Shot in black and white, I presume mainly to save money,
You can't save money by shooting in b/w anymore. It's not like there are huge batches of b/w stock lying around as everybody went to color as happened in the sixties. You actually lose money because it's harder to make overseas TV and cable deals.
Noah Baumbach talked about this when shooting Frances Ha. (Which I want to see.)
It's purely an aesthetic choice.
If they shot it in digital (as I presume they did) it's just something they fiddle with in post-production.
OK, so purely artistic choice. Still overall a bad movie. Still wonderfully weird and grotesque.
Rereading, the phrasing is ungracious. Thanks for the correction. I learned something new.
BTW, even though most of the script owed little the original comic, the character names mostly are from the Eisner comic. Which makes me wonder if 'Sand Serif" is a font geek joke.
From looking at the trailer, I thought that the B&W conversion for Frances Ha was very poorly done.
And Frank Miller is batshit insane these days.
You can still buy B&W film, but it's more expensive and nobody I've ever met in the film/TV industry likes the way it looks. Most people working in B&W are either aiming for an old-timey look (which you can't get from modern film) or a super-stylized look (which you can't get from modern film).
I got announcements that said Madison and Cliff will be in the Veronica Mars movie.
I saw that! Cliff Cliff Cliff!!!
I saw
Frances Ha
and really enjoyed it. It does a wonderful job of capturing the delirious, complex, claustrophobic friendship of young women. The film kinda loses its way at points but onthe whole i was quite impressed. Gerwig is lovely.
So I just saw Punching Stuff Until It Blows Up, er, I mean Man of Steel.
It was not good.
Standard Zach Snyder not good? Or a different flavor of not good? I need to know how angry Pete is going to be once he sees it. (Pete really likes Superman, and has been excited about the trailers for Man of Steel. I've told him to go see it on his own, because I don't really care about Supes, and that I have given up on Zach Snyder movies.)
