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Sand Monster posted:The echo of the gunfire in the shootout in Heat is amazing. Really cool behind the scenes that talks about the gunfire. I also like that the actors (in disguise) cased the bank in real life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0yebyGk-8
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They also couldn't reproduce a better sounding gunshot in post so they used the live recordings. Awesome. Die Hard also did bigger or more powerful blanks to make the actors react a bit more. Alan Rickman couldn't shoot them without flinching so all of his kills are hard cuts.
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JEEVES420 posted:Most blanks are relatively quiet so Michael Mann uses hotter blanks in order to enhance the sound and give the actors more realistic look/feel for shooting. I love that Val Kilmer's reload is used as an example for how to do it properly and fast.
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Cage posted:Die Hard also did bigger or more powerful blanks to make the actors react a bit more. Alan Rickman couldn't shoot them without flinching so all of his kills are hard cuts. Apparently it permanently damaged Bruce Willis' hearing because of this scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7slAvhZhRw
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Mierenneuker posted:Apparently it permanently damaged Bruce Willis' hearing because of this scene. Same thing happened to Linda Hamilton in the elevator scene in Terminator 2. Worth it, I'd say.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Worth it, I'd say. Oh, for sure. James Cameron married her and she got to ride the Titanic roller coaster of success before they got divorced. Who needs hearing when you get to sit up front at the Oscars?
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I rewatched Grand Budapest Hotel again the other day, the benefit of having it on Blu-Ray is that you can pause on the quick shots of newspapers and read the text, which are all fully written articles, including the ones on plot-unrelated subjects like weather. The articles lay out the basic outline of the entire film, as well as all the background cultural events such as the war and the prevailing political opinion of the country at the time. There's also details of Zero's life post-film (all in the opening few minutes of the film), the events of which are what made him such a well-known and respected figure within the nation - such as his status as a war hero and active leader of the Resistance. I love that such detail was included in a couple of shots that get maybe 2-3 seconds of screen time in the film, it made the whole (slightly ridiculous) world feel more real to me, like the characters had real history and that the world of the film didn't just exist to provide a backdrop for their adventures.
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Sand Monster posted:Oh, for sure. James Cameron married her and she got to ride the Titanic roller coaster of success before they got divorced. Who needs hearing when you get to sit up front at the Oscars? What an incredibly bizarre thing to bring up.
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On The Wire, there's a reverend getting into a car, and a character is reciting the license plate back to the police on a cellphone. It's PR8ZGOD. Praise God. I dunno how subtle it is or if I'm just thick, but it's flown past me the last handful of rewatches.
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Actually it's "Prates God"
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For being an intentionally stupid movie, Loaded Weapon 1 has some pretty solid continuity regarding props and set pieces. After Colt rips off his arm, shirt sleeve and all, in the next scene you can see the shirt tear on his (now-reattached) shoulder. Got a good chuckle out of me that they actually cared about making a quality farce.
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Archer season 6, episode 4 ends with a really nice Coen Brothers-esque shot with music that calls back to Fargo. The episode is set in Wisconsin.
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kizudarake posted:Archer season 6, episode 4 ends with a really nice Coen Brothers-esque shot with music that calls back to Fargo. The episode is set in Wisconsin. Also the guest star is the lead of the Fargo tv series
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bunnyofdoom posted:Also the guest star is the lead of the Fargo tv series Martin Freeman? He does a great female impression. 
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In the season finale for Constantine, I thought it was pretty cool how Jim Corrigan was using a green pen. They also backlit him a LOT with green lights. Nifty nod to the comics 
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:In the season finale for Constantine, I thought it was pretty cool how Jim Corrigan was using a green pen. They also backlit him a LOT with green lights. I think my only complaint with that episode was the theme park they used. Most of the viewers aren't going to have the damnedest clue what that park was, but it was a little jarring for me because I recognized it more or less instantly. Had to keep reminding myself that yes, this episode is taking place in Louisiana, not a few miles from my house in Georgia. On a positive note, they at least did use an actual closed and disused theme park rather than just making GBS threads up an active one and pretending that no one's going to notice that nothing but the few added props look remotely dirty or in disrepair.
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Iggy Koopa posted:Holy poo poo thefe's a Constantine tv show? yeah and it's complete garbage.
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On a scale of 'Keanu Reeves is Constantine' to 'Virtigo Comics Hellblazer' how garbage is it's Constantine? And on a similar note; on a scale of 'John Constantine' to 'a garbage can' how garbage is this Constantine?
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Constantine in the TV version is played by Welsh actor Matt Ryan, better known as Edward Kenway in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Fag. Some of the stuff is directly taken from the comics but it also goes its own way, for example Chas in this is American and because of a spell John cast extremely hard to kill. Also, while John is British he's hanging out in America for the series. The main premise of the series is that after the events of Newcastle John is tasked by an angel named Manny to battle something called "The Rising Darkness" where evil throughout America is getting stronger.
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umalt posted:On a scale of 'Keanu Reeves is Constantine' to 'Virtigo Comics Hellblazer' how garbage is it's Constantine? As somebody who has never read any Hellblazer comics, I actually liked the Keanue Reeves "Constantine" movie. I was originally dragged to see it with some friends and wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised.
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Eh! Frank posted:As somebody who has never read any Hellblazer comics, I actually liked the Keanue Reeves "Constantine" movie. I was originally dragged to see it with some friends and wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised. The Constantine movie is a fun little movie. I really enjoyed it. It just has absolutely nothing to do with the comics.
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umalt posted:On a scale of 'Keanu Reeves is Constantine' to 'Virtigo Comics Hellblazer' how garbage is it's Constantine? I've never read a Constantine comic. The pilot got me really hopeful for the show but at the end of it they wrote out the interesting female lead and replaced her with an irritating one. It also became apparent that they were going for a monster of the week kind of thing and I really wasn't feeling it. I checked out sometime after he said some racist poo poo about jews.
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BrigadierSensible posted:The Constantine movie is a fun little movie. I really enjoyed it. It just has absolutely nothing to do with the comics. Yeah, if I hadn't gone in with the knowledge this was an adaptation of Hellblazer, I would have thought it was a fun if unremarkable movie. About the only scene I thought captured the spirit of Constantine at all was when he is being carried away by angels and takes the time to smugly flip the bird back at a  Satan.
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muscles like this? posted:Constantine in the TV version is played by Welsh actor Matt Ryan, better known as Edward Kenway in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Fag. Some of the stuff is directly taken from the comics but it also goes its own way, for example Chas in this is American and because of a spell John cast extremely hard to kill. I know you're probably phoneposting or something, but I laughed out loud at this and wanted to preserve it for future archive-readers.
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"She's Out of My League" - even though the main female lead is high fashion, she never wears open toed shoes, which makes sense when you figure out what her "defect" is.
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muscles like this? posted:Assassin's Creed IV: Black Fag I would play this game
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That's the expansion where you play the escaped (freed?) slave, the first mate guy. I don't want to misspell his name so I'm not even gonna try but you all know who I mean.
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The Constantine tv show isn't that bad. The first maybe 5 episodes were not very good, but I like the show now.
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If I can't trust the opinions of Wiggles Von Huggins who can I trust, gonna check it out.
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The first episode has kind of an awkward ending because they fired the original female lead after they filmed the pilot but instead of redoing it they just added a scene where John and Chas discuss how she's left and is definitely never ever coming back. Also there was kind of a goofy thing early in the season where NBC didn't allow John to actually smoke so they kind of filmed around it. He'd be either just about to light a cigarette or just putting one out as a scene began. Then partway through the season it became obvious nobody cared anymore and he just started smoking regularly.
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muscles like this? posted:Then partway through the season it became obvious nobody cared anymore and he just started smoking regularly.
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It's canceled so it doesn't matter anymore.
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Aphrodite posted:It's canceled so it doesn't matter anymore. Well apparently it hasn't been cancelled or renewed at this point, so who knows. Synonamess Botch posted:checked out sometime after he said some racist poo poo about jews. As someone who's never seen the show: What? Like, what did he say?
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There was one episode where he made a disparaging comment toward Gypsies. Something like "there's nothing blacker than Gypsy magic."
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Well apparently it hasn't been cancelled or renewed at this point, so who knows. That means cancelled. The latest rumors were Syfy was going to save it or something.
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muscles like this? posted:There was one episode where he made a disparaging comment toward Gypsies. Something like "there's nothing blacker than Gypsy magic." I might be wrong, but I don't think most Romani are Jewish. Edit: Unless you just meant that as a general statement and not to answer the "when was Constantine an anti-semite" question. Cat Hatter has a new favorite as of 15:07 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Aphrodite posted:The latest rumors were Syfy was going to save it or something. That's a fate worse than death
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Cat Hatter posted:I might be wrong, but I don't think most Romani are Jewish. That was my bad it was gypsies not jews. I was barely hanging onto the show at that point and after hearing that poo poo I was like, welp, i'm done.
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Synonamess Botch posted:That was my bad it was gypsies not jews. I was barely hanging onto the show at that point and after hearing that poo poo I was like, welp, i'm done. What'd you think of Stephen King's Thinner?
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