Tuxedo Catfish posted:

if you say "like an AI generated it" in 2023 i'm going to assume you mean actual SEO-optimized gibberish and not, like, that meme from a decade ago where you pretend a computer made your not-very-funny parody of something popular

like this is what I imagine when I hear that: https://twitter.com/VoidBurger/status/1728310533147791602

quote:

Zack Snyder has revealed how he crafted a camera lens using four different pieces of technology to create a "distorted retro" look for his new film Rebel Moon.

Speaking to TechRadar at the Netflix movie's UK junket, the fan-favorite director explained how he combined various tech to create a brand-new lens to augment Rebel Moon's visual style.

To begin with, Snyder tracked down multiple versions of the same vintage Japanese camera lens. Once enough units had been sourced, Snyder and his team took each lens apart before affixing certain parts to three different German-made Leica products. These Frankenstein's Monster-like devices were then used to shoot specific scenes in Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire to optically warp said sequences.

The new lenses are "based on the hard glass, which is behind the anamorphic elements of the Leica rangefinder series, plus the Summilux and Noctilux lenses," Snyder said. "We found some Japanese anamorphic lenses from a company called Cineovision, which was set up in the 1960s. We took them apart, grabbed the anamorphic element, and attached them to the Summilux and Noctilux lenses.

"What happens in super-wide angles, such as 24mm, the anamorphic optics of the Cineovision elements are so retro that they give this bizarre distortion. For instance, there's a shot where Sam [Charlotte Maggi] is talking to Jimmy [voiced by Anthony Hopkins]. She's standing and he's seated, and the entire top of the frame is out of focus, but Jimmy is in full focus, so it has this weird vignetted accentuation. I love that cool aberration effect we achieved with the lenses."

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

This is what I am saying. Why use a vague term like this when you can just say it's a sloppy mish-mash, or derivative, or blandly regurgitated, or any one of 20 other terms that narrows it down and removes any ambiguity? That's precisely what I don't like about grimdark, which can refer to tone, plot premise, characterization, setting, defiance of genre tropes...so much space there.

McCloud posted:

https://www.techradar.com/streaming/netflix/zack-snyder-built-a-whole-new-camera-lens-to-give-netflixs-rebel-moon-a-distorted-retro-look

I don't know of that many blockbuster directors that create their own lenses. Dude really is one of a kind

CelticPredator posted:

Because it’s fun

(This movie might own idk I’m excited for it)

Philthy posted:

The banners freaking rule. Thats some Warhammer 40k grim dark poo poo.

Ferrinus posted:

It's time to launch a psychological warfare campaign by loudly and publicly claiming Rebel Moon as the newest entry in the "hopepunk" genre.

Ferrinus posted:

It's time to launch a psychological warfare campaign by loudly and publicly claiming Rebel Moon as the newest entry in the "hopepunk" genre.

Bongo Bill posted:

popehunk, which is if Zack Snyder makes a movie about Catholic politics

josh04 posted:

I mean the baddies in this are dressed in Cardinals robes?

Ferrinus posted:

McCloud posted:

Yeah but to really be true to Snyders style the robes need to be cut in a way that reveals their chiseled abs and pecs

Snowman_McK posted:

what...what am i looking at here?

Ferrinus posted:

A scene from Spanish supernatural thriller series 30 Coins, whose second season featuring Paul Giamatti has just finished airing. Don't skip this one!

MacheteZombie posted:

It's a buck wild show

Ferrinus posted:

The season finale was bonkers. Is it part of the Snyder canon and therefore appropriate for discussion in this thread? Well, if we look to Barthes,

Snowman_McK posted:

what...what am i looking at here?

Martman posted:

Uhh idk. He looks old man ripped, kinda like Jk Simmons, but not actually that huge. It's pretty easy to miss stuff like that depending on the clothes.

Jimbot posted:

Been a hot minute since I saw the film too. This is great.

quote:

In fact, Snyder has said that he started dreaming up the film when he was an 11-year-old boy who had just seen Star Wars at the cinema. But it's clear that he hasn't developed it much since then, because, in the intervening 46 years, all he's come up with is a single question: "What if Star Wars was crossed with Kurosawa's Seven Samurai?" There is nothing to Rebel Moon beyond that.