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My first film of 2025 was Wicked. My daughter wanted to watch it so we made themed snacks and rented it. It was *still* impossible to find 4 seats together at the theaters that were together without booking more than a week out. So I guess it's still popular! But yeah, ultimately just not for me. I love musicals, but none of the songs really ever stuck with me. I guess Defying Gravity was ok. But honestly, I feel like I've just been spoiled by Lin Manuel Miranda. His songs are just catchy as hell with clever lyrics. People just sort of singing dialogue doesn't do it for me anymore. Visually very pretty although the color grade seemed oddly washed out. But on reflection... I didn't mind it? Seemed like an interesting choice and there's so much color everywhere that I think toning back on the saturation prevents it from feeling full on "fantasy color explosion." Or something. Can't quite find the right words to describe it. I wasn't familiar with the story and it just seems sooooo unnecessary and I hate all the dumbification of some of the words/language. Shiz is also the stupidest name for a school. Bowen Yang had some funny moments. Cynthia Erivo was easily the standout of the entire thing. Everyone else felt very caricaturish (which... I get it. That's the material). But Erivo's performance was great.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I snickered every time they said "Shizz". I forgot about The Wizard and I. I did enjoy that one... shame it happens so early on.
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Jan 2, 2025 16:17
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Does he at least have the Power Glove? Fraud recognizes fraud
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Jan 2, 2025 16:28
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GD. Apparently Alamo is showing some bangers like the whole LOTR EE, Fury Road, Speed Racer, etc this month. I didn't get any sort of notification and now they're all sold out.
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Jan 4, 2025 00:51
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Dropping the bar a little... Just watched Caddo Lake on Max and it was pretty fun! Always in for a lil micro sci Fi story. Nothing ground breaking but enjoyable overall. Also it helps that's the physical environment I grew up in
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Jan 12, 2025 05:21
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Fifteen of Many posted:I took the day off and went to the movies for 12 hours yesterday. Why isn't every Monday a Movie Monday Funday? It should be law. This is basically what made me fall in love with the movies. I grew up in rural Mississippi and the only decent theater was in Jackson, 2 hours away. So every few months my parents would take my four siblings and I on what they called "Movie Blitzes." We'd get some hotel rooms and just plow through like 5 - 7 movies from Friday night to Sunday night. Going to the mall (which was next door) in between to eat or do whatever. It was a seminal part of my childhood.
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Jan 14, 2025 16:46
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Failed Imagineer posted:That rocks, your parents sound cool as hell. It was awesome and my parents were cool and I lived a crazy charmed life til my early 20s. Then they got older and mental illness reared its head and basically my life turned into a Netflix documentary but that's a story for a different day!
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Jan 14, 2025 18:43
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feedmyleg posted:My brain is so confused because it cannot interpret that as anything but a student film, but those are movie stars. haha yeah my first brain impulse was "rural film festival submission."
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Jan 31, 2025 15:32
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FreudianSlippers posted:The writeup for Gústi in the Nevermore film festival in North Carolina rules: Oh hey this is where I live. May see if I can get over there!
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Feb 9, 2025 17:47
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Martman posted:Lol, I was just reading that Mosquito Coast was one of Harrison Ford's most underrated roles Man I love that movie. Saw it when it came out in theaters. One of those seminal movies for me. It doesn't quiteeee hold up but it's still pretty good (and .. timely). Never saw the reboot
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Feb 17, 2025 05:49
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CelticPredator posted:It’s not an explosive but they shove a firehouse filled with head n shoulders up an aliens giant anus in evolution Randy Quaid in Independence Day shoves a plane up an alien ship's analogous anus.
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Feb 24, 2025 15:24
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Mordiceius posted:God I hated that film when I saw it. I mean that HAD to be response to an exec's note or focus test right? Not that I'd expect Spielberg to bend to those exactly but surely that's what caused that.
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Feb 24, 2025 19:25
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feedmyleg posted:Absolutely. There's the core magic trick of editing, of course, but on a more surface level it's why practical effects are so connected to my love of cinema. Any time animatronics, model miniatures, matte paintings, trick photography, or other illusionary technique is employed to make me briefly believe in something fantastic, it's a sense of childlike wonder. This reminds me of watching Contact and then listening to the DVD commentary. It's actually what *got* me into wanting to do VFX and Compositing. It was less the flashy stuff and more of the invisible effects, etc. The mirror shot specifically that was so amazing. The effect was cool and easy enough to "figure out", but it was more that it existed in the first place. It didn't need to by any reason, but it was just such a distilled version of "filmmakers being filmmakers" that it blew me away.
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Feb 25, 2025 19:53
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Sourdough Sam posted:LUT is a lookup table right? A board of color swatches to help balance the lighting and tone of a scene I think. You're thinking of the color chart. Which you'd put in front of the lens and briefly film before scenes: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/740518-REG/Datacolor_DC_SCK100_SpyderCheckr_Color_Calibration_Tool.html The LUT is a software thing. Easiest way to think of it is as a filter that you throw on your footage. There are "creative" ones for fun looks, more basic ones to just bring RAW footage into color spaces. That sort of thing.
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Feb 25, 2025 23:41
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feedmyleg posted:There's a couple theaters near me that have the perfect combo of recliners and distance between front row and screen that if you get that front center seat you just get to There's one here that has "Lux Boxes" and the recliners go 100% flat (and are heated). Each lux box is walled too so you can't see anyone around you. It's pretty awesome.
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Feb 26, 2025 01:55
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LesterGroans posted:Oof. One of the best to ever do it. Yeah he was 95 so I expected it any day now. But for his wife and dog too? They filmed a lot of The Chamber in my little Mississippi town and I actually got to be on set and watch him work for a few days (my friends dad was John Grisham's consultant for Parchman so he got us in). Really fun experience.
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Feb 27, 2025 13:54
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Pirate Jet posted:His wife was his primary caretaker in their home, so it's possible she died of something sudden and he and the dog couldn't fend for themselves. Ugh. That's loving dark.
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Feb 27, 2025 15:18
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Taeke posted:I watched The Gorge last night and it was entertaining enough but I was disappointed the big mystery turned out to be accidentally bioengineered zombies for 100th time. I was hoping it would be something like an actual portal to hell, or something eldritch or lovecraftian. Or at least have ghe zombies not be so mindless. They showed some level of intelligence, preparing to cook the woman, and they could've done something interesting with that. Oh well, still entertaining. The critter and the blood tree scene was cool was the giant pile of melted together people in the missile silo. This is precisely how I felt about it. Some really cool production design down in the Gorge. I liked the weirdly stylized lighting colors. The part that had me rolling eyes was the loving "we're trying to use this to build a super soldier" moment. I immediately checked out. Ugh.
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Mar 4, 2025 18:16
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Baron von Eevl posted:The title comes from a U2 song so I'm not extremely optimistic Ha, well at least it's a good U2 song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRI6cffvcO8 But also apparently Knives Out is a Radiohead reference and Glass Onion a Beatles reference? "Reference" is probably loosely used here, but I had no idea.
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Mar 17, 2025 20:29
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Jay Rust posted:a lil' plump Nah he's just a lil' plem
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Mar 18, 2025 17:15
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Gripweed posted:It occurred to me while watching the Minecraft trailer that John C. Reilly would have been much better casting for that role. "Hahah we're all gonna die out here." I don't know if you were joking or not but yeah he would be great tbh
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Mar 20, 2025 19:12
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CPL593H posted:Remember when the makers of Orange County made sure they squeezed every penny they could out of one specific music license? He is so good in Orange county. love that movie
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Mar 20, 2025 19:59
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Failed Imagineer posted:I think I missed the first couple of minutes of The Village in the theater and just kinda assumed that the "twist" was the case from the start. It was ok. Yeah I rewatched it recently and found it pretty fun. It's definitely leaning heavy on its vibes but they work and had just the right amount of scares where my kids absolutely loved it.
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Odd I remember most of the hits being squarely in the back.
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CPL593H posted:Speaking of lovely superhero movies, how is Gal Godot one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood? Someone pointed out to me that she has serious Tommy Wiseau vibes and I can't unsee it. This is from pages ago but we went to see Snow White and she is TERRIBLE in the movie holy poo poo. Also the movie overall was terrible. Snow white was the lone shining star... Everything else about it was bad.
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Mar 29, 2025 13:41
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CPL593H posted:A friend of mine is the director of a small Gallery and he got the go ahead to show movies there. I got tasked with picking said movies. Whatever he shows will be based on the gallery's theme that month. This time (which is also the first time), the theme is time warp. That can include any of the typical time travel/loop things you'd expect the also can include stuff with the melding of different time periods or deliberate anachronism. My thoughts are that it should be something that isn't a movie everyone has seen a million times or featured very prominently on streaming. A movie that is underseen but not an incredibly deep cut either, because we want people to actually come back. Right now my thoughts are Timecrimes or 12 Monkeys. I want to at least make sure they keep doing these before I dig too deep. He also has to license them for public exhibition. So anything Fox is right out. Anybody got decent suggestions? La Jete followed by 12 Monkeys. You probably already know but 12 Monkeys is inspired/based on La Jete. It's a fun double feature and nice blend of art house and mainstream cinema.
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And honestly she's fine *fine* in most stuff I've seen her in... Except for Snow White. Lort.
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Jay Rust posted:Yeah don't bother watching pre-70s movies either. I can't think of a single one that isn't old and boring. Hilariously I had a coworker... in his early 40s... who ONLY watches pre-1979 movies. Like he just didn't think good movies were made after and in the 5 years I worked with him, I think we got him to watch 2.
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VorpalBunny posted:I loved Val Kilmer so much ... I even loved him in The Saint. I *still* say "is sooo urrrly... You guyz wanna go git zum coffee or zumzing?" pretty regularly
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Apr 2, 2025 12:37
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Speaking of choreographed dancing... the Matilda musical on Netflix is good, but the real standouts are the big dance numbers. Those kids can legit dance like hell. Holy poo poo.
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Apr 2, 2025 20:42
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Air Skwirl posted:I assumed it was fairly cheap. My dad owns a photography LLC that did like 2 weddings and that's it. Yes it's easy.. I've done it for a short film before. It cost like 50 bucks to file for it and then you got to make sure that you do any quarterly filings although you're unlikely to have anything to file... But you still have to do it.. and then dissolve it when needed
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Apr 8, 2025 23:47
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Jay Rust posted:image / tagline / title seem unrelated I mean tagline and image are as intertwined as possible. Spoiler for logline it's a contemporary Western black comedy set during the pandemic
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Apr 10, 2025 15:14
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CPL593H posted:That poster has a wonky AI look to it. It's a real photo: https://benton.uconn.edu/anthropocene-exhibition/anthropocene-exhibition-works-in-the-exhibition/wojnarowicz-untitled-buffalo/ But it does look like they extend the bottom/modified the top.
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Apr 10, 2025 17:01
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Baron von Eevl posted:I suspect its either another photograph of the same diorama trying as hard as possible to mimic David Wojnarowicz's photo, or possibly an uncropped version of the original. Here's the diorama, the bottom seems like it might be correct. I totally recognize this is all very in the weeds but: I overlaid them and it's the *exact* same angle down to the drat pixel so that's a fantastic match. But also they altered the tail on the middle buffalo and the top buffalo... you can't get it isolated like you do in the poster. There are other buffalo blocking it. (They also altered the hump of the top buffalo). So definitely digitally altered. Anyway... that's enough pixel peeping for now.
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I'm more interested in if they got permission to digitally alter a very famous photo and what that took.
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therattle posted:It’s almost certainly out of copyright and hence no permission required to alter it No copyright is life of the author + 70 years and he died in 1992.
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Apr 10, 2025 18:39
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Air Skwirl posted:That's for photos taken in 1978 or later. The photo is from 1988
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Air Skwirl posted:Ahh, the link to the Smithsonian said 1959 Ha yeah it's confusing, the Smithsonian diorama was made in 1959. Wojnarawicz's actual piece, though, is a photo he took of it in 1988.
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ruddiger posted:Someone's going to do a backflip or a stair fall while receiving their trophy and end up breaking a bone. This will be the (most ironic) way Tom Cruise actually dies.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s bad. Even for a kids movie. I guess it’s better than It could’ve been if it was made by someone who doesn’t have a style but I don’t know It's just so boring and free of any development. I'm pretty easy to please with kids movies but I was just done with it halfway through. Honestly Jack Black was the only thing remotely keeping my interest. Kids liked it but man it was just not good.
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