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Post by 3piggles on Jun 6, 2022 20:13:46 GMT
Graphics have gotten so incredibly good, redoing older movies, same theme, new graphics and Raiders becomes Jurassic Park. Spectacular special effects to awe everyone, even if they aren't interested in the Indiana Jones franchise.
We were watching Dinosaur Apocalypse on NOVA, remembering back to how wonderful we thought Walking With Dinosaurs was, and how incredibly realistic the dinos were now. I wish someone would redo Walking With Dinosaurs so we could see them walking realistically. Even the dinosaurs in Prehistoric America, which was made a good decade ago, are so much more realistic than those in Walking With Dinosaurs, yet no where nearly as realistic as those on NOVA.
I think Disney will wait until there's a budding star who will make the part of Indy really work for the current generation, and the graphics will give him and incredible background! Almost wish we could be there to see it. You might be. I'd say 30 years from now. I'd be 100+, so probably won't be.
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 6, 2022 21:27:54 GMT
I think Disney will wait until there's a budding star who will make the part of Indy really work for the current generation, and the graphics will give him and incredible background! Almost wish we could be there to see it. You might be. I'd say 30 years from now. I'd be 100+, so probably won't be. I likely won't be, either- but I don't think I'd be terribly interested by that time. It'd be a totally new ball game, so to speak. No one on the original team involved in the creativity would be part of it, and those people working together made the magic happen. This isn't just Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg. John Williams, the composer of the original score, has pretty much retired. George Lucas is no longer involved (although that may be a good thing) Ben Burtt is the sound designer and the creator of virtually all the sounds you hear in those Indy films, from the rumblings of those temple doors to the famous punch sound effect. The new stuff may be good, but it won't be the same from my generation.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 7, 2022 17:28:30 GMT
I think the sound effects are getting better and better, too. I love old movies, and love listening to the sound effects and knowing how the sounds were made. Still, I don't mind not seeing the wires when a character flies, or hearing a skip in the music from an editing burp. I think the 2052 version will be primarily computer graphics, from the green screen to the sound effects, and the human actors will be interacting with invisible foes, rather than anyone getting hurt in a stunt. I wonder what Jackie Chan thinks of the future of movie making, as he always did his own stunts.
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 7, 2022 23:25:12 GMT
I wonder what Jackie Chan thinks of the future of movie making, as he always did his own stunts. I haven't heard his own take on it, but I think he might wish that technology was around when he was younger, so he wouldn't have had to suffer so many injuries. Then again, probably not- I do recall an interview with him where he said that in his early days, when he started having successes, people started copying him. He said he was one of the first to do kung fu comedies, and when these proved profitable, he had imitators. The same went for his modern police action movies- his first few films of that genre soon spawned countless copies. Then, he said he went into doing insane stunts... and nobody followed him.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 8, 2022 17:40:02 GMT
I would have drawn the line at the insane stunts, too. His classical training is in acrobatics, which is where he gets his timing for the stunts. Martial arts came afterward. I guess acrobatics/circus training is really big in China. Sammo Hung is a martial artist, and he coordinated a lot of Jackie's stunts, so at least someone involved is an actual martial artist.
I think actors who do their own stunts are trying to prove something to themselves. Hopefully Jackie has done that, as he's getting too old to do those insane stunts.
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 8, 2022 23:39:19 GMT
I would have drawn the line at the insane stunts, too. His classical training is in acrobatics, which is where he gets his timing for the stunts. Martial arts came afterward. I guess acrobatics/circus training is really big in China. Sammo Hung is a martial artist, and he coordinated a lot of Jackie's stunts, so at least someone involved is an actual martial artist. I think actors who do their own stunts are trying to prove something to themselves. Hopefully Jackie has done that, as he's getting too old to do those insane stunts. Although I've fallen way behind on watching his movies, I haven't heard anything in years about him getting injured, so I think those days are long gone. I believe it's probably been close to 20 years since he's had any accidents to speak of in his films. Since he's 68 years old, I think he'd want to spend his golden years out of the hospital as much as possible.
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 22, 2022 18:22:13 GMT
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 23, 2022 23:49:51 GMT
I'll have to check my viewing options to see if I can watch it on my Roku box. Thanks for the heads-up, it's been a while since I've watched anything by him.
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 24, 2022 23:03:52 GMT
Battleship is probably my favorite movie. Don't know if you've seen it, but it's about a screw up who ends up in charge of a destroyer in a battle with aliens from another planet. Failure was not an option, and he rose to the task. One of the funny parts was when his Chinese second in command ask him where he got his ideas, and he said he got them from Art of War. The Chinese guy laughed and said he wasn't even close to understanding Art of War. I like Art of War, and for something written so incredibly long ago, in a land so far away and of a radically different culture, the point to Art of War still rings true, not just with war, but with any form of complex leadership. I watched Red Cliff with an eye to aspects of Art of War, which was mentioned in the movie, and was impressed by how well some of the books aspects were used. I like Battleship because it's a feel good movie. It's never going to win any awards
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 24, 2022 23:43:02 GMT
I skipped Battleship mainly because I dislike when Hollywood forces certain celebrities down our throats, like Rihanna. I vote with my wallet and don't support movies with faces I'm tired of seeing all the time, despite my efforts to avoid them. I didn't see the movie Bugsy with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening for the same reason- at the time, their faces were everywhere on TV and magazines, so I opted not to overload myself. I know that film is a bit old, but it was the first example that came to my mind.
I do know that Battleship was directed by Peter Berg, who gave us the wonderful action comedy The Rundown, starring The Rock. Maybe someday we'll have an option to watch a movie and replace actors with people we'd prefer to see in them.
Speaking of guilty pleasures, we all have them - one of my favorite "so bad it's awesome" movies is Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze.
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 25, 2022 18:11:10 GMT
I remember Roadhouse! You're right, it was bad, lol Swayze was gorgeous, as always, which made it watchable for me, lol
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 25, 2022 23:55:19 GMT
I remember Roadhouse! You're right, it was bad, lol Swayze was gorgeous, as always, which made it watchable for me, lol That movie is such a barrel of laughs for me- not just the film itself, but the whole experience of it when I was in high school- first, Dirty Dancing came out and every red-blooded American teenager hated Swayze and wanted to kick his butt. Hordes of young women worshipped him everywhere and we simply weren't having it. That movie was the nadir of cinema for us. Then Roadhouse came out. Hilariously, males everywhere all bonded over it. Football players I had nothing in common with suddenly wanted to sit down with me and talk about this cinematic treasure that God had personally dropped into our lap! When we watched this celluloid legend flash up on the silver screen, we knew we were not worthy to lick the razor-bladed cowboy boots of the lowliest henchmen in that movie, and if we were to meet Mr. Swayze, we vowed to prostrate ourselves before His Divinity and beg forgiveness, asking to refer to him as, "Your Excellency." Years later I was (only partially) joking about turning Roadhouse into the same experience as Rocky Horror Picture Show and we could all dress up wearing mullets and recite the timeless dialogue as it plays on the screen. "Don't eat the big white mint", and "Pain don't hurt." We could all pretend to tear each other's throats out with the deadly three-fingered Eagle Talon Strike! (Pretty sure it's impossible in real life to rip out a man's throat with three fingers.) So you see, I have a history of having more fun than it should have been possible with this movie. It's absolutely over the top, and one of my biggest guilty pleasures.
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Post by Bean on Aug 26, 2022 6:22:33 GMT
Haha! I'm enjoying you reliving it more than watching it!
Patrick Swayze was never my cup of tea, sounds like I was in the minority!
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 26, 2022 22:45:28 GMT
I didn't watch it from the male point of view, but if I see it somewhere, I will definitely watch it again, that way Glad all you men enjoyed it so much
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 27, 2022 0:43:05 GMT
I need to point out just how funny this movie is, from a technical point of view- observe this brief clip: WHY is this hilarious? Because of the glint from the blade- it's put in as an effect, as it would normally be achieved by the person wearing the boot moving his footwear for it to catch the light. The fact that his concealed weapon glitters without him even moving his foot is a guaranteed side-splitter!
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Post by Bean on Aug 27, 2022 7:12:15 GMT
Slick haha! I feel like even I might have noticed that.
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 27, 2022 19:25:46 GMT
I totally get the too bad not to be good, lol Also get the cult following, especially among guys
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Post by Bean on Sept 3, 2023 7:31:09 GMT
Well, after not feeling particularly compelled to see either, I've ended catching up with the latest cinema trends this week and have seen both Barbie and Oppenheimer (but not on the same day). I enjoyed them both in very different ways. Oppenheimer was interesting and sobering, and Barbie was funny and had some clever social commentary without laying it on too thick (I was just expecting it to be cringey).
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Post by bazookagoof on Sept 3, 2023 13:38:08 GMT
Glad you enjoyed both. Over here I see ads & articles about both films practically everywhere and I feel like I've seen the movies multiple times already. I'm not sure I would have seen Barbie on my own, but I do like Cillian Murphy's work (Christopher Nolan directed Oppenheimer, and I do like most of his filmography too) so perhaps I'll see it down the road one day.
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Post by Bean on Sept 4, 2023 7:24:50 GMT
Cillian Murphy seemed familiar, but I can't think what else I've seen him in. He was very good though. There were some other big names in it, and I thought their roles could have been better played by lesser-known actors. Unless they're amazing actors, you just end up thinking 'That's <insert famous actor's name here>' rather than believing in the character.
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