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Post by Paladin on Dec 6, 2023 12:39:09 GMT -5
Is there anything you hate seeing in movies? It could be common tropes or clichés or maybe techniques we can't stand. I know there's a lot of people that hate CGI or at least excessive CGI. Me, I hate night scenes clearly shot in daylight. I don't really see it today but when I see older films they shoot scenes in daylight and then pretend it's night. Usually they dim it or use a blue tint but its clearly broad daylight. You see sharp shadows and even sun glistening on metal or windows, but supposedly it's night.  |
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Post by Large Marge on Dec 6, 2023 13:09:22 GMT -5
how else are we supposed to see?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2023 14:19:46 GMT -5
I like war movies and I hate it when Hollywood has 1 G.I. killing 10 Germans all by himself or 1 U.S. cavalry guy killing 10 Apaches again by himself. That is total bullshit as the Germans were very good soldiers as the Apaches were fierce warriors.
And of course the heroic Americans don't get so much as a scratch or even a single hair out of place.
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Post by Yeti on Dec 6, 2023 14:46:09 GMT -5
how else are we supposed to see? The same way we do in more modern movies. Film it at night but with low, soft lighting to barely see. |
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Post by Jörmungandr on Dec 6, 2023 16:28:16 GMT -5
Theres a bomb about to go off and its being diffused and always gets to the last second. We already know it will get to 1 second left. It always has 1 second left. Nobody ever stops it with 37 seconds left or 12 seconds. Its always 1 second.
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Post by Yeti on Dec 6, 2023 19:48:56 GMT -5
When there's a one-on-one fight, both characters take a beating for several minutes, but if there's several enemies suddenly only one or two punches or kicks takes them down. Theres a bomb about to go off and its being diffused and always gets to the last second. We already know it will get to 1 second left. It always has 1 second left. Nobody ever stops it with 37 seconds left or 12 seconds. Its always 1 second. I always think the same thing. We expect it to make it down to one second because it always does. Nobody seems to get bored with that predictable cliché. |
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Post by Paladin on Dec 7, 2023 0:12:25 GMT -5
I like war movies and I hate it when Hollywood has 1 G.I. killing 10 Germans all by himself or 1 U.S. cavalry guy killing 10 Apaches again by himself. That is total bullshit as the Germans were very good soldiers as the Apaches were fierce warriors. And of course the heroic Americans don't get so much as a scratch or even a single hair out of place. Wait. Hold up. Do you mean to tell me Ben Affleck didn't single handedly win the Battle of Britain for the RAF? |
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Post by Large Marge on Dec 7, 2023 6:23:46 GMT -5
how else are we supposed to see? The same way we do in more modern movies. Film it at night but with low, soft lighting to barely see. what is the difference? |
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Post by camila on Dec 7, 2023 8:25:43 GMT -5
Why does nobody in movies ever have a messy house? It's like everyone has a maid that keeps their houses clean at all times.
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Post by Jörmungandr on Dec 7, 2023 18:55:07 GMT -5
How about the flicks where the girl is a unpopular loser but they take off her glasses and that makeover makes her prom queen.
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Post by Yeti on Dec 23, 2023 0:23:33 GMT -5
Before work I was watching MST3K and there was a clip of a different episode with the awful movie Atlantic Rim, which was a knockoff of Pacific Rim. Something I got thinking was how there were so few characters in the movie but everything revolved around those people. Then I was thinking how movies so often have just a handful of characters central to everything, no matter how big. Independence Day, for example, had a global crisis with aliens wiping us out all around the world, but despite there being around six-billion people on Earth at the time somehow less than a dozen people were at the center of every development.
It's like the old Saved By the Bell television show. You have a click of eight or so high school kids that are directly involved in 100% of school activities. No matter what happened, at least one of them was involved in it. Got a major play coming up? Five key show characters are main characters in the play, plus two random kids to remind us there's more than eight kids at the school. Chess club? One of us is in it. Football? Check. Lacrosse? Oh, yeah. Cheerleading? Got it covered. Water polo? You guessed it! Spelling bee? Can't do it without us. Beauty pageant? Count one of us in. Band? We're there. Garage band? I'll grab my guitar.
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