General Movie Questions (and hopefully answers)

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Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

I just recently watched Snow White for the first time, and I'd like some context about how innovative it was for its time.

Was Snow White the first portrayal of realistically proportioned humans in a cartoon?

Was it the first dramatic (non-comical) cartoon?

# ¿ Dec 10, 2009 01:02

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 10:08

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

When they convert films for PAL, do they speed it up 4%?

# ¿ Jan 4, 2010 08:08

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Recently rewatched Dr Strangelove.

- Is there any significance to Dr Strangelove being a former Nazi?

- If I understand correctly, the entire apocalypse triggered because Ripper was upset about his impotence and blamed the commies for it?

# ¿ Oct 1, 2010 08:46

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OneThousandMonkeys posted:

You mean beyond the obvious?

My apologies, but I'm not sure what the obvious answer is here.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2010 09:07

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Ok. I was wondering if there was some essential plot significance, but I guess not.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2010 16:56

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The worldview change between Star Trek I and II is astoundingly polar

Star Trek I is about cocky we're-so-smart smug assholes who go around the galaxy, encounter the strongest, most intelligent thing anyone in the known universe has ever seen and once they meet it they go "pshh, it's just a stupid kid looking for its mommy"

The movie disappoints at the box office, and Roddenberry's taken off the driver's seat, to be replaced by Bennett and Meyer. Nimoy says "please kill me in the next movie because I'm tired of this poo poo"

Star Trek II comes along and tells the tale of Kirk being forced to admit he doesn't know everything. Faced with the no-win scenario that he cheated out of in the past, he doesn't know what to do now. Spock, who for the length of the entire series was trumped up as cold logic personified, is the one who lays down his life to save everyone else, a display of human compassion that completely humbles Kirk.

edit: VVVVVV

Meyer then refused to work on III because he insisted that Spock should stay dead. After the damage was already done, he came back to work on IV. Then he skipped V because Shatner insisted on directing and writing (Nimoy directed IV, and Shatner's contract said anything Nimoy gets to do, he gets to do too). Then he came back to work on VI.

This is why, until recently, the Star Trek Even Numbered Movie Rule existed.

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Apr 26, 2011

# ¿ Apr 26, 2011 02:35

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I'd also like to add that VI continues on Meyer's "Kirk needs to grow up" theme from II, brings about actual universe-changing events and is a decent end-of-cold-war movie. IMO, the second best Trek movie.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2011 03:00

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Ornamented Death posted:

Speaking of Terminator 2, why does the T-1000 show up naked? His clothes are made from his body.

And if the T-800 can smuggle a metal skeleton inside a flesh body, why didn't it bring back some guns stuffed inside a pig carcass?

# ¿ Aug 17, 2011 20:26

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Fayez Butts posted:

Maybe the flesh has to be living?

If Skynet can make human clones that can can live while having a robot inside them, I'm sure Skynet can make living pig suitcases.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2011 21:35

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Why did movies look so muddy in the 70's? We had high contrast color movies in the decades before, but then for some reason a lot of 70's movies just look blurry.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2011 19:37

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Speaking of Kurosawa, would anyone be interested in a "movie genealogy" thread? I'm always fascinated to find out where movies copied aspects of their story and where they got inspiration for some of their iconic images.

One of the goals of such a thread would to be to find films as temporally close together as possible so that everyone won't just point to Kurosawa and skip over several movies in between...

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Aug 30, 2011

# ¿ Aug 30, 2011 06:32

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Before King's Speech, were there other films where they had two concurrent versions of the same film playing, with different MPAA ratings?

# ¿ Sep 2, 2011 00:20

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Wow, different times...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saturday_night_fever_pg_version_movie_poster.jpg

# ¿ Sep 3, 2011 00:53

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

To add to the ADR chat from the last page, I just rewatched Godfather and holy poo poo it had some really bad ADR. The two that stuck out to me were Barzini during the peace summit and Connie's screaming at Michael over her husband getting killed.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2011 08:58

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What is the point of Godfather I and II?

Before, my understanding of the second film was that they juxtaposed Vito's rise to power and the attrition of Michael's family to show how things went well for Vito because he cared about people on a personal level and that Michael's coldness caused his family to fall apart. However, watching them again recently, it occurred to me that a lot of the poo poo Michael had to deal with (esp Tessio's betrayal) was brewing during Vito's reign, and maybe Vito was just blind to it or lucky that it didn't come to a head during his lifetime.

How would you guys interpret the comparison of Vito and Michael in the second film?

# ¿ Sep 7, 2011 20:37

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

That's about what I mean by point.

Up until recently I assumed that Vito and Michael are shown in parallel in order to show that Vito was doing things right and that Michael is doing things wrong.

However, upon rewatching recently, it occurred to me that a lot of the betrayals that happened to Michael were betrayals that were brewing while Vito was alive: Tessio, Vito's old friend, was planning to betray the Corleones to Barzini while Vito was alive. Carlo betrays the Corleones to Barzini during Vito's reign.

It kind of weakened the idea that Vito was doing things right, so now I'm wondering, if Vito wasn't always doing things right, what is the point of comparing Vito to Michael?

# ¿ Sep 7, 2011 23:39

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SubG posted:

The proximate cause for the conflict is Corleone's unwillingness to become involved in the drug trade, a position I presume that audiences in general would be sympathetic toward.

This clears up everything for me. Thanks for the insight

# ¿ Sep 8, 2011 00:26

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Snak posted:

Oh poo poo when is this happening? I need to finish party down!

February, unless they negotiate something

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Sep 14, 2011

# ¿ Sep 14, 2011 00:52

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The North Tower posted:

Did Gothe just luck out and shoot the right person or was the little kid just that ballsy/smart?

Edit: http://www.anyclip.com/movies/schindlers-list/stolen-chicken/

I assume the kid was being clever.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2011 10:01

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

It's called a Dolly Zoom. Generally used to show a change in mental state:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEPWBxpYjo

But sometimes for other uses (like making a hallway magically turn longer):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTuCTVJMdQA

edit: that Raging Bull one is fantastically well done

edit: some more examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vm54QL8iZc

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Nov 18, 2011

# ¿ Nov 18, 2011 23:09

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Never heard of this guy before, but that was INSANE.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2011 23:10

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

What's incredible is that he loving SOMERSAULTED under a bunch of horse rigging and somehow survived at the end instead of turning into a human pretzel. Seriously, how the gently caress.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 02:45

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penismightier posted:

You probably have to read the whole thread.

The whole point is that the western as a genre was ABOUT something. It was an exploration of good and evil through the role of the heroic gunslinger, who represented many things in many movies, but was conceived as a figure of absolute good. Look at Shane, or My Darling Clementine, or any of the poverty row oaters. As time went on, films like The Naked Spur and the Searchers began to question to that - they wondered how a character whose life is predicated on violence and isolation can be a true force of good. The spaghetti westerns went further - they established him as good only inasmuch as he wasn't actively BAD.

So for 90+ years, filmmakers were chipping away at the idea of the heroic gunslinger. Unforgiven, in its last act, takes the final steps and makes him into a to-the-bone villain. And by framing it as a story about a man's return to his roots and showing him against the flag, Unforgiven tells us that in a way, the heroic gunslinger always WAS a villain.

Later westerns like, for example, Tombstone are fine movies but don't have any mythic qualities, because they've stopped believing in the defining ethos of the genre. I singled out There Will Be Blood because along with a few others (No Country, The Proposition) it seemed to be reaching a new myth, but I think it fell short in the end because it didn't have any conviction.

Does that clear it up any?

Huh, that's pretty interesting.

When I watched the film, I didn't get the sense that Will Munny represented the myth of the gunslinger, I took the story to be about how overzealous and misguided enforcement of the law (Hackman) can cause former criminals to turn to crime again.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2011 22:11

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FishBulb posted:

Honestly with everything wrong with Tron Legacy, digital Jeff Bridges not looking "right" isn't really a problem since he's not supposed to be real.

There's a shot of him in real life talking to his young son that looked fake.

But I agree with you that everyone in the digital world should have looked like Jeff Bridges. Including the women.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 18:53

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Where would one go about buying a 35mm film projector and about how much do they run? I have a bunch of 35mm reels I'd like to check out.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2011 22:29

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Got to see the longer version of Haxan at the Silent Movie Theater in LA. I was expecting to roll my eyes but was pleasantly surprised.

Detective Thompson posted:

The Hays Code at least forced writers to find ways around certain prohibited things, and some of them came up with some drat sharp stuff.

A musician friend of mine said that he feels more creative when he's in a badly equipped studio because the limitations force him to think more. I like how this idea applies to film as well.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2012 20:34

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Post the pics and we'll have a look

# ¿ Apr 13, 2012 19:47

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Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Apr 20, 2012

# ¿ Apr 20, 2012 06:18

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It's been a while, but I also dont remember anything more than a very general "he has a lot of useful info" and not anything in specific

They kind of painted themselves into a corner and had to keep covering up things as time went on

# ¿ Apr 20, 2012 06:25

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Watching Lawrence of Arabia.

"I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe"
"We should do very well then, shouldn't we?"

What does this mean?

# ¿ Jun 22, 2012 07:48

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cloudchamber posted:

They're the names of famous soldiers:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_de_Saxe#section_2

Well, YEAH, but I was wondering if there was anything that the two symbolized other than just being badasses.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2012 16:15

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Handsome Dead posted:

Is there anywhere that has a list of things changed in dialogue for other languages? I'm thinking along the lines of in Men in Black when J says "NYPD means Knock Your Punkass Down" and how that would have been changed into, say, German.

Well, in Toy Story 3 when Buzz goes from speaking English to Spanish... in Latin American markets they made it so he went from speaking Spanish with a Latin American accent to a parody of Spain Spanish. Then in Spain they made it so he went from speaking Castillian to Andalusian

I am very curious how they changed the partially-obscured-subtitles joke in Austin Powers 3 in international markets come to think of it.

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Jun 22, 2012

# ¿ Jun 22, 2012 18:58

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Well, there WAS a youtube showing all the versions but it got taken down by Pixar...

# ¿ Jun 22, 2012 19:13

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Are there any good online articles analyzing Solaris?

# ¿ Jun 27, 2012 02:00

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KyloWinter posted:

I'm not sure if this is the wrong thread but I'll post here anyways.

I am trying to find the movie trailer that goes with this description. I think it is some thriller type movie that come out within the last year. There aren't any sound effects from the movie in the shown scenes put there is this constant pinging throughout the trailer that makes the transition from one scene clip to another. There is also some intense talking in between pings. Does this vague description ring a bell for anyone?

Can you name any actors who were in it?

edit: come to think of it, the "ping" you heard may have been a high piano key

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jun 29, 2012

# ¿ Jun 29, 2012 21:36

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Every time someone brings up live action ADR I think of that scene in Godfather where Connie comes in screaming about how Michael killed her husband and thinking that they must've recorded it in a bathroom.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2012 22:59

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Recently watched The Right Stuff for the first time since I was a kid.

Am I imagining things, or is the movie pretty much saying that all the initial astronauts sucked and that Chuck Yeager was way better than any of them?

# ¿ Jul 28, 2012 00:46

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

This is a movie forum, go ask GWS

Edit: lol

# ¿ Aug 5, 2012 08:39

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Anyone know anything about Lawrence of Arabia being in theaters in 70mm this year?

# ¿ Aug 13, 2012 23:58

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 10:08

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

Oct 4, last I heard, but I guess theater locations are TBA.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2012 01:01

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