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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.
According to Wikipedia, Lion's Gate is distributing Much Ado. I don't know what the release plan is, though. [link]
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.
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%.
Yeah, that's what I expected. Sigh.
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.
Finding out how they shot the barrel-of-monkeys scene in IM3 made it much more impressive for me the 2nd time around.
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.
Joss just tweeted release schedule for Much Ado: June 7: NY LA SF, June 14: UK wide, June 21: US wide, July 11: Australia
Sweet! Now that's something to look forward to!