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%.
Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.
Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
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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."
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.
Sue - May 31, 2013 6:19:48 am PDT #24600 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Joss just tweeted release schedule for Much Ado: June 7: NY LA SF, June 14: UK wide, June 21: US wide, July 11: Australia
Consuela - May 31, 2013 6:47:29 am PDT #24601 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sweet! Now that's something to look forward to!
Steph L. - May 31, 2013 6:47:52 am PDT #24602 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
June 21: US wide
Hey, I can go see it on my birthday. Thanks, Joss!
Sheryl - May 31, 2013 12:41:22 pm PDT #24603 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
So there will be two movies we want to see after Conterpoint is done.(Conterpoint is the filk con we're running, June 21-23.) The other being Man of Steel.(We will be out of town the weekend of the 14th, with no opportunity to see a movie)
le nubian - May 31, 2013 9:35:18 pm PDT #24604 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Apparently After Earth is on target to make $25 Mill this weekend. This apparently is a HUGE disappointment and in "Battlefield Earth" territory.