fmalover

Denis Villeneuve makes movies that can be best described as lifeless.

JadedSkywalker said:

I’m referring to the so-called unrestored version seen theatrically with a radically different color timing Chris Nolan was responsible for. There was many a complaint and discussion.

original 70mm prints looked nothing like that.

It’s safe to say modern teal computer colors weren’t on the mind of Stanley Kubrick when he filmed 2001.

Oh OK.

Well, remember Nolan can’t perceive certain colours, so there’s that.

JadedSkywalker said:

I’d also include Nolan for the horribly tealed 2001.

Im sorry, what?

JadedSkywalker said:

But all the deepfaking and deaging still has that telltale fakeness to it. Like Harrison moved like an old man and sounded like an old man despite appearing young. Which gave it away.

An unrelated movie had that same problem: The Irishman. Despite being digitally de-aged, Robert De Niro still moved like a man in his mid-seventies.

JadedSkywalker said:

I bought Megalopolis two months ago, today i go into my library the film is no longer available because it was pulled due to contractual reasons. No refund and i can’t watch my movie just because i waited a few weeks.

This is the first time I’ve bought something, and it wasn’t on the server after it left rental or purchase.

What a crooked thing to do, oh well we sold the rights to Peacock. Why sell me something and then take it away.

This is why I will never buy a digital copy ever. Once the rights expire that movie is gone, thus you wasted your money.

Had sex for the first time in 18 years.

It was fucking awesome!

JackNapier said:

The film Poor Things is a story whose plot is the strangest I have ever had the opportunity to watch. This “movie” has notions on feminism, misogyny, and philosophy. I have no idea how to feel about this. Anyone else have this problem?

Personally I felt the movie was good but not mind-blowing. What I liked the most is that it was shot on 35mm film stock.

JadedSkywalker said:

Amazon or Apple I’m not sure about I’ve never been subscribed to their services.

I for one can tell you Amazon produces some pretty great movies and streaming series.

JadedSkywalker said:

I don’t know what to think. Larry hasn’t written a good script is so long I can’t recall the last film.

We are far removed in time from his writing the Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Big Chill, Continental Divide and the Bodyguard. Silverado, or Wyatt Earp.

I think he was solid in the 1980s-1990s. What other than the dreadful, Dreamcatcher has he written in modern times other than unused draft on Clash of the Titans remake. Without pointing to Disney Star Wars.

You can’t because George Lucas plucked him out of retirement to write the Han Solo movie. And then Kathy put him on episode 7.

Everyone was like ZOMG he should have written the prequel; George is the problem remove him from the equation and hire Larry and we’ll get magic.

When I finished watching TFA nine years ago all I could think at that moment was "Seriously? This is the best Kasdan could come up with? Rehashing the first SW movie?

In recent years I’ve come to the realization that the lightsaber duel of Anakin and Obi-Wan vs Dooku at the beginning of ROTS is my favourite one in all of the SW saga. Brief, simple and elegantly choreographed.

JadedSkywalker said:

I always like to watch something 1980s. Like Back to the Future. No matter how many times I’ve watched it, I always do a rewatch at some point. Such a good symphonic score as well. Marty the slacker. Who kind of is an accidental hero.

Michael J Fox is absolutely brilliant. I can’t picture Eric Stotz at all playing this role.

After a few days of filming everyone, Stoltz included, agreed that he just wasn’t right for the role.

I find the whole crystal bleeding thing to be pretty stupid.

JadedSkywalker said:

Luke’s astral projection should have been his green lightsaber form. He lost his father’s lightsaber on cloud city.

That bothered me a lot as well. Kylo Ren himself witnessed his grandfather’s lightsaber being torn in half moments earlier, so seeing his uncle wielding it should have tipped him off, and I also think the green lightsaber would have unsettled him a lot more since that’s the last image he has of his uncle.

I think it all boils down to Anakin’s lightsaber being more iconic.

Superweapon VII said:

fmalover said:

I have the Dorling-Kindersley Star Wars Visual Guide of the OT, which came out in 1997, and there it says the Emperor looked the way he did due to his lifelong immersion in the Dark Side.

After watching TPM I expected there to be a progression of his Dark Side corruption becoming more evident with each passing entry, and I was sorely disappointed when ROTS establishes that actually it was due to Mace Windu deflecting Force Lightning back at him. So stupid.

I recall the official SW website came up with some bullshit explanation that actually Palpatine was using the Force to project a non-corrupted looking version of himself. Yeah right.

I think it was a mistake bringing McDiarmid back for the prequels. No shade against his acting ability, but Palpatine really needed to have been played by a much younger actor to drive home the severity of his dark side corruption. James Marsters I feel would’ve been the perfect choice.

Nah, McDiarmid was fine in the prequels. My only real pet peeve is how Lucas chose to portray Palpatine’s Dark Side corruption, as it should have been a gradual thing instead of the idiocy of having Force lightning deflected back at him.

Ian McDiarmid has the rare distinction of playing a character’s younger self years after playing an older version of the same character, which I think is pretty neat.

MonkeyLizard10 said:

Here are some links to frames of 35mm scan timed to the 35mm print, most are re-sized to UHD size but a few are full res:

I put these first few in ProPhotoRGB format since these ones definitely have some colors that need wide gamut and get clipped by sRGB regular gamut. If not viewed with a color-managed browser or image viewer they will look really bad though and all faded and weirdly twisted tint. And obviously if not viewed on a wide gamut display set to wide gamut mode you’ll still get the beyond sRGB colors clipped away, mix of 1.85:1 and open matte:
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sRGB format, mix of 1.85:1 and open matte:
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Wow! This is definitely the best looking version of Jurassic Park.

Too bad I can’t afford to contribute to this project in any way, meaning I’ll miss out on this beautiful scan.

I have the Dorling-Kindersley Star Wars Visual Guide of the OT, which came out in 1997, and there it says the Emperor looked the way he did due to his lifelong immersion in the Dark Side.

After watching TPM I expected there to be a progression of his Dark Side corruption becoming more evident with each passing entry, and I was sorely disappointed when ROTS establishes that actually it was due to Mace Windu deflecting Force Lightning back at him. So stupid.

I recall the official SW website came up with some bullshit explanation that actually Palpatine was using the Force to project a non-corrupted looking version of himself. Yeah right.

One of the most iconic voices in movie history.

All in all, my favourite lightsaber duel is Dooku vs Anakin and Obi-Wan in ROTS. It’s brief, simple and elegantly choreographed.

I’ve never been a fan of the Darth Maul vs Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon duel, way too choreographed for my taste. Fortunately Lucas corrected this and the lightsaber duels in AOTC and ROTS had more intensity to them.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Patali said:

• I don’t have much of an opinion on eras beyond, because I think the storytelling potential of focusing in a close time period is so much greater than spreading thin to multiple disconnected eras. I did love both Kotor games back in the day, but a problem I have is, it’s supposed to be set 4000 years before, yet it doesn’t feel like it. If you told me it was 1000 years, I might believe that easier. But the lack of change over so long I think is unreasonable, and honestly dissapointing. In terms of design, I think High Republic actually did great in terms of style and palettes. I buy the idea that its the 100 years before the PT. But Old Republic being 4000 years? No way, not even a chance. In my personal head canon, it is only 1000 years before. And I think that is the danger in jumping so freely in the timeline outside of what is developed already.

This 100%. The technological and political stagnancy over literal millennia is laughable and immersion breaking. It’s just a roundabout way of making an alternate universe at that point. Remember the hyperdrive booster rings in the Prequels? How 'bout every starfighter needs them. And if you go further back only capital ships have hyperdrives. Little touches like that to make it feel older.

This is a complaint some have expressed with Tolkien’s Middle Earth. The stories take place over millenia yet there is ZERO technological advancements.

So it’s basically one of those many movies about a group of kids embarking on an adventure, only it takes place within the SW universe.

Disney selling Lucasfilm is very much a pipe dream.

There’s this very famous press conference Anthony Mackie gave at the London Film and Comic Con in October 2017 where he said “They make movies for specific audiences as opposed to just making good movies”.

I think we can adapt this to the current state of Star Wars and say they tell stories for specific audiences as opposed to just telling good stories.

Superweapon VII said:

Really gets my goat how so many Legend of Zelda YouTube channels use footage from the 3DS remakes when discussing Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask.

Same here.

HAttackontheBun said:

Let me address the elephant in the room. Poor Things is an overrated movie. None of the characters were engaging, I’m apathetic towards the story and it nearly BORED me to sleep upon watching this film. One of the movie’s strongest aspects were the visuals such as the backdrops (especially the Portugal scene) and the soundtrack which reminded me of Animal Crossing, but that’s about it. I didn’t care for this movie.

Visually stunning movie, meh story.