deanb Posted June 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 It was a cool show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 So using a bunch of number crunching across a bunch of film ranking sites and services a guy has created "the top 1001 films of all time". It's not like a list of the "best" but a list of the most highly ranked by both critics and average users (though not quite average I guess, you've gotta be somewhat into film to be setting up accounts on some of these places. Speaking of I should use my Letterboxed more) https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3evqxx/using_the_average_scores_from_imdb_rotten/ Also here's Terry Gilliam smack talking about Spielberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 A complaint close to my heart. CG isn't bad, bad CG is bad (and so are bad practical effects). CG is pretty prevalent, it's cheaper than most practical effects with much greater scope of what's possible. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 Yeah, that video pretty much says what I've always thought: CG is great, it's just not great for everything, and the best effects usually come from blending practical effects with CG to play to the strengths of both. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150803-why-rocky-horror-is-still-fabulous-at-40 Decent read on BBC about cult-films, now that Rocky Horror Picture Show is in its 40th year of screening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 Really they might as well not have built that wall in the first place it gets broken so often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=444&v=-woNlmVcdjc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Pretty alright list of Sci-Fi films (including the above CoM): http://io9.com/5619137/25-classic-science-fiction-movies-that-everybody-must-watch Was chatting with housemate and generally agreeing for a preference of sci-fi where it's using the genre as a "what if" kind of story than "fantasy with lasers" as you get in Star Wars (not that there's much wrong with that but there's definitely two genres there) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 To me, Science Fiction should be about more than just lasers and space travel. Those can be parts of the setting of course, but the genre should allow us to explore more interesting subjects that we otherwise wouldn't be able to go down if it was set in todays world. BSG is another example. Without a doubt a Sci-Fi show. Lasers, Robots, Space Travel; but also Politics, the human condition and questions about the nature of war and our place in the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Yeah, science fiction isn't really a genre in itself. I mean, there are pieces that you could say are "true" sci-fi in that they just explore a simple "what if..." premise (as Dan says above) but most stories conform to other genre tropes as well. Blade Runner is not the same sort of film as Alien, which is not the same sort of film as Interstellar. Firefly is not the same as Doctor Who, which is not the same as Star Trek, etc. And Star Wars is definitely more science-fantasy (an old teacher also described it as a space-western), but of course it still has that science-fiction label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Star Wars is science fantasy, Firefly is a space western. GAH, get it right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Star Wars is space Kurosawa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 http://imgur.com/a/hTjrV A neat look at how movies are delivered to cinemas in a post-reel film. Though I imagine with this being an indie film it might be a bit different to how Star Wars would get shipped around (I've a feeling you might not be able to directly read the files on a Mac for one, likely some pretty stringent DRM in place. Especially given the mentioned Lionsgate thread implies Hunger Games is only "unlocked" for 12hrs). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Why are people angry at lionsgate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 They're being a bit dicky with launch of new Hunger Games, a projectionist was complaining they're left with 2.5hrs to test film before screening. (I would link, but turns out stuff happened in the past day and it's been removed, from what I can gather a bit of doxxing, and a bit of Lionsgate maybe leaning on people a bit) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 I prefer my info filtered through the fine minds on this forum to dredging through a load of nonsense so I'm fine without the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 People are getting doxxed over the Hunger Games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Projectionist complained about it, what didn't help was he made an off-hand, obviously non-committal in frustration, remark of "maybe I'll record it and post it online" remark. A percentage of the internet being the dicks they are wanted to doxx him and get him fired. A lot of others were rather appreciative of his "lifting of the curtain" and giving an insight into modern film projectionists job, which inspired the imgur album I have posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I've always been surprised that there aren't more uploads from those high quality theater files. You still typically only ever have cams and shit until the thing comes out on home media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Essentially, unlike the one used for indie film circuit as posted on previous page, the big films like Hunger Games and such your cinemas server will be hooked up to an authentication server on the distributors end, so you'll need to be hooked up to the net to even play the film on your projector. I imagine cracking the encryption to then re-encode it to something a bit smaller than a 100GB file is probably going to take a fair bit of heft too which your projection PC might be lacking in. And then you've got to hope that if you could decrypt it and recode it and then post it to the net that it doesn't include a signature in like the audio or something (like the tech that disables PS3 from playing some pirated films) that zeroes in on your cinema, where you're one of two projectionists. I imagine cinemas are pretty tight on it, if you're the cinema or cinema chain that can no longer shill your popcorn because Warner Bros won't let you sell tickets to their films any more you're kinda fucked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Yeah, I'm sure there's countermeasures, but it's just surprising that they seem to have basically a complete lock on it, with no leaks at all, ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHuXSZv6Tqs You really got to give it to folks who can act while in green/blue screen or being motion cap for something not (quite) human. It's kind of like voice acting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 I heard a story that Ian McKellen cried on the set of LotR/Hobbit cos he was all alone to be super imposed with the other guys and he just found acting against nothing instead of other actors and working off them really depressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 So pretty neat and unusual from vfx reels. A sizzle reel for a stunt coordinator. He definitely seems to be liked by Del Toro, Wright, Vaughn n Chan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2016 I think some things are a bit off and maybe not the references the video implies(e.g Wall-E/Blade Runner), but for most part a good luck at some of the film elements Pixar snuck into their films. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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