Topic: Movie thread.

Sonic 2 was quite genuinely the craziest theatre I've been in (maybe excluding Endgame and Spider-Man No Way Home) it was a premiere so I'm sure it was filled with other Sonic nerds. I can see people who've never been a sonic fan thinking the movie was okay, but me, being a ginormous fan of SA and SA2 (Adventure series) enjoyed the movie more than really anything else this year.

To whoever mentioned Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, that movie was actually really really good, breath of fresh air after Doctor Strange MULTIVERSE Of Madness where the craziest thing they can think of is "oH YoU gO On rEd"

@MarioLover92 Yeah, I didn't expect it too.

Do it, both Sonic movies are great IMHO. Saw them both in theaters, and I recently rented Sonic 2 on Vudu just to watch it with my mom.

Black Crab Review
https://boxd.it/31SylD

Watched Chappie last night for the first time after for some reason sleeping on it for ages. Was actually pretty good, certainly better than I was expecting. The sort of movie where I'm willing to forgive some of the slightly rough "science" in it given the tone. It's a movie that doesn't take itself very seriously, which is why it works

And the CG is basically invisible, which is super impressive

So watched the first Thor movie, since I'm going to see Thor: Love and Thunder with my friend soon, might as well watch the others. I liked it even if it felt slow at times. Though, while I'm not familiar with Thor, I'm more of a cartoon fan than a superhero one, I had a feeling his brother was going to be bad from the start. Just sensed some jealousy during the opening. I liked I also guessed Jane was going to fall in love with Thor.

That's one movie down, two more to go before Thursday.

@Sunsy
This is an unpopular opinion but I don't like the first Thor movie, I think it's the worst of the bunch really.
A big reason for that is the awful cinematography. Over 80% of the shots are dutch angles. It looks horrible and I don't care for it one bit.

@seaboyluca Fair enough. My only problem I had was the pacing of it. Hope the sequels pick up a bit. Wanted to get familiar with the movies before I go on Thursday, so going through them.

@Rambler
Yup, be sure not to eat a heavy meal before watching the first Thor. 🤣

@Rambler
The Ipcress File?
Dutch angles can be used effectively to make a scene more dramatic, but only sparingly.
When overused like in Thor it looses all its effectiveness and just becomes annoying.

I feel out of the loop as someone who just watches movies to enjoy them, so I'm asking, what is a dutch angle?

@Sunsy A Dutch angle (known as a Dutch tilt, canted angle, or oblique angle) is a type of camera shot that has a noticeable tilt on the camera's “x-axis.”

@Kermit1 Oh ok, before Thor I've seen that angle plenty of times before. I didn't know there was a name to it. Thanks!

@Sunsy I have a whole book on camera shot.

Also get it Dutch tilt, Norse mythology, Thor (bad pun sorry)

@Rambler...

@Rambler My brian broke for a sec there.

@Rambler huh, that's really neat.

btw if you google Pennsylvania tilt you get this:

I will use a Dutch tilt on this

@Rambler " It's just a flesh wound"

Not much of an unpopular opinion, but I also despise the first Thor. BUT not as much as the sequel Dark World. Ragnarok was amazing, and Love and Thunder was good. Not great, not bad, but good.

I hate dutch angles 90% of the time, ESPECIALLY when they have no reason to even be there. If an environment is tilted, or someone's perspective is being messed with, ok, but those never happen.