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Thunderlips posted:NY Times Magazine did a thing on him this weekend, with some relevant quotes about sound: I honestly can't blame him. The poor treatment of the sound in theaters is a large part of why I've stopped going out to the cinema ("More bass is good right? Let's push that to ten and turn down these... it's not like anyone actually needs to understand the dialog, they just want their eardrums blasted out when the action starts.").
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That's one of the reasons I don't see horror movies in the theater (the other is that most of them are terrible). Jumpscares don't make you jump because something popped up out of nowhere, but because you just got blasted with a violin note at 110 dB.
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muscles like this? posted:3 almost killed the series since it was the one that nobody wanted to come back to. They only got Vin Diesel because the studio traded his cameo for the rights to the Riddick universe. I recall reading an article where Justin Lin claimed that another reason they got Diesel back in was a long conversation the two of them had where Lin laid out his vision for the series as a sort of D&D campaign setting in which this car-based adventuring party would go have epic quests.
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Jonny Angel posted:I recall reading an article where Justin Lin claimed that another reason they got Diesel back in was a long conversation the two of them had where Lin laid out his vision for the series as a sort of D&D campaign setting in which this car-based adventuring party would go have epic quests. God you could sell any movie to Vin Diesel if you some how made it into a P&P RPG setting, couldn't you? Someone is going to do a reboot of the Ocean's franchise and get Diesel to sign on by telling him it will be like a Shadowrun campaign.
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Jonny Angel posted:I recall reading an article where Justin Lin claimed that another reason they got Diesel back in was a long conversation the two of them had where Lin laid out his vision for the series as a sort of D&D campaign setting in which this car-based adventuring party would go have epic quests. If someone makes a Kickstarter for a Fast and Furious-based RPG system, I will donate every single dollar I own.
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ninjahedgehog posted:If someone makes a Kickstarter for a Fast and Furious-based RPG system, I will donate every single dollar I own. The party is called the "family". To pull off stunts you use "Nos" dice instead of stunt dice.
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Nov 3, 2014 20:31
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mr.capps posted:The party is called the "family". I've never played tabletop P&P RPGs in my life but I'm suddenly desperate to crack this.
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Nov 3, 2014 21:16
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It's weird how bad the fourth Fast movie is (Fast & Furious) sandwiched between all of Lin's other takes on the series. Tokyo Drift, and 5&6 are just a lot more fun tonally and have pretty good cinematography, while 4, despite bringing some of the cast back, is very dull and dour with a lot of REALLY bad CGI.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:It's weird how bad the fourth Fast movie is (Fast & Furious) sandwiched between all of Lin's other takes on the series. Tokyo Drift, and 5&6 are just a lot more fun tonally and have pretty good cinematography, while 4, despite bringing some of the cast back, is very dull and dour with a lot of REALLY bad CGI. Fast 5 and 6, had a hell of alot more budget allocated to it than 3 and 4 did, 3's story was pretty self contained and had minimal crazy rear end stunt work. 4 was really his first attempt at the series current style. So there were probably just some learning and growing pains that had to happen. In terms of what should be CG and what should be practical etc etc.
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mr.capps posted:God you could sell any movie to Vin Diesel if you some how made it into a P&P RPG setting, couldn't you? The Riddick franchise makes a lot more sense when you realize Diesel spent years roleplaying a Drow witch hunter who was "a bit of a loner" and whose name he has as a tattoo.
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Jonny Angel posted:The Riddick franchise makes a lot more sense when you realize Diesel spent years roleplaying a Drow witch hunter who was "a bit of a loner" and whose name he has as a tattoo. And of course his upcoming movie is The Last Witch Hunter.
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Jonny Angel posted:The Riddick franchise makes a lot more sense when you realize Diesel spent years roleplaying a Drow witch hunter who was "a bit of a loner" and whose name he has as a tattoo. The third Riddick movie is almost but not quite a good film length Poochie joke.
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Wandle Cax posted:Yeah, it's one series you know is going to deliver the goods. It's the rare "movie" Franchise that's held up considerably well. Yes, there's the Avengers movies, and Harry Potter series etc- but this is strictly an "original" property that isn't based off of anything. Where else could it be said that "part 5 or 6" is the best one?
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mr.capps posted:The party is called the "family". Instead of character class, you pick vehicle class. O'Connor and Toretto both originally rolled Import, but Toretto multiclassed into Muscle at the end of F&F1. Meanwhile, Gisele has been straight Motorcycle and the Rock picked Military.
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Jonny Angel posted:The Riddick franchise makes a lot more sense when you realize Diesel spent years roleplaying a Drow witch hunter who was "a bit of a loner" and whose name he has as a tattoo. Just on account of his voice and nerdhood, Diesel is my choice for a live action Witcher movie.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:It's weird how bad the fourth Fast movie is (Fast & Furious) sandwiched between all of Lin's other takes on the series. Tokyo Drift, and 5&6 are just a lot more fun tonally and have pretty good cinematography, while 4, despite bringing some of the cast back, is very dull and dour with a lot of REALLY bad CGI. F&F spends too much time getting the old cast together again. Then its big action setpiece is a drive through a tight, dark, narrow corridor. It doesn't fit the strengths of the series at all, and it's about as cinematic as a colonoscopy, and also it looks like a colonoscopy
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Max22 posted:F&F spends too much time getting the old cast together again. Then its big action setpiece is a drive through a tight, dark, narrow corridor. It doesn't fit the strengths of the series at all, and it's about as cinematic as a colonoscopy, and also it looks like a colonoscopy CGI that was only rivaled by 2 Fast 2 Furious. "Smack dat rear end!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIpSjXzkgyo PaganGoatPants fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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The weird thing about F&F4 is that they shot real cars on a stage and comped them into CG tunnels, which seems like a lot more work than just doing the whole thing as CG in the first place. (It also made everything look as fake as the jet-bike chase from the end of Torque.)
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Chappie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwichuGW28 Backup link: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/11/04/chappie-exclusive-trailer-neill-blomkamp/
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colonel_korn posted:Chappie I wasn't really expecting something so cornball.
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colonel_korn posted:Chappie This looks fantastic! How does he get some of the best looking CG at a fraction of the cost that kills everyone elses studios?!
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colonel_korn posted:Chappie Looks like a more serious and heavy-handed South African Johnny 5. I wonder if it'll really earn that schmaltz. I'll probably go see it, though - Elysium was kind of disappointing plot-wise, but still entertaining. I think at worst this will be similar.
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PaganGoatPants posted:CGI that was only rivaled by 2 Fast 2 Furious. "Smack dat rear end!" 2 is by far the worst one, right? My personal order, best to worst, goes 5 > 6 > 1 > 4 > 3 > 2. You might be able to convince me that Tokyo Drift is better than 4, but then I remember that bit where Paul Walker holds the dude's leg down so Vin Diesel can run him over with his car.
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colonel_korn posted:Chappie I'm optimistic that it's just being cut that way with the awful Chariots of Fire riff playing in back but that movie looks toothless as all gently caress.
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Vintersorg posted:This looks fantastic! How does he get some of the best looking CG at a fraction of the cost that kills everyone elses studios?! Well he's a CG guy himself actually. So I'm guessing he knows how to get what he wants a lot more efficiently than some director/post house combos. This is one of his videos before he became famous (robot look familiar?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETwKqJCUgAM mind the walrus posted:I'm optimistic that it's just being cut that way with the awful Chariots of Fire riff playing in back but that movie looks toothless as all gently caress. Well it's labeled as Sci-Fi Comedy with the plot synopsis being a reject robot is repurposed by gangsters for nefarious deeds. So I'm guessing (hoping) it's a misdirect trailer.
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Die Antwoord starring in one of my most anticipated movies. What a wonderful time to be alive 
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colonel_korn posted:Chappie This is very different from what I was expecting given the poster.
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:This is very different from what I was expecting given the poster. The whole time I kept waiting for it to turn into some over the top weirdness. Like, at first it's this sympathetic and cute underdog story with the sweet music and then BAM! - "what the gently caress did I just watch" type stuff. It never did. It was okay, I guess.
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colonel_korn posted:Chappie Huh, that was interesting. Whoever mentioned this being like a South African variant of Short Circuit/Johnny 5 seems to be spot on.
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Kush posted:The whole time I kept waiting for it to turn into some over the top weirdness. Like, at first it's this sympathetic and cute underdog story with the sweet music and then BAM! - "what the gently caress did I just watch" type stuff. It never did. It was okay, I guess. Yeah I was definitely expecting something more subversive. Which still could be the case with the film itself, I suppose.
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davidspackage posted:Looks like a more serious and heavy-handed South African Johnny 5. I wonder if it'll really earn that schmaltz. I'll probably go see it, though - Elysium was kind of disappointing plot-wise, but still entertaining. I think at worst this will be similar. The article refers to Pinocchio, which I suppose you could also say Short Circuit is also derived from. ***** Very few science fiction films about AI and robots are really about AI and robots. This, like Pinocchio, is about a kid growing up and the influences around him. In the movie the girl even says out loud "He's just a kid!" And like Pinocchio, it sounds like he hangs out with a bad crowd for a while, not knowing right or wrong yet.  Yeah it's been done dozens of times but I'll always get sucked in by a story about a kid discovering the world, and the shot of him looking around at other people while being told that he's a black sheep, and the scene where kids are bullying him are tugging my heart strings Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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I'm gonna get sad when Chappie sacrifices himself to save his friends
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Don't worry, that's when the fairy turns him into a real boy
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Not before he whispers "Suuuuuperchap"
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This is officially the least excited I have been about a Neill Blomkamp movie thus far.
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Steve Yun posted:Yeah it's been done dozens of times but I'll always get sucked in by a story about a kid discovering the world, and the shot of him looking around at other people while being told that he's a black sheep, and the scene where kids are bullying him are tugging my heart strings I already felt sad when he got set on fire. It's missing the not-Indian guy doing an outrageously Indian accent though.
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I really really think that's a misdirect and it's not as "Imma real boy!" as it seems.
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I liked the Chappie trailer, but it definitely gives me vibes of "playing it safe". I think the movie itself is going to be weirder.
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Kush posted:The whole time I kept waiting for it to turn into some over the top weirdness. Like, at first it's this sympathetic and cute underdog story with the sweet music and then BAM! - "what the gently caress did I just watch" type stuff. It never did. It was okay, I guess. Do you remember the first trailer for District 9? It didn't show a single actually cool thing from the movie. I want to believe.
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