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One bit of advice... Encode anything native 24fps as such, but encode interlaced video as NTSC (29.98). If it's a PAL source, encode as 59.98fps. This saved some of my PAL videos and interlaced sources without looking jagged.
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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? I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think that happens in Dumb & Dumber, when he's having the dream sequence where he beats the poo poo out of the chef.
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May 26, 2014 23:33
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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? This might actually be from Batman Forever.
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May 27, 2014 01:45
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poonchasta posted:This might actually be from Batman Forever. It's darn simple, my boy; ball up a fist, reach way back, and assert yourself!
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May 27, 2014 01:50
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Was 'The Producers' the first mainstream / Hollywood movie to treat Hitler and the Nazis as a subject for comedy?
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May 27, 2014 03:25
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regulargonzalez posted:Was 'The Producers' the first mainstream / Hollywood movie to treat Hitler and the Nazis as a subject for comedy? The Great Dictator
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May 27, 2014 03:27
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scary ghost dog posted:The Great Dictator To Be or Not To Be, too.
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May 27, 2014 03:55
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regulargonzalez posted:Was 'The Producers' the first mainstream / Hollywood movie to treat Hitler and the Nazis as a subject for comedy? It might be the first post war one though, which is definitely something. When the Great Dictator came out, there weren't 6 million dead Jews and 400 thousand dead Americans.
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May 27, 2014 04:03
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This is from the 1933 Looney Tune Bosko's Picture Show: That's the same cartoon where Bosko shouts out "The dirty gently caress!" and miraculously got past censors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qu9zrYCP0
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May 27, 2014 04:04
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Skwirl posted:It might be the first post war one though, which is definitely something. When the Great Dictator came out, there weren't 6 million dead Jews and 400 thousand dead Americans. Yeah, I should have clarified that this is what I meant. Seems like the first movie poking fun at the circumstances surrounding the holocaust could only be made by a Jewish director, much as China could have only been opened by Nixon.
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May 27, 2014 10:26
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When did the 3 Stooges short You Nazty Spy come out? Because I think it may predate The Great Dictator. It's also one of the funnier Stooges shorts, IMO.
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May 27, 2014 13:58
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There's a British film called Gasbags which came out a year before To Be Or Not To Be and features a concentration camp filled with Hitler lookalikes who refused to work for him as a body double.
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May 27, 2014 15:30
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El Gallinero Gros posted:When did the 3 Stooges short You Nazty Spy come out? Because I think it may predate The Great Dictator. It beat it by a few months, it's officially the first Hollywood production to mock the Nazis. They should've gotten a medal.
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May 27, 2014 16:21
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Am I going crazy or is there a John Carpenter cut that sounds a lot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RumGGxvSrHo I'm thinking maybe the beginning of Escape from New York but I dunno?
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May 27, 2014 18:32
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That little 'beep beep ba beep' sounds pretty similar to the baseline in a number of his scores. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1b79pU-goI Maybe Assault on Precinct Thirteen?
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May 27, 2014 22:41
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The instrumentation sounds a lot like Christine. (around 4:30 in Sheldrake's video). Man, Christine rules. Doesn't get talked about a lot, but it's fantastic, and one of Carpenter's best scores IMO.
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I posted some stuff about my game here for those interested: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3638266 There's a few movie questions at the bottom of it too, though not very interesting ones. I just saw There Will Be Blood for the first time yesterday. Great film, though the twin brothers confused me. I guess I didn't catch it being referenced so I was rather bewildered by the change in character. But I'm pretty bad in that regard. Watching The Departed a few weeks ago I didn't realise Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio's characters were different people until the scene in the erotic cinema. I was really confused about the character's motivations until that point. This ever happen to anyone else or am I just really bad at faces?
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Sirocco posted:I posted some stuff about my game here for those interested: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3638266 I've heard people say that before about The Departed, so you're not alone, but it's loving bewildering to me that people can't tell the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. Someone posted an online face-blindness test on these forums before, you might try googling for something similar. In There Will be Blood it's the same actor, and it isn't explicitly referenced by the movie (I don't think anyone ever says "twin") so confusion is pretty understandable.
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Skwirl posted:I've heard people say that before about The Departed, so you're not alone, but it's loving bewildering to me that people can't tell the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. Someone posted an online face-blindness test on these forums before, you might try googling for something similar. The best part is the look of confusion on Daniel day Lewis' face when he realizes that they are twins.
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Sirocco posted:I posted some stuff about my game here for those interested: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3638266 I didn't realize the main female role in That Obscure Object of Desire was played by two actresses until I read about the film after watching it. IDK that it necessarily adds anything, as even before that knowledge it immediately shot into my all-time top 10, but it made me want to rewatch it.
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May 28, 2014 18:47
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Sirocco posted:This ever happen to anyone else or am I just really bad at faces?
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May 28, 2014 22:24
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I could tell them apart afterwards, but yeah I was genuinely baffled by the movie up to that point. Why, I wondered, is this person doing his best to be secretly undercover in one scene and then brazenly visiting a police station in the next? I did feel pretty dumb when it eventually dawned on me.
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May 28, 2014 22:49
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A surprisingly large number of goons seem to be really really bad at recognizing faces.
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May 28, 2014 23:44
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I'm looking for a movie called "No Place Like Home", directed by Perry Henzell (who also directed The Harder They Come). It hasn't been released on DVD or VHS or anything, to the best of my knowledge. Does anyone have any idea where I can find it?
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May 29, 2014 03:15
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Sirocco posted:This ever happen to anyone else or am I just really bad at faces? Matt Damon may have just been joking during an interview but apparently he and Mark Wahlberg have a standing arrangement that if fans mix them up they just run with it.
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May 29, 2014 08:50
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For anyone who could not tell Matt Damon and Leonardo Dicaprio apart, do not watch Infernal Affairs. You will not be able to tell anyone apart from anyone else. Although I thought it was a pretty good twist when I found out that Tony Leung and Andy Lau weren't the same person.
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poonchasta posted:For anyone who could not tell Matt Damon and Leonardo Dicaprio apart, do not watch Infernal Affairs. You will not be able to tell anyone apart from anyone else. Although I thought it was a pretty good twist when I found out that Tony Leung and Andy Lau weren't the same person. Oh come on, all Asians look alike now? Andy Lau looks nothing like Tony Leung. Hmm, now I got an urge to watch Infernal Affairs again though, it's been a while.
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May 29, 2014 15:06
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Senso posted:Oh come on, all Asians look alike now? Andy Lau looks nothing like Tony Leung. I think it was all Caucasians looking alike.
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There's a lot of books with an unreliable narrator but is there such a thing in film?
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WastedJoker posted:There's a lot of books with an unreliable narrator but is there such a thing in film? I think this counts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBgpFENBIw0
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WastedJoker posted:There's a lot of books with an unreliable narrator but is there such a thing in film? American Psycho comes to mind.
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WastedJoker posted:There's a lot of books with an unreliable narrator but is there such a thing in film? Wolf of Wall Street
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WastedJoker posted:There's a lot of books with an unreliable narrator but is there such a thing in film? Fight Club edit: The Sixth Sense edit: oh oh! Rashomon
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Jun 3, 2014 18:34
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
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Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the earliest film I can think of with an unreliable narrator. Other good examples that haven't been mentioned yet are Taxi Driver, The Usual Suspects, The Informant, Shutter Island, A Tale of Two Sisters, Memento, A Beautiful Mind and to a lesser degree Goodfellas and Big Fish. Kubrick's Lolita might be an example, if it's anything like the book.
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WastedJoker posted:There's a lot of books with an unreliable narrator but is there such a thing in film? Identity and Mulholland Dr come to mind. Big Fish may also count. e: I think there are probably two main categories for unreliable narrator; those where the narrator is deliberately being unreliable, and those where due to circumstance the narrator is unintentionally unreliable. The second is much more common -- basically every film where amnesia or where the protagonist themself doesn't know what's going on (Identity, Fight Club, Sixth Sense, etc). Mulholland Dr I think would fall into the former category, though it's debatable. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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WastedJoker posted:There's a lot of books with an unreliable narrator but is there such a thing in film? F for Fake kind of has something like this.
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