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Biohazard posted:Except for the period where digital photography was still in it's infancy and he insisted on using it in movies where film would have looked amazing. It worked alright in collateral because of the gritty nature of LA, but trying to make a movie about John Dillinger with grainy rear end early digital cameras was dumb. yeah that movie looks like poo poo lol
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Oct 12, 2022 16:37
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Biohazard posted:honestly, and not just to be a contrarian, but who really cares about the Oscars at this point? I'll generally look at a list of what was nominated for best picture and check a few of those out, but the most part I just find some reviewers online that I like and check out movies the recommend. That's true. I don't think the Oscar voting is taken too seriously and it's mostly an excuse for the movie industry to have a big fancy party with all their friends. This interview was done with an anonymous Academy Member. Voting seems to come down to if they didn't mind the movie, heard someone was nice, or was annoyed with some political thing an actor/director did. - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-2015-773902/ For the most part it doesn't even seem the people doing the voting actually watch all of the nominated movies.
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Skeleton Ape posted:Good sound. IRL gunshots are really loving loud and almost no action movies effectively convey this. I know it's usually impractical to record it live like in Heat, but come on other movies, get some better stock sounds Way of the Gun is a super mediocre indie movie from like 2001 but has realistic gun sounds, gun handling and stuff. It's a fun watch. The plot is super thin.
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Roumba posted:Any part or scene from the police's perspective has really lovely exposition and generally just sucks. Maybe it's just because I hate Mark Ruffalo? Idk, but if so, I've long forgotten why, exactly. Also, the ending/climax is a little too 'movie' for my taste and doesn't quite match the feel of the best parts of the film. I think you hate Mark Ruffalo because when he's speaking Spanish in the beginning sounding a bit like a cholo and then switching to nerd rear end cop English is Good poo poo
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Ichabod Tane posted:Way of the Gun is a super mediocre indie movie from like 2001 but has realistic gun sounds, gun handling and stuff. It's a fun watch. The plot is super thin. That was made by Christopher McQuarrie, who would go on to write Edge of Tomorrow, as well as write/direct the recent Mission Impossible movies. Edit: I love the climax of that movie if only because it maintains a coherent "shootout geography". Too many action movies just have shots of people shooting at each other without giving any sense of where they are in relation to each other or what the sight lines are like. Nicodemus Dumps fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Oct 12, 2022 |
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Oct 12, 2022 17:01
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MrQwerty posted:That's because Michael Mann made it. Yes, it owns
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Cacator posted:Yes, it owns Hell yeah I'm gonna order it, story sounds awesome
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Ichabod Tane posted:Way of the Gun is a super mediocre indie movie from like 2001 but has realistic gun sounds, gun handling and stuff. It's a fun watch. The plot is super thin. Way of the gun has the best first scene.
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MrQwerty posted:Hell yeah I'm gonna order it, story sounds awesome If you like Michael Mann's dialogue, characters, exacting attention to detail and meticulous descriptions of heists, you will like it. It draws heavily from the Miami Vice movie too.
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michael mann movies are pretty good. manhunter is awesome, thief is great, last of the mohicans is a classic. ferrari will probably be really good
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Biohazard posted:honestly, and not just to be a contrarian, but who really cares about the Oscars at this point? I'll generally look at a list of what was nominated for best picture and check a few of those out, but the most part I just find some reviewers online that I like and check out movies the recommend. It's getting harder to find a reviewer online who isn't just making GBS threads themselves in rage because the media features women and minorities.
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Yaldabaoth posted:It's getting harder to find a reviewer online who isn't just making GBS threads themselves in rage because the media features women and minorities. i don't think this is true
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Cacator posted:If you like Michael Mann's dialogue, characters, exacting attention to detail and meticulous descriptions of heists, you will like it. It draws heavily from the Miami Vice movie too. I liked Miami Vice a lot, totally gonna buy that edit: speaking of Miami Vice, let's go OG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdbMJc26fbQ MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Oct 12, 2022 |
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kntfkr posted:i don't think this is true Well youtube is full of that kind of "reviewer".
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This movie convinced me to go get a gray suit. I do not look as good in it.
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hard counter posted:tropic thunder was the film that saved his career, op since after that movie he made knight & day, valkyrie, ghost protocol, oblivion and jack reacher and they all made between 200-700mill individually I didn't even recognize that it was Tom Cruise in tropic thunder
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collateral is great, thanks for the reminder to watch it again also very different kind of movie but a more recent tom cruise thing i enjoyed was edge of tomorrow. sort of trippy scifi with comedic elements i guess i'd call it
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this is one of the best michael mann scenes imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ed7QbHqbXA
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Oct 12, 2022 17:57
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Yaldabaoth posted:And even then they still tried to sabotage it by marketing the movie as "LIVE DIE REPEAT" to confuse people looking for it at the theater. Live Die Repeat is a much better name than "Edge of Tomorrow"
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TK8325 posted:michael mann movies are pretty good. manhunter is awesome, thief is great, last of the mohicans is a classic. ferrari will probably be really good I watched Manhunter on acid and it loving ruled. ZeusCannon posted:Live Die Repeat is a much better name than "Edge of Tomorrow" They use both on the home video release to confuse you more. I think they should've included the name of the manga too. Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (All You Need is Kill)
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ZeusCannon posted:Live Die Repeat is a much better name than "Edge of Tomorrow" That movie was so good, wish I had gone in knowing nothing as that would have been an incredible whoa moment. Bill Paxton is perfect.
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Is fuckin Bill Simmons posting in GBS now what a future to live in
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Yaldabaoth posted:It's getting harder to find a reviewer online who isn't just making GBS threads themselves in rage because the media features women and minorities. I think red letter media is pretty good. I know there are people who accuse them of conservative views, but I personally think they are wrong. They just have strong views on whether or not a movie was garbage or not, and sometime people read into that with their own biases. Your Movie Sucks is decent if you can stand his voice.
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Bula Vinaka posted:because he is a scientologist Yeah gently caress him, how many lives has he ruined by making some people think his cult is not really a cult and must be good because a big name actor swears by it. His name on any film's credits is usually enough to make me not see it. There's thousands of good films without him in them. Edit: Edge Of Tomorrow had no new ideas, just ones already used in hundreds of science fiction stories for decades beforehand. But Cruise is hardly your "arthouse film" type now is he, most or all of his film vehicles are populist pap. BigBadSteve fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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BigBadSteve posted:Yeah gently caress him, how many lives has he ruined by making some people think his cult is not really a cult and must be good because a big name actor swears by it. His name on any film's credits is usually enough to make me not see it. There's thousands of good films without him in them. Tom Cruise owns hth
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He's The Last Samurai I should probably watch that
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Nuts and Gum posted:Tom Cruise owns hth Yeah promoting cults is actually cool and good. Apparently?? Re: the op, he didn't win an Oscar because he's an alright actor (even if he is a garbage human) but he was up against Sean Penn in Mystic River. Do you honestly think his performance in this really genuinely good action film was more nuanced, complex, interesting and challenging than that role? I really like Collateral and wanna rewatch it now, but c'mon. I do agree the role isn't recognised enough though. He did do an excellent job. Not trying to contradict that.
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BigBadSteve posted:Edit: Edge Of Tomorrow had no new ideas, just ones already used in hundreds of science fiction stories for decades beforehand. i dont think anyone who enjoys the movie likes it because they think it has "new ideas". its the same plot as groundhog day and yes many other stories. its just a fun movie.
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putin is a oval office posted:Yeah promoting cults is actually cool and good. Apparently?? is that my daughta in there
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putin is a oval office posted:Yeah promoting cults is actually cool and good. Apparently?? if you’re dumb enough to fall for Scientology you were gonna be Mormon or something dumber anyway. The man has brainworms that makes him believe he’s immortal. Which is good cause he’ll keep doing stupidly dangerous poo poo for our entertainment. lol at Penn getting the nod for his over the top crying in mystic River.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:apparently jason statham was briefly in collateral, which i did not know He's also seemingly in it as The Transporter character, though not sure why. Collateral is such a great film, all the best scenes are just Tom and Jamie talking. And when Jaime Foxx goes, "Music school!"
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Sorbus posted:The Killer has better gunfights than Hard Boiled Finally someone spoke the truth
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Biohazard posted:I think red letter media is pretty good. I know there are people who accuse them of conservative views I've never seen this accusation and never picked up these vibes from RLM Is this coming from the sort of people that convinced themselves that because The Last Jedi and Ghostbusters 2016 made chuds mad they must have been good movies or what
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Borrowed Ladder posted:He's also seemingly in it as The Transporter character, though not sure why. Basically because it amused the writer to have him as the same character, even if there's no evidence for it in the film. quote:Beattie confirms that he's spoken to Statham about the connection and says definitively, "Yes, it's canon." The writer also jokes, however, that this isn't something that the studio would ever admit to.
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