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YggiDee posted:I wanna see his version of Starlight Express where the camera is also on rollerskates. That sounds like a surefire recipe to give the audience motion sickness.
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YggiDee posted:I wanna see his version of Starlight Express where the camera is also on rollerskates. Ghost Leviathan posted:That sounds like a surefire recipe to give the audience motion sickness. That dril tweet about being bodyslammed but instead of victory wine it's best picture soup
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and willy wonka will be horribly miscast like johnny depp
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Has anyone heard from Tom Hooper this year. The most recent interview I can find with him is from late December. Has he gone underground since then? https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/12/tom-hooper-cats/604147/ quote:"Sims: Watching it, still, there’s a decision your brain has to make, like, I understand that these are tall, furry, naked people.
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He's in director jail.
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Ccs posted:He's in director jail. He's committed every director crime.
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I wholeheartedly agree with Tom Hooper that the film should be seen in a theater and it does transport you to a hyperreal world.
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Tom Hooper's curse is to be lauded for his mediocre work and hounded for his genius.
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Bogus Adventure posted:Imagine Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory being directed by Tom Hooper. The musical numbers are all headshots of the actors, and Augustus Gloop eats a few Oompa Loompas along the way because why the gently caress not. 
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Apr 10, 2020 18:47
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They should get him to direct a film adaptation of the recent Broadway version, maybe if he directs some true, undiluted garbage he'll produce something really astonishing.
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I appreciate this username/post combo
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Magic Hate Ball posted:They should get him to direct a film adaptation of the recent Broadway version, maybe if he directs some true, undiluted garbage he'll produce something really astonishing. Glad quarantine got you posting again
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BiggestBatman posted:They started out as a computer graphics unit at lucasfilm, got sold off in Lucas' divorce Yeah, that's what I meant. Guess I used the wrong term for a team that only does in-house effects. Stained glass knight looks better than nearly all CGI for the next decade or two though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKb61j8P4fU
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Give Hooper Hamilton. I wanna see theater geek heads pop scanners style
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weekly font posted:Give Hooper Hamilton. I wanna see theater geek heads pop scanners style 
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weekly font posted:Give Hooper Hamilton. I wanna see theater geek heads pop scanners style 
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weekly font posted:Give Hooper Hamilton. I wanna see theater geek heads pop scanners style He would probably try to make a photo realistic Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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ALEX ANDER HAMIL TON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaWBs46USqE
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Alhazred posted:He would probably try to make a photo realistic Lin-Manuel Miranda. 
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Alhazred posted:He would probably try to make a photo realistic Lin-Manuel Miranda. There are worse things... 
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That's exactly what Hamilton's fanbase deserves.
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Schrodinger's Butthole Cut It both exists and does not exist
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TrixRabbi posted:Just putting the pieces together between Tom Hooper's inability to film anything that's not a point and shoot costume drama. He hosed up Les Mis by insisting the recordings be done live on set which necessitated far too many extreme close-ups to mask the boom mics, and he hosed up Cats by being completely unwilling to follow the protocol in VFX development cause he couldn't immediately see the image he wanted to see.
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NorgLyle posted:Les Mis could have worked that way but he would have needed to insist on actors who could actually sing in order to pull it off. I still can't understand what Russell Crowe was doing in that film or who in casting or production thought he was going to move some important needle. It's only really Russell Crowe who's terrible isn't it? Most of the others pull it off fine because most of the others are Broadway actors. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone terrible though.
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I mean for Anne Hathaway's big number they made her sit down. I have no idea how good a singer she is but that doesn't help. Hooper's arc is so bizarre. He wasn't a good fit for Les Mis but you can sort of imagine the studio thinking "Okay, this guy's done drama and historical stuff, he can bring some grit to it and make it more realistic", which is a dumb approach but whatever. But then, based on that, Universal gets him on a fantasy musical revue where basically every shot is going to be a visual effect. Like I'm trying to think of a more egregious mismatch between director and material and I've got nothing.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean for Anne Hathaway's big number they made her sit down. I have no idea how good a singer she is but that doesn't help. It's about on par with David Lynch directing Dune, or Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing a Joss Whedon script for an Alien movie.
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sethsez posted:It's about on par with David Lynch directing Dune, or Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing a Joss Whedon script for an Alien movie. The former might be a good comparison as a hot mess with a cult following.
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Lynch's dune was still really interesting despite how much of a hot mess it can be. I have not seen Les Mis but a contemporary Hooper comparison to it makes me sad 
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I've not smoked weed for years, and brother in law is coming over in an hour with a 'nuclear doobie' for me and my wife (who has never smoked). We have decided to watch this.
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I'm watching Cats for the fifth time now, because I just got the Blu Ray and I'm watching it with Hooper's commentary, which is comically dry. He keeps talking about how it's a coming of age picaresque. Also, when I redeemed the digital code, it came with another code for a free movie if I signed up for Universal's mailing list, so now I have a copy of Hooper's Les Mis. edit: I know I'm not supposed to go outside unless I absolutely have to, but I absolutely have to get a couple beers before I sit down and watch the 40+ minutes of bonus features. Twitch fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Apr 15, 2020 |
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Twitch posted:I'm watching Cats for the fifth time now, because I just got the Blu Ray and I'm watching it with Hooper's commentary, which is comically dry. He keeps talking about how it's a coming of age picaresque. Important question: Is the commentary pre-release or post release? Inquiring minds need to know
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It would have to be post-release, editing was finished only a few hours before it came out.
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sethsez posted:It's about on par with David Lynch directing Dune, or Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing a Joss Whedon script for an Alien movie. Dune was good though (and Lynch is way more talented and versatile than Hooper.)
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henpod posted:I've not smoked weed for years, and brother in law is coming over in an hour with a 'nuclear doobie' for me and my wife (who has never smoked). We have decided to watch this. How did this nightmare go?
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Friends Are Evil posted:Important question: Is the commentary pre-release or post release? Inquiring minds need to know As mentioned, it was probably post-release, but the reception of the movie is never mentioned anywhere. And the bonus features, which are the bog-standard series of short interviews over production clips, are full of people with huge muscular asses in tight, tight dancing/mocap outfits. I haven't checked but these are probably on Youtube. It's a reasonably well done Blu Ray, but I wish the feature about "cat school" was several hours long, instead of only a couple minutes.
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The outfits they wear actually aren't mocap, they're for doing motion tracking. That's what all the little red diamonds and white paint dots on their faces are for. Basically you have a scan of the set and create a matchmove camera to mimic the physical camera, then you track multiple dots on the suit and faces (usually 30 points per part of character, taking an average of 10 minutes to track per dot per 150 fr shot) and combined with the data from the matchmove camera, the software solves where the body was in physical space for that part of the shot. You do separate tracks for the torso, hands, and head, and then go in and clean it all up with animation, adding all the subtle rotations on body parts that weren't tracked (like elbows, hips, etc.) You also have to equalize the depth, because each track will be slightly different. Its what they also had to do in Avengers when they designed the white suits they wear after the movie was filmed. But Avengers only had 6 characters in those suits and that was only for a portion of the film. Cats had 30 characters that had to be tracked that way across the entire film, and most shots are ensemble shots with all at least 10-20 characters. Because its so labor intensive and above all boring, most of this work is outsourced to India. Which can create numerous problems with quality control, etc. Ccs fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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Co-vid Mask the quar-an-tine caaaaaaaat
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Necrothatcher posted:How did this nightmare go? We had a lot of fun watching it, lots of 'oh, poo poo', 'why did they do that' and general groans when something disgusting was on screen. Pretty much the same reactions as everyone else. They just made so many bizzarre descisions with this, that overall it just ends up being very uncanny, strange and unsettling. Very much like some kind of weird drug dream. I did kind of appreciate some of the dancing sometimes, but that's about it. I was fairly baked, so it's a bit of a blur. Random ramblings from what I remember: - The plot? What the hell is the plot? We had no idea what the hell was going on or why. These cats all compete for the chance to go to heaven, or something? Do they die when chosen and 'reborn'? Are they all in pergutory? Why does Judy Dench get to be the decider? We had no idea about who the characters were, or what their motivations were. - JELLICLE JELLICLE JELLICLE. - Was Idris Elba supposed to be death or something? Why does he teleport - VERY horny movie. All the yowling, creeping, face rubbing. Shots of open legs, slinking around. Crotchless Idrid Elba. Judy Dench stretching leg out on the couch. - We were delighted when we saw Sir Ian Mckellen lapping up water from that tray. What a sight. - The fat house cat has dancing cockroaches and eats them while they are singing and dancing. - Were those tiny things that sang, mice or kittens? I thought they were mice, but then the magic cat called them kittens later on when he pulled them from his hat. - Proportions were insane and all over the place. They looked tiny on train tracks, then bigger in other settings. - When the fat cat was rooting through bins and the food was everything, they had these entire roast chickens / turkeys. They were smaller than the cats. - Cat Judy Dench was the worst / best part. Looked utterly horrible. Creepy old-lady hands and her jacket made her look like she had mad biceps. - Did that satan cat make the other fat cat commit suicide? He jumped down a pipe or something. - When the humans acting as the cats went on all fours, they looked like horrible monkeys from the body movement. - I hate James Corden even more now. I'm sure more will come back to me. We were in a haze the whole movie, but had a lot of fun watching it and commenting on the weird poo poo we were seeing. I don't regret watching this, but I never want to see it again.
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Yeah, that's pretty much right. I think it doesn't help that I'm pretty sure a fair bit of the movie is meant to be unsettling, but which parts exactly is impossible to tell.
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