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Tazzillekki posted:Okay so this might be a hopeless question, but I'll give it a shot. For the past few hours, a scene in a movie has been stuck in my head and I can't seem to remember what the movie is. All I remember is that specific scene(not any particular lines, though. I want to say it's Deeply.
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Is there a name for the filmmaking style of Borat and Brüno, or the new one by the Jackass guys, where a scripted narrative links together segments that are filmed "live"?
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a radii hike posted:Is there something like a musical IMDb, a site that lists every movie that uses a particular song? Thanks man. Didn't know that thread existed. syscall girl posted:I want to say it's Deeply. It's pretty close, but not it. It's definitely an American movie. Possibly in the mid 2000s.
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Tazzillekki posted:
This is definitely a scene in a Law & Order: SVU episode. Elliot has to get his crazy mother, who is a painter that lives on the beach, to admit she's crazy to get his equally batshit daughter leniency in sentencing for a burglary. I'm not saying they didn't steal it though.
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Andy Cancer posted:This is definitely a scene in a Law & Order: SVU episode. Elliot has to get his crazy mother, who is a painter that lives on the beach, to admit she's crazy to get his equally batshit daughter leniency in sentencing for a burglary. Holy poo poo, you're right. I don't know why I thought it was a movie. But yeah, I looked it up and it's the exact scene I was thinking of. Thanks, man.
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Masonic Youth posted:Is there a name for the filmmaking style of Borat and Brüno, or the new one by the Jackass guys, where a scripted narrative links together segments that are filmed "live"? Not that I know of, but there should be. Psuedo-documentary? Mockudocumentary? Prank movie?
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Skwirl posted:Not that I know of, but there should be. Psuedo-documentary? Mockudocumentary? Prank movie? Are you being sarcastic? Because it actually is called a mockumentary.
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JebanyPedal posted:Are you being sarcastic? Because it actually is called a mockumentary. I figure mockumentary more applies to movies where everyone seen is an actor playing a character, either scripted or improvised, but still actors playing a role.
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It doesn't necessarily have to be every person on screen, Borat technically falls under the umbrella.
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I think the question is, is there a term for what Borat is, separate from what This is Spinal Tap is.
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Snak posted:I think the question is, is there a term for what Borat is, separate from what This is Spinal Tap is. Spinal Tap goes to 11
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Do we have a thread dedicated to special effects and how they are done whether it's with camera tricks, forced perspective, miniatures, stuff like that or with CGI? There's a video and I've seen a few like it where you see an actor reflected in a mirror, the actor turns away, but the reflection stays and/or does something creepy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L7lJ_GMLLY This is one of the better ones as it's less clearly a cgi manipulation or a case of twins. I'm sure the reality is probably video playback in the reflection in this one though.
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CzarChasm posted:Do we have a thread dedicated to special effects and how they are done whether it's with camera tricks, forced perspective, miniatures, stuff like that or with CGI? My favorite one is in Evil Dead 2 when Ash is steadying himself on the mirror and Evil Ash pops out and grabs him by the shoulders.
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CzarChasm posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L7lJ_GMLLY Are you kidding? That looks awful. That's a badly cropped still image in the mirror with a bit of tracking applied. The effect it easily done now. You wouldn't be able to catch any signs of cgi since its basically just two images on top of each other. Trump fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Sep 9, 2013 |
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Haha, that exact effect is a plot point in Lake Mungo. I feel dirty spoiling that for some reason.
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scary ghost dog posted:My favorite one is in Evil Dead 2 when Ash is steadying himself on the mirror and Evil Ash pops out and grabs him by the shoulders. Which they did the old fashioned way: they got a body double for Bruce Campbell, cut a hole in the wall of the set, and built a mirror image of the room on the other side of the wall. I was just extolling the virtues of the special effects in Evil Dead II in the general chat thread, but it really can't be overstated how much they rule.
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Terminator 2's effect for that remains my favorite. Live Action Arnie & Linda Hamilton in the "mirror," Linda's twin & fake Arnie head are the "real" ones.
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Hockles posted:Terminator 2's effect for that remains my favorite. Wait, what scene was this? To contribute, that the security guard who got duped by the T-1000 was played by identical twins.
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I think he means this deleted scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA66KTGxuAw
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The Hammer movie Twins of Evil pulls the same thing (among many others, I'm sure.) The trick is a little more obvious when you have "twins" in the title, though.
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NarkyBark posted:I think he means this deleted scene: It's been a while since I saw the regular version, but I think remnants of that are in the theatrical version.
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scary ghost dog posted:My favorite one is in Evil Dead 2 when Ash is steadying himself on the mirror and Evil Ash pops out and grabs him by the shoulders. There is also a scene in the original where he touches a mirror and it ripples like a pool of water.
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The thing I love about the original is just how simple everything is (aside from the animation at the end). It's so low budget and raw, and it derives a lot of its charm from that and also from the filmmakers' drive to just make something, everything else be damned. For that mirror shot, it was just Campbell lying on his stomach, elevated a little, and they put a fake wall and frame over a kiddy pool.
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Hockles posted:Terminator 2's effect for that remains my favorite. They used twins a bunch in that film. See also the security guard at the insane asylum.
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bobkatt013 posted:They used twins a bunch in that film. See also the security guard at the insane asylum. Oh I remember them. They were even scientists in Gremlins 2.
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What is a good book on the history of American film? A one-stop survey of the whole shebang is preferred.
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Detective Thompson posted:The thing I love about the original is just how simple everything is (aside from the animation at the end). It's so low budget and raw, and it derives a lot of its charm from that and also from the filmmakers' drive to just make something, everything else be damned. There's also a shot that appears to be from below the floor, looking up through at the sole of Bruce Campbell's shoe. They just put the camera on the ground and held a shoe above the lens. There's another one that looks to be from several feet above the ceiling, looking down through the rafters and support beams. They stuck a mirror up on the ceiling and just shot it from the ground.
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Yeah, that last one was right before he gets the pipe full of blood in the face. I actually popped in the DVD, wanting to look just for the mirror scene, but I ended up watching the whole thing with Campbell's commentary.
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Can anyone tell me anything about these odd little shorts about a character named Norman Krasner? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-D5I_DXluM
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It doesn't get a lot of praise out there, but I really liked it. The animation is really great, and the story is interesting and takes the characters to some crazy looking body locations. The only thing that really brings it down are the live action segments. Weird, especially as they're focused on Bill Murray, but they mostly just fall flat.
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echoplex posted:Can anyone recommend some films that focus on The Troubles in Northern Ireland circa 1970/80? I've got Shadow Dancer which is a bit more recent. Or anything of that period/location - could be a comedy or horror etc, so long as it looks a bit bleak and bombed out. Good Vibrations is a really good recent film set during that time.
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How many people here have really given up on seeing theatrical features when they premiere because of negative theater experiences? More and more I've had theater experiences tainted because of massive distractions and just bad behavior. Its to the point now where I just don't see a movie until it comes out on blu-ray or on-demand, whatever format is best. Would you be willing to fork over $20-30 dollars to see a film in your home when it premieres that you can pause, rewind, whatever?
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I had given up months ago but gave it another try about 2 months ago since there were a string of films coming out that I wanted to see. I had waited until they'd all been out for a couple of weeks but in every instance there were less than 20 or 30 people in the entire theater and yet there was some moron who wouldn't shut up. I don't know what kind of person cannot contain their laughter for more than 2 minutes while watching Behind the Candelabra but this teenage girl just couldn't do it. By the end I figured she was seriously just retarded because not only was she laughing but she could not get her eyes off the screen, even as I was telling her to shut the gently caress up. I'd fork out $20-30 to watch films in my own home. I'm already doing that for movie theater tickets here in Australia.
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goku im piss posted:How many people here have really given up on seeing theatrical features when they premiere because of negative theater experiences? Boom, this guy, right here. Apart from seeing Django Unchained in the theatre, which I only did because I had to kill time while I was skipping work one day, I haven't been to the theatre in at least ten years. High prices, lovely food, noisy kids/teens, the endless sea of shiny smartphone screens, bad seats, all that have lead my friends and I to forsake the theatre for home viewing. We've all bought giant screens and audio setups at this point, so on "movie night", we head to one of our places and watch a movie with some good food and drink on comfy chairs and couches. It a dick, movie theatres. Eat all the dicks.
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My experience has generally been fine at the theatres, but then again the one I frequent isn't in the city where I assume more kids and teenagers generally go, if I went to the one nearby all the suburbs (which is basically a projector set up in a truck stop bathroom for how filthy and low quality it is) I'm fairly certain it would be a lovely experience, as it is, I go out to one nearby a bunch of shopping centers with not too many neighborhoods nearby, the fact that people have to go out of their way to get to it (and it's a super nice theatre to boot) kind of cuts down on that bullshit. On the other hand, an IMAX recently opened on our riverfront, and that's in the city and for the most part it's been fine, I saw both Pacific Rim and The Hobbit in there which would definitely been rife for stupid assholes, but mercifully it was totally fine. I think location definitely matters, city theatres/cheaper theatres/suburban theatres are going to be worse, I know that doesn't leave room for much else, but eh. Oh, and my worst experience by far was, surprisingly, at the Ritz in PE, which you'd think would be less poo poo because it's one of those artsy-fartsy deals, but going to see Tree of Life and Melancholia there was an utter pain in the rear end because of nonstop college hipster douchebags thinking they were being clever for openly deriding the more "famous" artsy-fartsy filmmakers. Fortunately those are also the kind of people who are desperately afraid of confrontation so a simple shut-up solved the problem, but it's a totally different deal when you're in a theatre so crowded that multiple people are being worthless assholes, you obviously can't tell a whole sea of faces to shut their holes because none of them will think they're the one being talked to.
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This Dovetails into another question, Do you think a negative theater experience affected your opinion of a film when you first watched it? Were you able to power through the distractions and the overall crap around you and absorb the film correctly, or were you so distracted and put off that the film's negative qualities were amplified by the surroundings.
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We just git an Alamo Drafthouse and even though its a 45 min bus ride (I don't drive) and there's a different theater half a mile from me I will go to Alamo forever always. 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Boom, this guy, right here. Apart from seeing Django Unchained in the theatre, which I only did because I had to kill time while I was skipping work one day, I haven't been to the theatre in at least ten years. JebanyPedal posted:Oh, and my worst experience by far was, surprisingly, at the Ritz in PE, which you'd think would be less poo poo because it's one of those artsy-fartsy deals, but going to see Tree of Life and Melancholia there was an utter pain in the rear end because of nonstop college hipster douchebags thinking they were being clever for openly deriding the more "famous" artsy-fartsy filmmakers. Fortunately those are also the kind of people who are desperately afraid of confrontation so a simple shut-up solved the problem, but it's a totally different deal when you're in a theatre so crowded that multiple people are being worthless assholes, you obviously can't tell a whole sea of faces to shut their holes because none of them will think they're the one being talked to.
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Because I do shift work, I do most of my cinema time midweek in the afternoons, and usually it's me, my girlfriend and maybe 10 other people at most. And the most we pay for tickets is £8 for two because Orange Wednesdays are the poo poo. I love seeing movies in the theater, I would go 3/4 times a week if i could manage it Edit: Overall though, I think we have it way better in the UK/Ireland than you US guys have it, I've only once ever had to ask someone to be quiet during a movie, the worst i've ever experienced recently was two old ladies who were super into Riddick and were having a whale of a time reacting to every little thing in the film. I almost never see people playing on their phones and poo poo either forpush fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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