Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
-from William Blake’s “The Tyger”
The above is an excerpt from one of my favorite poems of all time, so when I heard they were making a film called Burning Bright a few years ago, I was pretty stoked. As time passed and I learned more about the project, things got…interesting. For one, the synopsis had me a little worried; it was basically about a young girl and her younger brother trapped inside a house with a killer tiger during the middle of a hurricane. Pretty silly-sounding, no? Secondly, it never got a proper theatrical release and was unceremoniously dumped on DVD a few weeks back. Another bad sign. However, I decided to give it the old college try anyway. I love tigers, I love Blake’s poem, I love nature-run-amuck films…how bad could it be? Well, while it certainly wasn’t terrible, it also wasn’t grrrrrrreat!
LMAO I can't believe you said "it wasn't grrrrrreat." XD
ReplyDeleteI'm anxiously awaiting to get this movie actually. It sounds like such a sick premise.
Another bad sign: Briana Evigan is in it. Her track record isn't so great. Despite that I still watched it because the idea of a killer tiger in a house sounded too good to be true. It ended up being pretty disappointing, even with low expectations. Oh well.
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