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mind the walrus posted:It's genuinely hard to discern who was blacklisted for being a whistleblower and who was blacklisted because they were a shithead. The two have a tendency to play in tandem and feed into one another. A lot of people who are blacklisted for having ethics become shitheads when they're treated badly, and a lot of shitheads will blow whistles when they realize it's one of their plays after being blacklisted.   
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Non Compos Mentis posted:I remember there being an anteater that talked Yeah, I liked him. There was the guy from Weekend at Bernie's. There were a bunch of cheesy music bits. Uh, there was a little girl ghost, obviously. Oh right, the guy in the coma was also the dad in Heroes. That's most of my memories of the show right there.
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Len posted:It was in B&W on the DVDs, you could have just watched it without doing extra work It's 2023 my dude
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The Mist DVD I rented from the video store didn't have that option so I just manually tuned the saturation down and contrast up on my tube TV. Worked like a charm. This was over a decade ago.
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jazzyjay posted:It's 2023 my dude I assumed OP watched it in the before times, if they watched it in 2023 I still would have just downloaded or streamed the black and white directors cut my dude
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jazzyjay posted:It's 2023 my dude 
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you can make things b&w with simple monitor options. or tv options.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Silver Bullet, Graveyard Shift, The Mangler and The Running Man are all great campy movies too. The Running Man movie is a very loose adaption of the book. It's a great book, but hoo boy is the ending unfilmable today. And for the past.... checks notes... 22 years.
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PhazonLink posted:you can make things b&w with simple monitor options. FWIU it’s not quite the same, this debate came up in the days of colorization- if you watch the colorized version of a movie but turn down the color on your TV it’s not quite the same as watching the black and white version because the colorization process has an effect on the light/dark values.
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Yeah I punched the levels to really crunch the blacks - I wanted a Fury Road Black and Chrome level of contrast and it worked well - the dodgy CGI looked positively seamless 
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mllaneza posted:The Running Man movie is a very loose adaption of the book. It's a great book, but hoo boy is the ending unfilmable today. And for the past.... checks notes... 22 years. Object lessons in asymmetric warfare are always fraught with peril.
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Maxwell Lord posted:FWIU it’s not quite the same, this debate came up in the days of colorization- if you watch the colorized version of a movie but turn down the color on your TV it’s not quite the same as watching the black and white version because the colorization process has an effect on the light/dark values. Also a lot of old black and white movies weren't just regular movies in black and white, there are specific choices you have to make in regards to lighting and color in order for a black and white movies to look good.
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muscles like this! posted:Also a lot of old black and white movies weren't just regular movies in black and white, there are specific choices you have to make in regards to lighting and color in order for a black and white movies to look good. Also makeup, they were slathered in blue grease paint and yellow lipstick
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muscles like this! posted:Also a lot of old black and white movies weren't just regular movies in black and white, there are specific choices you have to make in regards to lighting and color in order for a black and white movies to look good. 
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That's creepy AND kooky!
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"I can see colours but I don't want to" - a robustly sane person
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When you shoot something in black and white without composing the shot specifically for b&w you end up with that ugly Joss Whedon Much Ado movie he did during the last writer's strike.
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If I remember correctly (though this could be apocryphal), that's why Frankenstein's monster is portrayed as being green - 'cause in B&W that's what gave the best 'corpse-pallor' hue. They just continued with the same make-up during the transition into colour.
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There were similar stories for the makeup tests for Star Trek back in the day, since it was right when color TVs were staring to take off. Roddenberry intended Spock to have deep red skin, until it was pointed out that on black and white screens, it would look black. So they pivoted to using a makeup color called, I poo poo you not, “Chinese Yellow,” that had a slight yellow-green tint to it in color and largely “white” in black and white. Later, for the makeup test for the “Orion Slave Girl” character (  ), they kept using greener and greener makeup, and the film kept coming back with a natural skin tone. Turns out they kept color-correcting her because they thought the green was a mistake.
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jazzyjay posted:Yeah I punched the levels to really crunch the blacks - I wanted a Fury Road Black and Chrome level of contrast and it worked well - the dodgy CGI looked positively seamless There's an official black & white release for The Mist, have you ever compared your version with theirs'?
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credburn posted:Stephen King adaptations increase in quality the more removed he is from them. That’s why Midnight Mass is the perfect King adaptation.
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roffels posted:There's an official black & white release for The Mist, have you ever compared your version with theirs'? My brain is hosed up and imagined mashing up the game Black & White with The Mist.
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Brawnfire posted:My brain is hosed up and imagined mashing up the game Black & White with The Mist. I'd play it
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mllaneza posted:The Running Man movie is a very loose adaption of the book. It's a great book, but hoo boy is the ending unfilmable today. And for the past.... checks notes... 22 years. Oh yeah, all it has in common is the names. Series 7: The Contenders was a much closer adaptation.
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Brawnfire posted:My brain is hosed up and imagined mashing up the game Black & White with The Mist. A game where you manage and grow your horror movie monster until it can be unleased upon the world would be great
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Improbable Lobster posted:A game where you manage and grow your horror movie monster until it can be unleased upon the world would be great Digimon but with Godzilla, I'd play the gently caress out of that.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Digimon but with Godzilla, I'd play the gently caress out of that. They did this with Ultraman kaiju and Monster Rancher earlier this year fwiw. Link
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A Sometimes Food posted:They did this with Ultraman kaiju and Monster Rancher earlier this year fwiw. last year, it came out when i was on a work trip in 2022 and i had to download at a wendys wifi because the hotels internet didn't work with the switch
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Oh yeah, all it has in common is the names. Series 7: The Contenders was a much closer adaptation. And Series 7 is nothing like The Running Man. The closest movies I can think of to the novel, in tone at least, are They Live and Rollerball.
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The Running Man is a good book and has a good ending but in my copy, Stephen King opens the book by talking about the ending, completely giving it away. What the gently caress dude you're a writer
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credburn posted:The Running Man is a good book and has a good ending but in my copy, Stephen King opens the book by talking about the ending, completely giving it away. What the gently caress dude you're a writer that sounds like one of the forewords that got added years later
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Jedit posted:And Series 7 is nothing like The Running Man. The closest movies I can think of to the novel, in tone at least, are They Live and Rollerball. It's been over 20 years since I saw Series 7 but it was a pre-Purge movie that has to make you take a lot of leaps of logic and the fear of reality destroying us all. It wasn't very good when I watched it but maybe watching it again with some distance might make me more charitable.
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Arivia posted:that sounds like one of the forewords that got added years later Yeah, it is, but both King and the editor/publisher should have had the presence of mind to realize that some if not most people buying the new edition of the book would be reading it for the first time, myself included. Didn't exactly ruin it for me, I mean a book is more than its ending, but c'mon, lol. The word "SPOILERS" had indeed been invented by that point.
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Mooseontheloose posted:It's been over 20 years since I saw Series 7 but it was a pre-Purge movie that has to make you take a lot of leaps of logic and the fear of reality destroying us all. Series 7 is if anything media that has aged far too well. No leaps of logic are needed to explain why a TV station would be allowed to make a reality show where randomly selected members of the public have to kill one another and the only prize is getting to stop if you win three times, why parents would watch their child be beaten to death six feet away and do nothing to stop it, why a nurse is willing to commit murder but not abortion. You can just listen to Tucker Carlson.
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I always get The Running Man and The Long Walk mixed up
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The Running Man has aged really well and is even more timely now than it was back when it was published.
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A Sometimes Food posted:They did this with Ultraman kaiju and Monster Rancher earlier this year fwiw. I had no idea this existed, thanks
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muscles like this! posted:The Running Man has aged really well and is even more timely now than it was back when it was published. Sadly that's the case of a lot of 1980s dystopian literature and film. Like if anything most of the time they are too optimistic. It turns out the future was literally too horrible for anyone to even imagine. Compare Robocop to real life.
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Robocop was only wrong in that it thought the cops would also get crushed by the corpo dystopia, instead of being willing partners because they just really like being the state's monopoly on violence. Also fewer robot cops, I guess.
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Volcott posted:Robocop was only wrong in that it thought the cops would also get crushed by the corpo dystopia, instead of being willing partners because they just really like being the state's monopoly on violence. Fewer robot cops is the reason why the cops aren't getting crushed. You'd better believe that if the corporations could automate the police and sack the humans then they would.
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