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fenix down posted:I thought Immortals was pretty decent but I do wish they would have told us who the gods were. I am woefully ignorant of Greek mythology. Let's put it this way - you're probably better off NOT being familiar with Greek mythology. About the only thing the movie has in common with the source material is the names of the gods and the main character.
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morestuff posted:I'm dying over here. Yeah, when I first saw that stuff, I was like "eh, that's kinda messed up, she's a really talented actor". Nowadays I wonder if she's been stressed out from having an incest abortion or something.
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Encryptic posted:Let's put it this way - you're probably better off NOT being familiar with Greek mythology. About the only thing the movie has in common with the source material is the names of the gods and the main character. Yea, its like Tarsim has a vague knowlages of the Classical gods, and just kind of made the rest up. But here is the ones we actually see The one that looks like Orlando Bloom is Zeus, the super god. The blond wonder woman Godess is Athena, goddess of Wisdom and Warfare. She is daughter of Zeus via being born from Zeus head when he had a headache. Guy with the hammer and the spiky hat is Ares, god of War. The guy with the trident and shellhead is Posiden, god of the sea. In the Greek legends he is kind of a dick and is probably one of the actual evil gods At least one of the gods with a non-speaking part is Hermes, god of messengers and healers. At the end, only Zeus, Posiden and Athena are really identifiable. There are other gods that just kind of get killed, but are not really given anything unique to identify them. Thanks for the info on the child actors, I figured that it would something like there are general rules, but in practice things are often taken case by case. Ugh I hate the stories about Thora Birch, I had such a crush on her after Ghostworld.
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csidle posted:There are some hosed up things in Happiness surrounding kids. I know that some pretty twisted dialogues for that film were shot so that the kids said the lines that were needed for the plot that's in the film, but they were given the lines in an entirely different context and thusly didn't really grasp how crazy the stuff was. The TV show Wonder Showzen did the same thing. The kids were just given things to say with no idea what the greater context was or how they would actually be used on the show. Although they did have one kid who was always able to figure out what they were doing (for people who have seen the show it was Tyler.)
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This is a movie forum, go ask GWS Edit: lol
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csidle posted:There are some hosed up things in Happiness surrounding kids. I know that some pretty twisted dialogues for that film were shot so that the kids said the lines that were needed for the plot that's in the film, but they were given the lines in an entirely different context and thusly didn't really grasp how crazy the stuff was. Didn't Mysterious Skin do something similar? Like, they told the kids that they were making a baseball movie and used some movie magic to make it about their baseball coach molesting them with the kids none the wiser.
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Aug 5, 2012 13:13
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Probably most famous is The Shining, which did a similiar thing. Danny Lloyd didn't have any idea he was in a horror film until he was in his teens or something.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, its like Tarsim has a vague knowlages of the Classical gods, and just kind of made the rest up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That aside, it was a beautifully-filmed movie and I dug the slow-mo CGI gore at the end. It wasn't a great movie but it was pretty to look at.
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Aug 6, 2012 05:38
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csidle posted:Probably most famous is The Shining, which did a similiar thing. Danny Lloyd didn't have any idea he was in a horror film until he was in his teens or something. I'm familiar with the story about that, but for this movie, and similar examples, do the child actors not go to the premiere of the movie? For example, did Jodie Foster go to the premiere of Taxi Driver?
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I understand that Kiernan Shipka, who plays Sally Draper on Mad Men (and brilliantly), is not allowed to watch the show. Which makes it impressive that she was able to muster up a very convincing "I wish I hadn't seen that" expression when her character walks in on Roger getting a hummer.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:He's a Holy poo poo, talk about a helicopter parent. At what point if you were the girl would you push back against your dad doing everything in his power to destroy your career and label you as total poison to work with? I feel bad for her. Imagine coming in to work after weeks of rehearsals and everyone telling you you are doing well, 3 days to showtime, only to hear, "You gotta go, your dad threatened to kill your co-star because he looked at you," and in your own mind you hear "... again."
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That's the thing, she's in her 30's. So this has gone way, way beyond helicopter parent.
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On the topic of child stars watching their own films, I wonder at what age Miko Hughes was allowed to watch his portrayal of Gage in Pet Sematary? I believe that is the most morbid child role I have seen.
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William Friedkin talked a bit about the hiring of Linda Blair before a SIFF screening of The Exorcist. He said he needed a child that could handle the material (obviously, you can't just edit a movie like The Exorcist together without the actress having a clue) and said that he went through hundreds if not thousands of auditions for the role. Blair came in after casting was pretty much over, and Friedkin instantly warmed up to her. She said she'd read the book, and he asked her what she thought it was about. Her response was "it's about a little kid getting possessed an masturbating with a crucifix." "Masturbating...do you know what that means?" "Yeah, it's like jacking off, right?" "Have you ever masturbated before?" "Sure! All the time. Haven't you?" He hired her on the spot.
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Encryptic posted:Yeah, yeah, yeah. That aside, it was a beautifully-filmed movie and I dug the slow-mo CGI gore at the end. It wasn't a great movie but it was pretty to look at. I agree. I cannot wait to see Henry Cavil as Superman next year. Last night I watched the classic Casino Royal, and why did Orsen Wells have that blanket over his legs the whole time? I wonder if it was affection the makers of the movie gave him, or it was some weird Wells thing.
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I wasn't sure to post in this thread or the General Chat thread, but can someone explain Fargo to me? I really like Coen Brother movies (Barton Fink being my favorite) and I went into this one with high expectations, I just feel like this movie was 'empty'.
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adamj1982 posted:I wasn't sure to post in this thread or the General Chat thread, but can someone explain Fargo to me? A supposedly strange and unusual crime is almost instantly solved by a pregnant midwestern cop. It's kind of a reverse-Lewbowski, where an inept man misinterprets a simple crime as something increasingly convoluted and complex. It's also funny.
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The reverse lebowski thing makes sense. I'm not sure what I need explaining really. I guess I just feel like I am missing something with it. It may be that I have recently really gotten into Twin Peaks and someone said I should check this movie out. Having really enjoyed Barton Fink, it's been on my 'to watch' list anyhow. But I'm starting to notice that anything taking place in the northwest is said to be "like Twin Peaks" regardless of content.
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adamj1982 posted:The reverse lebowski thing makes sense. I'm not sure what I need explaining really. I guess I just feel like I am missing something with it. Yeah it is about as far from Twin Peaks as can be, Barton Fink is even closer to TP in feel. For a recent movie with a bit of a Lynchian feel to the directing, might try Melancholia. It's available on Netflix instant. Or maybe Enter the Void. Though I suppose it depends on why you enjoyed TP -- the quirky characters and setting, the almost gothic tone, the mixture of banal ordinariness and the supernatural, the overarching mystery, etc.
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adamj1982 posted:The reverse lebowski thing makes sense. I'm not sure what I need explaining really. I guess I just feel like I am missing something with it. It doesn't take place in the Northwest? Though I can see some similarities in the characters of Kyle McLachlin's FBI agent and Frances McDormand's detective. Exceedingly competent but not jaded or hard-boiled, which is relatively unique for fictional cops. It's definitely more of a comedy than a drama (a dark one), if that helps, I hadn't thought of the Lebowski comparison, but in retrospect it makes a lot of sense. Fargo might be my favorite Coen Brothers film, but it took a couple viewings for me it to click.
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It takes place in the Midwest (Minnesota is one of the MIMAL states), not the Northwest.
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adamj1982 posted:The reverse lebowski thing makes sense. I'm not sure what I need explaining really. I guess I just feel like I am missing something with it. kuddles fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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It's also got that inverted-Noir thing going for it. Instead of a hard-boiled male detective walking the mean streets of a dark urban cityscape it's a friendly, pregnant, female detective driving around a shockingly white midwestern farmland.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I think my favorite part in War of the Worlds is that Tom Cruise is such a lovely, phony dad that his teen son (who, lets face it, needs to rebel against his dad even if the world is ending) runs over the hill to an almost certain death just to get away from him. Yeah? I gotta say (and yes I'm a parent), I saw the son as kind of a little oval office and spent the movie wishing someone would kick the daughter in the throat just to make her shut-the-gently caress-up.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It takes place in the Midwest (Minnesota is one of the MIMAL states), not the Northwest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Northwest
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I think my favorite part in War of the Worlds is that Tom Cruise is such a lovely, phony dad that his teen son (who, lets face it, needs to rebel against his dad even if the world is ending) runs over the hill to an almost certain death just to get away from him. Dakota Fanning's character is the only one I sympathize with. She CLEARLY has anxiety disorder and now must rely on her brother to keep her in check. She already knows her dad can't help, he's a selfish rear end in a top hat. She's already in tears at the beginning of the movie when asking for something to eat and told to order some herself; when her dad actually offers her food, it's the one thing that can kill her. Then she has to rely on him when her brother abandons her because NO gently caress YOU DAD!!!
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Is the London IMAX special from most IMAX's in the UK? I just visited my local one (not London) and although I'm pretty sure it shows the same print, etc there's something really different in the experience & I don't know if it's a technical thing or just my mind making the London one better on purpose because the grass is always greener. I want to say the London IMAX screen was curved in a special way but I may just be making that up.
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BisonDollah posted:Is the London IMAX special from most IMAX's in the UK? I just visited my local one (not London) and although I'm pretty sure it shows the same print, etc there's something really different in the experience & I don't know if it's a technical thing or just my mind making the London one better on purpose because the grass is always greener. I want to say the London IMAX screen was curved in a special way but I may just be making that up. In America at least, they licensed the name IMAX out, so there are theaters claiming to be IMAX that are smaller than what used to be an IMAX screen. So the London one might be proper IMAX and the one you just went to is the new-fangled "bigger than a normal screen but not as big as IMAX" IMAX.
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And to add to the confusion there's also OMNIMax, which has a hemispherical screen that even in the best seats you still have to tilt your head up and around to see everything. Nothing like seeing a space documentary in one of those.
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Lobok posted:And to add to the confusion there's also OMNIMax, which has a hemispherical screen that even in the best seats you still have to tilt your head up and around to see everything. Nothing like seeing a space documentary in one of those. Omnimax came first, right? Because I remember going to see that at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago well before I had ever heard of just IMAX.
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Lobok posted:And to add to the confusion there's also OMNIMax, which has a hemispherical screen that even in the best seats you still have to tilt your head up and around to see everything. Nothing like seeing a space documentary in one of those. Man, as a kid once I saw a documentary that was about physical performance or something, and it started with a guy climbing rocks and I honestly felt sick.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Man, as a kid once I saw a documentary that was about physical performance or something, and it started with a guy climbing rocks and I honestly felt sick. I saw Everest in OMNImax. I still remember the overwhelming headache it gave me, and that was sixteen years ago.
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Imax slightly predated Omnimax, but it's only recently that they've started springing up all over the place so it's plausible that even a major city could have had just one. In the mid-90s there were only 3 in the New York area that I can remember- the one at the American Museum of Natural History, the one at the Lincoln Square multiplex, and the Omnimax dome at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey. My favorite feature of the Omnimax was the demo they ran before showings where you could hear Leonard Nimoy saying "Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong?" all around you from every sound channel at once.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Man, as a kid once I saw a documentary that was about physical performance or something, and it started with a guy climbing rocks and I honestly felt sick. That was the first time I'd even heard of OMNIMAX, going to see that specifically at the Liberty Science Center.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Man, as a kid once I saw a documentary that was about physical performance or something, and it started with a guy climbing rocks and I honestly felt sick. My third grade class went to MSI at Chicago and at least five people were in the bathroom sick after the movie. It really slowed us down for seeing anymore of the exhibits that day.
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Lobok posted:And to add to the confusion there's also OMNIMax, which has a hemispherical screen that even in the best seats you still have to tilt your head up. Oh man, thanks for giving me the name of those screens. I remember setting on the floor in this big dome shaped building and watching roller coaster and flight footage, it was awesome. Why don't you see these any more? I would love to go to one now and see if it's as amazing as I remember.
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adamj1982 posted:Oh man, thanks for giving me the name of those screens. I remember setting on the floor in this big dome shaped building and watching roller coaster and flight footage, it was awesome. Why don't you see these any more? I would love to go to one now and see if it's as amazing as I remember. I went to IMAX movies, thinking they were Omnimax screens. I didn't know until just now that they were different. Boy, was I disappointed when I did not have the hemispherical screen to see The Matrix Reloaded.
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Hockles posted:I went to IMAX movies, thinking they were Omnimax screens. I didn't know until just now that they were different. Boy, was I disappointed when I did not have the hemispherical screen to see The Matrix Reloaded. So what is the difference in IMAX vs. regular theater films? I don't have an IMAX theater near me, so have never been.
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