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WebDog posted:It's on my top list of "mindless action films that are just fun to watch". It's not mindless. It's a great political satire.
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kapalama posted:Is it worth watching the movie since it is free and all? Really, for the time the effects are pretty good. And I'd say as an actual movie it's only gotten better since its release because it's a parody of the fascist, militaristic society that the book unironically endorsed rather than just "PEW PEW SPACE LAZORS  " like so many people expected and seeing the parallels between post-9/11 society and the world of the film is pretty biting.
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May 9, 2010 15:20
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kapalama posted:Starship Troopers: I always felt like Starship Troopers CG really holds up for a 13 year old movie, especially seeing how busy it is all the time.
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May 9, 2010 17:09
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kapalama posted:Is it worth watching the movie since it is free and all? There's a pretty big shower scene where everyone casually disrobes and showers together, so there's that. Would you like to know more?
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May 9, 2010 18:21
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So has anyone seen "Der Boxprinz" (2002)? It looks like I would have to order it from some German site, and am definitely considering doing so. Yes, I know, I only found out about it because the guy played Vigo, but his life story seems drat fascinating.
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May 10, 2010 23:35
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What the hell the CGI holds up pretty drat well in Starship Troopers you got broken eyes or something?
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May 10, 2010 23:59
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What the gently caress Starship Troopers is the best. It's funny and charming and smart and violent and titful and what the hell how can you not like it?
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May 11, 2010 00:08
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What the poo poo it's like a hilarious "90210 in space" parody and then there's giant bugs vs space soldiers, how is that not awesome?
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May 11, 2010 00:10
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so, i signed up for netflix (2010 bout drat time) only to find that so many of the movies i want to watch right goddamed now are in my queue instead of being streamed. Should i just go ahead and watch Barry Lyndon?
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meanolmrcloud posted:so, i signed up for netflix (2010 bout drat time) only to find that so many of the movies i want to watch right goddamed now are in my queue instead of being streamed. Should i just go ahead and watch Barry Lyndon? This is a weird question.
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meanolmrcloud posted:so, i signed up for netflix (2010 bout drat time) only to find that so many of the movies i want to watch right goddamed now are in my queue instead of being streamed. Should i just go ahead and watch Barry Lyndon? Set aside 3 hours and enjoy one of the best period dramas ever made.
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So, I just remembered that there was a box set of Park-chan Wook's Vengeance Trilogy. Has anyone grabbed it yet? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002JYPVT0?ie=UTF8&tag=palistarta-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002JYPVT0 This review on amazon says it's only 4 discs unlike the 8 that are advertised. I really don't mind that at all but I was wondering how the film's look and if there is the fade-to-white effect on Lady Vengeance. edit: oh, the details say there's an introduction to the fade-to-white version so I'm assuming that's the one on the disc.
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Egbert Souse posted:Set aside 3 hours and enjoy one of the best period dramas ever made. yep. my family has, for whatever reason, a massive hardon for PBS masterpiece theater's weekly sunday british wars-of-past wank off. Toss in some kubrick and i'll dive right in and with a little wine there is no shame. I fear for the future (of watching melodrama not of this scale.) To watch immediately was ginger snaps, annie hall, blood simple, brazil or unforgiven, all of which currently reside in my queue along with a few others i was royally pissed about not being able to watch. Barry is royally sweet though.
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There are a lot of trailers that feature scenes that never end up in the final film. Iron Man 2 is a recent example but in the originial Transporter there is a scene in the trailer where the main character deflected a RPG with a dinner plate and that awesome scene never made it in. That really annoyed me and kinda felt like a bait and switch. Anyway, scenes like these are they just scenes they filmed and decided not to use or are they shot on purpose to tease us in the trailer?
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DocBrown posted:There are a lot of trailers that feature scenes that never end up in the final film. Iron Man 2 is a recent example but in the originial Transporter there is a scene in the trailer where the main character deflected a RPG with a dinner plate and that awesome scene never made it in. That really annoyed me and kinda felt like a bait and switch. Anyway, scenes like these are they just scenes they filmed and decided not to use or are they shot on purpose to tease us in the trailer? Trailers are cut months before the movies are ready to screen (in some cases, before the whole movie is even filmed or written), and the people who make the trailers are almost never the same people who are making the creative decisions on the movie, so you always run the risk of stuff appearing in a trailer then being taken out in editing for some reason.
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DocBrown posted:There are a lot of trailers that feature scenes that never end up in the final film. Iron Man 2 is a recent example but in the originial Transporter there is a scene in the trailer where the main character deflected a RPG with a dinner plate and that awesome scene never made it in. That really annoyed me and kinda felt like a bait and switch. Anyway, scenes like these are they just scenes they filmed and decided not to use or are they shot on purpose to tease us in the trailer? There's also the issue of reshoots. I know during production of THE SURROGATES last year, whole sequences were shot after initial production was wrapped to add beats to the trailer. So, scenes that were in earlier trailers were revised with more action or suspense, to be included in later trailers.
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May 11, 2010 03:43
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The DVD of Steven Seagal's Marked For Death is non-anamorphic, making it annoyingly tiny when viewed on a 16:9 TV. A blu-ray is coming out of it on Tuesday, and apparently it's still going to be tiny like that. Then doing research I learned there's no such thing an 'anamorphic' for blu-ray. So are all 2.35:1 movies tiny on blu-ray, or am I misunderstanding things? I don't have a blu-ray player so my knowledge of it is pretty bare.
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May 11, 2010 04:29
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Not really a movie but could someone explain to me how they achieved the time lapse shots with a moving camera in Planet Earth?
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codyclarke posted:The DVD of Steven Seagal's Marked For Death is non-anamorphic, making it annoyingly tiny when viewed on a 16:9 TV. A blu-ray is coming out of it on Tuesday, and apparently it's still going to be tiny like that. Huh? Blu Ray supports all aspect ratios and there are probably some older movies or television shows that come in 4:3 though I don't know any off the top of my head. That said, yeah, there will be black bars if the aspect ratio isn't 16:9 like your television. The Lucas posted:Not really a movie but could someone explain to me how they achieved the time lapse shots with a moving camera in Planet Earth? Most likely they were taken with a DSLR camera which gets a much larger picture and is then cropped down to 1920x1080.
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Fayez Butts posted:Most likely they were taken with a DSLR camera which gets a much larger picture and is then cropped down to 1920x1080. The focal point is clearly moving in many of the shots. They probably did it in the obvious way- every X hours or days, they carefully shifted the camera a precise distance and took a shot, then smoothed out the movement later in editing.
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Fayez Butts posted:Huh? Blu Ray supports all aspect ratios and there are probably some older movies or television shows that come in 4:3 though I don't know any off the top of my head. That said, yeah, there will be black bars if the aspect ratio isn't 16:9 like your television. I know there will be black bars, since obviously the film isn't 16:9, it's 2.35:1. However there's a difference between 2.35:1 being displayed in a 16:9 area and a 4:3 area. Apparently, the new Seagal DVD is 2.35:1 in a 4:3 area, thus making it tiny on a 16:9 screen if viewed in its proper dimensions. My question is whether this is the case for a lot of 2.35:1 movies that are blu-ray, or if this is just some weird, lazy isolated incident with this one particular title.
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Nuke Goes KABOOM posted:What the hell the CGI holds up pretty drat well in Starship Troopers you got broken eyes or something? penismightier posted:What the gently caress Starship Troopers is the best. It's funny and charming and smart and violent and titful and what the hell how can you not like it? Jay Dub posted:What the poo poo it's like a hilarious "90210 in space" parody and then there's giant bugs vs space soldiers, how is that not awesome? Bugs look like plastic lawn furniture made into a Disney animatronic machine. Denise Richards keeps showing me her nostrils. The other chick looks like she is forty, but sitting in a high school classroom hitting on a high school kid. (Wait, that's 90210 in a nutshell: Ugly 40 year old chicks pretending to be in high school.) Teacher has a fake looking stump. But it sounds like I should watch it, anyway. Anyone like the movie Sunshine (the 2007 'restart the sun' movie?)
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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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codyclarke posted:I know there will be black bars, since obviously the film isn't 16:9, it's 2.35:1. However there's a difference between 2.35:1 being displayed in a 16:9 area and a 4:3 area. Apparently, the new Seagal DVD is 2.35:1 in a 4:3 area, thus making it tiny on a 16:9 screen if viewed in its proper dimensions. My question is whether this is the case for a lot of 2.35:1 movies that are blu-ray, or if this is just some weird, lazy isolated incident with this one particular title. I very much doubt that Marked for Death, or ANY Blu-Ray, will be non-anamorphic. Where the hell are you getting this info from?
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The Cameo posted:There is no 2.35 movie on Blu that will be squeezed into a 4:3 area. Alright maybe I received really bum information from these strangers complaining on Amazon. This is good news.
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codyclarke posted:Alright maybe I received really bum information from these strangers complaining on Amazon. This is good news. Amazon review posted:PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. PLEASE!, January 28, 2010 Note the bold part. It's a review of the DVD.
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Speaking of the Matrix, there is a part where Cypher calls Tank and Tank seems confused, and Cypher says something like "goddamn car accident, somebody up there still likes me" as many times as I've seen this I still have no gently caress clue what this scene means. What the poo poo does a car accident have to do with anything going on. Also this may not be the place but I noticed the last time I watched, the book he pulls his hacker program out of in the beginning was Simulacron-3, which the movie is based off of. I'm betting this is under the IMDB trivia section though. Edit: Wait that was The Thirteenth Floor, which got eclipsed by the Matrix. Too bad too I thought it was awesome. runaway dog fucked around with this message at 08:09 on May 11, 2010 |
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4000 Dollar Suit posted:Speaking of the Matrix, there is a part where Cypher calls Tank and Tank seems confused, and Cypher says something like "goddamn car accident, somebody up there still likes me" as many times as I've seen this I still have no gently caress clue what this scene means. What the poo poo does a car accident have to do with anything going on. Going back on memory, seeing Cypher betrayed the team I was under the impression it's something to do with that, agents doing some sort of blockade to stop the team getting out safely.
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It's been a while but I think there was a police truck/van knocked over in the background, I think he was "arrested" but escaped Fugitive-style via a car accident.
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Yeah as far as I recall, basically the gang gets ambushed and Cypher gets away from them and calls Tank first. The car accident line is just made up to ward off suspicion (the car accident is actually the work of the agents I guess?).
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Carthag posted:Yeah as far as I recall, basically the gang gets ambushed and Cypher gets away from them and calls Tank first. The car accident line is just made up to ward off suspicion (the car accident is actually the work of the agents I guess?). Considering their plan to get Morpheus requires Cypher not being jacked in (so he can eliminate the operator, leaving the rest of the crew stranded in The Matrix and unable to jack out with no idea where Morpheus is), that would be a bingo.
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Tender Bender posted:It's been a while but I think there was a police truck/van knocked over in the background, I think he was "arrested" but escaped Fugitive-style via a car accident. Ok I'm going back and watching this, if this is true it clears a lot up.
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Having just recently read it, has there been any serious attempt to get a Snow Crash movie off the ground?
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the Bunt posted:So, I just remembered that there was a box set of Park-chan Wook's Vengeance Trilogy. Has anyone grabbed it yet? So, here's my subjective question: Why do people really enjoy Lady Vengeance? Help me understand what I missed.
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Green Crayons posted:So, here's my subjective question: Why do people really enjoy Lady Vengeance? Help me understand what I missed. I'll just quote my own review: FitFortDanga posted:The film is visually delectable, with oodles of striking images and clever effects. The story is rich and multi-faceted, without needing to resort to convoluted plot twists or cheap thrills. It's funny, moving, tense, engaging and often heartbreakingly beautiful.
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The Machine posted:Having just recently read it, has there been any serious attempt to get a Snow Crash movie off the ground? Apparently there's a Diamond Age TV special or something in development/limbo, but I've never heard about Snow Crash (obviously I've read it).
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The Machine posted:Having just recently read it, has there been any serious attempt to get a Snow Crash movie off the ground? Wikipedia says it got to pre-production in the 90s, with a writer and director attached, but that's about it.
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HoldYourFire posted:Apparently there's a Diamond Age TV special or something in development/limbo, but I've never heard about Snow Crash (obviously I've read it). They were supposed to be doing that for HBO, but the last I read about that was probably like 5 years ago.
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Green Crayons posted:This actually reminds me of something that I always ask myself when I see Wook's work come up on these boards. People usually say that the first two movies are enjoyable, but Lady Vengeance is the best. I just don't see it. I thought Sympathy was excellent and Oldboy was good fun but Lady Vengeance was just drawn out and uninteresting to me (even though seeing its preview is what originally got me interested in Wook's Vengeance Trilogy). To me, there is just so much more meat to Lady Vengeance than there is the other two, especially Oldboy. Its plot isn't as insufferably stupid as Oldboy, and at times it seems both more reserved and more frenetic and ridiculous than the other films. I also found myself growing far more attached to the characters in Lady Vengeance than in Mr. Vengeance. Aesthetically speaking, it is Wook's prettiest, awe inspiring movie.
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What's going on with the Dark Crystal sequel? I remember reading about it ages ago, but is it dead? Also, what the gently caress MGM not having any money so it stops its cash cow Bond films? It doesn't make any sense. Finally, I really want to get a blu ray player, and they're fairly cheap now. I used to buy a lot of DVDs, but i've put a hold on that due to BRs. Though I discovered that I have to get a HD tv first because of the connections. Which sucks because if I have an HD tv I need to get an HD box from my cable company which is more money, on top of the TV. Or can you get BR players that use composite video?
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