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thexerox123 posted:How did I end up in the Avatar thread I started it by daring to suggest it was a good movie. I apologize.
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Guardians of the Galaxy was a fun movie with fun characters but feels way overhyped beyond it's actual quality level.
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Oct 4, 2014 23:05
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It was charming and enjoyable which are nice things to be.
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Oct 4, 2014 23:11
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It was fun. Big summer blockbusters--superhero, SF, fantasy--tend to be huge affairs that take themselves super seriously. Everyone's super badass and dangerous, and half the time the protagonist is thrown into things they don't understand and are barely competent until later on. It was refreshing to see a protagonist who not only knew what he was doing, but had FUN doing it. Maybe people are overhyping it because it's a refresher in a sea of serious superhero stuff.
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Oct 5, 2014 04:01
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At my workplace we do trick or treating and costume contests every Saturday this month. Today, there were two kids dressed as Star Lord.
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Oct 5, 2014 04:26
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Xealot posted:You're missing my point, which is that Star Wars EU material is largely unofficial and fan-generated. As far as I'm aware, Guardians of the Galaxy is all official Marvel content from its cosmic back-catalogue. I'm talking about the culture of the fandom, and its feeling of ownership over the franchise. This is from a while ago, but Comic book creators are comic book fans. All of the Guardians books were written by diehard comic book neckbeards. That's one of the most defining features of comic books. I'd say you are pretty fundamentally wrong on that.
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Oct 5, 2014 05:04
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GotG wasn't an incredibly deep movie, but it was a very, very, very fun movie, which hasn't been the case for most of the big science-fiction action blockbusters recently. It had a very happy feel to everything, nearly every character was likable in some way, and nothing felt particularly "off" or "wrong".
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Oct 5, 2014 06:12
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Light Gun Man posted:At my workplace we do trick or treating and costume contests every Saturday this month. Today, there were two kids dressed as Star Lord. A year ago there would be no chance that any of those kids would know who Star-Lord is.
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Oct 5, 2014 09:52
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWh6VllqX_4&t=11s
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Oct 5, 2014 11:44
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I saw them. Hell I read Marvel a lot back when I was a kid and I didn't know any of the characters in this movie.
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Oct 5, 2014 19:16
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Light Gun Man posted:Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I saw them. Hell I read Marvel a lot back when I was a kid and I didn't know any of the characters in this movie. All i recalled from half assed reading one random issue I found in the half price book store was star lord was in relationship with his ship....
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Oct 5, 2014 19:33
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I lost count. Are there any more MCU movies between now and Avengers 2?
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Oct 6, 2014 02:20
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Fulchrum posted:I lost count. Are there any more MCU movies between now and Avengers 2? Nope, Ant Man is planned for two months afterwards though (July 2015).
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Oct 6, 2014 02:47
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So they're planning to introduce three new charaters and a new villain in the same movie? Sounds crowded. And if Ant-Man isn't hugely delayed I'll be stunned. The issues on that movie.....
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Oct 6, 2014 02:49
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Fulchrum posted:So they're planning to introduce three new charaters and a new villain in the same movie? Sounds crowded. It's funny you bring this up in the thread for GoTG, where they introduce 5(+) new characters and a new villian (or two)
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Oct 6, 2014 03:04
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wdarkk posted:I wish I had the option to see Guardians of the Galaxy in non-3D IMAX. Yeah, the 3D was really poorly done, then again I'm not sure I've seen a good post conversion. The extra height of the imax scenes is always appreciated though.
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Oct 6, 2014 15:04
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duz posted:Yeah, the 3D was really poorly done, then again I'm not sure I've seen a good post conversion. I think Godzilla is the only post one I've seen that I thought looked pretty good.
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Oct 6, 2014 17:03
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Neo Rasa posted:I think Godzilla is the only post one I've seen that I thought looked pretty good. Godzilla looked pretty good but the important thing there was the sound system. I would watch it on an iPad with ATMOS over 70mm IMAX with an iPad speaker. For Guardians I would make the opposite decision.
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Oct 6, 2014 18:10
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duz posted:Yeah, the 3D was really poorly done, then again I'm not sure I've seen a good post conversion. It was actually pretty good though.
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Oct 6, 2014 19:25
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duz posted:Yeah, the 3D was really poorly done, then again I'm not sure I've seen a good post conversion. Uh yeah, except the 3D was pretty good like CelticPredator just said. I went and saw it 3 times in IMAX 3D
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Oct 6, 2014 20:17
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I thought the 3d was subtle and well done. Even if you thought it was blah, I don't see how you get to "really poorly done" unless your definition of that is the 3d wasn't all up in your face.
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Oct 6, 2014 20:48
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mikeraskol posted:I thought the 3d was subtle and well done. Even if you thought it was blah, I don't see how you get to "really poorly done" unless your definition of that is the 3d wasn't all up in your face. No, I'm not that type of 3D person. It was mainly Rocket and Groot's 3D that was the issue. Rocket was especially bad by the end and his face kept going smooth. Which makes sense as a post conversion is adding depth at a different point in the process and fur would just mess with them even more. Maybe it's because I compare post conversions to filmed in 3D and so they always seem to range from bad to poor?
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Oct 6, 2014 22:57
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I've seen the film twice, once in regular and once in 3D. I can't say that the 3D really added enough in my mind to justify the extra few dollars, but I tend not to be much of a 3D watcher to begin with.
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Oct 7, 2014 00:30
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duz posted:No, I'm not that type of 3D person. It was mainly Rocket and Groot's 3D that was the issue. Rocket was especially bad by the end and his face kept going smooth. Which makes sense as a post conversion is adding depth at a different point in the process and fur would just mess with them even more. You'd think it'd be way easier to do post-conversion on a CGI element.
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Oct 7, 2014 00:39
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wdarkk posted:You'd think it'd be way easier to do post-conversion on a CGI element. The actual CG models are probably over on an entirely different set of computers from whatever company gets to do the 3D. Though I think fully animated CG films can do in-house conversion because literally everything is a 3D model.
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Oct 7, 2014 01:15
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Maxwell Lord posted:The actual CG models are probably over on an entirely different set of computers from whatever company gets to do the 3D. Though I think fully animated CG films can do in-house conversion because literally everything is a 3D model. Wouldn't you just render it twice with a camera offset? Obviously it's not entirely that simple, but still.
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Oct 7, 2014 05:04
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wdarkk posted:Wouldn't you just render it twice with a camera offset? Obviously it's not entirely that simple, but still. You could, but that'd double the render time compared to what the post conversion company has to do which could be less involved. More likely they were rendering right up until the deadline giving the PC team very little time to work on the CG assets but plenty of time to work on the live action stuff since that's been set for awhile. It's all probably a result of Marvels tight schedules.
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Oct 7, 2014 05:12
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duz posted:You could, but that'd double the render time compared to what the post conversion company has to do which could be less involved. More likely they were rendering right up until the deadline giving the PC team very little time to work on the CG assets but plenty of time to work on the live action stuff since that's been set for awhile. It's all probably a result of Marvels tight schedules. In theory it wouldn't be a straight up doubling because a lot of your lighting calculations could be reused, hell you could probably reuse all of them and only James Cameron would notice.
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Oct 7, 2014 05:18
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James Gunn announces the movie's title in China.
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Google Translate offers this translation for "Guardians of the Galaxy" 银河的守护者 What is so terrible about it?
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Oct 8, 2014 11:20
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Neurolimal posted:GotG wasn't an incredibly deep movie, but it was a very, very, very fun movie, which hasn't been the case for most of the big science-fiction action blockbusters recently. It had a very happy feel to everything, nearly every character was likable in some way, and nothing felt particularly "off" or "wrong". I disagree about the last part. I think Gamora started out really weak as a character. The whole stealing the thing from Starlord and then suddenly going, "well, I was going to betray my father so let's just team up" thing wasn't developed properly. As in, we aren't given any real reason why she turns on Thanos. It just happens and the audience is like, "well OK, I guess that makes sense for the plot to continue..."
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Oct 9, 2014 04:46
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Baron Bifford posted:Google Translate offers this translation for "Guardians of the Galaxy" That's like, six characters - they'll save hundreds annually by using one less in merchandise.
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Oct 9, 2014 06:41
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enraged_camel posted:I disagree about the last part. I think Gamora started out really weak as a character. The whole stealing the thing from Starlord and then suddenly going, "well, I was going to betray my father so let's just team up" thing wasn't developed properly. As in, we aren't given any real reason why she turns on Thanos. It just happens and the audience is like, "well OK, I guess that makes sense for the plot to continue..." Her betrayal of Thanos is developed later when Nebula wants to betray him also. It establishes that all of Thanos' children totally hate him.
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Oct 9, 2014 14:48
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Plus isn't Thanos' long term goal to erase all of existence and his regular thing is going around genociding planets just because? We also basically learn that when Thanos destroys an entire planet/race he takes one plucky kid from each and makes them his kid/heartless killing machine. I mean I don't think someone deciding that Thanos isn't a dude to be involved with needs to be developed all that much more.
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Oct 9, 2014 15:44
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Neo Rasa posted:Plus isn't Thanos' long term goal to erase all of existence and his regular thing is going around genociding planets just because? We don't know this from any of the films.
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computer parts posted:We don't know this from any of the films. Huh yeah, we only really learn that when Thanos destroys an entire planet/race he takes one plucky kid from each and makes them his kid/heartless killing machine. Great guy. Why would anyone want to betray or leave him.
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Oct 9, 2014 15:54
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Baron Bifford posted:Google Translate offers this translation for "Guardians of the Galaxy" Damned if I know. Anyone actually know Mandarin? I get the feeling the "Interplanetary Attacking Team" thing is one of those clumsy reverse translations and it actually makes sense.
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Oct 9, 2014 16:57
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Maxwell Lord posted:Damned if I know. Anyone actually know Mandarin? Baron Bifford posted:Google Translate offers this translation for "Guardians of the Galaxy" That one uses the actual name for our galaxy, 银河 is "silver river" or Milky Way. Google Translate gave me 星系的监护人 I would probably cut it down to just 星系监护队
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Marvel finally decided to release a dancing baby Groot, except it looks like complete poo poo: http://mashable.com/2014/10/10/baby-groot-officially-licensed-christmas/
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Josh Lyman posted:Marvel finally decided to release a dancing baby Groot, except it looks like complete poo poo: http://mashable.com/2014/10/10/baby-groot-officially-licensed-christmas/ For $15 it's not bad
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