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EoinCannon posted:At the cinema, in 3d, when it was released, it looked really impressive Avatar in 3D was also my first 3D movie and it was mind blowing! Also the second fist fight in a cinema I have been involved in.
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Messadiah posted:I'll never forget using a small boom lift under some high tension wires, it took me the entire day to realize that the metal wasn't covered in sharp splinters that kept pricking my fingers, I was getting zapped. My grandfather lost an apprentice to high tension wires once, the poor fool went out on his own to do a quick job without permission and without telling anyone and raised a survey antenna too close to a major transmission line, the antenna was not close enough or tall enough to touch the wires it was just close enough to become capacitively coupled to the transmission line and pull down enough power to kill him. My grandfather went to his grave blaming himself for his death it but I don't think there is anything he could have possibly done to prevent it.
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Can't think of anything more American than driving across the dusty flat plains for as much as days to see some totalled relics in a sink hole. They better sell hotdogs that absolutely slap there.
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Humphreys posted:Avatar in 3D was also my first 3D movie and it was mind blowing! Gonna need to hear that fistfight story. I have a funny story - not at all violent but since we were talking about Terminator 2 it's still topical. I wonder if we should take this elsewhere or continue posting about it ITT? I also thought the 3D in Avatar looked great in theatres. Couldn't comment on it on TVs, since I don't know anyone loaded enough to have bought a 3D TV when they were briefly very popular. But the IMAX 3D experience was something else; that opening shot flying above the trees gave me legitimate vertigo to the point of gripping the armrests. Hands down, though, the BEST 3D theatre experience I've ever had, which I will absolutely jump at if it ever comes back to IMAX, was TRON: Legacy. I got tickets early enough to pick the sweet spot in the theatre (IIRC it's around rows J and K, seat 20), and the 3D treatment was astonishingly good and so fitting for the film. The shot where Flynn's son gets 'digitized' into the Grid and the whole screen pops out into these cubical pixels made me swoon. It was so loud but mixed perfectly, the music was so good... it was literally such sensory overload that my legs were shaking for like ten minutes after I left the theatre.
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CORVETTE MUSEUM TO PRESERVE CAR-EATING SINKHOLE BECAUSE TOURISTS LOVE IT posted:Is this the America we want our children to grow up in? A nation in which a glance into the depths of the earth is more attractive than fine American automotive engineering? A land where the interests of sod-chasers overtake those of muscle-car enthusiasts?
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Preoptopus posted:Can't think of anything more American than driving across the dusty flat plains for as much as days to see some totalled relics in a sink hole. They better sell hotdogs that absolutely slap there. Where do you think the corvette museum is?
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tactlessbastard posted:Where do you think the corvette museum is? Corvettes are a type of boat, so on the ocean somewhere?
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tactlessbastard posted:Where do you think the corvette museum is? Technically speaking I guess anywhere in the US is "across the dusty plains" for someone?
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Mister Speaker posted:I also thought the 3D in Avatar looked great in theatres. Agreed. I saw it a second time with a friend and his dad. The dad had misgivings because 3D movies up to that point were usually gimmicky poo poo but we told him it was good. During the previews for other 3D movies I leaned over and said to him "it's way better than all this poo poo" and he was really happy to hear it.
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tactlessbastard posted:Where do you think the corvette museum is? lol. Also people that go to Bowling Green, Kentucky specifically to see the Corvette Museum tend to fly there, since they're also in town to pick up their new Vette.
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I would love to see a bunch of classic cars down in a hole. Sounds cool as poo poo to look at.
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Humphreys posted:Avatar in 3D was also my first 3D movie and it was mind blowing! 3D Avatar is great but also probably the most challenging 3D movie I've seen. Pixar movies like Wreck It Ralph are pretty comfortable because most of the time they just add depth behind the frame with the occasional thing popping out at you. Not so with Avatar. You've got poo poo floating out of focus right in front of your face, giant holographic displays, tons of movement of the camera and everything on screen. Hell, practically the first shot is looking down the incredibly long tunnel of their spaceship. Makes Mad Max Fury Road seem tame by comparison. And despite all that, it's still easier than most of the lovely post conversation movies that weren't filmed with 3D in mind and just had it added in after the fact. I really need to get a projector so I can watch my 3D Blu-rays again.
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Into the Spider-Verse was also a mega trip in 3D, really tasteful use of the format. It's also like, a flawless animated movie. Definitely go see that if it comes back to theatres.
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ugh that movie was so good the live-action marvel films are so bad next to it i hate that animation is largely considered a medium for telling children's stories
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StrangersInTheNight posted:ugh that movie was so good the live-action marvel films are so bad next to it i hate that animation is largely considered a medium for telling children's stories  Marvel stories are children's stories
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This is my biggest pet peeve about people complaining that marvel movies exist. If they stopped making the hugely profitable movies aimed at tweens they aren't going to give that money to Scorsese so he can make Taxi Driver 2: This Time It's Persianal, they're going to make more Minions and Emoji movies.
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Also big names like Scorsese and Tarantino are still working and profitable. They just make their stuff a lot slower instead of having a juggernaut studio employing thousands of people to release multiple projects a year.
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Nenonen posted:
Next you're going to tell me that all the time I spend reading comics is for kids, too!
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trust me no they wouldn't, those marvel films are considered minting money but animation is considered 'risky' because of how much it costs to pay all the artists and how much time it takes to do. but it makes it so much more fun and engaging to watch IMO.
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Just fyi, the best way to watch 3D movies is in VR. Absolutely 0% crosstalk.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:trust me no they wouldn't, those marvel films are considered minting money but animation is considered 'risky' because of how much it costs to pay all the artists and how much time it takes to do. There's something very ironic about this statement considering that "live-action" marvel movies are also almost entirely animated, and it takes so long to do it that they now start making the big cg sequences before they even have a director or a script
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Animation is weird because in the grand scheme of things it costs about the same amount no matter what you're drawing. So yeah, an episode of Azumanga Daioh probably costs more than an episode of Hannah Montana because teenagers and highschools already exist in the real world, but something like Akira cost about a third of what it cost to make Blade Runner. And I'm using Japanese animation for my examples because it has a wider range of genres, not because I'm a big weeb. That's just a coincidence 
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My problem with marvel movies is that they are completely sexless. All of the greatest adventure films -- Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Princess Bride, The Fifth Element -- have plenty of flirtation and passion and romance. Love is probably the most powerful human emotion -- and it's loving bizarre that it's totally absent from these movies that are trying to be modern epics. Some of the characters have girlfriends who appear for like 5 minutes, I'm sure just out of grudging acknowledgment to the comics, but they just hug and share a meaningful look and then the girlfriend gets shuffled away so the superhero can punch monsters for 235 minutes. You can show Black Widow hurling herself off a cliff to her death, but you can't show Spider-Man and MJ going at it in a closet like the horny teenagers they are? What's the deal? Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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American puritanical sensibilities. Also why violence is a lot more common in AAA movies than gay relationships.
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Sagebrush posted:There's something very ironic about this statement considering that "live-action" marvel movies are also almost entirely animated, and it takes so long to do it that they now start making the big cg sequences before they even have a director or a script That's insane. How do you do anything without a director? Sagebrush posted:You can show Black Widow hurling herself off a cliff to her death, but you can't show Spider-Man and MJ going at it in a closet like the horny teenagers they are? What's the deal? This is (part of) why Kick-rear end was so fun.
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Sagebrush posted:My problem with marvel movies is that they are completely sexless. All of the greatest adventure films -- Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Princess Bride, The Fifth Element -- have plenty of flirtation and passion and romance. Love is probably the most powerful human emotion -- and it's loving bizarre that it's totally absent from these movies that are trying to be modern epics. Some of the characters have girlfriends who appear for like 5 minutes, I'm sure just out of grudging acknowledgment to the comics, but they just hug and share a meaningful look and then the girlfriend gets shuffled away so the superhero can punch monsters for 235 minutes. Don't forget the male actor's bulges being removed in post production. Boob bulges are totally fine, though!
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Mister Speaker posted:That's insane. How do you do anything without a director? The producer decides that the next Spiderman movie's climactic scene will be a huge battle in a vat of chocolate pudding. He then searches for a director and scriptwriter to come up with a way to get there. Meanwhile, he contracts out the CGI for the scene to get a head start on it.
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Mister Speaker posted:That's insane. How do you do anything without a director? they tell the director "ok, by the end of the movie there will be 30 minutes where black panther fights a guy in a yellow version of his suit. make sure you get the characters to that point." they've already started rendering the battle scenes at that stage. it's why the battles always feel so disconnected from the rest of the film. e: 
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Mister Speaker posted:That's insane. How do you do anything without a director? I usually don't nitpick departures from the source material, but I thought the main character's love interest in the comics response to him pretending to be gay so he could get close to her ("What the gently caress, you creep?! gently caress off!") was way more appropriate and realistic than the movie version ("That's so sweet, let's gently caress!"). That was lazy and weird and kind of creepy.
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the goon who put a pool in his basement’s got nothing on this guy https://twitter.com/cswhiles/status/1586692858270056448 i know, shut the gently caress up
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I find 3D to be very gimmicky, it's fun for the first few minutes but not worth sitting around with the glasses on your face https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rlvig9RN4F1s1ddrj.mp4
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ekuNNN posted:I find 3D to be very gimmicky, it's fun for the first few minutes but not worth sitting around with the glasses on your face It's a more sporting competition than the power slap league. I'd stream a card of this
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Sagebrush posted:My problem with marvel movies is that they are completely sexless. All of the greatest adventure films -- Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Princess Bride, The Fifth Element -- have plenty of flirtation and passion and romance. Love is probably the most powerful human emotion -- and it's loving bizarre that it's totally absent from these movies that are trying to be modern epics. Some of the characters have girlfriends who appear for like 5 minutes, I'm sure just out of grudging acknowledgment to the comics, but they just hug and share a meaningful look and then the girlfriend gets shuffled away so the superhero can punch monsters for 235 minutes. I think it would be more fair to compare to the romantic subplots that were needlessly shoehorned into movies like Commando. Princess Bride and The Fifth Element had "love conquers all" as central elements of their scripts and Raiders is the only Indy film that even treats his female companion as anything more than a Bond-girl. I'm fine with making movies about love (or tits even. Remember how they used to put tits in movies for no reason?) but I'm kind of glad most of Hollywood, not just Marvel, has gotten away from making sure John Wick has a new girlfriend by the end of the film. ekuNNN posted:I find 3D to be very gimmicky, it's fun for the first few minutes but not worth sitting around with the glasses on your face
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Mister Speaker posted:That's insane. How do you do anything without a director? It's not that insane when you actually do it. A lot of directors are unskilled with shooting VFX and action-heavy blockbusters and the turnaround time on filming is pretty tight. The VFX and stunt teams are often much better at it, so the director spends more time on the rest of the movie while the experts do what they do. Corridor Digital interviewed the Iron Fist stunt coordinator and they had all of their work ruined because the director changed a bunch of stuff and the editing was done incompetently so cool fights that the stunt team had already perfected now sucked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TL_OUvTMFg
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Cat Hatter posted:Really depends on the movie in my opinion. The invention of 3d cinema was but a necessary step to create the one true 3d film, Dr3Dd
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chitoryu12 posted:Corridor Digital interviewed the Iron Fist stunt coordinator and they had all of their work ruined because the director changed a bunch of stuff and the editing was done incompetently so cool fights that the stunt team had already perfected now sucked. drat that’s balls-out.
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Sagebrush posted:My problem with marvel movies is that they are completely sexless. All of the greatest adventure films -- Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Princess Bride, The Fifth Element -- have plenty of flirtation and passion and romance. Love is probably the most powerful human emotion -- and it's loving bizarre that it's totally absent from these movies that are trying to be modern epics. Some of the characters have girlfriends who appear for like 5 minutes, I'm sure just out of grudging acknowledgment to the comics, but they just hug and share a meaningful look and then the girlfriend gets shuffled away so the superhero can punch monsters for 235 minutes. Is your objection that there aren't gratuitous sex scenes in general, or specifically that you want to see imaginary teenagers gently caress? Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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