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Spikeguy posted:So in the Dark Knight Rises, was Bane cool with dying in the blast, or was the bomb supposed to only partially blow up the city and he would be outside the blast radius? I never understood just how big the blast was supposed to be. Im pretty sure he intended to die in the blast.
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whydirt posted:I haven't heard of that, but it sounds very similar to a movie called Wah Hoss that a ton of trailers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh5usbtyFck
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Could anyone suggest (or just dump a list with summaries) any good, modern World war 1 movies? When i say modern, i am not picky about a year per-se, but older war movies from the 1930s-1970s have a dramatic style that i'm not going for. Awful dreck like "Flyboys" is all i can find, and i want to watch as many as i can for the 100th anniversary.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Could anyone suggest (or just dump a list with summaries) any good, modern World war 1 movies? When i say modern, i am not picky about a year per-se, but older war movies from the 1930s-1970s have a dramatic style that i'm not going for. Awful dreck like "Flyboys" is all i can find, and i want to watch as many as i can for the 100th anniversary. Blackadder Goes Forth is a UK TV comedy set in the trenches. Well worth a watch.
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As someone who is not especially into "war movies" per se, I'll second Gallipoli. Really good. E: oh, and as far as gaining weight: if you are, say, Jared Leto, then you are probably thin and muscular due to diet and exercise. Quickly gaining significant weight from this point using whole foods is not easy. Particularly if you're already naturally thin, "eat more food" is not good advice -- there are only so many hours in a day. Someone who has never tried to gain weight will find themselves shocked when they feel sickeningly full for an entire day, and yet they've only eaten like 25-50% more calories than they normally do. Drinking calories is definitely the way to go, mostly because the body more quickly absorbs nutrients that way. As for drinking melted ice cream with olive oil (I'd guess the soy sauce is not necessary), it's a good idea if your only goal is "gain weight." nocal fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Sep 1, 2014 |
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What are some examples of particularly well-written screenplays? And not in that the story is good but that the language in which it is written is top notch. I've seen The Apartment listed as one example and I've also read that Shane Black's screenplays are good reads as just reads.
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live with fruit posted:What are some examples of particularly well-written screenplays? And not in that the story is good but that the language in which it is written is top notch. Shane Black for me is top tier stuff because he'll often address the reader directly. Here's an example from 'The Last Boy Scout'. Forgive the formatting. quote:EXT. L.A. STREET - IN SHADOW OF FREEWAY - MORNING Thing is, it basically breaks the 'rules' of screenwriting. Even Lethal Weapon, which was his first script, has asides like that.
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The 80s have a bunch of classic teen movies like Heathers, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. The late 90s saw a resurgence of this genre with movies like Can't Hardly Wait and American Pie. Are there any great teen movies from the early or mid 90s? Edit: aside from Dazed and Confused
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CopywrightMMXI posted:The 80s have a bunch of classic teen movies like Heathers, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. The late 90s saw a resurgence of this genre with movies like Can't Hardly Wait and American Pie. Are there any great teen movies from the early or mid 90s? Clueless.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:The 80s have a bunch of classic teen movies like Heathers, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. The late 90s saw a resurgence of this genre with movies like Can't Hardly Wait and American Pie. Are there any great teen movies from the early or mid 90s?
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live with fruit posted:What are some examples of particularly well-written screenplays? And not in that the story is good but that the language in which it is written is top notch. Tarantino scripts are fantastic, Wilder's are great, Paul Thomas Anderson scripts are exquisite. For stuff that isn't as direct a path to the screen, there's always Robert Towne - particularly Chinatown - and I'll be honest when I say that Joss Whedon's stuff reads a million times better than it ever actually plays out, even if his style heavily apes from Shane Black's. Walter Hill's screenplays are famous for their brevity of description - imagine single lines evoking striking images, one right after the other.
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live with fruit posted:What are some examples of particularly well-written screenplays? And not in that the story is good but that the language in which it is written is top notch. If it's well-formed or clever dialogue you're looking for, there's Chayefsky's script for "Network" and Mamet screenplays ("Glengarry Glen Ross", "House of Games", etc.). There's Peter Weiss' "Marat/Sade" script. Also, "12 Angry Men". For something more recent, I really enjoyed the script for "Closer" (2004). These were all written by playwrights (and some were based on stage productions), so they're wordy and give actors an opportunity to really shine. For some non-playwright stuff, you can't go wrong with Billy Wilder ("Double Indemnity" and "Sunset Blvd" especially). Woody Allen has a ton of good stuff ("Annie Hall", "Manhattan", "Hannah & Her Sisters", "Crimes & Misdemeanors"). The Coens (esp. "Barton Fink", "Miller's Crossing").
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Coaaab posted:My area rep theater has been doing a retrospective on WWI films, so you can look through the list of summaries on that site, pick out the ones that are most interesting to you, and try to find them at your convenience. I just watched the trailer for Gallipoli. I've seen it, and I love it, but holy poo poo, what an awful trailer. The showed the entire final scene. As a follow up, re: movie trailers. When did movie trailers go from cheesy voice over plot descriptions to the narratorless trailers we have today? Was there a studio, genre, franchise or director that sparked the trend?
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xcore posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZHBjLFu5is
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CopywrightMMXI posted:The 80s have a bunch of classic teen movies like Heathers, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. The late 90s saw a resurgence of this genre with movies like Can't Hardly Wait and American Pie. Are there any great teen movies from the early or mid 90s? I've always felt that Empire Records was an attempt to make a 90s equivalent of The Breakfast Club.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:The 80s have a bunch of classic teen movies like Heathers, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. The late 90s saw a resurgence of this genre with movies like Can't Hardly Wait and American Pie. Are there any great teen movies from the early or mid 90s? Things definitely changed and got a lot moodier and introspective, but there's still Flirting, Just Another Girl on IRT, House Party, The Doom Generation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Angus
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Is there a way to see how much it costs to license a song for use in professional film/television? Like, syndicated shows professional.
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User-Friendly posted:Is there a way to see how much it costs to license a song for use in professional film/television? Like, syndicated shows professional. There's a couple different factors that go into it, and it's a little different for TV versus a movie it would seem. Part of it depends on how the song is used. Is it just being played in the background of a single episode of a show or one scene of a movie, or is there a big dance number built around the song? Is the song played in its entirety or just a recognizable riff? Do you get to the vocals section of the song or only the instrumental? I found a website by googling and while the site itself has a bad case of "Look at this adorable little girl and 1990's era design" it does have some calculators to give you some idea of what it can cost to license a song for a movie or TV. http://www.find-a-song.com/licensing_fees.html#MOVIES I can't vouch for the accuracy of the website, but the calculators are pretty neat. They are all on the right side of the website. Part of it (for a movie) depends on how big the budget is. For example, Marvel may have paid upwards of $30,000 (according to the above) for the full rights to "Hooked on a Feeling". That may be reduced a bit since the song is also on the soundtrack.
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User-Friendly posted:Is there a way to see how much it costs to license a song for use in professional film/television? Like, syndicated shows professional. How long is a piece of string? There are many variables in calculating the fee: the popularity and size of film, the song itself, where it is used, the media, territory and term (eg all media worldwide in perpetuity, or US TV for 6 months?), etc.
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Louis CK talks about licensing The Who for his show:quote:AVC: Presumably the rights to that are very expensive.
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The question mostly sprang from a conversation I was having with a friend about how certain songs seem to show up in a ton of shows (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida among them), and I was wondering if they were noticeably cheaper than others.
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I want to know how much people pay for Metallica songs now, because watching Paradise Lost 1 recently made my jaw drop. There's like 2 albums worth of songs on it.
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Sep 4, 2014 21:06
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Is there some kind of discount for movie studios to license Queen songs?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I want to know how much people pay for Metallica songs now, because watching Paradise Lost 1 recently made my jaw drop. There's like 2 albums worth of songs on it. The West Memphis Three documentary? I believe Metallica donated the use of their songs in that case.
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That's what I figure, given that Berlinger went on to make Some Kind Of Monster. Such a thing seems like it would be expensive as hell nowadays.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That's what I figure, given that Berlinger went on to make Some Kind Of Monster. Such a thing seems like it would be expensive as hell nowadays. I'm pretty sure a donation would still be free.
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Trump posted:I'm pretty sure a donation would still be free. You know what I meant. Metallica ain't donating poo poo to anybody these days.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:You know what I meant. Metallica ain't donating poo poo to anybody these days. You are saying all the stuff they have donated, both as a band and as private persons, really didn't happen? It's not like Metallica wasn't big stars when PL was made. They thought it was an important movie and wanted to help it gain attention by giving them the rights to use some of their songs. They've done a ton of charity stuff, donating money left and right.
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I don't mean charity, I'm talking licensing songs.
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I think another factor re: music rights is what music your parent company owns. A lot of film studios and music labels are owned by the same company (like Warner Bros Pictures and Warner Music Group, or Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment) so if you're a film-maker it can be cheaper and easier to use music owned by your parent company rather than music from an outside company.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I think another factor re: music rights is what music your parent company owns. A lot of film studios and music labels are owned by the same company (like Warner Bros Pictures and Warner Music Group, or Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment) so if you're a film-maker it can be cheaper and easier to use music owned by your parent company rather than music from an outside company. I would guess, because of accounting practices, it's significantly more expensive to use your own companies music, but you never have to pay it, so it works out.
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I watched Blue Ruin yesterday and it reminded me of Out Of The Furnace. And Joe. And The Place Beyond The Pines. And Sun Don't Shine. And Mud. Is there a name for this subgenre of indie dramas? The common features I can think of (with some exceptions here and there) are: - Set in rural American towns; beat up cars and abandoned industry suggest better days in the past - Grizzled male protagonists who aren't career criminals but end up on the wrong side of the law for personal reasons - Dreamlike, highly colorized cinematography - Slow pacing with occasional eruptions of violence Also is this style taking off right now have I just miss all the examples from before 2013? I guess the earliest movie I could think of that might fit is A History Of Violence.
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Eggnogium posted:I watched Blue Ruin yesterday and it reminded me of Out Of The Furnace. And Joe. And The Place Beyond The Pines. And Sun Don't Shine. And Mud. Is there a name for this subgenre of indie dramas? The common features I can think of (with some exceptions here and there) are: Lawless, too.
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Eggnogium posted:I watched Blue Ruin yesterday and it reminded me of Out Of The Furnace. And Joe. And The Place Beyond The Pines. And Sun Don't Shine. And Mud. Is there a name for this subgenre of indie dramas? The common features I can think of (with some exceptions here and there) are: Rolling Thunder from 1977 is kind of the progenitor of this style. Out of the Furnace in particular felt a lot like Rolling Thunder.
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I mean, it's a little more exploitative, but the original Mad Max is thematically kind of similar. I thought Out of the Furnace was loving awesome, so I'll have to check out some of the other titles mentioned here.
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Yeah Out of the Furnace is really great.
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Haven't seen Lawless or Rolling Thunder, gonna track 'em down. I hadn't really been considering period pieces before but I would say Ain't Them Bodies Saints is another recent example.
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Eggnogium posted:Haven't seen Lawless or Rolling Thunder, gonna track 'em down. I hadn't really been considering period pieces before but I would say Ain't Them Bodies Saints is another recent example. How was this?
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I hated Ain't Them Bodies Saints.
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bows1 posted:How was this? Pretty to look at but mostly forgettable otherwise.
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