Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[dland24]

Got the Jurassic Park trilogy and the Star Wars boxed set on bluray for Christmas.

Also saw Sherlock Holmes yesterday. Was exactly what I expected. Entertaining.

 

[japanair21]

Man. My dad just bought a new 55" Vizio. Something seems wrong. We got the cable and everything set up, and we tried watching some of our premium (movie) channels.

It looks REALLY weird. It looks like the actors on screen move funny. Dinner for Schmucks was on and it just seemed to be so off. I popped in The Dark Knight to display something on 1080p to see if maybe that was the issue (as Schmucks was running on 480p). Nope. Even The Dark Knight looked strange. It's as if the characters are so clear that the actor movement is, off somehow.

Anyone experience this? Is it a flaw? What is it?

 

[university of nike]

Check your display settings - sometimes you can change them between cinema, sports, etc. 

 

[japanair21]

Nah that's not it. Sports looks great, but movies just look extremely weird, even commercials. It's their movement. I tried changing those settings you mentioned, the odd movement/PQ of people in them just seems so awkward.

 

[N41D]

So Christmas netted me a load of new movies... Jurassic Park set, Mission Impossible set, Dumbo, Rango, Apes, Super 8, Warrior, Raging Bull, Platoon, Bug's Life, Pixar Shorts, Citizen Kane, Green Mile...

2011 Watch List Update, CP:
Apes, Warrior, Just Go With It, Limitless, 13 Assassins, Green Lantern, Devil's Double, 30 Minutes or Less, Ides, Bad Teacher, Captain America

 

[japanair21]

I need to get one of these watch lists, I'll try and figure out what I saw.

@ Dumbo & Rango Nowitness.

How are those MI/Jurassic Park sets?


Also, I figured it out, the issue was that there's a new feature called smoothing, and it was mad annoying. Turned it off, looks

now.

 

[noskey]

edit, you figured it out.


Gonna watch either Melancholia or Midnight in Paris tonight... decisions decisions.

 

[jrp44]

Watched Casino for the first time in a while yesterday..I love that damn movie

Picked up The Pacific on Blu Ray (HBO mini series)....Gonna start watching that...Band of Brothers was excellent, but I heard this wasn't as good...still should be worth watching I hope.

 

[N41D]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

@ Dumbo & Rango Nowitness.

How are those MI/Jurassic Park sets?

I'm a sucker for classic Disney and you're buggin if you don't think Rango is solid. And I bought both for basically $7 so yeah...

The MI set is just the movies. No extras or anything. Worthwhile for $20 plus $10 movie cash for the new flick, which I would seen anyway. The Jurassic set is fine. It was a gift. I was gonna wait and get it after it dropped a bit since the other two movies suck, but the original is awesome.

 

[CP1708]

JPZ, I'm on vaca, I will edit list when I get back. Just remind me the movies next week. Dirk too........I just spent gift cards, got Star Wars blu ray set, Apes Blu, The Other Woman Blu, Crazy Stupid Love Blu, Just Go With It Blu, and something else.....forgot. I was gonna get the Spidey trilogy and Battle LA, but Star Wars cost me a damn C note.

 

[darthska]

So this 9/11 movie… *sigh*

 

[noskey]

Oh, yeah, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... loved it. I'm not gonna compare it to the original Swedish film. Rooney Mara

My god she can act. I'd been hearing things about her performace, but damn she put in this years version of Portman's 'Black Swan,' speaking on caliber of performance. The rape scene, though

Pushed further than the Swedish version. Fincher definitely didn't hold back there. Daniel Craig didn't impress as I was expecting him to (didnt know if he was English or Swedish), but he didn't suck or throw the movie off its pace, so that's good.

Then the ending... okay I'm comparing it here. I liked this ending more. In typical Fincher tradition, it was really dark and kind of left me stunned. I'm happy it was different than the originals, because I wasn't expecting it to end when or how it did, regarding both the Wennerstrom thing and the last scene. Having not seen or read the next 2 in the trilogy yet, I'm wondering how that's gonna affect the Lisbeth/Mikel relationship...

 

[japanair21]

Originally Posted by Nowitness41Dirk

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

@ Dumbo & Rango Nowitness.

How are those MI/Jurassic Park sets?

I'm a sucker for classic Disney and you're buggin if you don't think Rango is solid. And I bought both for basically $7 so yeah...

The MI set is just the movies. No extras or anything. Worthwhile for $20 plus $10 movie cash for the new flick, which I would seen anyway. The Jurassic set is fine. It was a gift. I was gonna wait and get it after it dropped a bit since the other two movies suck, but the original is awesome.

Yeah, I'm borderline on Jurassic Park since I'm not too fond of the other two.

And that's a damn good deal on MI4, I wish I would have jumped on that, I saw MI4 already, and would've gladly forked over another 10 bucks to get the first three, though I am kind of "meh," that there's no extras.

Goddamn that Vizio my dad got is beautiful. Not only is it huge and clear in HD, but the netflix streaming looks damn good too!

 

[jpzx]

*Are any The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequels confirmed?

Just got back from War Horse!

Excellent, excellent film. It's a tad long I will admit (so go into it knowing that) but I thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through. I never was checking my watch... (eh it's 2011, my cell phone clock), didn't want to make a bathroom trip in fear of missing anything critical, etc.

Jeremy Irvine was brilliant playing Albert Naracott, and I thoroughly enjoyed many other performances in the movie as well. The soldier that won the coin flip, the little girl trying to teach the horses equestrian, the little girl's grandfather, the soldier who bought the horse from Albert's dad, etc. All portrayed their roles tremendously.

The cinematography was AMAZING, Spielberg really delivered on that. And to be honest I don't know if I saw any "Spielberg Faces" as that one video described

Maybe one or two at the most

. But honestly, the camerawork in this film was just breathtaking. Everything. The battle scenes, the overhead shots of the farm, the plowing in the rain scene, and it goes on. I was BEYOND impressed. Roger Ebert even said the film contained "surely some of the best footage Spielberg has ever directed".

Gotta give this a 8.5/10

Go see this movie! The storyline is wonderful, don't expect a ton of action though. Only one or two scenes.

 

[kevin cleveland]

People really do eat up Spielberg's recent triteness. And at two and a half hours? I would rather be waterboarded.

 

[japanair21]

Santa was pretty good to me this year, and was my birthday yesterday. A lot of these were random gifts, but still, anything is appreciated. I think this is the first year no DVDs, all Blu-rays.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Crow
Deliverance (Reynolds)
The Departed
The Fighter
The Green Mile
Hot Tub Time Machine
I Am Legend
Jackie Brown
King's Speech
Land of the Dead (I'm a horror flick kinda dude, leave me alone

).
The Last Samurai
Mad Men Season 4
Office Space
Pulp Fiction
Sling Blade
Training Day

And then my sister-in-law gave me a 50 dollar Amazon card, which will be going to that fancy Lord of the Rings boxset they got out.

 

[N41D]

Does anyone have Netflix streaming still? I still have the mail service and was thinking about switching over for awhile so I can watch movies on my iPad in bed at night... Is the selection any better since the switch?

 

[jpzx]

How many original ideas are there even left in Hollywood Kev?

You got Fincher remaking Dragon Tattoo, Nolan remaking the Barman series, Coen Brothers remaking True Grit, etc. Even the great directors succumb to it. And I don't even know if War Horse is a remake, I don't think it is.

 

[kevin cleveland]

That's not what I meant.

He makes systematic, childish blockbusters that have no real depth. You can see right through them. Always painfully "sentimental," but rarely ever real. And I don't mean just because he uses horses, or aliens, or whatever new subject he chooses to try and differentiate from the last one, albeit with generally the same concept. A majority of his career has been that way, but at least he made better movies before.

Edit: A quote about him from some journalist. Perfect.

"Infantilizing the audience, reconstituting the spectator as child, then overwhelming him and her with sound and spectacle, obliterating irony, aesthetic self-consciousness, and critical reflection."

 

[darthska]

Never really looked at what Spielberg has done recently, but since Kev brought it up, I went ahead and looked him up on IMDb.

Yikes. Definitely going to have to agree with you, dude.

 

[illmaticsoulchild]

Originally Posted by JPZx

How many original ideas are there even left in Hollywood Kev?

It's not a matter of a lack of creativity. There are thousands of great ideas floating around Hollywood. I've heard of great loglines from spec scripts that gave me that, "damn, I want to see that made" feeling.
BUT...

If you're a producer and your job is to finance a film; would you invest $60+ million in production (plus maybe $30+ million marketing) on a brand new idea (basically an untested story with no fan base)? Or a best selling novel, remake, sequel, etc..., all that already have a built in fan base which is less riskier? If you put me in that position, and my job is to make money for a major studio, as much as a film fan I am, in terms of the business side, I'm looking to making "Love Boat: The Movie" or "Connect Four: +%$% Just Got Real."

 

[N41D]

You can do the remake/sequel thing and still be original and thought provoking, though... Nolan's Batman is a remake but it is entirely different than anything that had come before it in the Batman universe or the superhero universe in general. Nothing else like it.

 

[duba169]

there are plenty of ideas and creative people. it's the financing.

it's easier to crank out 17 saw movies. It makes fiscal sense too.

I watched the documentary on apocalypse now and towards the end Coppola states that random kids will have an excellent opprotunity to become filmmakers because cameras have become available to the general public.

I guess he was wrong to a point. I mean anyone can make a movie but it's hard to get a large audience. unless you count the internet. I just don't think you can make a classic movie on the grand scale with no financing. Don't matter how creative you are.
they don't male em like they used to. Just... I dunno the pacing seems off the most. 

 

[big j 33]

Finally saw Attack the Block.

Loved it, and it reminded me of how badly I want an English friend.

 

[JD617]

Originally Posted by illmaticsoulchild

Originally Posted by JPZx

How many original ideas are there even left in Hollywood Kev?

It's not a matter of a lack of creativity. There are thousands of great ideas floating around Hollywood. I've heard of great loglines from spec scripts that gave me that, "damn, I want to see that made" feeling.
BUT...

If you're a producer and your job is to finance a film; would you invest $60+ million in production (plus maybe $30+ million marketing) on a brand new idea (basically an untested story with no fan base)? Or a best selling novel, remake, sequel, etc..., all that already have a built in fan base which is less riskier? If you put me in that position, and my job is to make money for a major studio, as much as a film fan I am, in terms of the business side, I'm looking to making "Love Boat: The Movie" or "Connect Four: +%$% Just Got Real."

I don't know if this has been posted, but here's a good read that touches on this.
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris