and lighter fluid (listening to Kitten moon by Fluke IIRC). It was a lot like the end of this movie.

Also, when you take K and solvents together like this any sense of continuity may have is pretty much *beep*

Top marks to the director and the CGI team!

Remember kids: Just say no!

[–] Keely 16 years ago

I liked many of the visuals. I thought they were inventive & effective and gave the picture more emotional weight. (I did many trips in the past, by the way. I think this director caught something real about tripping.)

[–] text23 16 years ago

Thats 3 of us! Yer not doing the right substances, user19604!
=D
I was totally blown away by the films trip sequences, as they portrayed both the interconnected, image within an image within an image, (reality within a reality...) and the emotion of such an illumination.

[–] pleistocene 16 years ago

Excellent psychedelic visuals, the CGI and the landscape shots are beautiful - one of the main reasons a lot of psychonauts seek out this film, and are then pleasantly (& not too seriously...) taken in by the rest of it.

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - C.G.Jung

[–] Prutnumse 15 years ago

Well, sorry guys, I have to agree with the OP.

For visual rendition of a trip, CGI doesn't quite do it for me. I think a trip like the one in "Easy Rider" pins down the feel of acid (or any other powerful hallucinogetic) much better for me.

[–] text23 15 years ago

aaaah, but Ayahuasca, which is what they take, is DMT based and that gives a different kind of trip to nearly every other hallucinogen. The trip sequences in films like Easy Rider are based on acid and do justice to that kind of 'the worlds gone a bit weird' visual that such substances usually deliver...unless you do a real high dose and truly let yourself be taken and THEN you may witness something like the scenes from Blueberry....well...I have =D
Been a Psychonaut myself, I've had Shrooms (English Liberty Caps) in high enough quantity, in the right surroundings and in an inner mind/soul adventurous frame of mind and had visuals like what is portrayed in Blueberry.
Lets also not forget that these visuals are truly inspired by Jan Kounen's own experiences taking Ayahuasca with the very real Shaman who also appears in the film.
I haver still yet to get my hands on any Ayahuasca! =/

[–] fabian-kempe 9 years ago

Obviolsy you dont know anything at all about "trip". First of all this is not a "trip" is ayahascua. Aya is not the same kind of visuals as any other hallucinogen, at all. And this is why your comment is stupid because you have no knowledge of this and you think the people who made the film do not either. well lol you just made yourself look very stupid. go take ayahascua and come back.

Then you will say. Ok Now I get it and I might respect the film and understand that everything is not like LSD or whatever... undeducated idiot.