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Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!
Undercutting every exciting or emotional moment with a lovely winking-at-the-audience quip.

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Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

Egbert Souse posted:

I would ban low-effort sequel titles that just add a number to the end.
Not sequels named [FIRST MOVIE'S TITLE]: [RANDOM WORD]?

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

Famethrowa posted:

honestly a retro piece using 60's era technology sounds fantastic.
Roman Coppolla's CQ has a 1960s film-within-a-film spy-fi movie (think Barbarella crossed with Diabolik) that for the most part looks bang-on for the era, but a couple of the effects shots are just too slick for the technology and budget it would have had. Only a minor thing, but it still distracted a bit. (Underrated film, though.)

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

EvilJoven posted:

Fight scenes where the heroes are just swinging away at dozens of generic cgi filler baddies while the 'epic battle' between hundreds of even more generic cgi filler baddies goes on behind them.
Also finales where a giant beam shoots into/out of the sky and the heroes have to fight through hundreds of lovely CGI mooks to destroy whatever's causing it.

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!
A more specific version of colour grading: banning that desaturation effect where a clear blue sky looks a sickly faded grey like it's in the goddamn Matrix. I saw it in the trailer for Devotion, where aircraft on a carrier in the Sea of Japan (which is as far south as the Mediterranean) on a bright and clear day looked as if they were taking part in the North Atlantic campaign during midwinter, and a still of Namor flying in Wakanda Forever which might as well have been in black and white (washed-out, low contrast B&W at that).

Watching movies from as recently as the early 90s is almost like culture shock, because they pre-date digital grading and everything now feels so colourful. People have normal flesh tones! Trees and grass are verdant green! The sky is a vibrant blue!

Actually, maybe while banning one thing, insist on another: you want to make the sky look different? Then you have to use a physical filter on your lens, like Michael Bay had to in the original Bad Boys to get his pink and purple skies.

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