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Gryfter

Gryfter

Rise of the Planet of the Apes was awesome. Love how they set things up to circle around to the first movie (original not Burton).
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

I went on a movie binge yesterday.

Safe House: C
Haywire: B+
Chronicle: A-
The Artist: B


I might write more words later, BUT I won't be pissed when The Artist wins Best Picture. I just wish it were Hugo or The Descendants more.
 
ElJuski

ElJuski

Staff member
Just watched Burn After Reading again, and this time it was fun to bask in the D.C-ness of it all. I used to live right near the Russian Embassy!
 
Frank

Frank

I saw Chronicle and Safe House yesterday, Chronicle was way better than I thought it would be (hate found footage movies). Safe House' name could not possibly be more spot on. The movie takes 0 chances and is as paint by numbers a thriller as I have ever seen. Every single 'twist' could be predicted in the first 20 seconds of every single character you see on screen.
 
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Soliloquy

I finally got around to seeing The Marathon Man for the first time.

Maybe I missed something in the beginning (I wasn't in the best of sorts last night), but I think the movie took way too long to set itself up. You watch doc walking around, doing spy-ish stuff, fighting and killing people before you get any semblance of an explanation about what is going on.

That said, once Babe got himself captured, things really start to pick up and I got a glimpse of why the movie is considered a classic.

I remember reading a review years and years ago that complained about the movie not using Babe's marathon running at any point in the main plot. This critic either didn't see the movie or is an idiot who needs everything spelled out for him.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Frankie Williamson said:
I saw Chronicle and Safe House yesterday, Chronicle was way better than I thought it would be (hate found footage movies).
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Is it all found footage or are there parts that aren't? Because the trailer made it look like certain scenes were regular movie scenes.

(If it's a complex answer involving spoilers, don't tell me, because my wife and I do plan to see it when we get the chance--I'm just curious.)
 
Frank

Frank

Quotemander Prime said:
Is it all found footage or are there parts that aren't? Because the trailer made it look like certain scenes were regular movie scenes.

(If it's a complex answer involving spoilers, don't tell me, because my wife and I do plan to see it when we get the chance--I'm just curious.)
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Entirely found footage, done in clever ways.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

From what I understand, they get away with using regular movie camera angles by explaining that the video cameras are being held up by their powers. It's a pretty clever way to have it look like a regular movie, while still keeping with the found footage genre.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I dug the hell out of Night Watch when I first watched it. I've yet to sit down and watch Day Watch, probably because I'm disappointed we didn't get the third and final instalment of the trilogy.

In the meantime...

The Matrix Reloaded

In an art class I'm taking, we watched The Matrix, which got me wanting to go through the trilogy again. And honestly, I seem to remain in the minority who loved the sequels. Don't get me wrong, they're not as mind-blowingly awesome as the first, but they're still very good movies. Though it's interesting to watch these in BluRay. There were a number of times that it was much more noticeable they'd used purely CGI for certain scenes. The multiple Smiths fight was the most obvious. Once Neo grabbed the long metal bar, there was a long sequence that was entirely animated. Still a great action scene, but I just thought it was interesting how noticeable it was, now.
 
Espy

Espy

See, I think the sequels ARE mind-blowingly awesome in regards to the fighting and effects. They are crap as movies though, the scripts are a mess, the story is a mess, the editing is a mess. There is some super cool stuff in them, but they are, in my opinion, very poor examples of good storytelling.
 
Frank

Frank

I thought the 'Burly Brawl' scene in Reloaded was awful in terms of animation. It was as jarring to me as the CG Spider-Man in the original Raimi Spider-Man movie. It really took me out of both movies.
 
Espy

Espy

Frankie Williamson said:
I thought the 'Burly Brawl' scene in Reloaded was awful in terms of animation. It was as jarring to me as the CG Spider-Man in the original Raimi Spider-Man movie. It really took me out of both movies.
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It depends on how you define it, CGI just wasn't quite there but it's still top notch VFX work for the time. So in strict VFX world terms it was jaw droopingly amazing, but it wasn't photo-realistic enough to fit into the film. That happens when you are pushing boundaries though.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

Sick day = movie watching. Lake Mungo. It was excellently effective. Basically, it was what I had wanted Paranormal Activity to be.
 
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Soliloquy

Espy said:
It depends on how you define it, CGI just wasn't quite there but it's still top notch VFX work for the time. So in strict VFX world terms it was jaw droopingly amazing, but it wasn't photo-realistic enough to fit into the film. That happens when you are pushing boundaries though.
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I think it's kind of telling about the state of CGI that cutting-edge movies made five years ago look like crap, but Aliens still looks amazing.

There's more that you can do with cgi, yeah... and it can be used effectively hand-in-hand with other effects. But on its own, it's a mixed bag -- and I think it'll always be a mixed bag no matter how advanced the graphics get, because all it takes is a less-than-stellar artist to make something that looks less-than-real, and things won't look good.

But then again, traditional special effects can look horrible as well, depending on the effects team.
 
Covar

Covar

The Captains - Documentary written and directed by William Schatner. Basically him interviewing Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Backula, and Chris Pine. Pretty good, not to deep into the shows. It was mostly about their lives and the craft. Avery Brooks seemed to be bombed out of his mind.
 
Necronic

Necronic

Staff member
Soliloquy said:
I finally got around to seeing The Marathon Man for the first time.
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Was it safe?

Also EVERYONE should watch "Tucker and Dale vs Evil". It's on Netflix. HOWEVER: DO NOT WATCH ANY TRAILERS FOR IT BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MOVIE IT COMPLETELY RUINS IT.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Oh I know what you mean, I haven't watched "Live TV" in years but I'm currently watching a few shows on my download sites whenever time permits:

Surburgatory
Grim
Once Upon A Time
Big Bang Theory
(Re-Watching) Venture Bros
Heroes (never finish the first season)
Walking Dead

Mostly as backround noise as I'm doing something else (gaming, cooking, reading comics etc)
 
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SeraRelm

FIRST FORAY OUT OF GENERAL!

I saw the Gray and I loved it. That and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Wasn't too impressed with Chronicle, Tekken Blood Vengeance was garbage up until the 3 way Mishima fight (which more than made up for everything until then) aaaand... Oh, a friend let me borrow Hedwig which I never got to watch. Saving that for tonight/tomorrow.
 
Frank

Frank

Shegokigo said:
Oh I know what you mean, I haven't watched "Live TV" in years but I'm currently watching a few shows on my download sites whenever time permits:

Surburgatory
Grim
Once Upon A Time
Big Bang Theory
(Re-Watching) Venture Bros
Heroes (never finish the first season)
Walking Dead

Mostly as backround noise as I'm doing something else (gaming, cooking, reading comics etc)
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Heroes is best left at only watching the first season. Woooof does it spiral after that.
 
ElJuski

ElJuski

Staff member
Funny you should mention Venture Bros; I just bought the DVDs for seasons 1 - 3. The other copies of my DVDs were somehow ruined by dipshit fellow board members slash ex-roomates *cough*
 
Frank

Frank

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - You fucking bullshit assholes (the directors) are gonna have to do something special for me to ever set foot in one of your movies ever again, and I loved the Cranks and enjoyed Gamer but Ghost Rider was God fucking awful. Now, when Ghost Rider was on screen doing neat shit, it was pretty fun. Too bad that equates to about 2 1/2 minutes of the movies running time. The rest of it is unbearably shitty and unforgivably boring. It might have been ok if everyone else in the cast was in the same movie Nicholas Cage was, but that's rarely the case with him doing his psycho routine.

Ghost Rider looked fantastic and that was probably the problem, they didn't have the budget for him to be on screen for very long. Also (and this is probably just me being a nerd), when he did his penance stare, there was absolutely no visual cue that he was doing anything to bad guys. None. In a movie made by guys who thrive on visual stylization, for there to be nothing happening when he's doing the trademark Ghost Rider move seems fucking strange.
 
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