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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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megan walker - May 29, 2013 6:54:22 pm PDT #24590 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Zenkitty - May 29, 2013 6:57:02 pm PDT #24591 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
But I want my BFF to see it too, and she can't travel, so it has to come to Chattanooga!
Polter-Cow - May 29, 2013 7:56:32 pm PDT #24592 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Fast Five is on, and it's so much fun, and obvs it's better than F6 because it's in RIO and that's way more interesting than London. I love Push because it's in Hong Kong. We always see the same few cities; it's refreshing to see something different.
Also, I don't think I caught all the little moments that lead to Han/Giselle. They're adorable.
Sue - May 30, 2013 3:21:12 am PDT #24593 of 30000
hip deep in pie
According to Wikipedia, Lion's Gate is distributing Much Ado. I don't know what the release plan is, though. [link]
§ ita § - May 30, 2013 5:44:37 am PDT #24594 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
obvs it's better than F6 because it's in RIO and that's way more interesting than London.
That's not the scenery I tune in for, plus GINA CARANO FIGHT SCENE.
Just saying.
le nubian - May 30, 2013 7:30:30 pm PDT #24595 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, so I wanted to see "Now You See Me" and I see it has a 39% Rotten rating. Ugh.
Better than After Earth at 13%.
Polter-Cow - May 30, 2013 8:12:22 pm PDT #24596 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, that's what I expected. Sigh.
Connie Neil - May 30, 2013 8:40:47 pm PDT #24597 of 30000
brillig
I'm afraid knowing so much about how movies are made has damaged my appreciation of movies as stories. I find it harder and harder to get caught up in the story. I get distracted by "Boy, that must have been a bitch to set up" or "I wonder how awkward it is to act in a scene like that?" I don't see Tony Stark in a suit, I see Robert Downey Jr sitting in front of a screen moving his head in various directions and looking at nothing. Mayhem and catastrophe are just pixels in a computer. Granted, Hollywood Golden Age battle scenes are no more real, but watching the Making Of featurettes on the DVD does remove a whole lot of the mystique.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 31, 2013 3:07:44 am PDT #24598 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Finding out how they shot the barrel-of-monkeys scene in IM3 made it much more impressive for me the 2nd time around.
§ ita § - May 31, 2013 4:51:15 am PDT #24599 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's always at the forefront of my brain that these people (usually) don't exist, and even if they did, these things didn't happen to the exact guys and gals we're looking at. I never don't know it's fake. That runs on a parallel track to "OMG, the worldbuilding in this is so lavish and detailed!" and "it's the hobbit moment again-I'm gonna cry...just like in all those other movies."
Stories move me. Stories with in camera effects don't move me more than stories with CGI or vice versa. Stories with good writing and acting and seamless effects move me more than others.
The clip of After Earth they showed on Graham Norton looked really bad. Will Smith sounded awkward and fake, and Jaden looked uncomfortable in ways not related to the freakout the plot should have been giving him (maybe they skipped the bit where he got sand in his skinsuit).
The HBO bit on Now You See Them actually did suffer from FX know how--I think movies have to be clever about how much they stress magic. If David Copperfield can't do it and you're setting it in the here and now, how impressed can I be with your characters? Hell, I'm barely even impressed by David Copperfield.
The actors all seemed smug as fuck too, which didn't help.