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FitFortDanga posted:Have you seen Baraka? You'd probably dig it. I'll get on it in a little while, I've got Powaqqatsi sat here and I'm gonna give it a few weeks. Gotta give Koyaanisqatsi some time to sink in.
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Sorry for the double post but I reckon I might as well ask now. After looking up Baraka, I see that it is available in a box set with a film called Chronos. Is it worth getting the double feature for a little extra or is that film passable?
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I am an enormous fan of Philip Glass. Koyaanisqatsi is an achievement that the other -qaatsi's do not match. Nor do the other movies of that kind. Since I felt no particular argument/plot/continuity in the way the films were released, I would say Koyaanisqaatsi, then Naqoyqaatsi, the Powaqaatsi. If I lived somewhere that did midnight/special showings of these I would gladly see them again.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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boating safety posted:What is the movie where people (kids?) fall down a chute into a backyard(?) that resembles a junkyard with mutants(?) that say the line "You're the fat one Bobo, you ate all the cereal?". Google turns up nothing! Sounds a bit like Little Monsters.
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If it's Chevy Chase instead of kids, it might be Nothing But Trouble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_but_Trouble_(1991_film) E: Yeah, one of the inbred mutants is even called Bobo
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In 2001 how did they do that shot of him walking all the way around the wheel? Did they build a giant wheel and strap everything down so it wouldn't fall when it was upside down? Really clever use of models?
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Dr_Amazing posted:Did they build a giant wheel and strap everything down so it wouldn't fall when it was upside down? Pretty much, yeah.
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Dr_Amazing posted:In 2001 how did they do that shot of him walking all the way around the wheel? Did they build a giant wheel and strap everything down so it wouldn't fall when it was upside down? Yes. 
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It seems war movies (from the US) are almost always about WWII or Vietnam and that WWII movies also always seem to be fighting against the Germans, or ocasssionally the Japanese, but never the Italians and the movie never takes place in Africa. Does anyone have any recommendations for good modern wafare (1900 or so on) movies that are not WWII or Vietnam? I have seen All Quiet on the Western Front, Paths of Glory, Jarhead, and Hurt Locker. edit: vvvv Thanks for all the recommendations, they should keep me busy. jjack229 fucked around with this message at 12:07 on May 6, 2010 |
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jjack229 posted:It seems war movies (from the US) are almost always about WWII or Vietnam and that WWII movies also always seem to be fighting against the Germans, or ocasssionally the Japanese, but never the Italians and the movie never takes place in Africa. Well, there's M.A.S.H., which is in Korea, and Three Kings (I think it was called, with George Clooney), that took place in Desert Storm. I could be wrong, though.
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jjack229 posted:It seems war movies (from the US) are almost always about WWII or Vietnam and that WWII movies also always seem to be fighting against the Germans, or ocasssionally the Japanese, but never the Italians and the movie never takes place in Africa. Wooden Crosses (WWI) Gallipoli (WWI) The Red and the White (Russian Civil War)
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jjack229 posted:It seems war movies (from the US) are almost always about WWII or Vietnam and that WWII movies also always seem to be fighting against the Germans, or ocasssionally the Japanese, but never the Italians and the movie never takes place in Africa. Breaker Morant Boer War. For Whom the Bell Tolls Spanish Civil War.
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In The Road Warrior, why is it that the Oil Refinery Settlers detain Max after he brings one of their dying members back to their compound? Even though the guy Max saved dies soon afterward, its still a dick move on their part. And then they seemed surprised when, after risking his life to win his freedom back, Max tells them to screw themselves and drives off alone. (rather than helping them escape the wasteland gang, although he ends up helping them anyway)
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itrorev posted:In The Road Warrior, why is it that the Oil Refinery Settlers detain Max after he brings one of their dying members back to their compound? Even though the guy Max saved dies soon afterward, its still a dick move on their part. And then they seemed surprised when, after risking his life to win his freedom back, Max tells them to screw themselves and drives off alone. (rather than helping them escape the wasteland gang, although he ends up helping them anyway) I think the leader even says that they can't be sure if he is one of the gang that is surrounding them or not. For all they know, he was in on killing them (dude dies, so Max's story is only his own word) and "any deal you had with him died with him" or somesuch. Also, he looks pretty much the same as all those biker guys outside. 
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This is more about politics, but what does Lucas and Speilberg have against Blu Ray? I've heard over and over that both of them hate it and refuse to release anything for it. It seems silly, as you'd think they'd both want to get part of that sweet pie. Lucas needs more flannel.
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twistedmentat posted:This is more about politics, but what does Lucas and Speilberg have against Blu Ray? I've heard over and over that both of them hate it and refuse to release anything for it. Well, I've heard the Star Wars set is in the pipeline, and I know at least Crystal Skull is on Blu Ray. Rake Arms fucked around with this message at 06:57 on May 6, 2010 |
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I didn't see a reccomendations thread, so I thought I'd ask here. Are there any good documentaries or behind the scenes DVD special that goes into detail about older,practical pre-CGI special effects? Anything will do, I'd just like to see what kinds of practical effects people were doing back in the day. Things like stop motion, puppetry, things like the 2001 wheel already mentioned, etc. Schweinhund posted:here's the "recommend me thread": Thank you Schweinhund, reposting there. KillRoy fucked around with this message at 08:25 on May 6, 2010 |
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twistedmentat posted:This is more about politics, but what does Lucas and Speilberg have against Blu Ray? I've heard over and over that both of them hate it and refuse to release anything for it. Spielberg has a few movies on Blu-Ray now (Saving Private Ryan just came out this week), so I don't know that he has anything against the format. My guess is he's just slowly putting his back catalog out on Blu-Ray so that it's a bigger deal when each individual movie comes out, which was pretty much what happened when DVD came around too. The films he made after DVD became popular always came out on a regular release schedule, but the big films from the past like Close Encounters, Jaws, E.T., Schindler's List, and the Indiana Jones films took more time. Lucas is also probably taking his time with Star Wars for the same reason. Supposedly they're working on them now. The rumor I've heard is that they are doing one last pass of restorations and Special Edition-esque loving around to make the whole series "archival quality" and then they will put them on Blu-Ray.
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KillRoy posted:I didn't see a reccomendations thread, so I thought I'd ask here. Are there any good documentaries or behind the scenes DVD special that goes into detail about older,practical pre-CGI special effects? If you ever find anything for this I would love to hear about it. (I was asking about this before myself).
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KillRoy posted:I didn't see a reccomendations thread, so I thought I'd ask here. here's the "recommend me thread": http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3186285
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kapalama posted:If you ever find anything for this I would love to hear about it. (I was asking about this before myself). http://www.youtube.com/user/stevejohnsonfx#p/u Steve Johnson worked on various effects from Ghostbusters to Fright Night and explains how they did it. Mostly puppetry. The Terminator and Aliens discs go into some of the practical effects present, the Blade Runner dvds also focuses on the challenges of practical effects. The closest to an all rounder was "Special Effects: Anything Can Happen" but that was an IMAX release and aside from some cam jobs hasn't been released on DVD. http://kipplezone.tripod.com/id59.html A pretty good retrospective on Douglas Trumbull who was a pioneer in 2001's effects and others.
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twistedmentat posted:This is more about politics, but what does Lucas and Speilberg have against Blu Ray? I've heard over and over that both of them hate it and refuse to release anything for it. They just like to make money, they did the same thing when DVD came out. They will eventually all come out, in many versions but they are going to hold out and make a stink and make demands and make a big deal about their movies so they can get a bigger piece of the pie.
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doctor thodt posted:Optimum distributes Studio Canal stuff in the UK. They've got some pretty nice Blu-Ray packages. Yeah. Until about 4 years ago they were independent, and distribute independent films, but then they were bought by SC and release SC product. I didn't realise they had a particular reputation for good DVD releases. Artificial Eye does some good releases too; so does Axiom. You could just buy a multi-region Blu-ray player. I got a very nice LG Blu-ray multi-region player for about £140. You can get cheaper.
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KillRoy posted:I didn't see a reccomendations thread, so I thought I'd ask here. Are there any good documentaries or behind the scenes DVD special that goes into detail about older,practical pre-CGI special effects? There's a documentary making of on John Carpenter's The Thing that isn't specifically about practical effects (it covers the making of the whole film), but has a lot of really interesting information about how some of the SFX shots in that film were created.
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Seeing the trailer for Super 8 makes me wonder, why exactly was the movie called Cloverfield anyway?
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muscles like this? posted:Seeing the trailer for Super 8 makes me wonder, why exactly was the movie called Cloverfield anyway? The working title was "Untitled J.J. Abrams Project" but that was unwieldy. Abrams' production offices are located in Santa Monica off the Cloverfield Ave. exit, where there used to be an airfield named Clover Field. So to make it easier to talk about, it became the "Cloverfield Project", or just "Cloverfield" for short. Then the internet happened and the name stuck.
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Glass Joe posted:Then the internet happened and the name stuck. The explanation of kapalama fucked around with this message at 08:10 on May 9, 2010 |
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muscles like this? posted:Seeing the trailer for Super 8 makes me wonder, why exactly was the movie called Cloverfield anyway? If you follow the ridiculous ARG (which I didn't, but I've read a summary) you find out that the monster used to live on the bottom of the ocean eating an aquatic plant that is both addictive and acts as a strong sedative. A soft drink company found the plant and added it to their beverage, where the addictive properties made the beverage grow more and more popular, until they harvested so much of the plant that the monster couldn't eat enough and because of this the sedative effect wore off and it started to rampage. So the "clover field" is the patch of undersea plants, I guess, and the monster used to graze from it like a cow in a patch of clover? 
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...of SCIENCE! posted:If you follow the ridiculous ARG (which I didn't, but I've read a summary) you find out that the monster used to live on the bottom of the ocean eating an aquatic plant that is both addictive and acts as a strong sedative. A soft drink company found the plant and added it to their beverage, where the addictive properties made the beverage grow more and more popular, until they harvested so much of the plant that the monster couldn't eat enough and because of this the sedative effect wore off and it started to rampage. SODA POP DESTROYED THE WORLD
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Glass Joe posted:The working title was "Untitled J.J. Abrams Project" but that was unwieldy. Abrams' production offices are located in Santa Monica off the Cloverfield Ave. exit, where there used to be an airfield named Clover Field. So to make it easier to talk about, it became the "Cloverfield Project", or just "Cloverfield" for short. Then the internet happened and the name stuck. Hilarious. I pass that exit all the time, and every once in a while it makes me think about the movie. Good to know it is, indeed, connected.
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Starship Troopers: Are the special effects supposed to look bad? (Never seen it; it's on hulu; five minutes in and I hate it so far)
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kapalama posted:Starship Troopers: It's CGI from 1997, what else do you expect? The direct to video sequels aren't much better.
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WebDog posted:It's CGI from 1997, what else do you expect? Is it worth watching the movie since it is free and all?
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kapalama posted:Is it worth watching the movie since it is free and all? If you read and liked the book you probably shouldn't watch the movie because it's wayyyyyyy better.
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kapalama posted:Is it worth watching the movie since it is free and all? It's on my top list of "mindless action films that are just fun to watch".
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