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Rake Arms posted:I loved Death Proof, but I'm afraid to watch it again now that I've fallen hopelessly in love with Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Go watch Sky High then, that'll take care of it.
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So I started watching Charulata based on all the praise and recommendations. This is my first Satyajit Ray film, and I was pretty excited to see it. But I had to turn it off after about 30 minutes because the subtitles are absolutely maddening. Typos are rampant, sentences don't make any sense, and worst of all, some of them flash on the screen for fractions of a second. I literally had to rewind the DVD over ten times to re-read the lightning speed subs that I missed. And I'm a fast reader. I was spending the vast majority of my energy on struggling to read the subtitles before they vanished, making it nearly impossible to follow the story (I have no idea which characters are brother/sister, husband/wife, etc.) I've never had this problem before. I got the DVD from Netflix. Is there another DVD out there with decent subtitles? Or a dubbed version? I hate dubbed films, but in this case I would much prefer it over this garbage. I can tell this is going to be a good movie, but I don't think I'm going to enjoy it unless I can find a copy that's easier to follow. This really pisses me off. EDIT: Also, none of the song lyrics or writing is subtitled. This DVD is a complete travesty. Spatulater bro! fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jul 3, 2010 |
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caiman posted:So I started watching Charulata based on all the praise and recommendations. This is my first Satyajit Ray film, and I was pretty excited to see it. But I had to turn it off after about 30 minutes because the subtitles are absolutely maddening. Typos are rampant, sentences don't make any sense, and worst of all, some of them flash on the screen for fractions of a second. I literally had to rewind the DVD over ten times to re-read the lightning speed subs that I missed. And I'm a fast reader. I was spending the vast majority of my energy on struggling to read the subtitles before they vanished, making it nearly impossible to follow the story (I have no idea which characters are brother/sister, husband/wife, etc.) I've never had this problem before. Netflix usually has the "Bollywood Video" releases, which are notoriously terrible (do not under any circumstances put Joi Baba Felunath in your queue, the subtitles will drive you insane). I have the "Big Home Video" edition, these were my comments on it: FitFortDanga posted:There are no extras whatsoever, but it does come very nicely packaged with a slipcover, and a glossy booklet featuring a lot of original press material. The (non-removeable) subtitles are fair... not as comprehensive as the UK Artificial Eye disc, but without any glaring flaws or inaccuracies. The print is a little rough around the edges, but the transfer is generally clean... except for an odd horizontal video glitch near the bottom. There's also a studio logo in the upper right corner which is distracting despite being semi-transparent. The audio is sometimes scratchy, but not too bad. You can get it from Induna.com for $7.12, but the shipping is pretty high.
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FitFortDanga posted:except for an odd horizontal video glitch near the bottom. There's also a studio logo in the upper right corner which is distracting despite being semi-transparent. This actually sounds pretty terrible to me. I'm region-free. Is the UK version you mention substantially better?
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caiman posted:This actually sounds pretty terrible to me. Oh yeah, the Artificial Eye releases are the best available from what I've seen. EDIT: here is a review FitFortDanga fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jul 3, 2010 |
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FitFortDanga posted:Oh yeah, the Artificial Eye releases are the best available from what I've seen. Since I really want to see this (as well as his other stuff) in the best quality available, I went ahead and ordered this set from amazon.uk. $28 shipped. Less than $10 per film. Not too bad. Thanks for the info. And now that I have, you can all but guarantee a Criterion announcement shortly. That's my luck.
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caiman posted:Since I really want to see this (as well as his other stuff) in the best quality available, I went ahead and ordered this set from amazon.uk. $28 shipped. Less than $10 per film. Not too bad. Thanks for the info. I hope you like them. You're getting my two favorite Ray films, plus Nayak which is quite good as well.
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Glass Joe posted:Go watch Sky High then, that'll take care of it. God damnit, I don't want to see her play a villain either. But Jesus was she adorable in Sky High.
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Schweinhund posted:That Guy Maddin short was the best example of what I'm looking for. It definitely looks like it's from 1920 for the most part. Most of it has to do with slower film stock, slower lenses, and shorter focus. Also, pre-1950s nitrate stock has extremely deep black levels that are difficult to obtain on modern stock until some of Kodak's newer VISION stocks. Now there's digital intermediates and it's simpler to get an authentic look. Nitrate is hard to replicate, but the Nation's Pride segment in Inglorious Basterds looked surprisingly accurate. Young Frankenstein was shot somewhat underexposed so that prints had to be "pushed" in brightness. This resulted in just enough graininess to look like a 1930s film rather than something shot on finer 1970s stock.
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FitFortDanga posted:I hope you like them. You're getting my two favorite Ray films, plus Nayak which is quite good as well. I'll be sure to let you know what I think of them. I was perusing your Ray thread today and realized what a shame it is that it didn't get more attention than it did. Tons of great info in there.
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I feel like a complete moron asking something so vague, but I'm pretty sure the entirety of La Moustache just went completely over my head with a resounding whoosh. It doesn't seem like any possibility would explain the behavior of Agnes, Bruno, the girl by the photo booth, and the existence of the Bali pictures that we see. Am I just overcomplicating a simple case of unreliable narrator (and camera I guess)? I'm fine with ambiguity, but nothing is really clicking for me here.
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I just had a thought: How would you do effects shots using miniatures with a 3d camera? Wouldn't the 3d make that kind of scale-trickery impossible? Little models that are two inches from the camera would still look like they're two inches from the camera, right? I guess you could do the shot in 2d and "paint in" the 3d later...
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microwave casserole posted:I just had a thought: How would you do effects shots using miniatures with a 3d camera? Wouldn't the 3d make that kind of scale-trickery impossible? Little models that are two inches from the camera would still look like they're two inches from the camera, right? I guess you could do the shot in 2d and "paint in" the 3d later... CGI, baby. 
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microwave casserole posted:I just had a thought: How would you do effects shots using miniatures with a 3d camera? Wouldn't the 3d make that kind of scale-trickery impossible? Little models that are two inches from the camera would still look like they're two inches from the camera, right? I guess you could do the shot in 2d and "paint in" the 3d later... You could reduce the parallax to flatten the depth and give the illusion that the object is further away. I have no idea if this is actually done, but it should work.
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A Futbol Injustice posted:Haha. Who uses miniatures anymore? I'm pretty sure most big effects movies still feature a lot of miniature work and use CGI to clean it up/composite it into the scene.
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I watched Pi a couple days ago and I feel like I completely missed the point or something. It feels like there's some deeper meaning I'm just not grasping, someone help me out a little?
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I watched Pi a couple days ago and I feel like I completely missed the point or something. It feels like there's some deeper meaning I'm just not grasping, someone help me out a little? From what I got from it, there is a series of numbers that appears no matter how random the numbers are. These numbers can be used to predict the future of such a random collection of numbers, such as the stock market. These series of numbers also apparently spell the true name of God as in Hebrew, the alphabet is also a number system. As for Cohen's crazy injections and pills, well, mathematicians do have the highest instance of insanity out of any type of science. I don't think is was a very deep film, just a lot of weird arty music video like stuff for the sake of it. I'm sure someone will correct me on this though.
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No that's pretty much it. The plot is fairly straightforward but I like the execution, style & soundtrack a lot. Max has amazing math abilities (due to looking into the sun when he was a kid and getting some kind of "brain damage"). He discovers the true name of god which is can be written as a 214 digit number that will also predict patterns in chaotic systems that wouldn't normally be predictable, such as the stock market. This is of course valuable (hence the pursuit by Orthodox Jews and stock brokers), but knowing the number is also dangerous to your health, so he ends up "curing" himself with the drill. It's stated several times throughout the film: Max Cohen posted:11:15, restate my assumptions:
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Maybe calculus wasn't enough for me, but how do you graph numbers and get a pattern? It would seem he needs an equation.
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Exactly which Republic serials inspired Indiana Jones?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Exactly which Republic serials inspired Indiana Jones?
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans What do the reptiles represent? I get some of the other stuff like the silver spoon but the reptiles escape me.
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I just finished watching "M" (the 1931 film) for the first time. Did blind beggars in pre-World War II Germany really wear signs around their necks that said "BLIND", or was that just a clumsy visual device?
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A Futbol Injustice posted:Maybe calculus wasn't enough for me, but how do you graph numbers and get a pattern? It would seem he needs an equation. It's important to remember the Jewish background: "I am he who cannot be named', though he might be represantable by a 214 digit number. Jewish mytics have spent a couple thousands years doing math substitutions on the Torah. (Interesting to note: the idea of digits actually came later than the writing of those scriptures.) Remember that other traditions (Vedic traditions in particular) say that the Universe is chanted into being; and that hearing that chanted syllable is reaching enlightenment/ understanding the universe. (Actually the Vedic traditions say thousands of things, but that strand is there.) The pattern does not 'represent' anything. It is everything.
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So I just finished watching Blue Velvet. Yeah. (loved it) Anyway, I have a spoilery question because I was slightly confused by one of the last scenes. I cannot figure out why the man in the yellow suit is standing up at the end. He seems to have suffered some sort of catastrophic brain damage, but it's never explained how or by what. Actually the entire scene doesn't make a huge amount of sense--I have no idea why those guys are up there. I assume this is inexplicable David Lynch dream sequence stuff?
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:So I just finished watching Blue Velvet. Yeah.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:So I just finished watching Blue Velvet. Yeah. I just watched this for the first time a couple days ago, and that had me wondering too, but according to Wikipedia he was lobotomized by a ricocheting bullet. Of course, being Wikipedia, you should take it with a huge grain of salt. I didn't bother to check the source, but it for drat sure wasn't mentioned in the movie itself. Awesomely creepy though.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Exactly which Republic serials inspired Indiana Jones? I would check out Secret Service in Darkest Africa if I were you. It's definitely the closest inspiration I've seen. It's got an American Secret Service agent fighting Nazis in Casablanca trying to recover the Dagger of Solomon, the handle of which is a key to open an ancient leader's tomb, that gives the wielder (political) control over Muslims. The first scene starts out with Agent Rex Bennett in Nazi disguise (with absolutely no German accent, of course) infiltrating a German operation, getting found out, and having to punch his way out of a hidden room inside of a large castle. He soon teams up with a French officer and a female agent to try to stop the Nazis from taking control of the region. The other film with Rex Bennett, G-Men vs. The Black Dragon is fun, too, and feels a bit like the beginning of Temple of Doom in spots. Aside from that most serials have bits and pieces that resemble the Indiana Jones movies. I'd recommend Captain Midnight and other similar aviator serials. The serial with the best action I've ever seen, though, is King of the Royal Mounted, though it doesn't resemble Indiana Jones too much. Unfortunately due to the nature of serials, we never really get much personality from any of the characters. They're more or less stock characters used to drive action. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Jul 9, 2010 |
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fenix down posted:This has probably been asked before, but has there ever been a remake of a movie or TV show that rose above the source material or got good reviews? I'm'a gonna be controversial and say that I liked Adrian Lyne's 1997 version of Lolita better than Kubrick's.
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So what was the first film to have a cross promotion with something outside of the movies? In my life time of nearly 33 years, product tie ins are common place, from my earliest recollections of Star Wars glasses to Dispeciable Me at iHop, there have always been some cross promotion with something.
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Honest Thief posted:What about the Inside Man, when Denzel gets so angry he just seems to glide to the bank doors
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twistedmentat posted:So what was the first film to have a cross promotion with something outside of the movies?  As a child, I was really mad at my brother because he got two Berlin Alexanderplatz cups and I even offered to trade him for three Katzelmacher cups but he wouldn't.
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InfiniteZero posted:
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twistedmentat posted:So what was the first film to have a cross promotion with something outside of the movies? From Wikipedia... quote:The first notable occurrence of cross media marketing occurred in 1977 with the release of the film Saturday Night Fever and its respective soundtrack. The single "How Deep Is Your Love" by The Bee Gees was originally meant to be recorded by Yvonne Elliman for an unrelated album, but it was decided by RSO Records to have The Bee Gees record it and released in an effort to promote the film. The release of the film promoted not only the released single but the entire soundtrack.
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In 1980, Baskin-Robbins had a cross-promotion with the Village People movie Can't Stop the Music. I believe the flavor was "Can't Stop the Nuts" (can I get a double scoop with extra irony, please?) I know this because the Baskin-Robbins was down the block from the local theater, and I remember seeing the poster in the window while waiting in line for Empire Strikes Back.
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Toebone posted:From Wikipedia... That seems wrong because the first Star Wars had tie-ins and it come out first, right?
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kapalama posted:That seems wrong because the first Star Wars had tie-ins and it come out first, right? For example part of the marketing of Fantastic Voyage (1966) involved a novelisation (written by Isaac Asimov) which was released in advance of the film. And if novelisations count as tie-ins (and they should) then that practice goes back to at least the '20s. Edit: According to wikipedia, Photoplay novelisations date back to `around 1912'. SubG fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jul 10, 2010 |
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I get the feeling he was asking more about obviously promotional stuff that has nothing to do with the film, like Limited Edition Star Wars Coca-Cola and Shrek Pancakes and IHOP and stuff like that. Soundtracks and novelizations don't seem quite as blatant.
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