|
Enter the Matrix had its cheat codes unlocked on PC by doing a mini, hidden, text adventure built into the game so even though every other aspect of it was bad that ruled.
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 06:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 17:13 |
|
|
Snowman_McK posted:path of neo or enter the matrix? Enter the Matrix was the one advertised as a tie in to Reloaded which supposedly filled in gaps in the story. There you played as either Niobe or Ghost. Path of Neo was made much later and was basically to address bitching from Enter the Matrix players that you didn't get to play as Neo. That game was a rough retelling of the trilogy but is most famous for the ending where the Wachowski's suddenly appear in pixel form to explain that since the real ending of the trilogy doesn't work in video game form, they changed it to a fight with a giant Agent Smith.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 07:23
|
|
|
AceOfFlames posted:Enter the Matrix was the one advertised as a tie in to Reloaded which supposedly filled in gaps in the story. There you played as either Niobe or Ghost. oh i knew that, i was asking which game those particular complaints were referring to. Because, honestly, there's a fair bit of crossover in why they're bad.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 08:05
|
|
|
AceOfFlames posted:Niobe or Ghost who
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:02
|
|
|
Jada Pinkett Smith and Anthony Wong (who has done literally nothing else of note)
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:11
|
|
|
That reminded me of Bruce Spence who seemed to be getting a big break in Hollywood as he was in both the Matrix sequels as the supposedly important Trainman and LOTR as the Mouth of Sauron. Seems he's still gotten work since then, but like a lesser version of Doug Jones.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:14
|
|
|
Lid posted:Jada Pinkett Smith and Anthony Wong (who has done literally nothing else of note) Hey! He was in Ebola Syndrome!
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:14
|
|
|
Grendels Dad posted:Hey! Wrong Anthony Wong  Also I have never heard of this movie but Doug Jones AND Lance Henriksen sounds like the greatest thing ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna:_Where_Death_Lives
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:17
|
|
|
Grendels Dad posted:Hey! Woof. Ebola Syndrome is probably the most repellant movie I’ve ever seen.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:19
|
|
|
Lid posted:That reminded me of Bruce Spence who seemed to be getting a big break in Hollywood as he was in both the Matrix sequels as the supposedly important Trainman and LOTR as the Mouth of Sauron. Seems he's still gotten work since then, but like a lesser version of Doug Jones. he was already 57 when he was in those with a long body of work behind him (including 2 of 3 mad max movies) he's always been more of a bit actor/character actor.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:20
|
|
|
aware of dog posted:Woof. Ebola Syndrome is probably the most repellant movie I’ve ever seen. username/avatar/first word of post combo?
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:22
|
|
|
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is finally getting made https://twitter.com/netflixfilm/status/1296111142830366721?s=21
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:22
|
|
|
aware of dog posted:Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is finally getting made Googling this I found out Roberto Benigni was in an adaptation of Pinocchio again just last year, and apparently its not one of the worst movies ever made compared to his one in 2002? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_(2019_film)
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:27
|
|
|
Lid posted:Googling this I found out Roberto Benigni was in an adaptation of Pinocchio again just last year, and apparently its not one of the worst movies ever made compared to his one in 2002? LMAO, the minute I saw that tweet I thought “Del Toro should put Roberto Benigni in the movie as a joke and then I see this post and learn someone did it completely SERIOUSLY. Enter The Benigniocchio Verse
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:31
|
|
|
My son listens to an old version of the story on tape and I can just never get over what a dumbass Pinocchio is. I know I know, that is very much the point of the story. But I feel it's one of the more difficult stories to adapt because it's so very easy to end up with something where none of the characters have even a single redeeming quality and you quickly realize you are just watching a bunch of assholes and idiots.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:36
|
|
|
Lid posted:Googling this I found out Roberto Benigni was in an adaptation of Pinocchio again just last year, and apparently its not one of the worst movies ever made compared to his one in 2002? what the gently caress, did he just go "heh yeah that last one sucked. Do over?" while putting his fingers together and waving them around of course
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 13:52
|
|
|
Lid posted:That reminded me of Bruce Spence who seemed to be getting a big break in Hollywood as he was in both the Matrix sequels as the supposedly important Trainman and LOTR as the Mouth of Sauron. Seems he's still gotten work since then, but like a lesser version of Doug Jones. He was great in the Xena-esque show Legend of the Seeker several years back. Pretty fun show based on some pretty lousy books.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 14:01
|
|
|
Lid posted:Googling this I found out Roberto Benigni was in an adaptation of Pinocchio again just last year, and apparently its not one of the worst movies ever made compared to his one in 2002? Garrone's Tale of Tales movie was really good
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 14:01
|
|
|
Reminds me, when was The Day The Clown Cried set for release?
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 14:15
|
|
|
Ghost Leviathan posted:Reminds me, when was The Day The Clown Cried set for release? Wiki says summer of 2024
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 14:28
|
|
|
aware of dog posted:Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is finally getting made Cool cast but it had me at GDT + stop-motion animation.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 14:55
|
|
|
I still want his At the Mountains of Madness 
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 15:00
|
|
|
maybe Lovecraft Country will reignite interest?
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 15:07
|
|
|
At this point maybe Amazon or Netflix will hand Del Toro a money vault to make it happen.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 15:41
|
|
|
Pigbuster posted:The greatest innovation, of course, is this: I really dig how the fighters go up stairs and throw each other through windows. Is there a good fighting game with that kind of interactivity?
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 15:49
|
|
|
Lid posted:That reminded me of Bruce Spence who seemed to be getting a big break in Hollywood as he was in both the Matrix sequels as the supposedly important Trainman and LOTR as the Mouth of Sauron. Seems he's still gotten work since then, but like a lesser version of Doug Jones. He was also the alien leader of the sinkhole planet in Revenge of the Sith and one of the shark voices in Finding Nemo around the same time. A good two years for him. Groovelord Neato posted:I still want his At the Mountains of Madness I had kind of hoped the first season of The Terror might inspire someone to take another crack at it. Though the Thing remake from ten years ago was a complete bomb which probably made any ATMOM adaptation even harder to get approved by studios.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 16:32
|
|
|
Chairman Capone posted:I had kind of hoped the first season of The Terror might inspire someone to take another crack at it. Though the Thing remake from ten years ago was a complete bomb which probably made any ATMOM adaptation even harder to get approved by studios. Prequel. Though the fact that people still confuse it with a remake says a lot about the brilliant idea of just calling it The Thing.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 16:37
|
|
|
It's a prequel but it's practically a remake and also it's terrible. It's like everyone involved didn't understand the original at all (and no not the vegetable one).
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 16:39
|
|
|
Groovelord Neato posted:It's a prequel but it's practically a remake and also it's terrible. It's like everyone involved didn't understand the original at all (and no not the vegetable one). Didn't they also replace all of the practical effects with CGI for no reason?
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 16:50
|
|
|
Cacator posted:Didn't they also replace all of the practical effects with CGI for no reason? Yes.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 17:12
|
|
|
Cacator posted:Didn't they also replace all of the practical effects with CGI for no reason? No, there was a stated reason, it was just an incredibly stupid reason. The reason being it looked too much like a film from the 1980s.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 17:17
|
|
|
I get that, at this point, CGI is probably easier to do than practical effects, but I can't imagine it's cheaper. Practical effects also give weight to these things, and I'd think it'd be better for the actors to have something to act opposite to, beyond a tennis ball on a stick or whatever they use.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 17:52
|
|
|
Leavemywife posted:I get that, at this point, CGI is probably easier to do than practical effects, but I can't imagine it's cheaper. Practical effects also give weight to these things, and I'd think it'd be better for the actors to have something to act opposite to, beyond a tennis ball on a stick or whatever they use. Practical effects are often more expensive just in terms of the man hours you have to pay for. Paying the full crew to be on-set is really what drives production costs up, so if you can just shoot the scene quickly and insert the effects later, often that's cheaper. It's the same reason why they use CG blood in action movies these days, all that time setting up and reappying squibs is expensive because you have to pay all those people.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 17:57
|
|
|
https://screenrant.com/thing-movie-prequel-practical-effects-bad-cgi-replacement/quote:In interviews given prior to The Thing 2011's release, director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and writer Eric Heisserer boasted about how proud they were of the prequel going practical, with only slight CGI enhancements made to Studio ADI's creations. That was until Universal demanded the film undergo heavy reshoots, including a new ending, and that new CGI effects be overlaid on top of the existing practical effects, effectively erasing them. In a later interview, Heijningen said the effects were seen as looking too much like a 1980s film, a complaint likely to leave most horror fans scratching their heads, since by all accounts the effects in Carpenter's movie look miles better than those found in the final cut of the prequel. Some fuckwitted exec had to put their mark on it basically and screwed it all up.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 17:57
|
|
|
I mean the movie still would've been rear end with the original effects but what a waste of both time and money to make your movie look worse.Basebf555 posted:It's the same reason why they use CG blood in action movies these days, all that time setting up and reappying squibs is expensive because you have to pay all those people. Using CGI blood in films should be illegal.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 18:01
|
|
|
Groovelord Neato posted:Using CGI blood in films should be illegal. When it's done well and for the right reasons(the John Wick films for example), it's fine. Like, when you have Keanu shooting a guy point blank in the face and you need to show the bullet blowing out the back of the guy's skull, ok I get why that needs to be CG. And they don't cheap out on it, it's done as well as it can be done, even if you can still tell it's CG. The problem is you have a lot of low budget action movies using it as a short cut and they do it amateurishly.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 18:05
|
|
|
The problem is the industry has become too reliant on CG. CG is nessisary, but it works much better when it's used to plaster over the cracks, but instead they turn it into load-bearing drywall.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 18:18
|
|
|
CG allows directors to change camera angles and positioning on the fly, which many of them prefer. Practical effects usually require extensive pre-planning of the shot so that the effect works from the angle the camera is at. The ability to add in new scenes or do reshoots without needing to specially craft a new model is the biggest reason for CG preference over practical effects.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 18:30
|
|
|
Groovelord Neato posted:I mean the movie still would've been rear end with the original effects but what a waste of both time and money to make your movie look worse. I mean, even as-is, it was fine, honestly? Like, I didn't really have any beef with that movie.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 19:03
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 17:13 |
|
|
I never understood the desire for a Snyder cut, when you could just watch Shazam and Birds of Prey a second time. Aquaman too if you're drunk and you mute the Pitbull segue.
|
|
#
?
Aug 20, 2020 20:27
|
|
