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(Fargo) Wasn't he trying to get money to put into some business venture, and then father-in-law took the idea from under him?
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Snapchat A Titty posted:(Fargo) Wasn't he trying to get money to put into some business venture, and then father-in-law took the idea from under him? As with everybody else, it's been a while, but I think it was the other way around, he's doing the business venture to try to legitimately get the money, and then the father-in-law stiffs him out of any profit from it.
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May 22, 2014 19:50
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It either seems to be a compulsive thing or has snowballed out of control, since he's also scamming the GMAC for cash.
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May 22, 2014 19:54
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I am pretty sure he was scamming his father in law as well. He doesn't counteroffer or try to come up with a co ownership or management structure. He just shuts down when he realizes they're not going to write him a check.
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May 22, 2014 21:14
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McCloud posted:Don't know if this is the right place for this, but here goes. My boyfriend and I had a discussion about Sucker Punch the other day. He contended that the movie was sexist garbage, while I argued that the "sexism" was on purpose to make a point about the unhealthy portrayal of women in media in general. I was kinda curious what you guys thought of the movie, both in general and in regards to the whole sexism thing. Your interpretation is common and Snyder has basically confirmed at what he intended. However, even if this is the case, some still think it failed at what it was trying to do (you can aim to subvert sexism but just end up being a sexist yourself - it's a thin line). In any case I don't think it's an especially great film, but I'll give it a "noble failure" stamp.
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Speaking of Fargo, what was the point of the asian guy from highschool subplot? It always seemed oddly placed and unnecessary to me.
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May 23, 2014 11:00
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From his Great Movies Essay.Ebert posted:There is a scene many viewers find inexplicable. On the evening between her first and second interviews with Jerry, Marge has dinner with a high school classmate, Mike Yanagita (Steve Park). The critic Jonathan Rosenbaum says it's “a disturbing interlude that strikes many others as wrong or dubious,” but he finds it a key: “in terms of theme a lonely individual lying compulsively, trying without success to hide his desperation it registers as central.” I agree. I think Mike works as a mirror of Jerry, and that the dinner scene acts as the link between Marge's first and second interviews with him. The next morning, she is preparing to return to Brainerd when a high school girlfriend tells her that everything Mike said was a lie. That's the wake-up call that leads back to Jerry's desk at the dealership. The Mike interlude not only provides a delicate study of Marge coping with an embarrassing situation, but is infinitely better than the alternative a single interview with Jerry that simply grinds him down.
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Yeah, it's there to serve as a lightbulb moment for Marge that sometimes people will lie their asses off in desperation and gets her thinking about Jerry in that context. Maybe he's not just kinda pathetic, maybe he's hiding something.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Your interpretation is common and Snyder has basically confirmed at what he intended. However, even if this is the case, some still think it failed at what it was trying to do (you can aim to subvert sexism but just end up being a sexist yourself - it's a thin line). In any case I don't think it's an especially great film, but I'll give it a "noble failure" stamp. Basically this. I think the argument eventually comes down to "Well it's clear what Snyder is doing, the question is how well he does it." That of course is entirely up the the viewer. I think the extended cut makes a better case for him, but I still think it was maybe slightly muddled. In all honesty I can't see how anyone can't come out of Sucker Punch without seeing what Snyder was trying to do with it. It's a movie very much about the male gaze, but to pull that off you have to have scenes that evoke that very thing, and that's where the trouble lies.
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Me again. This time I'm looking for interesting causes for delays during film production. I've got most of the obvious ones I think, but I'd be grateful if anyone's got any more suggestions to bulk up my list.
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Sirocco posted:Me again. This time I'm looking for interesting causes for delays during film production. I've got most of the obvious ones I think, but I'd be grateful if anyone's got any more suggestions to bulk up my list. Fitzcarraldo has like six or seven by itself.
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Sirocco posted:Me again. This time I'm looking for interesting causes for delays during film production. I've got most of the obvious ones I think, but I'd be grateful if anyone's got any more suggestions to bulk up my list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now#Principal_photography Typhoons destroying sets, a principal actor showing up overweight and arguing over the script, another principal actor having a heart attack, inability to come up with an ending...
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And that big atoll set in Waterworld got destroyed by a hurricane.
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There's a great documentary film called Lost in La Mancha, which is about Terry Gilliam's failed attempt at adapting Don Quixote. During the production, just about everything goes wrong: a storm damages the equipment, one of the actors contracts a serious illness, the budget is drastically cut, etc. The whole documentary is up on Youtube and well worth a watch. Aguirre, the Wrath of God is another Herzog film with a very troubled production history.
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For Sorcerer's bridge crossing sequence, Friedkin had the bridge and all the concealed riggings needed to sway the trucks without capsizing them built over a river which promptly dried up. The set was deconstructed and rebuilt over another river. Which also dried up. Finally they temporarily diverted some pumps so that the water-line would be just high enough to shoot the scene.
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Sirocco, this just came out on Steam, weird timing.
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Sirocco posted:Me again. This time I'm looking for interesting causes for delays during film production. I've got most of the obvious ones I think, but I'd be grateful if anyone's got any more suggestions to bulk up my list. Charles Chaplin went through hell while making The Circus. A lot of footage had to be reshot due to processing errors, sets burned down, his wife filed for divorce, and the IRS was investigating him for tax evasion.
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Maxwell Lord posted:For Sorcerer's bridge crossing sequence, Friedkin had the bridge and all the concealed riggings needed to sway the trucks without capsizing them built over a river which promptly dried up. The set was deconstructed and rebuilt over another river. Which also dried up. Finally they temporarily diverted some pumps so that the water-line would be just high enough to shoot the scene. In a Q&A Friedkin said that if he had had today's technology, that entire scene would be CG. I can see where he's coming from, but goddamn am I glad for every laborous second that went into making that scene.
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Thanks, everyone, these were all excellent.Senso posted:Sirocco, this just came out on Steam, weird timing. Interesting! Much more involved than the game I'm making though.
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Sirocco posted:Me again. This time I'm looking for interesting causes for delays during film production. I've got most of the obvious ones I think, but I'd be grateful if anyone's got any more suggestions to bulk up my list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A9uMgHnhUo
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Dissapointed Owl posted:In a Q&A Friedkin said that if he had had today's technology, that entire scene would be CG. It's literally unreal. The fact that they pulled it together is astonishing.
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I watched Ace Ventura 2 the other night but I didn't see one of my favorite scenes: as Ace is fighting someone, he strikes some sort of big blow, turns around to face the camera (with his back to his opponent) and with eyes closed and mouth clenched he lets out a big breath while shaking. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? I could have sworn it was during the tribal fight against the little guy, but I can't find it. Was it in another movie?
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Violator posted:I watched Ace Ventura 2 the other night but I didn't see one of my favorite scenes: as Ace is fighting someone, he strikes some sort of big blow, turns around to face the camera (with his back to his opponent) and with eyes closed and mouth clenched he lets out a big breath while shaking. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? I could have sworn it was during the tribal fight against the little guy, but I can't find it. Was it in another movie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GABtt-m9AQU
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's literally unreal. The fact that they pulled it together is astonishing. Every ounce of the frustration and hard work pumped into the creation of that scene is there on the screen, but effectively channeled into something benefiting the story and film instead of merely being a 'Historic Horror Productions' novelty.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Speaking of Fargo, what was the point of the asian guy from highschool subplot? It always seemed oddly placed and unnecessary to me. In addition to what Rosenbaum via Ebert via Sheldrake said, I think part of it is the Coens themselves. They like to write in vignettes and minor scenes that work toward creating a mood or feeling, even if not directly impacting the plot. Sometimes life is like that; you'll be in the middle of a very substantial event or part of your life and some little thing will happen that informs the rest of the experience. Maybe it's not directly related, but somehow it's memorable enough to get lumped in with the other events in our minds. Maybe it was a touch surreal, maybe it felt like some divine message, maybe it just put us in a foul mood that permeated the rest of the experience. I think the Coens just like to write little bits and work from there to create a story. Supposedly A Serious Man originated with the Bar Mitzvah/weed sequence, which was somewhat autobiographical. They wrote a movie around that seemingly meaningless scene. The dybbuk scene from the same movie has literally no effect on the plot. None of the characters from the rest of the movie are in this sequence, the location and time period are completely different. It was just a story they wanted to write, and thought it set the mood nicely for the rest of the movie. Can we read into it that Larry's brother is himself the dybbuk? Sure, if it helps inform the rest of the movie for you. It is, however in no way directly stated and is only an inference we can make if we choose. I liked A Serious Man. It reminds me of magical realism, but not quite as magical. Something more like the way our memories filter and distort events and how our recollections of them are tinted by our own emotions at the time.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I liked A Serious Man. It reminds me of magical realism, but not quite as magical. Jesus, that is a phenomenal way of putting it.
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That descriptor would fit Inside Llewyn Davis too.
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DrVenkman posted:Basically this. I think the argument eventually comes down to "Well it's clear what Snyder is doing, the question is how well he does it." That of course is entirely up the the viewer. I think the extended cut makes a better case for him, but I still think it was maybe slightly muddled. In all honesty I can't see how anyone can't come out of Sucker Punch without seeing what Snyder was trying to do with it. It's a movie very much about the male gaze, but to pull that off you have to have scenes that evoke that very thing, and that's where the trouble lies. Right, that's what I suspected. A cursory google search would indicate that a lot of people totally missed the point Snyder was trying to make though, which is a shame, cause I like that he was critiquing the male gaze and sexism, but what most people seem to take away from the movie was "chicks in hot pants that shoot nazis and pretends to be empowering to women". Edit: As luck would have it, there's a derail about sucker punch in the man of steel thread right now! Crossposting what I wrote there. Mccloud posted:Oh good, we're talking Sucker Punch. Can we talk about it some more? Cause I don't get that movie. McCloud fucked around with this message at 18:58 on May 24, 2014 |
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fenix down posted:Sounds more like Army of Darkness to me. Dang, that must be it. I must've somehow gotten Ace and Ash mixed up in my mind somehow. Thanks!
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I've only ever seen it spoofed in different shows, like South Park and Family Guy; but, what movie is the "hide this thing in a big crate, in a gigantic warehouse of crates" ending from? I want to say it's a Superman.
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Ah, that makes sense now with the George Lucas episode of South Park I just watched.
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Hockles posted:Ah, that makes sense now with the George Lucas episode of South Park I just watched. If you haven't seen Raiders of the Lost Arc, or it's just been so long that you don't remember that scene, you should watch it.
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Skwirl posted:If you haven't seen Raiders of the Lost Arc, or it's just been so long that you don't remember that scene, you should watch it. It's been too long. I only remember parts of the climax with choosing the chalice. VVV welp Hockles fucked around with this message at 23:43 on May 24, 2014 |
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Hockles posted:It's been too long. I only remember parts of the climax with choosing the chalice. That's Last Crusade.
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Hockles posted:It's been too long. I only remember parts of the climax with choosing the chalice. drat, then you really need to rewatch it because those are two completely different movies.
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I'm looking to rip a couple dozen DVDs I have lying around, and I was wondering if this is the best place to talk about Handbrake encode settings. I really want a straight-up, "this preset best captures this movie on this medium," recommendation. I was probably just going to mash 'normal' and go with it, but I figured I could ask. Thanks for any recommendations.
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zfleeman posted:I'm looking to rip a couple dozen DVDs I have lying around, and I was wondering if this is the best place to talk about Handbrake encode settings. I really want a straight-up, "this preset best captures this movie on this medium," recommendation. Here's what I use: Picture tab: Anamorphic - None* | Keep Aspect Ratio | Cropping: Automatic Filters tab: Detelecine and Decomb off** | Deinterlace: Fast | Denoise: Weak | Deblock: Off Video tab: Video Codec: H.264 | Framerate: Same as source (Constant framerate) | Constant Quality: 19 | Optimise Video : Faster or Fast (if you have a fast cpu, use Fast. Slow cpu, use Faster). | x264 Tune: Film unless it fits in one of the other categories. Everything else default Audio tab: Source: Whatever 2 channel source is there. Codec: AAC | Bitrate : 160ish | Mixdown : Stereo*** | Everything else default Subtitles tab: As needed This takes an 8 gb dvd down to about 1.2 gb with virtually no discernable loss in quality. You're welcome to use higher bitrate audio or whatever -- I do when I encode opera dvds (I use 256 in that case) but AAC is pretty drat impressive at 160 *In theory, anamorphic should be superior. But in tests I did, there was a slight image quality loss compared to leaving it disabled **In theory, Deinterlace should be off and Decomb on, but I've noticed that their decomb algorithm doesn't always detect interlacing. And for the Deinterlace setting, I didn't notice any image quality difference between Fast and any of the slower settings. ***I use stereo because I often watch on pc, phone, or tablet and so don't need surround. You're certainly welcome to use surround instead, or put both options. Just be aware that the size will go up a bit. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 02:21 on May 25, 2014 |
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