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I've been putting off watching Stalker for years because no matter how great I hear it is, it just looks super slow and I'm like "Eh I'll watch it later". Apparently I drunk ordered the Criterion Blu Ray last week and forgot about it. Did drunk me make the right choice goons? Apparently it was 25 bux too which is hella more than I've paid for a movie in years. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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Dang restoration looks good though. If I was drunk you, I would order it too.
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Jan 12, 2019 19:33
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Stalker is extremely slow, long, and ambiguous; and as soon as I finished it for the first time I wanted to watch it again.
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Jan 12, 2019 19:55
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Slow movies are good movies. It ain't bluray, but Mosfilm officially put it up on Youtube in 1080P with subs, if you can return the disk and get your money back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRDYpCmMcM Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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Jan 14, 2019 05:06
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I've read a few film novelizations before, but what was the first one? Any idea why they decided to write a book based on a movie? Wouldn't they worry that would detract from ticket sales? And do they still have those novelizations written?
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Jan 14, 2019 18:05
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Leavemywife posted:I've read a few film novelizations before, but what was the first one? Any idea why they decided to write a book based on a movie? Wouldn't they worry that would detract from ticket sales? And do they still have those novelizations written? IDK, but I have a copy of the novelisation for John Carpenter's The Thing, which is based on the short story "Who goes there?" by John Campbell. It's a weird text to film to text deal, though if they ever did another Thing movie, a period piece would be the best. Just go full 40s manly man with it.
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Jan 14, 2019 18:10
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According to Wikipedia, the first major novelisation of a Hollywood movie was apparently King Kong.
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Jan 14, 2019 18:12
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Wheat Loaf posted:According to Wikipedia, the first major novelisation of a Hollywood movie was apparently King Kong. CHAPTER 1 Turmoil has engulfed the Jungle Republic. The taxation of banana routes to outlying tree systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly creatures, the greedy Dino Federation has stopped all shipping to the small atoll of Skull Island. While the Congress of the Apes endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched King Kong, the guardian of peace and justice in the jungle, to settle the conflict....
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Jan 14, 2019 18:34
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The novelization for E.T. had the alien really loving M&M's instead of Reese's Pieces, which as a child really ticked me off. Of course aliens like peanut butter.Bloody Hedgehog posted:CHAPTER 1 Kong shot first, no matter what the special editions said.
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Jan 14, 2019 18:47
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One interesting example is 2001: A Space Odyssey because Kubrick wrote it with input from Clarke and drawing influence from some of Clarke's short stories, but Clarke was writing the novel concurrently and they came out around the same time, so neither is really an adaptation of the other.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The novelization for E.T. had the alien really loving M&M's instead of Reese's Pieces, which as a child really ticked me off. Of course aliens like peanut butter. Didn't it also have a bunch of weird stuff where ET wants to have sex with Elliot's mom? I seem to remember an excerpt somewhere about how goddamn strange it was.
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Almost Blue posted:Didn't it also have a bunch of weird stuff where ET wants to have sex with Elliot's mom? I seem to remember an excerpt somewhere about how goddamn strange it was. I was a child so if there were any <wink wink> scenes they would have blown over my head. Although the scene with Elliot's mom, a jar of peanut butter, and an excited alien makes more sense now.
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A lot of the time the novelization is based on an earlier script so it might have stuff that never made it into the movie. For example, the Alien/Aliens novelizations have all the cut scenes in them as well as some they never even filmed. Movies used to have comic book adaptations too since before home video there wasn’t a way to re-experience them after they left the theater. I’ve heard that Alien and Outland are the only two comic book adaptations worth a drat.
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Wheat Loaf posted:According to Wikipedia, the first major novelisation of a Hollywood movie was apparently King Kong. That can't be right, I swear I've seen one for the 1925 Thief of Bagdad. Yep, here it is: Goodreads Link EDIT: And also there was one for Metropolis. To go back to the question, most major, big budget movies in the early days were based on books, so the ones that weren't didn't have the benefit of prior publicity, so they'd put out a novelization to sort of market the film and give it a hint of literary respectability. Maxwell Lord fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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Jan 14, 2019 22:10
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When I was little, I had the novelisation of Phantom Menace, but it was the children's version so it had a few pages of full-colour photographs in the middle. Some time later, I found my dad's old copy of the novelisation of Return of the Jedi, which was also the children's version and also had photographs in the middle. Why he had the children's version is a mystery to me because my dad was 20 when that movie came out.
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I remember at one the book fairs in middle school there was a novelization of Jurassic Park Makes sense I guess, since the original book is pretty different from the movie.
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Wheat Loaf posted:When I was little, I had the novelisation of Phantom Menace, but it was the children's version so it had a few pages of full-colour photographs in the middle. I had some weird novelization of The Phantom Menace that was only from Anakin's first-person perspective. I remember I liked it a lot as a kid, probably because I didn't have to read about intergalactic trade negotiations and treaties.
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Pussy Quipped posted:I had some weird novelization of The Phantom Menace that was only from Anakin's first-person perspective. I remember I liked it a lot as a kid, probably because I didn't have to read about intergalactic trade negotiations and treaties. I think that would have been one of the Episode I Adventure Journals. There was also a Padme one and a Darth Maul one and probably some others. Here's a fun one: Max Allan Collins wrote the comic book Road To Perdition, which was adapted into a film, which was then novelised by... Max Allan Collins!
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Krispy Wafer posted:The novelization for E.T. had the alien really loving M&M's instead of Reese's Pieces, which as a child really ticked me off. Of course aliens like peanut butter. That's because the novelization was probably based on an early script, M&Ms wouldn't give them permission to use 'em in the movie and Reese's did. Probably the reason Reese's Pieces are still around today.
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I'm looking for some examples of movies that take place a lot on phones. Not necessarily anything gimmicky, but just where phones have a lot of screen time (I'm looking for good VFX compositing references for phones).
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Do you think Cellular would count? It's on Netflix, and the main character basically always has a phone in his hand, from what I remember.
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BonoMan posted:I'm looking for some examples of movies that take place a lot on phones. Not necessarily anything gimmicky, but just where phones have a lot of screen time (I'm looking for good VFX compositing references for phones). https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0183649/?ref=m_nv_sr_1
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That's what I get for going to fast and leaving out important details. I need for smartphones to have a lot of screen time. Doh!
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Locke probably has a lot of smartphone insert shots
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Wheat Loaf posted:I think that would have been one of the Episode I Adventure Journals. There was also a Padme one and a Darth Maul one and probably some others. David Morrell wrote "First Blood", in which at the conclusion, Rambo dies. He went on to novelize "Rambo II" and "Rambo III". (To be fair, he did it because he wanted to try something new, which was adapting someone else's work).
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BonoMan posted:I'm looking for some examples of movies that take place a lot on phones. Not necessarily anything gimmicky, but just where phones have a lot of screen time (I'm looking for good VFX compositing references for phones). Have you seen Searching, the John Cho film that came out last year? My understanding is that phone screens/computer screens/ technology factor very heavily into the film’s presentation.
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Hardcore Henry has some cell phone usage as a plot device
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BonoMan posted:That's what I get for going to fast and leaving out important details. The Sherlock show starring Dr Strange, TV show instead of a movie, but Gossip Girl uses smart phones all the time. (I was about to warn you they use a fake UI on Gossip Girl until I remembered it's all Windows phones so it just looks like a fake UI).
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Davros1 posted:David Morrell wrote "First Blood", in which at the conclusion, Rambo dies. They also filmed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp1mdSQ4BfI
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Skwirl posted:The Sherlock show starring Dr Strange, TV show instead of a movie, but Gossip Girl uses smart phones all the time. Also the best UI.  thanks for the responses y'all!
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Troutpack posted:They also filmed it. And used it as a part of Rambo's nightmares in Rambo.
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I recently got the BFI Werner Herzog Blu ray collection and a bunch of the films have German and English language versions, I was going to watch them in the language they were shot in which for a couple of them is English but read in a few places that the German dubs are superior, so was wondering which version I should go with for a first time watch?
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I don't know about Fitzcarraldo, but Aguirre doesn't have an original version per se, since everyone spoke their native language on set and the dialogue was recorded later in a studio. The English track came first and is also the only one containing Kinski's original voice. He was supposed to voice himself in the German dub as well, but he demanded a ridiculous sum for the job, so Herzog just went out and hired someone else. Personally, I actually prefer the German voice actor to Kinski's original voice, but I'd say the difference between the two is minimal enough that you should watch whichever version doesn't require you to read subtitles.
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Samuel Clemens posted:He was supposed to voice himself in the German dub as well, but he demanded a ridiculous sum for the job, so Herzog just went out and hired someone else. Anyone else hoping that the story would end with "hired himself"?
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I recently watched Duck Soup for the first time and it's got me on a bit of a Marx Brothers kick, I'm really enjoying it. One thing though, does anyone else find Harpo equal parts terrifying and funny? The eyes, that wig, it just deeply creeps me out.
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I vaguely recall reading somewhere that in the original Robocop, the notion was that even Murphy's face was faked for OCP / audiences / Murphy himself - hes just a brain in a robot they slapped a face on so that everyone would think he's more human than he is. Thing is, I can't place it, so for all I know it's a ~fan theory~. Am I misremembering? MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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MisterBibs posted:I vaguely recall reading somewhere that in the original Robocop, the notion was that even Murphy's face was faked for OCP / audiences / Murphy himself - hes just a brain in a robot they slapped a face on so that everyone would think he's more human than he is. No I'm fairly certain one of the OCP people mentions that the face is faked like you said for the reasons you stated
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MisterBibs posted:I vaguely recall reading somewhere that in the original Robocop, the notion was that even Murphy's face was faked for OCP / audiences / Murphy himself - hes just a brain in a robot they slapped a face on so that everyone would think he's more human than he is. In RoboCop 2, Murphy has his wife feel his face, and she recoils in horror, and says, "It's cold." He responds, "They made this to honor him."
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Timby posted:In RoboCop 2, Murphy has his wife feel his face, and she recoils in horror, and says, "It's cold." He responds, "They made this to honor him." This was my inspiration for the question, actually. I saw that and thought it was a case of Murphy lying his metal rear end off, but then I recalled the Robot With Murphy's Face thing.
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MisterBibs posted:This was my inspiration for the question, actually. I saw that and thought it was a case of Murphy lying his metal rear end off, but then I recalled the Robot With Murphy's Face thing. The only indication of that in the original movie is Morton saying they had agreed on total body prosthesis, but that doesn't carry with Murphy still having organic components that need to be sustained with baby food (or a "rudimentary paste") and the ability to feel pain.
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