|
Making a shot that’s even vaguely symmetrical nowadays gets you on fifty “film-lover!” Twitter accounts. I noticed this a lot during the Watchmen pilot, lots of easy gimme shots while everything that would require actual creativity to look good was fuckugly. Oh, someone is dramatically approaching a house, let’s put the house symmetrically in frame. The garbage cinematography didn’t help.
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 15:51
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 16, 2024 23:14 |
|
|
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Exceptional in a number of ways but it's really funny how this kind of thing was just part of movies: reminder that before he was a director, Barry Sonnenfeld shot Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, and Misery, among others
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 15:56
|
|
|
LesterGroans posted:I watched Ricochet the other day, which is just a middling '90s thriller, and was legit blown away by some of the casual shots that filmmakers don't seem to bother with anymore. Like, just throwing a ceiling a fan in front of the light to give it some atmosphere because why the gently caress not? Location shooting is basically cheating, but seriously - how are movies so much more expensive to make now, but look so much more simulated?  Uncle Boogeyman posted:reminder that before he was a director, Barry Sonnenfeld shot Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, and Misery, among others I mean, a hack director theoretically knows his way around a camera. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Nov 8, 2019 |
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 15:59
|
|
|
Uncle Boogeyman posted:reminder that before he was a director, Barry Sonnenfeld shot Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, and Misery, among others Blood Simple. too! That shot towards the end of the light pouring in through the bullet holes is wild.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:00
|
|
|
Wes Anderson’s symmetry and insistence that he’s seen a Kubrick suffocates his movies, I will go to my grave on this one.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:02
|
|
|
X-Ray Pecs posted:Wes Anderson’s symmetry and insistence that he’s seen a Kubrick suffocates his movies, I will go to my grave on this one. Suffocating is the exact word for that.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:09
|
|
|
Wes Anderson’s cinematography belies his classism, and it’s extremely unreasonable but “the aesthetic of fascism” is never far from my thoughts when I see his pictures. Christopher Nolan, by contrast, uses the aesthetic of fascism but drops the petty bourgeois politic for actual fascism.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:13
|
|
|
I really love Rushmore especially now that we’ve seen that Wes Anderson only has about three ideas he’s been remaking and reassembling. There are characters in Rushmore that feel like they’re actively fighting against being in a Wes Anderson film. That they all give up on the genuinely interesting character interactions and give into the twee at the end feels like Anderson’s self fulfilling prophecy.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:16
|
|
|
Pirate Jet posted:Making a shot that’s even vaguely symmetrical nowadays gets you on fifty “film-lover!” Twitter accounts. Yeah, I feel like the art of the utilitarian shot is suffering. Is it a byproduct of digital filmmaking? As in, the amount of CGI and green screen that goes into even seemingly simple shots has led filmmakers to attempt to make these big, flashy images. Like, you're not going to get decisions like putting a ceiling fan in front of the light because the light is so controlled in order to allow the digital after effects to look believable. Certainly the symmetry fetishism is just an obnoxious trend, but I know the type of images you're talking about and they're all hideous.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:18
|
|
|
The only Wes Anderson I’m really in the tank for is Bottle Rocket, which shows little of his signature look, and the childish whimsy is only a small part of the movie. Otherwise it’s just him ripping off Thief, if you’re gonna steal etc.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:18
|
|
|
Is he even working on anything now? Disney owning Fox doesn't seem good for his career.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:21
|
|
|
I used to love Wes Anderson but Isle of Dogs was so obnoxious and boring that I started to question everything I ever thought about him. I still feel like Royal Tenenbaums is his best and most moving work though but I definitely see the artifice of his later work as more offputting now than I used to.Detective No. 27 posted:Is he even working on anything now? Disney owning Fox doesn't seem good for his career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Dispatch
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:23
|
|
|
Tehran 1979 posted:What are the top movie choices to introduce somebody to 4K? Finally got the girlfriend to agree to the upgrade and need something good to justify the TV cost. Blade Runner 2049 Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse Mad Max Fury Road MI: Fallout Infinity War Interstellar Terminator 2 Planet Earth 2 Those are my go to demo movies when i wanna show off my system
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:24
|
|
|
I'm gonna go all in on UHD once Speed Racer comes out. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:34
|
|
|
Royal Tenenbaums is definitely the best Anderson and its definitely thanks to Gene Hackman. This is canon.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:40
|
|
|
I like the stop motion ones. The extra layer of artificiality helps with his inability to show genuine human emotion without affectation in his movies.
caligulamprey fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Nov 8, 2019 |
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:50
|
|
|
I have a hard enough time emotionally connecting with animated movies anyway, let alone ones that are as emotionally stiff as Fox and Isle. Neither worked for me at all. And while Tenenbaums is probably objectively his best movie (one could argue Rushmore, I guess, but it didn't connect for me), The Life Aquatic resonates with me something fierce. He nailed my daddy issues and struggle with narcissism, and I also love Jacques Cousteau.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:53
|
|
|
Uncle Boogeyman posted:Royal Tenenbaums is definitely the best Anderson and its definitely thanks to Gene Hackman. This is canon. caligulamprey posted:I like the stop motion ones. It helps with his inability to show genuine human emotion without affectation in his movies. Agreed with both of these.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:54
|
|
|
feedmyleg posted:And while Tenenbaums is probably objectively his best movie, The Life Aquatic resonates with me something fierce. He nailed my daddy issues and struggle with narcissism, and I also love Jacques Cousteau. The scene where he finally confronts the shark and that Sigur Ros song starts playing will never not make me cry.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:54
|
|
|
It's not just Wes Anderson, it's most of modern american independent cinema. I watched The Farewell today, and almost all of the film it's just these perfectly staged master shots. The film is decent, but it and so many other indie films just look the same. Incredibly bland despite looking "good", no actual life in them. Even the better ones like Moonlight suffer the same thing. It's maddening.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:07
|
|
|
Detective No. 27 posted:I'm gonna go all in on UHD once Speed Racer comes out. I think it was Egbert Souse who told me that it was filmed in 1080p digital and therefore can’t come out in 4K even if WB wanted it to.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:09
|
|
|
Electronico6 posted:It's not just Wes Anderson, it's most of modern american independent cinema. I watched The Farewell today, and almost all of the film it's just these perfectly staged master shots. The film is decent, but it and so many other indie films just look the same. Incredibly bland despite looking "good", no actual life in them. Even the better ones like Moonlight suffer the same thing. It's maddening. genre cinema is the only true cinema 😈
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:10
|
|
|
Electronico6 posted:Incredibly bland despite looking "good", no actual life in them.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:14
|
|
|
I have not revisited Rushmore for at least a decade. It spoke to me as a pretentious young twit and I’m afraid it will be as annoying to me now as I must have been then.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:16
|
|
|
Despite not being over the hill with it, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actually looks like a real movie, with film stars, that actually act. Same thing with Parasite. Like did you know that a wide shot could be used for more than just putting people in the middle of the frame? Bong Joon-Ho knows!
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:37
|
|
|
Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3902815&perpage=40 Oh, right. Egbert Souse posted:Tag yourself: I'm Doctor Strangelove's Secret Uses of Uranus. Anonymous Robot posted:Can someone follow Dr Sleep if they’ve never read or seen The Shining? Why the gently caress haven't you seen the Shining?
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:59
|
|
|
Tehran 1979 posted:What are the top movie choices to introduce somebody to 4K? Finally got the girlfriend to agree to the upgrade and need something good to justify the TV cost. Phantom Thread The Wizard of Oz (4K restoration from 8K 16-bit scan of the 35mm nitrate camera negatives and fine-grain positives) The Dark Crystal 2001: A Space Odyssey The Shining Apocalypse Now Alien Hannibal Blade Runner (though, import the 4-disc UK limited edition which is basically the 3-disc Blu-ray digibook plus the UHD disc compared to the US edition omitting the additional cuts and including DVDs for the supplements) There's also a few films where the UHD is the only way to see the new remaster/encode: Predator Evil Dead 2 The Big Lebowski
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 18:00
|
|
|
I’m going to a 35mm screening of On e Upon A Time... on Thursday, followed by a Q&A with QT, the DP, and David Heyman (producer). Excited!
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 18:07
|
|
|
therattle posted:I’m going to a 35mm screening of On e Upon A Time... on Thursday, followed by a Q&A with QT, the DP, and David Heyman (producer). Excited! Ask them what they think about Marvel movies
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 18:11
|
|
|
I just found out that there's a movie about the LAPD's role in the murders of Biggie and Tupac, starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker, that was set to be released last year but was mysteriously pulled. It got shown once at a minor film festival, and had a limited release in Italy, but otherwise there are no plans to make it available ever.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 18:13
|
|
|
Egbert Souse posted:Ask them what they think about Marvel movies lol
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 18:14
|
|
|
First official episode of Monster Craze Memoirs is up for patrons. My father and I discuss Caltiki, the Immoral Monster https://www.patreon.com/posts/love-is-like-31409044
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 18:34
|
|
|
Egbert Souse posted:Phantom Thread Seconding Alien, especially if it's a 4k OLED. But please please please use a 4k Blu Ray player and don't steam 4k.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 18:57
|
|
|
Tehran 1979 posted:What are the top movie choices to introduce somebody to 4K? Finally got the girlfriend to agree to the upgrade and need something good to justify the TV cost. Mad Max: Fury Road
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 19:03
|
|
|
Egbert Souse posted:Ask them what they think about Marvel movies This was probably a joke but I'm legit curious what QT makes of the situation Dude's a lot kinder to trashy populist stuff than average, while still being in a position to think Disney is on some bullshit, so he might have a pretty interesting take
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 19:06
|
|
|
Egbert Souse posted:Ask them what they think about Marvel movies It's this. Ask them this.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 19:09
|
|
|
LORD OF BOOTY posted:This was probably a joke but I'm legit curious what QT makes of the situation i'm guessing that as an owner/operator of an independent movie theater he probably doesn't feel too warmly about the new limitations on his potential screenings.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 19:11
|
|
|
LORD OF BOOTY posted:This was probably a joke but I'm legit curious what QT makes of the situation Tarantino tried to watch them but they aren’t his thing. He said it in the podcast Feature Presentation with Amy Nicholson
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 19:34
|
|
|
It’s hard enough to focus at work on a Friday, but it’s even more difficult knowing you’re getting surgery the next day. Thank god my girlfriend and I are getting Mexican food and watching Doctor Sleep tonight to help keep my mind off things.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 19:36
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 16, 2024 23:14 |
|
|
LORD OF BOOTY posted:This was probably a joke but I'm legit curious what QT makes of the situation Disney dicked him out of premiering one of his movies at the Arclight. I’m sure he hates their guts.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 19:44
|
|
