Topic: Movie thread.

@jump
Just saw your question.

Started just buying the films I love dearly and want to own because I like watching them, irrespective of how good they look. But once I got all those I also bought all the Marvel, Disney animated and Pixar animated films, despite the fact I'm not the biggest Marvel, Disney or Pixar fan. I'm a fan, no doubt, but not a super-fan or anything. I just thought they're appealing to add to the collection.

I do like when movies have good conversions with Atmos audio, and look/sound great. But I'm not sure I'd buy a movie solely because it looks/sounds great. I think it would need to be a movie I like enough to want to own, or if it's a movie I haven't seen, appeals to me enough that I think I would like it enough to want to own.

@JaxonH I think there’s two debates for this, one the merit of grain in general (since most films are digital now the grain is added in later) and two seeing films how they were intended to be seen.

For they had grain originally it depends, I imagine something like Lawrence Of Arabia or 2001: A Space Odyssey might show off the movies better without grain as they are so visually striking (but I don’t really know as I’ve not seen them without it) but a lot of older films don’t feel right without the grain as it’s a product of their times.

For grain in general I have noticed tweens like a cleaner digital sheen on their movies/shows rather than grain because they are more use to it from watching junk Youtube vids all the time but most films fans do like it because it's an added layer which gives feeling to certain films. Like a recent big budget blockbuster I doubt many would care about grain as they are cleaner films but more horror films or gritty dramas it adds to the experience.

Let's forget grain for one moment and just talk film in general as it might be easier with this example. The goal is not to film something so it looks like you are seeing it in person, it's to make it fit the feeling of the film. Below is an example from Amelie (which I really fancy rewatching again at the moment) which uses a colour grade throughout it to add a magical realism feel to the film to fit the story of a sweet but kooky girl living in her head too much, on the left is the film itself and the right is of what it would have looked like in real life. The lack of a colour grade would make it a weaker film as the added colour is placing you in her mind and all films go through some level of this.

Animated films are good choice for watching on a fancy telly as they pop better in higher resolutions.

@Rambler Someone mentioned Perfecting Sound Forever to me before so I probably do need to read it.

Yeah it is weird, the lack of wanting something vividly different looking so everything that’s big is becoming homogenised. Maybe it’s globalisation so less risks are being taken as not all markets would “get it”, in the time of inter social media webs has resulted in people wanting easily comparable films so they can be clicked baited, people are just getting more boring (which seems likely), creatively has been driven to tv as demand for content on streaming has increased whilst big budgets dominate in the cinema or fudge knows. I do feel there needs to be a counter culture movement to change attitudes so things aren’t so basic but there’s still good and different movies out there, it’s just more of a pain in the ahole to find them now despite having the world in your phone.

Already watched 3 movies since the debut binge.

The Matrix Resurrections
Good movie! Nothing will live up to the first, but I think this one is just as good as the 2nd and 3rd entries.

The Lion King (original)
A classic. I remember seeing it in theaters decades ago. Still good as ever.

Despicable Me
Another winner. I like it. After Mario, got all the Illumination movies out of curiosity, despite hearing they can be divisive. Some love them, others not so much. You can count me among the former, though. At least for the Despicable Me movies. We'll see about the rest later.

@Eagly and the mass merchandising

@Eagly and the horrid memes

@Eagly what are your predictions for GOTG Vol. 3?

When did it become normal to say "well the first 3 or so movies are rubbish but once you get to the fourth or fifth ones it starting getting alright"?

It's weird it’s accepted you have to go through multiple meh flicks when there is talk of the likes of The Fast & The Furious, Marvel, Mission Impossible etc now as it's not a slow burning show waiting for a pay off versus instant gratification type thing as you’re watching standalone films before you start enjoying them.

@jump It's not just movies that do this, TV shows are the same.
I watched the first three episodes of Peaky Blinders and thought, meh, but people are just like "But the third series is great". Sorry but I am not going through two series of shows for it to get good.

This video sounds like a great video about how bad first impressions/introductions can harm a good show or film series:

@Bunkerneath TV shows I get tough as they are slower intentionally and there's a few shows which are greater than the sums of their parts so the payoff is amazeballs later but I don't get people watching 3 action movies which are meant to be instant gratification entertainment which they aren’t impressed with only to keep watching another 3 movies. It's just weird.

Yeah I didn't feel Peaky Blinders either, it's alright but doesn't engage with me. It’s funny when I talk to to Americans as they expect me to know about three shows The Crown, Peaky Blinders or The Great British Bake Off but I’ve got zero interest in them so I ask them about the most rancid American shows I can think of in Toddlers & Tiaras, The Kardashians and Ricki Lake then act surprised they haven’t seen those.

Filipino TV shows, however, air daily on weekdays, and sometimes even on Saturday. While some weekly shows air only on weekends.
And they are also some of the most poorly made and edited shows out there.
They use Windows XP Movie Maker to edit their shows and Commodore Amiga computers to edit. In 2023. And add in the wackiest visual effects possible that it feels like a 2008 YouTube Poop except played completely straight.
And the CGI effects they use have a ton of lag, even when it technically looks on-par with DOOM 1993. They also sometimes use MS Paint to draw backgrounds for chroma key effects and also visual effects.
Some of these shows are also so rushed they did not film something and they have to insert storyboards to fill in the gaps (think Episodes 25 and 26 of Neon Genesis Evangelion where they ran out of budget), and said storyboards are animated with MS Paint. Plus their computers have trouble rendering the MS Paint storyboards that there are clearly tons of lag.

They also use Comic Sans and the stankiest MIDI farts out there. And the sound recording of the voices are often broken, often sounding deep-fried and physically painful to listen to.

Their shows are also filled with more visual and audio glitches than Cyberpunk 2077 and Sonic '06 combined. They feel unfinished.

And that's not even going into their love of copyright infringement, bootlegging and piracy.
Many of these shows and films are blatant mockbusters. And they are actually proud of stealing anything and everything they see.

I liked Peaky Blinders. I don't think it's the best show I've ever seen, but I did enjoy it. Tom Hardy as the gangster orthodox jew has to be one of my all time favorite characters ever conceived.

I can blame/thank Rambler because of their talk of best French film has put the movie back in my head but I've rewatched Amelie and it's even more charming than I remembered.

It's just a joyously innocent and curious film, it's filled with find the beauty in the mundane moments and Audrey Tautou is so good. The use of colours is simply amazing, everything is graded to give a fantasy feel and the objects/clothes are picked to highlight the moods and personalities of what's happening. It's not without it's flaws, it's such a romanticised version of Paris that it does make me snigger (there's a real thing called Paris Syndrome where people who visit get depressed as it's not all that it's cracked up to be) and you can argue it's a series of sketches rather than a journey she takes but that's nit picking really. I'm also in two minds about the end game being romance, on one hand they are a good pairing but the other couldn't she have gotten over her loneliness by befriending the people she helped?

The next time I go to Paris I will do the touristy thing of going to the café she worked at, the only other time I did something like that was going to the house from Spaced.

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