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I loved Ip Man as a movie, but the fact that it was based on one of the most beloved real-life martial arts masters of all time, I just wished they would've left out the wire-fu stuff. Not that there was a ton of it, mind you, but it sort of cheapens his memory when you start attributing fantastical, supernatural martial arts abilities to him, when his grounded, real-life abilities would've been impressive enough. Sequel was okay, but the whole plot involving the british and their champion boxer was dumb as gently caress and handled poorly.
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The Time Dissolver posted:Any fans in here of the godawful evil-hacker flick .com for Murder? Guest starring Roger Daltrey and Huey Lewis!! Man, the guy's little Egyptian eye tattoo gets me every time.
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david_a posted:Did anyone else have some weird 'frame doubling' problems in Dredd? Some of the time the picture was sharp and motion looked fine; other times, it seemed like the frames bled into each other (note the gun in the back, assuming you can pry your eyes away from Wig Goon I saw a featurette about Dredd before it came out, it was filmed in 3d, I believe they used 2 RED cameras and made the 2d from digitally combining the two perspectives so it might be a leftover artifact. Basically they intended 3d as the 'true' format for it, as opposed to digitally shoehorning 3d into a 2d movie like most other CGI movies released at the same time. I'm also not a cinematographer, so I'm probably also wrong.
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Egbert Souse posted:Goldfinger is awesome, but From Russia with Love and On Her Majesty's Secret Service are the two Great films of the 60s Bonds. Sure Goldfinger is the most entertaining, but those two are phenomenal for a tight, believable story, stunning photography, and no nonsense editing. Look at this scrub who forgot about Moonraker 
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red19fire posted:I saw a featurette about Dredd before it came out, it was filmed in 3d, I believe they used 2 RED cameras and made the 2d from digitally combining the two perspectives so it might be a leftover artifact. Basically they intended 3d as the 'true' format for it, as opposed to digitally shoehorning 3d into a 2d movie like most other CGI movies released at the same time. I'm also not a cinematographer, so I'm probably also wrong. For 2D, I would assume they simply use one of the frames, instead of combining the two separate frames. I mean, it's space pens vs pencils.
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I really don't know too much about how the new digital 3D stuff works in post-production, so this might be me talking out of my rear end. Is it possible that there's an issue where when the two original 2D streams are combined to make the 3D stream that the process does minor alterations to each 2D frame to assist with the 3D look? Then, if you pull a single one of those streams out, you're not getting the original 2D stream but an altered 2D stream that was formatted to work with an additional 2D frame backing it up? No reason to do this, though, if you already have an unaltered 2D frame. Unless, there's something about the way computer tweaking/effects are done in post-production for 3D movies that it's easier to pull an altered 2D stream than do effects specifically for one of the originals? Like I said, likely completely off since I'm not an expert on the subject.
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Sep 4, 2013 05:35
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The Comedy and Half Baked are both good movies, but for very different reasons.
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Inudeku posted:The Rundown was such a fun movie. I'm surprised I haven't seen it before. Yeah, it's always been my fun secret movie. I've bought it on DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray. It's a really fun film. It's a shame The Rock's other early fun movie, Walking Tall, isn't available on Netflix.
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Der Shovel posted:Yeah, it's always been my fun secret movie. I've bought it on DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray. It's a really fun film. It's a shame The Rock's other early fun movie, Walking Tall, isn't available on Netflix. I mean, who the hell could NOT love The Rock forearm smashing concrete pillars and wooden support beams to collapse roofs. Or dual weird pump shotguns. 
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Sep 4, 2013 13:51
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Resolution is up!  Been wanting to see this for months.
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Inudeku posted:I mean, who the hell could NOT love The Rock forearm smashing concrete pillars and wooden support beams to collapse roofs. Or dual weird pump shotguns. It was a fun movie. "I don't like guns." *later uses guns in a fantastically choreographed scene, one of the best outside of Shoot Em Up*
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Also...Neal loving McDonough
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JediTalentAgent posted:I really don't know too much about how the new digital 3D stuff works in post-production, so this might be me talking out of my rear end. The streams aren't actually combined. They're kept separate as "right" and "left" eye streams. This separation of eyes is maintained throughout the whole process up to projection / display on your home TV or in a theater. Then, it's either split up line by line between left and right eyes, where line 1, 3, 5 and so on are left eye, 2, 4, 6 and so on are right eye, and your glasses filter them appropriately for each eye. The other technique is to run double the normal number of frames and alternate left-right, with your glasses again filtering the content. The 2D frame you're viewing on Netflix wouldn't be a combination of the two frames, it'd just be either the left or the right eye, perhaps different from shot to shot but more likely just a single eye for the entire movie. I'm almost positive that the haziness that everyone is mentioning is because they did re-shoots on green screen. The compositing was probably less noticeable in 3D, but when you break out each angle individually it's very apparent. This is kind of what you're saying — the effecting is meant to work in service of two 2D frames interacting with each other rather than be convincing as a stand-alone. And you are also correct that certain elements of how the 2D images are combined to create the 3D image can be fudged to change the way that focus and conversion of the eyes works, but I don't know much beyond that.
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Sep 4, 2013 19:07
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I loved Ip Man as a movie, but the fact that it was based on one of the most beloved real-life martial arts masters of all time, I just wished they would've left out the wire-fu stuff. Not that there was a ton of it, mind you, but it sort of cheapens his memory when you start attributing fantastical, supernatural martial arts abilities to him, when his grounded, real-life abilities would've been impressive enough. The real Ip Man was a police officer (and opium addict) who ran a pretty successful Wing Chun school in Hong Kong. He was not a professional fighter, he never fought against an evil Japanese general's prize karateka for the pride of China, and he never had to work in a coal mine because of wartime hardships. The entire thing is fantasy; it's a little strange to focus just on the fight choreography for being "unrealistic".
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weekly font posted:One of you guys has to watch Branded so we can talk about it because Hi, saw Branded in the theatre. What's up?
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weekly font posted:One of you guys has to watch Branded so we can talk about it because I saw Branded in theaters. I can't remember when I realized I was watching something truly insane. Was it the bonkers reality show stuff with Jeffrey Tambor? Was it when the dude sacrifices a cow and then bathes in its blood? Or was it when the cowstellation winked at me?
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Jay Dub posted:I saw Branded in theaters. Tambor is in this? I'm sold.
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Chichevache posted:Tambor is in this? I'm sold. NOW look what I've done!
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Finally watched Requiem for a Dream, one of those movies that everyone else has seen but could never take the time to watch yourself. I honestly had no idea what it was about other than people always quoting it for the "rear end to rear end" scene. It was pretty good, but it's so hard watching these kinds of iconic movies a decade or more after everyone has spoofed them or ripped them off. I watched Equilibrium a few months back, and it was the same. Having heard that stupid Requiem theme song about a million times in the past 13 years did make quite a few of those scene unbearable, I mean, did they need that theme song in every emotional scene? I swear it played ten separate times throughout the film.
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Khorne Flakes posted:Finally watched Requiem for a Dream, one of those movies that everyone else has seen but could never take the time to watch yourself. I honestly had no idea what it was about other than people always quoting it for the "rear end to rear end" scene. It was pretty good, but it's so hard watching these kinds of iconic movies a decade or more after everyone has spoofed them or ripped them off. I watched Equilibrium a few months back, and it was the same. Having heard that stupid Requiem theme song about a million times in the past 13 years did make quite a few of those scene unbearable, I mean, did they need that theme song in every emotional scene? I swear it played ten separate times throughout the film. I know it's pretty but they didn't take it out for air
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Whoa, how long has People Under the Stairs been up? If you've never seen it, I highly recommend it - it's top tier Wes Craven, imo. This goes double for anyone who also happens to be a Twin Peaks fan.
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Parachute posted:Whoa, how long has People Under the Stairs been up? If you've never seen it, I highly recommend it - it's top tier Wes Craven, imo. This goes double for anyone who also happens to be a Twin Peaks fan. It's Wes Craven making an amazing John Carpenter movie. One of my absolute favorites.
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Khorne Flakes posted:Finally watched Requiem for a Dream, one of those movies that everyone else has seen but could never take the time to watch yourself. I honestly had no idea what it was about other than people always quoting it for the "rear end to rear end" scene. It was pretty good, but it's so hard watching these kinds of iconic movies a decade or more after everyone has spoofed them or ripped them off. I watched Equilibrium a few months back, and it was the same. Having heard that stupid Requiem theme song about a million times in the past 13 years did make quite a few of those scene unbearable, I mean, did they need that theme song in every emotional scene? I swear it played ten separate times throughout the film. Actually, part of the problem is how neither of those films are very good to begin with. Requiem is by far Aronofsky's low point and the worst example of him letting his creepy regressive politics out in a film, and Equilibrium is largely embarrassing. Samfucius posted:It's Wes Craven making an amazing John Carpenter movie. I had a big argument (not really) with a guy once about how this was not, in fact, a Carpenter film when we were trying to think of all the films in his unimpeachable 70s and 80s super run. You're right though, it almost is. It doesn't look as good as even a lower level Carpenter though.
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Khorne Flakes posted:Finally watched Requiem for a Dream, one of those movies that everyone else has seen but could never take the time to watch yourself. I honestly had no idea what it was about other than people always quoting it for the "rear end to rear end" scene. It was pretty good, but it's so hard watching these kinds of iconic movies a decade or more after everyone has spoofed them or ripped them off. I watched Equilibrium a few months back, and it was the same. Having heard that stupid Requiem theme song about a million times in the past 13 years did make quite a few of those scene unbearable, I mean, did they need that theme song in every emotional scene? I swear it played ten separate times throughout the film. JUICE BY KHORNE FLAKES OHHHHH KHORNE FLAKES!
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DeimosRising posted:Actually, part of the problem is how neither of those films are very good to begin with. Requiem is by far Aronofsky's low point The Wrestler and Black Swan are both considerably worse. Particularly The Wrestler.
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Yeah, I've seen all of Darren Aronofsky's films and The Wrestler is by far the weakest one of all of them. It's an alright movie I guess, but I've watched it a grand total of once and never felt the need to watch it again, unlike Requiem which is one of my all-time favorite movies and I've seen that one probably 10+ times. Runner up is Pi and I've seen that one at least 5 times.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Yeah, I've seen all of Darren Aronofsky's films and The Wrestler is by far the weakest one of all of them. It's an alright movie I guess, but I've watched it a grand total of once and never felt the need to watch it again, unlike Requiem which is one of my all-time favorite movies and I've seen that one probably 10+ times. Runner up is Pi and I've seen that one at least 5 times. Well, I'm of the exact opposite opinion. I think Darren Aronofsky is so much better when he's being low-key and dials back the moodiness. I didn't really like Pi all that much and thought Requiem for a Dream was really heavy-handed. Requiem felt like if David Lynch (and not good David Lynch) got caught with a DUI and was forced to make a feature-length PSA about substance abuse. The Wrestler is still one of my favorite movies, and Black Swan was... good. Not really amazing but I enjoyed it, just quite a bit less than The Wrestler.
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I think Requiem is a great movie, and so is The Wrestler and so is Black Swan. Aaronofsky's got showmanship and audacity. These are good things.
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Of Aronofsky's movies, I've seen Pi, Requiem, and Black Swan, and my only major complaint between the three is the way the migraine scenes were handled in Pi - they threatened to give me a headache. This may have been the whole point, but a film shouldn't induce physical pain like that. Aronofsky's got tons of style, and I'm eager to see what he does with Noah.
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Slate Action posted:Of Aronofsky's movies, I've seen Pi, Requiem, and Black Swan, and my only major complaint between the three is the way the migraine scenes were handled in Pi - they threatened to give me a headache. This may have been the whole point, but a film shouldn't induce physical pain like that. I haven't seen Requiem yet, but I have to disagree with you. I think making you really feel extremes like that can be an excellent tool. During Melancholia I felt a similar sense of inevitability and dread as the character's did, and it really adds to the experience. Not every film benefits from it, but when used right I love the effect.
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Chichevache posted:I haven't seen Requiem yet, but I have to disagree with you. I think making you really feel extremes like that can be an excellent tool. During Melancholia I felt a similar sense of inevitability and dread as the character's did, and it really adds to the experience. Not every film benefits from it, but when used right I love the effect. I'm not talking about 'this movie had unpleasant scenes that gave me a headache' or 'this movie had an oppressive atmosphere.' Those things are fine, and I welcome them, at least in principle. At various moments while watching Pi, sounds came out of the TV speakers that made me feel like a spike was being driven through my brain. It was one of the worst 'nails on a chalkboard' effects I've ever felt. It must vary in intensity from person to person.
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I thought the Wrestler was pretty boring despite growing up watching wrestling and it having a Bruce Springsteen song in it. Black Swan and Reqium and The Fountain are all great though, in different ways.
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That was the point  I mean, the movie ends with the main character taking a power drill to his own skull because he's obsessed with numbers and they've taken over his life and he needs to stop thinking about them. And the whole movie is about how he gets to that point. It's not supposed to make you fee all warm and fuzzy inside.
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FishBulb posted:I thought the Wrestler was pretty boring despite growing up watching wrestling and it having a Bruce Springsteen song in it. Black Swan and Reqium and The Fountain are all great though, in different ways. Well, The Wrestler isn't really about wrestling, in the sense that I wouldn't imagine a wrestling fan would have any reason to enjoy it more than a non-fan.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Well, The Wrestler isn't really about wrestling, in the sense that I wouldn't imagine a wrestling fan would have any reason to enjoy it more than a non-fan. Next you'll tell me having a single song by a favorite musician over the credits shouldn't influence my opinion either?!?
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FishBulb posted:Next you'll tell me having a single song by a favorite musician over the credits shouldn't influence my opinion either?!? That too!
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Hi, saw Branded in the theatre. What's up? I've never seen a movie that muddled its messages so much. Advertising is bad so kill it with advertising (until there is no more advertising?). Stalin was the first advertiser but advertisement breeds capitalism! I might have some of this wrong but it was without a shadow of a doubt the most baffling film I've ever seen in so many ways. Also one of the worst edited. Also LeeLee Sobieski. And oh my god Max von Sydow's last scene. 
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Inudeku posted:The Rundown was such a fun movie. I'm surprised I haven't seen it before. I gave this a shot today, and... it's not that fun. It's definitely not a bad movie. It's entertaining for the most part, the Rock and Christopher Walken are perfect for their roles (Walken's tooth fairy speech made the movie worthwhile), and Rosario Dawson and Sean William Scott hold her own. But dear god, the comic relief bits with Scott are just bad. They drag the whole thing down. If Beavis and Butt-head weren't fictional characters, I'd swear they wrote the monkey scene. This was the first movie I've seen the Rock in since Be Cool, and if those two are any indication he's a surprisingly good actor. I might have to give Walking Tall a shot now.
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DeimosRising posted:Actually, part of the problem is how neither of those films are very good to begin with. Requiem is by far Aronofsky's low point and the worst example of him letting his creepy regressive politics out in a film
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