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for a production designer who is "non-Star Wars in every way", Hull makes the most Star Warsy sets and props since 1980
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theflyingexecutive posted:for a production designer who is "non-Star Wars in every way", Hull makes Star Wars sets and props 
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Nov 4, 2022 08:27
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the set design is good even when not in a starwarsy place. when they first panned through mothma's condo i was agape edit but syril's mom's place is the best. he's got his action figures on the shelf
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Nov 4, 2022 08:29
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I think it helps to film in actual location, using actual props, and speaking to something besides a golf ball taped to a boom mic
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Nov 4, 2022 08:30
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I thought the rebels' AK-looking blasters were a little on the nose though.
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Nov 4, 2022 08:31
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Grevling posted:I thought the rebels' AK-looking blasters were a little on the nose though. i'm mostly okay with this stuff because it's not like the general audience has read through ho chi minh's wikipedia web like we all have
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Nov 4, 2022 08:35
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Bro Dad posted:I think it helps to film in actual location, using actual props, and speaking to something besides a golf ball taped to a boom mic It's crazy what happens when you decide to make something good and not bad
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Nov 4, 2022 08:36
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i watched the netflix All Quiet on the Western Front. i enjoyed aspects of it but it was definitely lacking. the sets and costumes were lavishly produced and looked very expensive. i liked the performances and the lead had several scenes to flex his muscles where he showed some good acting. i always liked the anecdotes of german soldiers pausing during attacks in the Spring Offensive to raid allied trenches for food, which is faithfully depicted here. however, the ending is very melodramatic and hollywood and silly. my understanding of the book is that the main character is killed in the last month of the war, basically at random during an otherwise peaceful day, thus the title of the book: his death is a total nonevent which doesn't even register in the larger scope of the war. here, his jackass commanding officer orders an attack during the literal last 15 minutes of the war. the protagonist, scarred by the death of his best friend, runs forward and goes 300 on a bunch of frenchmen and kills like 5 guys before being stabbed, at which point he staggers forward and looks at all the slo-mo devastation around him. the second the armistice goes into effect, the french and german soldiers stop in mid-battle and walk away from each other's trenches like a paintball match. overall, it's a far cry from Come and See, a movie which it's clearly aping at several points
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Nov 4, 2022 08:39
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theflyingexecutive posted:for a production designer who is "non-Star Wars in every way", Hull makes the most Star Warsy sets and props since 1980 See the quote about 'bend Star Wars to your talents'. That's what Star Wars is for. It's literally made out of a grab bag of genre media with some spaceships and greeblies slapped on, which the article outright says. Make your gritty grim drama and build Star Warsy sets and props around it, and it works just fine. Like half the reason Disney's Star Wars sucks so much is they're desperately trying to Be Star Wars, or being contrarian to what they see Star Wars as, to the exclusion of all else. Resulting in an incoherent mess whose only purpose is to try to push various Nostalgia Buttons as hard as possible. Just have the confidence to make your own stories and fit the setting around them and suddenly you get something good! ...ironically this is the same problem the old EU had, drat near all the original protagonists half the time are full on OC Do Not Steals of Luke and Han, especially the latter where there's like half a dozen not-Millennium-Falcons in the franchise at this point. (There's even one in Star Trek!) And most of the adventures of them or the OT crew are basically just re-enacting variants on the OT over and over and over. Ghost Leviathan has issued a correction as of 10:57 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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Nov 4, 2022 09:09
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lol i just realized who she-wolf of the isb is yennefer from the witcher games also good job on carrying that printer syril, you've got her interest now
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Nov 4, 2022 10:47
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They should have called the Empire the Sheevists, like maoists or stalinists or whatever. The followers of Sheev.
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Nov 4, 2022 14:48
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gently caress I gotta catch up on Andor I guess. Liked the first ep but got too busy to watch more. Xaris posted:is this basically a modern Are you Afraid of the Dark? It's a little more...philosophical than that? The mid-episode ghost stories are basically ways for the characters to talk about why they're so hosed up, but they don't always work in that capacity. I didn't like it as much as other Mike Flanagan stuff but it's still worth your time I'd say.
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Nov 4, 2022 14:53
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projecthalaxy posted:They should have called the Empire the Sheevists, like maoists or stalinists or whatever. The followers of Sheev. Palpateers
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Nov 4, 2022 14:54
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youth organization is called the PalpaTeens
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Nov 4, 2022 14:59
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Aglet56 posted:however, the ending is very melodramatic and hollywood and silly. my understanding of the book is that the main character is killed in the last month of the war, basically at random during an otherwise peaceful day, thus the title of the book: his death is a total nonevent which doesn't even register in the larger scope of the war. here, his jackass commanding officer orders an attack during the literal last 15 minutes of the war. the protagonist, scarred by the death of his best friend, runs forward and goes 300 on a bunch of frenchmen and kills like 5 guys before being stabbed, at which point he staggers forward and looks at all the slo-mo devastation around him. the second the armistice goes into effect, the french and german soldiers stop in mid-battle and walk away from each other's trenches like a paintball match. I know you have to differentiate the remake from the original, but that's a ridiculous perversion of what the book stands for. The 1930 movie is still pretty amazing.
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Nov 4, 2022 15:08
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https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1588205064501559298 good read, Adam does good work
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Nov 4, 2022 15:40
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Grey Fox posted:https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1588205064501559298 good read, Adam does good work is it lib and or succ?
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Nov 4, 2022 15:42
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projecthalaxy posted:is it lib and or succ? I understand your apprehension because it's The Atlantic
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Nov 4, 2022 15:45
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Grey Fox posted:no I put that poop in the succ thread quite frankly i just like accusing people it gives me a rush
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Nov 4, 2022 15:47
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The real funny part is that Metal Gear is absolutely Star Wars in the 20th/21st century kaz is obi wan??? (mentors the hero) revolver ocelot is han solo????? (does cool gun stuff) quiet is chewbacca??? (good at fighting and follows you around communicating in acknowledging grunts) huey is r2d2??? (is a robot, does robot poo poo idk is kind of annoying, maybe also is c3po) e: ah poo poo these should be prequel characters. uhh ocelot is dex jetster and huey is jarjar Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 15:58 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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Nov 4, 2022 15:53
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I'm holding off on watching Andor because even though I keep hearing that it's good I've been burned before by thinking a Star Wars thing was good and then at the end Luke Skywalker appears out of nowhere to remind the audience that there are only four people in the whole galaxy
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Nov 4, 2022 15:58
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Saw Guerrera did nothing wrong
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Nov 4, 2022 16:07
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vyelkin posted:I'm holding off on watching Andor because even though I keep hearing that it's good I've been burned before by thinking a Star Wars thing was good and then at the end Luke Skywalker appears out of nowhere to remind the audience that there are only four people in the whole galaxy well the show isn't over so there's always time for space magic bullshit, but so far there's none of that. it's just really grounded in a way a lot of these shows aren't, not that I've seen a lot of them. highest compliment i can pay to the show is that you can watch it without knowing anything about the star wars
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Nov 4, 2022 16:27
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Btw in case anyone thought I was being hyperbolic when I said JKR's fans are claiming she literally formed Daniel Radcliffe from clay https://twitter.com/Sara_Rose_G/status/1588116877766795264
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Nov 4, 2022 16:55
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the weasel words they'll use is "we said she created the actor not the person" but even that isn't true lol
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Nov 4, 2022 16:56
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:the weasel words they'll use is "we said she created the actor not the person" but even that isn't true lol she was neither director, scriptwriter, casting director, nor producer for the film, she just wrote the book it was based on, and it could be argued that Radcliffe is as responsible for JKR's success in the film world as she is for his, perhaps more so like, "created the actor" would be stupid even if she HAD done all that stuff; she's not his acting coach, he did the acting himself e: let's compare Rowling's post-Radcliffe film career to Radcliffe's post-Rowling film career lmao loquacius has issued a correction as of 17:04 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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Nov 4, 2022 17:01
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Anyway everybody go find out what the most famous person to be vaguely associated with your first job thinks about every issue because apparently you now need to spend your whole life advocating for all their views or you're being ungrateful to your creator
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Nov 4, 2022 17:03
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loquacius posted:Anyway everybody go find out what the most famous person to be vaguely associated with your first job thinks about every issue because apparently you now need to spend your whole life advocating for all their views or you're being ungrateful to your creator my first job was ar Subway so ah hmm
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Nov 4, 2022 17:04
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jk rowling is daniel radcliffe's mom, it's the only thing that makes sense
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Nov 4, 2022 17:05
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StashAugustine posted:my first job was ar Subway so ah hmm lol
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Nov 4, 2022 17:08
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Justin Tyme posted:kaz is obi wan??? (mentors the hero)
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The Unnamed One posted:The People's Champ vs the People's Republic of China Champ 
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Aglet56 posted:i watched the netflix All Quiet on the Western Front. i enjoyed aspects of it but it was definitely lacking. Very much agree. The sequence where they charge the French trenches, capture them, then get repulsed by tanks, flamethrowers, planes and what have you was bizarre. A book about how war is terrible and pointless and they decided to have a cool rear end action sequence with every awesome war machine at once. Haven't read the book but if Paul's death really goes down like that, just dying on an otherwise unremarkable day, and that's why the book has that name, it's remarkably lovely to the source material that every named character's death is so heavy and dramatic in the movie. The recent movie/miniseries adaption of Unknown Soldier followed the book very closely and was all the better for it. Classics are classics for a reason. Grevling has issued a correction as of 17:57 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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Nov 4, 2022 17:53
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Grevling posted:Very much agree. The sequence where they charge the French trenches, capture them, then get repulsed by tanks, flamethrowers, planes and what have you was bizarre. A book about how war is terrible and pointless and they decided to have a cool rear end action sequence with every awesome war machine at once. Haven't read the book but if Paul's death really goes down like that, just dying on an otherwise unremarkable day, and that's why the book has that name, it's remarkably lovely to the source material that every named character's death is so heavy and dramatic in the movie. The book is very much about how war is hell and it's terrible and pointless. The protagonist's death gets like two sentences because the point is to communicate that even though you've been following him around for two hundred pages, he dies unremarkably on a quiet day because that's what war is like and it's important enough to the themes and narrative that it's the title of the book.
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Nov 4, 2022 18:02
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vyelkin posted:The book is very much about how war is hell and it's terrible and pointless. The protagonist's death gets like two sentences because the point is to communicate that even though you've been following him around for two hundred pages, he dies unremarkably on a quiet day because that's what war is like and it's important enough to the themes and narrative that it's the title of the book. Really dislike what the movie did with this, I have to say.
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there are parts of the book that could be adapted well for big action setpieces, like the part where paul's in the middle of a bunch of shellfire and he crawls into a coffin unearthed by a blast to have any shelter at all while everyone else gets obliterated around him. was that kept in?
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Nov 4, 2022 18:18
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on behalf of Mr West I choose the second option
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Nov 4, 2022 18:18
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now tell my mama i belong in that slow class
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Malleum posted:there are parts of the book that could be adapted well for big action setpieces, like the part where paul's in the middle of a bunch of shellfire and he crawls into a coffin unearthed by a blast to have any shelter at all while everyone else gets obliterated around him. was that kept in? That's funny, that part wasn't kept in. Instead there's a bunch of scenes that as far as I know aren't in the book at all.
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