|
Beachcomber posted:I went to see Close Encounters of the Third Kind today, and it was kind of...pixelated? Would that be the result of like, a wrong setting on the projector, or was it digitized in some kind of horrible way? It's probably a Bluray projected onto a screen too large. Bluray is amazing for home theatre, but a 50 foot screen has a lot more than five times the surface area of a ten foot one.
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 06:39
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 13, 2024 17:25 |
|
|
Skwirl posted:It's probably a Bluray projected onto a screen too large. Bluray is amazing for home theatre, but a 50 foot screen has a lot more than five times the surface area of a ten foot one. They would do that at a major chain theatre? (It was a Century). We used to go to an independent theatre but it went out of business.  They had real popcorn and an elderly man in a wonderful purple suit.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 07:00
|
|
|
Beachcomber posted:They would do that at a major chain theatre? (It was a Century). Yeah, I watched a surprisingly pixelated copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark at an AMC. On their Imax screen. Edit: It might not literally be a Blu Ray, but it was definitely less than a 4k transfer that you watched. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Sep 3, 2017 |
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 07:03
|
|
|
It's having a proper release screening currently so it's probably a normal digital projection. http://variety.com/2017/film/box-office/box-office-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-tulip-hitmans-1202544778/
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 08:13
|
|
|
Young Freud posted:Don't know why anyone hasn't include Fight Club in this list. Palahnuik even says this on the DVD commentary, the screenwriter picked up on elements like the whole soap-to-Holocaust connection that slipped by him. Yeah I even think the Fight Club book is decent, but the movie is so much better. EL BROMANCE posted:It's having a proper release screening currently so it's probably a normal digital projection. One of the people who programs one of the local indie theaters taught my Film Presentation class and according to her, distribution definitely tried to send her blurays of old release films even when they were semi-high profile rereleases and that you had to be diligent in making sure distribution didn't screw you over. That class also made me so badly wish I could somehow get into film distribution. Rick fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Sep 3, 2017 |
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 08:48
|
|
|
Tars Tarkas posted:Everyone in this forum has major holes in their movie checklists or is a liar, it's no big deal don't do this.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 11:49
|
|
|
You guys are overstating the difference between Blu-ray and digital. I worked as a film programmer for a year. We always tried to get digital. But most of our audience genuinely couldn't tell the difference when we did play Blu-ray. Also, Blu-ray is cheaper to produce and ship than digital. This is a big deal to indie distributors barely making ends meet. A pixelated picture is probably just a problem with the projection. I recently sat through a screening whose colors were unusually dark and muted. It took me a while to realize it was a problem with the projector's lamp. I was at a major theater chain. This kind of problem is just gonna happen though -- most chains don't have a guy sitting in the projection room anymore.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 13:09
|
|
|
Bruteman posted:I would love to see an adaptation of Forge done right, that scene at the end at Yellowstone Park (I think? It's been over a decade since I read it) has always stuck with me. Yosemite, not Yellowstone. I'd love a good adaptation of Forge, but I don't think it would be easy to do well. It's an alien invasion story but one where we're boned from the word go and there's not a drat thing we can do about it, so it's time to take one last look around this wonderful planet of ours and celebrate it and all the good things it's given us. That seems really, really outside Hollywood's wheelhouse. James Cameron or Steven Spielberg, perhaps.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 14:17
|
|
|
Ego-bot posted:The Shining. The screenplay for LA Confidential is waaaay more different from the book than the one for the Shining is. Or any of the other examples. There's not a single character in the book whose fate is the same as in the film. The plot is hugely different, it's a big sprawling mess that spans multiple decades. It doesn't just involve the porn/hooker/heroin/crooked cop conspiracy from the movie but also includes a serial killer supposedly (but maybe not) caught by Exley's father (who, by the way, wasn't shot and killed by a criminal but retired from the force and became a construction magnate who gets hired to build the book's version of Disneyland. So yes, the book also has a Walt Disney analogue), a second serial killer who murders and rapes prostitutes, and a bunch more. The Stens character doesn't die at the Nite Owl, but instead falls into petty crime and eventually murders two people while robbing them and gets executed in the gas chamber. Exley isn't the paragon of integrity that he is in the movie, he's a weak and cowardly man who achieves his status due to his lies about his wartime heroism and the patronage of his father. In the movie, he's a straight arrow who only deviates from the law when he realizes that the law is corrupt and compromised. In the book, he murders four men because he doesn't want to look weak in comparison to Bud White. And the Rollo Tomasi device, which was brilliant, wasn't in the book at all. Maybe The Godfather, but even there the screenplay mainly scaled the book down but didn't really change the main plot points or characters. Edit: Blade Runner. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Sep 3, 2017 |
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 15:30
|
|
|
Total Recall.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 17:23
|
|
|
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 17:29
|
|
|
How To Train Your Dragon is near completely different from the book, iirc.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 17:37
|
|
|
Phanatic posted:There's not a single character in the book whose fate is the same as in the film. The plot is hugely different, it's a big sprawling mess that spans multiple decades. It doesn't just involve the porn/hooker/heroin/crooked cop conspiracy from the movie but also includes a serial killer supposedly (but maybe not) caught by Exley's father (who, by the way, wasn't shot and killed by a criminal but retired from the force and became a construction magnate who gets hired to build the book's version of Disneyland. So yes, the book also has a Walt Disney analogue), a second serial killer who murders and rapes prostitutes, and a bunch more. The Stens character doesn't die at the Nite Owl, but instead falls into petty crime and eventually murders two people while robbing them and gets executed in the gas chamber. Exley isn't the paragon of integrity that he is in the movie, he's a weak and cowardly man who achieves his status due to his lies about his wartime heroism and the patronage of his father. In the movie, he's a straight arrow who only deviates from the law when he realizes that the law is corrupt and compromised. In the book, he murders four men because he doesn't want to look weak in comparison to Bud White. And the Rollo Tomasi device, which was brilliant, wasn't in the book at all.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 17:59
|
|
|
Casimir Radon posted:Everyone in the book is thoroughly unlikable. I just couldn't keep at it. Who's likeable in the film?
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 18:20
|
|
|
Phanatic posted:Who's likeable in the film?
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 18:41
|
|
|
I'm actually very suprised that they have yet to make a jaws reboot. Anybody else remember about 5y ago there was some kind of tease about Brodys grandchild or something having a youtube channel were he uploaded maybe 2 videos about increased shark activity
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 19:39
|
|
|
Casimir Radon posted:The three leads all have serious flaws but they're not the monsters from the book by a longshot. I remember finding Bud White pretty interesting even if he was off the rails and casually racist like everyone was in the book. Exley though was pure dirtbag. I hadn't thought about the movie in awhile. I should dust off my dvd.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 20:38
|
|
|
I'm actually curious about the new IT adaptation, now that we're talking about better films than books. Are they going to entirely set that with children? I'm assuming that it's going to end with them defeating Pennywise in the sewer and never bring up the adult side of the story (as well as obvious not include the orgy).
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 21:27
|
|
|
First film is all kids, followup will be adults apparently.
|
|
#
?
Sep 3, 2017 21:43
|
|
|
It'd be cool if they play off their memories of the whole thing being repressed and vague since they can easily reflect that by having an occasional quick flashback with some things looking different or described incorrectly by characters but with 100% certainty. It will be interesting to see the inevitable fan edits that jump back and forth between the two time periods. Do you think that like, they would need to add content to the adult segment? The adult segments were powerful because of how they dovetailed with what was going on with them as kids, I haven't read the book in forever but isn't the actual adult segments of the story kind of threadbare beyond "they realize IT is back, they meet up, IT fucks with them by making their food look like eyeballs and bugs, they reenact some stuff and remember everything, they kill IT?" Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Sep 4, 2017 |
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 00:19
|
|
|
Neo Rasa posted:It'd be cool if they play off their memories of the whole thing being repressed and vague since they can easily reflect that by having an occasional quick flashback with some things looking different or described incorrectly by characters but with 100% certainty. They could fit more backstory elements in it, in addition to scenes cut from either the script writing or film editing process from #1. There's probably enough material, especially if they drag out the early portions before/during their being called back to Derry.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 01:16
|
|
|
VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:They could fit more backstory elements in it, in addition to scenes cut from either the script writing or film editing process from #1. There's probably enough material, especially if they drag out the early portions before/during their being called back to Derry. It feels like it's going to suffer just like every two part movie adaptation suffers. The adult stuff really plays well when you can contrast it with their history with IT and how it left them broken. And if it's a pretty complete kid story, recycling footage won't really work because you've already seen the complete childhood story so it can't be paced out. It's just a straight horror sequel at that point. I'm super enthused by the upcoming It and feel like the sequel would have to work hard to justify a ticket. As a general note, please stop splitting books into two movies.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 01:35
|
|
|
Ape Agitator posted:As a general note, please stop splitting books into two movies. I was about to post about how I'm glad this is two movies and not an epic trilogy.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 01:38
|
|
|
VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:They could fit more backstory elements in it, in addition to scenes cut from either the script writing or film editing process from #1. There's probably enough material, especially if they drag out the early portions before/during their being called back to Derry. I'd like to see more of the water tower drowning Derry in the adult bits. And more of Mike's story about the terror bird and his father's story about being in the AF (feat. Dick Halloran). I forgot where that goes sequentially in the book. But they can pad up the kids' stories with stuff that wasn't in the mini-series and then flashback some other stuff in the adult part. And Bev's husband(?) was much more of a presence in the book iirc.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 01:54
|
|
|
I think It will work as two movies and kind of has to be; there's two very distinct stories to be told and the book is long enough (around 1,100 pages, if I remember correctly) that a single movie would be too jam packed full of poo poo to be effective.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 02:02
|
|
|
This weekend is now the official worst Labor Day weekend since 2000 and had no major releases, though several films improved from last weekend. Next weekend has It, the Reese Witherspoon rents out her house to sexy young studs and her ex-husband gets mad movie Home Again, and the 9/11 movie with Charlie Sheen that looks like a joke but will be in 500 theatersGroovelord Neato posted:don't do this. I do what I want, son
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 04:26
|
|
|
Tars Tarkas posted:This weekend is now the official worst Labor Day weekend since 2000 and had no major releases, though several films improved from last weekend. Your first and second participle might be connected,
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 04:29
|
|
|
I don't think it was ever gonna be big, but Netflix somewhere hosed up and put Hitmans Bodyguard online so there's been a clean copy going around for a week. Can't help takings.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 04:58
|
|
|
Check it out. It has the feel of a euro action comedy but with a cast that makes the comedy good rather than just weird. It does have some brutal moments that almost feel like 48hrs level of "this is an action comedy, right?".
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 05:46
|
|
|
Saw Terminator 2 3d today and it was well worth the cost for the future war segment alone. If it wouldn't have been for "laughs loudly at totally inappropriate times"-man it would have been a perfect viewing.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 06:05
|
|
|
Ape Agitator posted:Check it out. It has the feel of a euro action comedy but with a cast that makes the comedy good rather than just weird. It does have some brutal moments that almost feel like 48hrs level of "this is an action comedy, right?". Oh yeah, I was completely sold from the moment I saw them ape the original Bodyguard poster.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 06:17
|
|
|
TheCool69 posted:I'm actually very suprised that they have yet to make a jaws reboot. Universal would fuckin' love to reboot Jaws but that can't happen without Spielberg's approval and he's sworn he'll never remake it so the question is whether he'd let anyone else touch it. So far that's been a 'no'. There's actually been a massive resurgence in killer shark films recently and although most of them have been gimmicky Sy-Fy-channel-esque trash like Sharknado, Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus , Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws, Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf , etc there's also been a few straight up dramatic thriller/survivalist films like Open Water, 47 Meters Down and The Shallows which proved to be pretty popular at the box office so it looks like audiences are still interested in non-schlock shark films. Open Water (which was based on a true story) did so well that they released two sequels which were .... less than excellent.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 06:21
|
|
|
I think you started seeing more shark schlock when Megalodon was discovered/got popular.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 06:50
|
|
|
Inescapable Duck posted:when Megalodon was "discovered" loving Discovery Channel. The number of kids I run into who have obviously seen those specials and believe they were real documentaries...  On the topic of killer shark films and C. megalodon however, an adaptation of Steve Alten's novel/series Meg is currently in the works. It's being helmed by Jon Turteltaub with Jason Statham in the lead role. 
Alehkhs fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Sep 4, 2017 |
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 07:06
|
|
|
Yeah ol' Megsy has been a thing for centuries ...   ... but never really got his moment in the spotlight until Shark Week blew up.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 07:22
|
|
|
Beachcomber posted:Saw Terminator 2 3d today and it was well worth the cost for the future war segment alone. If it wouldn't have been for "laughs loudly at totally inappropriate times"-man it would have been a perfect viewing. T2 is still amazing on the big screen and probably my best movie going experience in the past 2 years. Looking at that streak Cameron had going, I'm left feeling like the ocean and Avatar distracted him from churning out at least 2 or 3 all-time classics.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 07:25
|
|
|
I figured that, hence hedging my pets with the slash, I just, like most writers, couldn't be arsed doing thirty seconds of research.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 08:15
|
|
|
Inescapable Duck posted:hedging my pets  
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 08:18
|
|
|
I wasn't expecting this new scene when watching Terminator 2 3D.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 08:23
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 13, 2024 17:25 |
|
|
The MSJ posted:I wasn't expecting this new scene when watching Terminator 2 3D. The dog version of T2 is amazing http://i.imgur.com/XaFNjz0.gifv
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2017 08:25
|
|