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christmas boots posted:If the MCU is the laziest thing ever written, then what’s Law and Order, smart guy? A 16 year long tour de force by Sam Waterston.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Nope: They made a big show of how dry and dusty everything is. And how rundown the horse ranch is. So you know that house is bone dry with flaking paint ready to soak up moisture. Yet after the monster vomits blood all over the house nobody ever mentions the smell. The next day the sun is out and that house must smell like rotting meat. That's way more objectionable than the scent of horse manure, but is never mentioned. More Nope: Yeah but doesn't the house get destroyed? Doesn't have to stink for very long.
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Sep 9, 2022 12:49
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christmas boots posted:If the MCU is the laziest thing ever written, then what’s Law and Order, smart guy? Any episode of Law and Order with Jerry Orbach was written a million times better and is more enjoyable than MCU.
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Sep 9, 2022 13:06
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I like MCU films because they're big and flashy with silly jokes and low emotional stakes and sometimes that's exactly what I'm in the mood for, especially lately. Don't care if some jokes don't land because gently caress it, next scene has explosions.
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Sep 9, 2022 14:24
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John Carter was the prototype MCU film, and it's still the best one. Edit: actually I apparently misremembered and iron Man came out first, but I don't care.
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Sep 9, 2022 15:15
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Phanatic posted:Oof. Uh, what the gently caress is this?
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Sep 9, 2022 16:06
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Baron von Eevl posted:More Nope: I think it was, or at least tornado'd through. I did like all the intro touches with the horse at the commercial. Like, it's been ages since I worked in hoofstock at the zoo, but the best way to get yourself trampled or kicked is to get behind an animal and startle him.
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Sep 9, 2022 16:07
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Uh, what the gently caress is this? It's Heimdall's kid. He's got the same seeing through space or whatever thing. That's how they show him communicating
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Sep 9, 2022 16:09
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Joey Freshwater posted:It's Heimdall's kid. He's got the same seeing through space or whatever thing. That's how they show him communicating This response brought me no closer to understanding what the floating disembodied kid's head is about 
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Sep 9, 2022 16:12
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credburn posted:This response brought me no closer to understanding what the floating disembodied kid's head is about He has powers that let him see and communicate through space. That's how they show him doing it on the other end to whoever he's talking to. Idk how to make it any more clear than that.
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Sep 9, 2022 16:16
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I mean, I don't know what movie it's from. The special effects on the "theatrical release" make me think it's old enough that I'd seen it, but I don't recognize it.
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Sep 9, 2022 16:30
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credburn posted:I mean, I don't know what movie it's from. The special effects on the "theatrical release" make me think it's old enough that I'd seen it, but I don't recognize it. Its blood and thunder, but I think the "theatrical release" as a cell phone picture of a screen streaming a pirate copy of the theatrical release tbh
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Sep 9, 2022 16:35
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Not an IIMM (unless you're a Chud I guess): Heimdall's son says "I go by Axel now, after a famous musician". First time around I took this as just another reference to classic rock, but my wife made me notice that Astrid is a feminine only name and that he could be a transgender character, which given Disney's track record would be quite the thing. Also it makes Thor's insistence on "your dad gave you a strong Viking name and I'm not going to call you Axel" schtick really problematic 
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Sep 9, 2022 16:43
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Oh, Thor. Fun anecdote: I was in jail the week Thor became available to rent and it was (((movie nite))). All the Nazis in the cell block were loving livid that there was a "black viking." But when we all gathered in the tiny cafeteria/dayroom to watch the movie on a tiny CRT locked behind foggy bullet-proof glass, everyone calmed the gently caress down when someone pointed out the black viking is pretty much just a doorman who lets the white vikings in and out of Asgard. It was racist as hell comment but it did seem kind of true. These guys were Asatru and would chant "Hail Odin! Hail Thor!" in the rec yard, giving Nazi salutes to the sun.
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Sep 9, 2022 17:31
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It's a special kind of pathetic to whine that hard about a movie night. You're not in some kind of culture war like you think you are, and even if you were guess what? You're in jail. You're LOSING.
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Sep 9, 2022 18:10
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My IIMM with Love and Thunder is that I just started watching it, am literally two minutes in and what the hell, I'm teary-eyed and hope Gorr kills his god, any god he thinks is responsible. There have been revenge movies with guys like him as the hero with a motivation like that, I am really curious to find out how they are going to "My child died in my arms as I cried for mercy" into a bad guy thing.
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Sep 9, 2022 20:23
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Grendels Dad posted:My IIMM with Love and Thunder is that I just started watching it, am literally two minutes in and what the hell, I'm teary-eyed and hope Gorr kills his god, any god he thinks is responsible. There have been revenge movies with guys like him as the hero with a motivation like that, I am really curious to find out how they are going to "My child died in my arms as I cried for mercy" into a bad guy thing. They really have to work hard for that. I think Gorr is easily the best Marvel villain together with Zemo.
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Sep 9, 2022 20:32
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That Italian Guy posted:Not an IIMM (unless you're a Chud I guess): Heimdall's son says "I go by Axel now, after a famous musician". First time around I took this as just another reference to classic rock, but my wife made me notice that Astrid is a feminine only name and that he could be a transgender character, which given Disney's track record would be quite the thing. Also it makes Thor's insistence on "your dad gave you a strong Viking name and I'm not going to call you Axel" schtick really problematic Not so much problematic as a development moment for Thor. He initially insists because he's a big dummy, even as Korg is correcting him from the background, but he gets it and starts enthusiastically calling Axl by his real name before the end
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Sep 9, 2022 20:57
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Naruto episode 94: Tonton shouldn't be here, they're just a regular pig; they could be crushed or eaten by one of the giant snakes.
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Mamkute posted:Naruto episode 94: Tonton shouldn't be here, they're just a regular pig; they could be crushed or eaten by one of the giant snakes. tonton is emergency rations
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Sep 10, 2022 04:00
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What ever happened to sound levelling? Everything new seems to have the problem of low dialog and way too loud music and effects. It's really annoying to shift volume everytime a song happens. But I only see it in newer movies and shows, not older stuff or youtube.
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Sep 11, 2022 02:16
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nesamdoom posted:What ever happened to sound levelling? Everything new seems to have the problem of low dialog and way too loud music and effects. It's really annoying to shift volume everytime a song happens. But I only see it in newer movies and shows, not older stuff or youtube. Maybe most old stuff doesn't have it, but the wife and I tried to watch Halloween (the original) on like four different streaming services, and on each of them the sound was abysmally quiet.
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i do post sound for film/video and used to do location sound for tv. i don't think i've ever heard one definitive answer, but i've heard a two explanations pop up a lot: 1) uncalibrated theaters. every theater is different, and unless the owners pay big money to have things set up properly and even more money periodically checking it, then there's a good chance their speakers are going to reproduce sound a lot differently than whatever system it was mixed on. it's going to mess with things if you're pushing a 7.2 mix through a 5.1 setup, for example, and even beyond that every speaker has a different frequency response that may emphasize different parts of the spectrum. dolby's doing a lot of work on this in the form of atmos, where you mix for a sound field and software automatically splits that out into whatever speaker setup a mixer or theater has, and the biggest part of that is that they won't even license atmos sofrware to a theater unless they pay to have a dolby tech come in and calibrate their speakers to a specific spl. 2) remixing for home release is expensive. you generally get a 5.1 and stereo mix for those, and each of those requires fully remixing basically from scratch as compared to theatrical release depending on how that was mixed. it takes hours of expensive work, and even then you don't really have any control over whether the consumer is using lovely built in tv speakers or a killer home theater surround system, so what usually happens is a quick-and-dirty fold down of whatever the theatrical release had because the more time spent on it the less money the publishers make. in both cases, sound design is a lot more complex than it used to be, so those big dynamic and frequency ranges were not as much as issue as they are now. it also tends to be less of a problem on tv because networks have so many technical restrictions in place to keep things consistent on a whole channel, but theaters don't have those as often (or if they do then they are poo poo at communicating them, because tv networks have entire pamphlets dedicated to audio specs for loudness and dynamic range, whereas i've found it's like pulling teeth to get more than a half page of vague direction from theaters for festival runs)
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Sep 11, 2022 05:43
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Facebook Aunt posted:Nope: They made a big show of how dry and dusty everything is. And how rundown the horse ranch is. So you know that house is bone dry with flaking paint ready to soak up moisture. Yet after the monster vomits blood all over the house nobody ever mentions the smell. The next day the sun is out and that house must smell like rotting meat. That's way more objectionable than the scent of horse manure, but is never mentioned. I mean, you're not wrong, but I imagine the emphasis is that they have bigger problems at that point. And the aftermath of getting evidence of a real life alien creature that has killed at least 50 people in horrible ways is probably going to change things a lot!
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Sep 11, 2022 06:19
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Sci-fi shows/fantasy shows that have babies in them. Every time there is a baby, that baby ends up suddenly aging rapidly, and joining the antagonist's side, and they usually end up dying by sacrificing themselves in an act of redemption. They also usually have extra special superpowers. Every goddamn time this happens. I know its hard to write around the character having to take care of a baby, but if that is the case, just don't have the characters have a baby.
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Sep 11, 2022 08:23
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Games too, I’m looking at you, Fallout 4.
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BioEnchanted posted:It's a special kind of pathetic to whine that hard about a movie night. You're not in some kind of culture war like you think you are, and even if you were guess what? You're in jail. You're LOSING. imo it's more likely they were in jail for theft or assault than for their movie opinions
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Sci-fi shows/fantasy shows that have babies in them. Every time there is a baby, that baby ends up suddenly aging rapidly, and joining the antagonist's side, and they usually end up dying by sacrificing themselves in an act of redemption. They also usually have extra special superpowers. Every goddamn time this happens. How about farscape?
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Sep 11, 2022 08:59
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Crespolini posted:imo it's more likely they were in jail for theft or assault than for their movie opinions I was more getting at that they had bigger problems to concern themselves with. Like their own lives going down the toilet. I'm assuming raging at a movie is just a distraction so that they don't have to think about it.
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Sep 11, 2022 09:22
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Baron von Eevl posted:More Nope: That's a lucky break. Insurance is more likely to pay out for a destroyed house than a stinky one.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Sci-fi shows/fantasy shows that have babies in them. Every time there is a baby, that baby ends up suddenly aging rapidly, and joining the antagonist's side, and they usually end up dying by sacrificing themselves in an act of redemption. They also usually have extra special superpowers. Every goddamn time this happens. Star trek does this about 40 times
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I mean, you're not wrong, but I imagine the emphasis is that they have bigger problems at that point. And the aftermath of getting evidence of a real life alien creature that has killed at least 50 people in horrible ways is probably going to change things a lot! Is there ever any evidence that it is alien? A creature that can disguise itself as clouds is weird as hell but there wasn't really a space ship or anything, it is biological. If there was a terrible sequel we'd probably find out it was a deep sea creature driven out of the ocean by microplastic pollution. It can fly now because swimming in incredibly high density made it super strong so once it was out of the pressure it's flow hole was super powerful and able to fly by farting really hard.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Is there ever any evidence that it is alien? A creature that can disguise itself as clouds is weird as hell but there wasn't really a space ship or anything, it is biological. I mean, even if Otis doesn't notice at first, almost everyone is quick to pick up the fact that the specific cloud is not moving at all with the wind, which is a big blind spot for a stalking animal, considering how earth animals behave with their camouflage. Jupe has only been doing his show for...6 weeks? Also it's not exaclty stealthy when it feeds so it's probably not being around for very long Baron von Eevl posted:I think it's just a coincidence and honestly just because Peele was probably looking at a mantis going "this thing looks like a fuckin alien" E: Aside from that, I liked that the main stakes in the movie were not "we have to kill it" or "we need to survive" but "we need to film this before other people inevitably show up and do that". That Italian Guy has a new favorite as of 10:49 on Sep 11, 2022 |
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Armacham posted:Star trek does this about 40 times 
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I've probably posted this before but is it Movie Law that every single horror film is required to have an overhead drone shot of a car driving on a forest road? I know you think its super cool your cousin got a DJI Phantom or whatever but please discover new ways of doing establishing shots you loving hacks
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I've probably posted this before but is it Movie Law that every single horror film is required to have an overhead drone shot of a car driving on a forest road? I know you think its super cool your cousin got a DJI Phantom or whatever but please discover new ways of doing establishing shots you loving hacks If it was good enough for Shining it's good enough for any horror movie. (Yeah it was an helicopter and a cliffside, but close enough).
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Sep 11, 2022 16:56
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That Italian Guy posted:If it was good enough for Shining it's good enough for any horror movie. (Yeah it was an helicopter and a cliffside, but close enough). You know I was trying to think of who did it first and of course it was Kubrick and of course every two bit hack thinks they're making The Shining (except its about a scary AirBnB and the slasher is a homicidal Amazon delivery driver or some poo poo)
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Now I want to see what Kubrick would do with drones at his disposal
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I've probably posted this before but is it Movie Law that every single horror film is required to have an overhead drone shot of a car driving on a forest road? I know you think its super cool your cousin got a DJI Phantom or whatever but please discover new ways of doing establishing shots you loving hacks Sometimes the overhead shot will be upside down to signify that things are wrong.
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That Italian Guy posted:If it was good enough for Shining it's good enough for any horror movie. (Yeah it was an helicopter and a cliffside, but close enough). So good that Ridley Scott used the off cuts!
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