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I just rewatched The Weather Man and it was perfectly fine. The best part is Michael Caine doing a sad Michael Caine role. If you give a poo poo about that actor at all you should watch that movie.
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Why the hell is everyone talking about The Weather Man all of a sudden?
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Aug 1, 2019 14:53
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Why the hell is everyone talking about The Weather Man all of a sudden? because i need one to know which way the wind blows.
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Aug 1, 2019 15:28
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Why the hell is everyone talking about The Weather Man all of a sudden? It's just me. I saw it was available on Amazon Prime the other day and I seemed to remember that people don't like it for some reason so I asked why, here in the questions thread. I'd seen it two or three times before, but probably none this decade, and I believed that I liked it. I finally rewatched it myself last night. If you don't like the movie, I'd love to hear why. My only negative was that watching it got the opening song from Groundhog Day stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EecUGOngvM
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Aug 1, 2019 15:50
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Thoughts on Bad Times at the El Royale?
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Aug 2, 2019 05:46
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Thoughts on Bad Times at the El Royale? It was bad.
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Aug 2, 2019 05:48
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It was fine if totally unimpressive especially given the cast.
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Aug 2, 2019 13:23
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couldcareless posted:It was fine if totally unimpressive especially given the cast.
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Aug 2, 2019 14:03
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Mediocre Times at the El Royale. It has some wonderful set design (and then it under-uses that set!), Chris Hemsworth is giving it his all, and it has a nice scene or two, but ultimately it's pretty hollow and uninteresting.
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Aug 2, 2019 15:29
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david_a posted:Way too long for what it was too That was my only complaint, I thought it was a fun throwback to the kind of 90s movies I'd catch on satellite TV.
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Aug 2, 2019 16:43
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david_a posted:Way too long for what it was too This. Should've been a short, fun punchy kinda thing. It overstayed its welcome so much that when the reveals happen in the third act you just want it to be over already.
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Aug 2, 2019 17:52
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The movie builds up all this interconnection between what the guests see and what they think they saw and their motivations and such, but then the whole third act is almost entirely unconnected. I can't fault the acting or the set design though, but it should probably have had a script punch up.
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Aug 2, 2019 18:57
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And the most interesting character was one of the first killed off.
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Aug 2, 2019 22:37
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:It's just me. I saw it was available on Amazon Prime the other day and I seemed to remember that people don't like it for some reason so I asked why, here in the questions thread. I'd seen it two or three times before, but probably none this decade, and I believed that I liked it. I finally rewatched it myself last night. If you don't like the movie, I'd love to hear why. My only negative was that watching it got the opening song from Groundhog Day stuck in my head: The Weather Man is great, and if I ever teach a course on adult ADHD I'm going to use it as a learning aid.
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Human Tornada posted:And the most interesting character was one of the first killed off. (el Royale) Jon Hamm? I thought he was one of the least intersting characters. Or am I misremembering the sequence of events?
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Yeah that's the one. Maybe he only feels interesting because he's killed when the movie is still somewhat compelling and he doesn't get the chance to be boring.
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It's a plane movie
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Human Tornada posted:Yeah that's the one. Maybe he only feels interesting because he's killed when the movie is still somewhat compelling and he doesn't get the chance to be boring. I can see that. His plotline is picked up in the third act tho, as one of the few that is. Tbh I'm very entranced by anything Jeff Bridges does & I'm looking hella forward to seeing Cynthia Erivo in something else, she's great and I hope she can get more movie roles on top of her theatre roles.
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At 1.20.28 of the Matrix Reloaded the Merovingian escapes through a doorway and when Neo looks out through the same door he sees a very fantasy-esque setting of a mountainside which is clearly a matte painting. The same matte painting artist worked on the Lord of the Rings and the Matrix. Is the matte painting an unused (or used?) Lord of the Rings painting? If so it's an interesting crossover between two of the biggest franchises of the early noughties.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:The Weather Man is great, and if I ever teach a course on adult ADHD I'm going to use it as a learning aid. “I Wish I Had Two Dicks: Living With Adult ADHD”
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So the first 45 seconds of this trailer is really reminding me of what I assume is a film score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TctZbvFU5Y The strings and the horns/synths/horn-like synths has me thinking maybe something by Hans Zimmer? But I haven't found anything that feels close to it It has to be a ripoff of something because it's a promotional trailer for a shooter game
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:So the first 45 seconds of this trailer is really reminding me of what I assume is a film score: Stock music like this is a dime a dozen from houses like Two Steps from Hell.
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Is there a generally accepted great book on cinematography? Something along the lines of explaining why certain shots are used (and what they're called), colours, aspect ratios, and a bunch of other things that I feel like I want to understand better.
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Watching Grave of the Fireflies on Hulu — does the normal movie have a lot of awkward fades to black between scenes or is this some kind of TV cut with intended commercial breaks
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morestuff posted:Watching Grave of the Fireflies on Hulu — does the normal movie have a lot of awkward fades to black between scenes or is this some kind of TV cut with intended commercial breaks That movie hosed me up.
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In anthology movies, are the individual segments considered short films? Like say I showed somebody a video of Amateur Night from V/H/S, is that more me showing them a movie clip or a short film? I'm guessing it's movie clip, because I don't think Amateur Night would be eligible for a Best Short Film Academy Award.
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Groundskeeper Silly posted:In anthology movies, are the individual segments considered short films? Like say I showed somebody a video of Amateur Night from V/H/S, is that more me showing them a movie clip or a short film? I'm guessing it's movie clip, because I don't think Amateur Night would be eligible for a Best Short Film Academy Award. The question is, considered by whom? For awards judges, they are not shorts. If you’re making one, it effectively is, and if you’re showing one, likewise, as it’s a standalone piece. Although you could say it needs to be seen in context with the others in the anthology. Depends on structure. In short (no pun intended), it’s not like there’s a definitive answer.
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just to make it more complicated, i've always liked calling those 'vignettes'
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So in Godzilla king of the monsters, do nuclear weapons now save us because we can use them to heal godzilla?
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For reasons I can't remember, today I had an unexpected recollection of a scene from a cartoon. A character has an open tin of sardines. He opens his mouth wide and tips the can toward his tongue several times. Plink, plink, plink, plink as the sardines land on his tongue one at a time. Presumably consumes the sardines after that. The scene probably included a preceding shot of the character opening the old-timey rollback lid of the sardines. Could have been a TV show or a movie - but it was definitely animated. Anyone remember?
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FaradayCage posted:For reasons I can't remember, today I had an unexpected recollection of a scene from a cartoon. Mr. Dink does that in the Doug episode where he thinks he has to eat liver and onions at Patti’s party 6:30 in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTmr0kf31E
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Mr. Dink does that in the Doug episode where he thinks he has to eat liver and onions at Patti’s party That's it! I was at the Cubs game with my brother and we both could remember the scene but couldn't place it. I had a faint memory of the Mickey-Mousing as the *anchovies landed on his tongue. He remembered the tongue being comically large. We both remembered the old-timey can with the key-opener (whatever it's called). At one point while brainstorming, my mind paused on "Doug" and I was like "I think I'm onto something here. May not be Doug, but the memory of the scene associates it with Doug." Thank you. We'll both sleep better tonight.
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FaradayCage posted:That's it! No prob, I watched an insane amount of Doug when I was a kid and that scene is seared into my brain for some reason
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Tenzarin posted:So in Godzilla king of the monsters, do nuclear weapons now save us because we can use them to heal godzilla? Yes
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I'm watching Suspiria now. How did they hide the camera in the room with the mirrors?
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Spermando posted:I'm watching Suspiria now. How did they hide the camera in the room with the mirrors? Two way/angled mirrors or digital paint out. ruddiger fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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Spermando posted:I'm watching Suspiria now. How did they hide the camera in the room with the mirrors? witchcraft.
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Should I put speculative documentary chat in the documentary thread, or start a new one?
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StratGoatCom posted:Should I put speculative documentary chat in the documentary thread, or start a new one? Come to the Documentary Thread! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3269030
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What makes certain films look so... gorgeous? I was watching some trailers to catch up on what was coming out, and the trailer for Joker made me wonder that because it just looks goddamn incredible compared to, say, the new Jumanji trailer. I don't know anything about how the technical elements of photography or film works. Is it something to do with color grading? Does it just... cost a lot more money to finetune things to that point of perfection. I remember Her looked amazing, too; obviously that came to mind because it's the same lead. This is a badly phrased question but hopefully you understand what I mean.
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