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So someone in /r/splitdepthgifs requested a clip of Jurassic Park and it got me thinking about how when I was a kid. I remember being blown away by Jurassic Park, I loved dinosaurs and everything seemed so real.

A few years later I was blown away again by Toy Story, walking out of the theater from that movie I knew movies would never be the same again. It makes me sad that most new moviegoers will never experience that.

I guess for them 3D is the cool new way to experience movies, although I don't follow the movie scene enough to know how popular that is. From what I have experienced of it, it is not quite as mind blowing as watching CGI bring worlds to life in ways I had never before imagined.

Also, just a side thought, imagine what it would have been like for the first moviegoers, they must have known the world would change forever through the invention of moving pictures. Then again years later people got to experience the magic of talking pictures.

Maybe we'll live long enough to see future advances to films that we'd never even dreamed of. My PhD professor thinks that choose your own adventure movies should become a thing, where the audience votes at certain parts of the movies to change the way the story plays out, that incentivizes people to watch more than once, but I have a feeling that people would vote for the same things over and over again and it would get boring. Besides, what he is describing is essentially a group based video game.

Now, I don't think video games will ever replace films, but I do think they are an interesting medium in which to tell stories, especially with the emergence of games like Heavy Rain, the Telltale Games (Walking Dead, Fables, Borderlands, etc) and the new one Life is Strange (haven't played it yet, but I hear it is good), which are all basically interactive stories. I wish games would take more risks in having open stories with multiple endings that we can call our own.

Also, I know I have gone way off topic, but one big step I would like to see movies take is by embracing digital media. I know there are bigger issues, but I remember reading someone suggesting that new movies would be released in home and in theaters, where the price of the movie corresponded to the size of the screen. That would be really interesting to see, especially for my wife and I since we have a young kid, babysitting costs like double the movie, so we usually stick to Redbox and Netflix. Okay, weird tangent over. Thoughts?

I'm not a movie critic, nor am I a seasoned cult fanatic. I couldn't tell you the merits of what makes a biopic better than a triple-A blockbuster, nor could I quote you many (if any) movie references. Yet, after watching Sony's "Fury" a few times though, I feel compelled to express how deeply this movie resonated with me from the standpoint of a former US Infantryman.

It's possible that before I watched Fury I didn't realize how many war movies failed to capture what the real experience is like for soldiers in the day-to-day grind. From an outsiders perspective you would assume that the goal of a military movie is to capture the main points in broad strokes: adrenaline fueled combat scenes, text book battle of the "so and so" references, and a lot of half-hearted emotional "brothers in arms" scenes with canned clichés and romanticized quotes. Most of which fail to actually capture the true experience of what it's like to be a part of a small military fighting squad -- like the squad from Fury’s 3rd platoon.

Some of the most magical scenes in the movie reside in each soldiers recounting of how their squad met. When Gordo tries to (somewhat) console Norman after SSgt. Don makes him shoot an SS soldier, he recounts that their squad has been together “since France”, and that he “wouldn’t fight with anyone else”. Also, a bit earlier in the film you have Bible and Grady joking about having sex with local German women, and Bible tells SSgt. Don that “we’ve been doing this for 3 years now Top”.

These small references to the past help paint a picture of how close each member of the squad feels to one another, which is important because the movie drops you directly into the action with little reference to any one soldiers backstory, or any prologue to where they are, or what they’ve been through in these battles. I couldn’t help but feel like these actors had a genuine history with one another, and it’s a testament to great writing and impeccable acting. The interpersonal relationship with each soldier was captured through the small things, like when Grady was play fighting with Bible and giving him a hard time over his religious beliefs. It's like when your older brother picked on you and poked his finger in your face to the point where, like Bible, you tell him to fuck off.

The protagonist, Norman, also helps to act as a vessel and really bring the viewer directly into the squad as a new member, which is an important narrative tool. I know from first-hand experience how difficult it is for a new squad member to “click” with the current members. This squad... this close five member unit shares a lot of history amongst one another and it’s very difficult to not only gain the trust of your new squad members but to also build a new history with the squad as a whole. This rings true during the second act (the infamous “Horse Slaughter” scene), when Gordo laments to Norman that “you weren’t there”, when detailing the explicit depictions of what how their squad killed horses.

Overall, I feel like the main take-away from the movie wasn’t about WWII, or about some specific battle (this was a fictional battle after-all). Instead, it was an accurate representation of what so many war movies seem to feign, or fail to capture entirely, which is the bond that you form when you live with these men for so long. When you fight with them, go through the shit with them, joke with them, scream and cry with them. The closest relationships that I’ve ever had in my life where with my squad-mates during my time in the service. A group of 5, rag-tag “not quite stable” social dropouts who all managed to come together under one collective unit. Each assigned a specific task and job, relying on each other for everything. There is no movie that quite captures, in my humble opinion, what it is like to be in a military squad quite like Fury.

The “consensus” quote on Rotten Tomatoes claims “Overall, Fury is a well-acted, suitably raw depiction of the horrors of war that offers visceral battle scenes but doesn't quite live up to its larger ambitions.”. What larger ambitions would those be? To be a romanticized soap opera flick like Pearl Harbor? Or to be an accurate depiction of what it’s like to really be a solider. To live the real day to day “suck” like a solider does? I guess that’s the difficult thing about trying to critique an accurate portrayal of a movie based on war, you have to have experienced it to be able to properly comment on it.

Before watching it I though The raid was the best action movie of the year but this one easily tops the decade. I had not seen such gun choreography in a while, we can call it the second gun Kata invention :p Anybody out there!?

The only thing i've been able to find is this.

Does anybody out there have a copy of this film? I've been to Germany looking for this film and nothing.

I was a little disappointed. The reason why is that I was so put off by Pris' costume and specifically makeup that I was distracted through the entire film.

Here's to a second watch in a few months going a bit better.

Are people still pissed that superman killed zod? Personally I'm ok with it. I mean, if he didn't kill Zod, Zod would of killed the family and then kept on killing people. Zod left superman no choice. I get that superman killing people is wrong and goes against everything he stands for but I think it was an interesting and ballsy take on the character by Snyder. What do you guys think?

Early era indie film (like the 90's) meditation on life in L.A.

The only part I remember clearly... and what I'm trying to track down is the closing credits where some longhair is sitting in the concrete basin of the L.A. river with an acoustic guitar belting out a cover of Elvis Costello's "What's so funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Happiness".

Anyone remember this gem?

We are already a month into 2015, and it's moving very quickly. Now that people have had time to choose, what is your single favorite film of 2014? Please pick one.

For me, it has to be Interstellar. It was a pure cinematic experience, held with the ideals of the audiences acceptance of being purely a film.

It seems that over the last few years, Hollywood has slowly transitioned from the zombie craze to dystopian future society, where the protagonists are all heroic teenagers struggling to find their identity and fighting against an all powerful evil government (starting with the Hunger Games) . Don't forget that all these movies are adapted from novels which are all part of a series. Now, all the movies must be made into the full series, most often splitting the last episode into two parts. Now, this is understandable if the studios want to adapt the story into film while staying true to the story, but I feel like they're just trying to milk as much money out of it as they can. Also, every movie that's not the last one of the series, ends with an insanely frustrating cliffhanger, and it's just getting exhausting waiting a full year to see the next one. Hopefully we move out if this "dystopian future-young adult novel trilogy" genre soon. Well, that's just my rant for the night.

How did donnies sister get her harvard acceptance letter on Halloween? The earliest acceptance letters for college usually don't come out nearly that early, was it just an oversight? Small thing but it bothered me.

This year seemed to have a lot of really good Biopics. I think I liked The Theory of Everything the most. What did you think?

OK I just watched the movie. I liked it and was better than expected but I can't figure something out. What was in the box Matt asked TJ to bring him?

Interpret may not be the right word, but didn't want to use "feel" or "think" because they sound overused and cliche. Anyways, I just want to hear what you guys thought of it or think of it without having watched it, possibly just discuss it. I ask because it was just overall pretty depressing, I know that's a pretty shallow and dumb reason to make a post or discussion, but it all seemed so real and melancholy. Every single character, I felt had a distinctive and clear persona, past, and was almost equally corrupted in their own different ways. One of the big things that hit me was when the mom pointed out how life was just a series of events that leads to basically nothing, like we all expect something different and more, but we never get it and will always be disappointed.

Maybe it's because I'm almost in the same situation as how it ended with him in college. Confused, questioning, and starting something completely new. But overall it was just depressing and made reality seem almost scary. Maybe I'm just being a sentimental, emotional bitch going through a reality check now that college is here, real life has shown up on my doorstep, and all these different responsibilities are joining in. Or maybe it's because I can really relate to him with how he had difficult times and big challenges in life, but we all have, and how he identified some of the bullshit in life and tried to fight it, but I'm sure most everyone else has done and felt the same. I think it would be nice to just have a discussion of it and the themes in it.

Such as Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, and the two Alien Versus Predator movies.

so i realized that this all started from a kid seeing himself in his dads camera on his like 7th birthday. i want to know how did his future self randomly generate in the future even before he found the footage. it makes no sense to me on how time travel works.

This will sound familiar to anyone who has seen a lot of films, but it's something that has always puzzled me: Movies before the 1970s had a lot of theatrical polish and tended to fit into certain fixed boxes, and movies after the 1970s had a different kind of theatrical polish and fit into a new set of boxes, but '70s movies were relatively free-form, lyrical - even messy.

It's not exact, of course - some late '60s movies moved in the direction of this style, and some early '80s movies were still part of it, but it was a definite phenomenon. Actors in these movies looked disheveled, un-made-up, natural - they looked like people on the street. Places where people were shown to live looked thrown-together instead of like color-coordinated sets, often with natural lighting, pretty much like how real people live.

These movies showed small, gloomy apartments and shabby houses rather than wish-fulfillment homes. They were grim even when they were light-hearted, carried an atmosphere of weight and realism, and were much less likely to disappear up their own asses into fantasy.

Some example films: "The French Connection" (1971), "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (1973), "Serpico" (1973), "Mean Streets" (1973), "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), "Rocky" (1976), "The Deer Hunter" (1978), "The Warriors" (1979), etc. It wasn't monolithic - there were plenty of movies that showed the seeds of future formulas: "Patton," "Enter the Dragon," "Star Wars," "Animal House," etc. But the influence of the "grime" trend was clear even in those proto-'80s movies, in choices of styles and somewhat pessimistic viewpoints.

A glib interpretation would just ascribe it to the cultural influence of the Vietnam War, urban decay, and disillusionment with American society. But I'm not aware of any similar movement in Depression-era filmmaking, when people would seem to have had a much more immediate sense of social and economic failure. So why would 1970s audiences wallow in gloomy themes and depictions if previous (and future) generations sought escapism?

Let's consider crime films, since that's where it seems starkest. In 1960s crime movies, criminals are relatively clever, organized, well-dressed, and act out predefined roles to suit the plot. They drive fancy cars, they live well, and they have beautiful women.

If that sounds familiar it's because it's the theme of every era after the 1970s too: The slick gangster entertaining the audience with his witticisms and choreographed action. Even savagely gritty movies like "Robocop" (1987) used criminals as agents of shallow entertainment rather than literal characters.

But compare that with "Dirty Harry" (1971), which was a '70s version of the action cop genre - the criminals are not entertainingly evil, they're slimey, sickening garbage that practically leave snail-trails across the screen. It's more realistic than other eras, even though it's trying not to be, and that's normal for the period.

Violent crooks are shown realistically in movies like "Serpico" and "The Friends of Eddie Coyle": Lazy, sleazy, cruel, ugly, predatory liars, with no theatrical embellishments to make you like them more. They live in crummy apartments, and their actions have nasty consequences that are portrayed coldly instead of hammed up with melodrama.

The same is true of any kind of villain: The studio executives in "Network" (1976), the spies in "Marathon Man" (1976), even supernatural evil like in "The Exorcist" (1973) - they're shown with dispassionate disdain.

But then at some point in the '80s movies start being more interested in having fun than showing you something weighty. The decade is covered in some of the most vapid (and fun) movies ever. The grime is just gone, and in its place is a neon-colored adolescent dream world set to a driving soundtrack. What the hell happened?

Then with the '90s, even with the return of supposedly serious movies, they're still not nearly as serious as the '70s - they get very stylized and choreographed, and squeezed for emotional effect. They're operatic instead of jazzy. And it's never really gone back.

Even with later films that were distinctively "gritty," they were very simplified and sharply-cut, usually lacking the kind of naturalism and depressing gravity of the 1970s films they consciously imitate.

Perhaps the best explanation is the most cynical: Substance is an art rather than a product, and Hollywood ever since the 1980s has been all about mass-production rather than quality. Only a rare and vanishing breed of auteurs has the resources anymore to deliver quality movies entirely their own way without letting studio script-surgeons maul it with formulaic rewrites.

It's so rare now that totally honest, realistic movies about the lives we see all around us look foreign and strange. Actors who look like people rather than computer-generated faces with perfect symmetry seem radically out of place on a big screen.

So, we can guess why the 1970s era of realism went away, but it's still sort of mysterious why it came about in the first place.

How does Disney proceed with the franchise? do they keep going and try and make episode 8 better? or do they scrap the franchise completely? id assume they would keep going because they've poured to much money in to it already it would be pointless to stop.

It seems like every trailer I watch basically reveals everything I need to know about their film. I've been seeing this trend becoming more and more widespread as of late, and maybe it's always been like this and I just didn't notice, but it just irks me that producers keep on doing it. I feel so let down when the first few scenes of the trailer really pique my interest only to be told what I'm to expect when I go see it. What are your guys' thoughts?

Sorry if I'm not posting the right question in the right place, but please let me know.

I tried looking all over (Google, Wikipedia, IMDB, etc...) for the answers to what the model the gun character Sook Yung Park in "The Interview" (played by actress Diana Bang) was using in the scene where she and Seth Rogan are locked in the broadcasting room, and she shoots through the door.

Does anybody know what model gun this is and what other films have used it?

I also want to know if there's a different awesome gun model used in a scene that was unforgettable to you.

Reason I'm asking is for art purposes.

I feel like watching those clichy(not too clichy) action movies. Similar to Mission Impossible Series/The bourne series.

Bare with me, ive watched ALOT of movies.

So any recommendations?

Something like Runner Runner where it's set recently in a big city and they're living the "high life" so to say.

Cheers.

I have never been surprised by a Movie until this one. Anybody else think this movie was amazing? I felt uncomfortable every time bloom spoke, I feel this movie should be praised more! I thought it was a generic action flick, but was amazed. Anybody else feel this way toward the movie, I'd like to hear different opinions.

Last Night (w/ Sandra Oh) is one of my favorites.

Just watched American Sniper without any pre-knowledge (?) of it and I genuinely think that was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. A pure propaganda film targeted to COD-playing middle schoolers and brain dead conservatives. Some of my major complaints:

-All the middle eastern people in the movie are bad (well except for the translators who are pushed away by the main character). The one guy who seems good at first turns out to be just another baddie. The middle eastern sniper and Mustafa were completely unrealistic characters. All the good guys were straight line good ole white boys (not counting the black guy with his few token lines.

-True effects of PTSD not really illustrated. Great, he bangs on a window a little and threatens to hit a dog with a belt. He goes back on his good ole gun range to shoot some more and wow he's completely fine like nothing ever happened. How easily the issue was settled is an insult to veterans around the world.

-The slow motion bullet scene. How they could allow that in the film is beyond me. What a joke. The reasons for why this was so terrible don't really need to be explained.

-The scene at the end with the little kid hunting. So let me get this straight, violence "ruined" him, took his friends lives, and almost came back for him, yet he pushes his son on to the exact same road he just got off of? What? The whole scene looked like it came straight out a Rick Perry campaign commercial.

-When he was playing around with the gun at home at the end. How could Eastwood greenlight that? How could any responsible member of the military or gun owner accept that as OK? The number one rule of firearms is to assume that all firearms are loaded at all times. Then he starts playing around with his kids with it? What the fuck...

-When he adjusts the veteran's sniper rifle for him at the end. Yes, it was minor, but any gun owner will immediately understand how fucked up was it that he did that. You do not touch another person's firearm unless they are doing something that will directly danger themselves or others. YOU ESPECIALLY DO NOT TOUCH ANOTHER PERSON'S FIREARM IF IT IS LOADED.

-Lots more was very very wrong with this movie but it's 2 am and I'm going to sleep. If garbage like this keeps coming out promoting the bullshit conservative mindset that got us into this mess in the first place we will never escape the cycle.

I just recently started watching some of his films for the first time. Being younger I just recently started watching older classics. (Citizen Kane, 12 angry men, Casablanca, etc) Over the past few days I've started my first Hitchcock binge. Watching Vertigo, Rear Window, The birds, and Psycho. Amazing films! Just wondering which Hitchcock films are your favorites.

Forgot the link. /facepalm

http://ift.tt/1yhNnPA

Seriously.

I've read that FF reboot is based of Ultimate FF in comics, which is completely different from Classic version which made as movie in 2005.

I see so much hate everywhere FF reboot.

What's the reason?

What a piece of garbage movie. I didn't laugh once. I think their marketing team pulled off the biggest viral marketing campaign in the history of movies.

Any ideas? I'm looking for maybe 3-5 flicks to bring along with me on the plane. I just want something easy to watch on the plane where I don't have to think too much and would allow the occasional interruptions (what if there's a crying kid or that overly annoying flight attendant?).

Pls, no flight hijacking movies. Don't want to give them a scare!

Producers are just grabbing random YA books off shelves and saying 'Hey let's make four movies.' Producers are looking for some quick cash, not caring about how they are all ripping off each other. All these movies look the same to me. Some post-apocalypse dystopia where the teenagers are the only sensible ones and fight the evil, oppressive system, dating their peers while there at it. Such things have ruined dystopias for me.

Thank God for original movies like Interstellar and American Sniper, reminding me that this massive cash grab will be over in a few years, and soon we will be back to when artistic value could make or break a movie, not just the success of the novel.

Can't find a link. Sorry. Needed to settle a drunken bet.

Just for fun.

Best Animated Feature transcends the superficial “is the movie good or bad” system. We’re talking Best, all of the nominees should be good and, in this year’s case, they really are. So, lets move past 'good v. bad' and look at the craft.

In the case of animation, the most admirable aspect is the meticulous detail. The technical side of things. What casual viewers seem to overlook while watching an animated feature is that everything in the frame is designed and created by hand. The characters. The clothes. The background. The lighting. The textures. The colors. The light. And, most importantly, the movement and innovation.

An animated film really comes together when all of these details push the characters, story and atmosphere forward. But, with this genre specifically, it’s a spectacular thing to witness breakthroughs in technique, style and visual storytelling that nobody’s seen.

It is in all of these fields that The Lego Movie was clearly outshined. Here’s why:

Anyone who’s ever dabbled in in 3D animation knows that the most difficult part of modelling is keeping the objects from looking like flat chunks of hard plastic. In most 3D programs, you can make a plastic shape with the click and drag of a mouse. It’s when you have to mold and incorporate texture that the difficulty is raised exponentially. Hair, fabric, leaves, dragon scales, vinyl robots,... you name it. Then, to rig and animate such things into believable movements and weight that exist in a living environment, this is when the real magic is made.

Lets consider the nominees.

Most assume that Song of the Sea and Tales of Princess Kaguya both profit off of 2D films always being the foreign/indie/underdogs, but it’s not out of pity that these films got their nomination. They earned their noms out of sheer hard work, persistence and beauty, just as the other nominees did. 2D is the ultimate detail oriented art form. 24 frames per seconds of hand-crafted pictures. A time consuming and expensive approach that always produces a product more elegant and nurtured than I’ve seen in any 3D feature to date.

Aside from the 2D niche, this technique offers notable style. When was the last time a 3D feature had a distinguishable flair that was distinct to a single director? Sure you can tell a Pixar film from a Dreamworks films, but the pattern within those realms are constantly straying into sameness.

Take the non-3D auteurs of recent years; the Henry Selick’s, Sylvain Chomet’s and Hayao Miyazaki’s of the world. Unique. Scrupulous. Memorable. Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea hold to this tradition of idiosyncrasy and distinguishable vision. Their recognition is rightfully earned.

Then comes Boxtrolls. Stop motion is one of the more frustrating art forms to execute but has one of the most rewarding payoffs. It takes on much of the difficulty and tedium of 2D and then multiplies the problems. When you consider the weeks of work that potentially go into one single shot, making a sculpture come to life is a satisfying feeling (to say the least).

The other impressive feat of stop motion films, like Boxtrolls, is how they’re executed. In 2D animation you usually use the old technique of key drawings, breakdowns, inbetweens, etc.:

Time: |-----------------------------------------------> Frames: |A|---|B|---|C|---|D|---|E|---|F|---|G|---|H|---|I|--->

So, in 2D (traditionally), one guy will often draw key drawings (A,E,I), another animator will do breakdowns (C,G), and a team of others will do the inbetween fillers (B,D,...). All together, thousands of drawings later, this pattern will create one comprehensive shot. Single frame problems are then easy to isolate. If drawing D sucks, take it out, do it again. No need to trash everything.

In Stop Motion, it’s a little more like this:

Frames: |A|----------------------------->|Z|

One guy/team, works forward. No going back. One screw up means back to square one, or at least A LOT of added time to fix the problem in post.

Add in the other obstacles of filming (lighting, sculpting, molding,...) and this is why stop motion is one of the most risky, yet rewarding, styles of animation. Animators realize the hurdle that this is and recognize the courage it takes to use this technique for a feature length film. Boxtrolls really deserves its praise on this merit alone.

So, that’s three films, all pushing the the art of animation forward and worthy of recognition. This brings us to the 3D; Disney v. Dreamworks:

Admittedly, I’m not much of a Dreamworks supporter. Back in 2010, How to Train your Dragon was the first one of their movies I actually found merit in; Great character design and, with the assistance of the great Roger Deakins, a visual world that seemed to lunge 3D forward a new territory. How to Train your Dragon 2, though inferior to the first in many ways, doesn’t quite lunge but manages to stumble forward. Between hair, water, skin, metal, the texture mapping was superb. The variety of unique dragons and a well-crafted, colorful world may not have pushed the narrative any further ahead, but it was a very pleasant place to live for 2 hours.

But this year, once again, Disney outdoes Dreamworks.

Admittedly, I’m not the biggest supporter of Disney either, but they hit it right from time to time. 2014 was one of their hit years.

With Big Hero 6, Disney has really raised the bar on three other aspects of 3D animation: lighting, moving parts within a frame, and modelling/texture. Examine a frame like this. Aside from composition, you have:

• A depth of vision with moving parts near and far.


• Array of texture and detail, from electrical wires, to traffic lights, to scuffs on the curb,....


• Believable sunlight. (Another difficult thing to achieve). But it’s not just daylight of this scene. It’s the Glow, the Color, the City and how that light interacts with the other objects in the scene.

It’s a world of ideas in one still frame. To examine the moving parts (you know, the thing that makes an animation an animation) you’d have to explore waves of microbots, multiple choreographed fight scenes, and an entire living, breathing city. The intricacies are abundant, and vastly outdo the empty, much more bland approach in last year’s Frozen.

To me, the slightly contrived plot of Big Hero 6 is counter-weighted by all of these elements. San Fransokyo might possibly be THE most beautiful 3D city put on screen.

Lastly, do you remember earlier when I mentioned that the difficult part of 3D is making the models not look like chunks of plastic? This is one area where Big Hero 6 separates itself from the rest: Enter Baymax.

Not only is Baymax an irresistibly adorable character, but he’s a technically groundbreaking one. The Baymax deflation scene is not only one of the most complex, and funniest, scenes of the year. It sells the gravity/weight, it sells an authentic vinyl texture of Baymax, all while capturing the personally and mannerisms in movement. And that’s just one moment of many.

All five of these nominees are strong contenders.

Now, The Lego Movie naturally used some of these animation techniques, but too much came up short in evolving animation in any capacity (especially when compared to the nominees). The character models and their movements were already outlined. The hard/flat texture of lego, very easy to achieve. The editing, loud and fast, not giving the audience time to see and enjoy what makes animation special. These are just some of the areas where The Lego Movie was outshined.

To call it a snub, I think, is to misinterpret. All of the nominees deserve respect, because they’re really marvelous in some capacity. If I know animators, all of these technical elements were what they took a close consideration to when picking the nominees, and rightfully so. The award is for Best Animated Feature, meaning the animation should come first and foremost. So, feel free to argue ‘good v. bad’, but I fail to see a snub when the best Animated films of the year, truly got their recognition for once.

I remember seeing this movie a while back and I can't remember the name. It's a movie about a redneck that lives in a cabin out in the woods. He falls in love with a woman's corpse and names her Rosalie. He takes care of her and dresses her as if she were still alive.

Does anyone here feel that superhero films in the future will feel genre fatigue and start to see less superhero films being released on a yearly schedule? I feel that there are three big video game based films that could have the opportunity to be the equivalent of the the first breakthrough superhero film (e.g Spiderman, X-Men).

1. Assassins Creed (2016) So this is being films right now with Ubisoft having very close creative control on the story of the film. This is a pretty huge franchise which has the potential to earn big bucks at the box office, although the franchise has had a bad rep with gamers due to the last release, Assassins Creed Unity which was released in an unfinished state with an unsatisfying story. This one could go hit or miss in my opinion.

2) Warcraft (2016) This is a big one. Duncan Jones directing the Blizzard made franchise. Warcraft is already a huge name because of the online only game, World of Warcraft. It's a billion dollar franchise played by tens of millions of players around the world. The early footage shown to those lucky people at Blizzcon have had people excited, Blizzard have worked very closely with the story for this game so this one could be a massive hit and break the video game stigma.

3) The Last of Us (20XX) This game was personally my game of last generation. It told a beautifully crafted story between a young girl named Ellie and a much older survivor named Joel, set 20 years in the future after a terrible fungal outbreak which causes people to turn into running fungi mutated versions of themselves, making themselves crazy. This is the best game to show off a mature story and extremely well written characters which are complex and interesting. My personal take is if this is adapted correctly, it could be a serious contender for it to be an award winner.

"I can't stop, oh, it feels so gooooooood"

• Alex (expressing my sentiments exactly, while accidently ejaculating on Jeff's mom)

I read somewhere, and I believe it was reddit, that John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off as sort of an anthem for conservative ideals, and provided a lot of evidence from the plot. But I can't find it anywhere, just mentions of how Hughes was a conservative. Thought one of u/ might be able to help. Thanks!

I have never seen it before and have no clue what its about. I have though watched all the other matrix's/ Matrices?? before.

Shooting going over schedule or budget spiraling out of control. What movies sounded like hell to work on?

This is going to sound a bit rich, but I'd love people's help with something. I have the chance to be a film reviewer for Vue Cinemas (big cinema chain in the UK in case you don't know) but I need people to vote for me (Chris Thomson) over at their website.

The link is here - http://ift.tt/1wHizWA

You have no real incentive do this other than I'd be really grateful. If that's enough for you and you fancy doing something cool for someone then head over there and vote.

Thanks!

This was one of my favorite movies growing up and I found it for cheap on blu ray a few days ago. I was absolutely blown away by Jim Carrey's performance.

I've thought for years that eternal sunshine was probably Carrey's best movie (and it is damn good) but this just held up incredibly to my memory of what it was.

This was the first movie to make me cry since probably 50/50 and the moment near the end when Truman has survived the storm and starts to pull up the mast was one of the most genuine hero shots I've ever seen in a movie.

Can anyone here recommend other movies about pure perseverance that don't come off as over sappy or too bleak by the end? Preferably something close to the tone in the Truman Show.

I recently read an article about blue/orange colour-grading in films and I'm curious to know if anyone has any examples of unusual or distinctive colour grading? The Grand Budapest Hotel is a good example, for starters!

I just watched The Imposter and I'm trying to tackle the subject matter. On one hand, I'm riveted by this story and want to believe there's truth somewhere in the ring of lies. But after finishing the movie I can't help but think that I doesn't matter. Nicholas Barclay is long dead and if his half-brother had any thing to do with it we'll never know. At the same time, it's that la-di-da attitude which got the story to this point.

So, what do you think happened to Nicholas all those years ago and does it still matter in the sea of missing persons reports?

I'm 16,so I never really had the chance to experience the classic movies that aren't currently on Netflix,right now my list is...

• American Psycho


• Psycho


• The Shining


• Anything like a more modern The Twilight Zone,I can watch an old movie,but eventually I get a little sick of seeing anything under 720p.

Recommendations are also encouraged,I don't have any money myself so if there is a legal place I can watch these without spending money,that would be nice.

I saw it - and it started out great. Stand out cinematography. The characters were sublime and surreal - and still real. But in the end they proved to be real disappointing humans with little talent and not much to say. All in all the movie was missing a knock-out punch. Like so you say "I didn't see that coming!" It needed something brilliant about Frank. I can think of a few endings - say what if Frank was really the singer from Joy Division - or similar ? Or what if he had been disfigured ?

Sure I recommend this film to all music lovers and especially pop musicians. But don't expect any twists and you will enjoy it.

What was the best song of it all ?

I call it the creepy fucking kid trilogy

I can't be the only person who watched the movie and is left with this twisted, sick, disturbing feeling in my gut that won't let me sleep or think straight, right?

Does anybody know what sunglasses Bruce Willis is wearing in the mayo scene in the beginning of the movie?

Haven't seen much discussion about this but point me in the right direction if I missed it. I loved the ambiguity of "David" but I had a theory after the film was over. Could David actually have been their son, after plastic surgery, come home to take care of his family until his programming kicked in. Is there other theories? I am just confused why he would go to their house and "help" them otherwise.

So Im a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino. In my opinion, he's never made a bad movie and i love his style. So being a huge fan, im worried about the hateful eight. So my question is do you guys think it will be classic Tarantino and it will be amazing? I know it might be his last movie so if it is i want him to go out with a bang.

As a side note, do you think channing tatum will be good in this movie?

He's been one of my favorite actors since I saw him in this film. Not all of his roles have been great, or even good, but his role as the Gemini Killer in The Exorcist 3 was fucking amazing. I feel like he's completely unrecognized for this and it's a travesty.

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DVD menus are always really cheesy, but there has to be one out there that redeems the art of the DVD menu, right?

Ok so the title is self-explanatory

Examples like:

Gladiator

Home Alone

Titanic

Terminator

The 6th Sense

Terrible, highly advise you don't go see it. Has a typical ending that if you've seen ANY move about time travel you're probably right. Looks like a straight to DVD kinda movie and it wasn't.

If so, what kind of jokes would you like to see in it? What post-1985 song should Marty play?

I think it was well worth the wait. It's truly difficult to not get totally immersed in this film! I was on the edge of my seat and grinning the entire time and I don't have anything to say about the last scene other than when I was leaving the theatre my heart was pounding like crazy and I couldn't stop sweating.

Top five movie of 2014 for sure, a solid 9/10. Oh and JK Simmons is a crazy mother fucker and Miles Teller on the drums is THE MAN

I have looked everywhere but have not found it.

For reference, here's the list:

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If so, what kind of jokes would you like to see in it? What post-1985 song should Marty play?

I just went and saw it with my friends and they are saying that the blonde girl and asian dude never kissed even though I'm 100% sure I saw it at some point in the movie. Can somebody who saw it confirm they did kiss?

I recently saw it after all the hype it's gotten and was pretty let down. If felt boring, slow, and a slog to get through and was wondering if some could explain why people are praising it so much.

I liked Fury, but something just didn't quite fit about it as a WWII movie and I couldn't put my finger on it. At first, I thought it might be the modern score. Then I realized the way the characters act and talk is very...2014. When the track breaks on the tank, the engineer says, "It's broke as fuck!" The dialogue of the film took me out of the WWII period piece aspect of the movie. The characters and dialogue felt like the crew was a bunch of modern men who were teleported back to WWII. Does anyone else feel this way about the movie?

Which elements of a specific non-English film just weren't able to be translated into English language? Or perhaps events, cultural references, jokes, or social conventions that would be unfamiliar to people who aren't from that part of the world?

Tony Scott definitely had his moments. I've got a daughter now and recently lost my dad, so the cheesy stuff probably hits me a little harder now than it used to, but the emotional ride of this movie gets me right in the feels. And getting to watch, what I consider, one of the better revenge-films killing sprees in the genre, is always fun. The cast is sometimes painful to watch, let's be honest, Marc Anthony's acting chops are no better than his music chops, but despite the rough patches this movie still delivers for me.

He has been directed by Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Sam Rami, Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Baz Luhrmann, Sam Mendes, Quentin Tarantino, and Woody Allen.

I mean why does avatar need 3 god damn sequels and we cant get one battle angel movie :(

Looking for something that takes a scientific approach yet has all the fun of a good ghost scary ghost hunt.

American Psycho and Girl, Interrupted. I just can't do it.

Why does he say I'm going to kill myself tomorrow, but then slits his wrists right then and there? I've just never understood that

I remember renting this movie when it first came out on video, and probably ended up renting it twenty more times before I realized I should've just bought the damn thing!

Anyways, just wanted to remind others of this little gem that may have lost its fan base, or that newer generations haven't experienced yet.

I always love a great space movie and was wondering what Reddit thought was the best!

I just watched this movie for the first time, and holy cow it was great. How did it get snubbed?

From what I can remember I believe it was an American in a Russian prison and there were lots of fights. He kept losing and due to corruption in the prison he was always sent to Sol. Confine. but he started training a lot. I can't remember what else happened as I have not finished the movie and would love to find it!

Obviously there are things like blade runner and I have that, but I'm looking to expand my horizons. Preferably movies, but I'll take shows.

There are A LOT of movies that are constantly brought up that I'm so sick of seeing. Both good and bad, Reddit seems to only shine a light on a select few. What would you like to tell everyone to shut up about?

I can tell what makes cinematography, direction, acting great but find it harder to notice good editing and what it means for a film to be well edited. Is it to do with pacing and fluidity between scenes etc.?

Is there any good documentaries or regular movies on the Nuremberg trials? I've always wanted to learn more about them and thought this might be a good start. Hopefully I'm posting in the right subreddit.

In the opening of the film, there's a show and tell. Sean presents his "Ultra rare, never before seen action figure!"

Cindy asks: If it's never before seen, how do you know it's in the box?

It's a Schrödinger's Cat (or action figure) experiment!

I just watched "The Babadook" and to say the least I was disappointed. I chose not to follow Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB review to much but the hype had me so excited. Well screw all that because I hated the characters from start to finish.

Everyone was annoying, even before they went psycho.

The Babadook was creepy and all but how did the book get into there house.

Yes, I've heard the theory about her "mental breakdown" but take it at face value. It's not obvious at all.

YOU'RE FEEDING THE THING!?!?! IN YOUR BASEMENT! WHAT! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!

Please, someone explain the hype, I'd be willing to go into more detail my complaints if you really wish.

I just watched it last night. Great noir film. Reminded me of a cross between Rififi and Drive. Probably the best use of Chicago in a film that I've seen. If you love crime movies, you need to check it out ASAP. It is on netflix currently.

Here's how the games goes. You name a few qualities that you think a director is famous for, and everybody tries to figure out that director. I'll start with an easy one.

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Okay I don't know if somebody has pointed this out before, but I've never seen it discussed on the odd time that Battleship is brought up.

I think that "Battleship" (2012) is actually a subtle and deliberate commentary on the human (and maybe American specifically) propensity for war and bloodshed, disguised inside an expensive action blockbuster. Okay maybe it's not that subtle, but it's never really made explicit either.

The aliens, whoever they are, are in fact the "good guys" in that they are a fundamentally peaceful race who were investigating the signal sent out by Earth. They were eager, I guess, to seek out other intelligent life. Except that with their communications ship destroyed as they entered the atmosphere, they immediately deployed a defensive perimeter (dome) since they no longer had any way to signal back home for help if things went south.

At no time do they ever deliberately attack humans. All the death and destruction results solely from the Navy persisting in being aggressive or directly attacking the now vulnerable alien ships. They attack Hawaii and its military bases, for example, solely as an attempt to disable military efforts. The movie goes to great pains to show that they will not attack human beings unless they are posing an IMMEDIATE threat.

So in the end, despite vastly better technology, the stranded aliens are slowly picked off by the hostile and bloodthirsty inhabitants of our planet. From their perspective, "Battleship" is a hopeless horror/survival thriller.

And the cherry on the cake is the decision to play "Fortunate Son", a famous anti-war protest song, over the main credits.

Anyway I know the movie is no Apocalypse Now, but I like it for being pure dumb fun. But I wondered if anyone else noticed something like the above.

Julianne Moore

I'm looking to watch alien movies. More Signs / Choose Encounters style than Alien / Predator style.

Any recommendations?

Thank you in advance.

I was just thinking about the scene in the interrogation room. He says something along the lines of, "He'll find her... that's what HE does. That's all HE does!" Now, being that Kyle Reese is actually from the future, and not crazy like the psychologist believes, wouldn't the lines, "That's what IT does. That's all IT does!" make more sense?

Yeah pretty much any movie that's really heavy going in its subject matter or that just deal with some real heavy and dense themes, just mention em' here. Thanks!

In light of all the blacklash of the fake baby in American Sniper, which i wasn't personally bothered by, what are some other movie props that distract you when watching?

no boobies :c

I just watches The Game by David Fincher and I must say I'm completely blown away. I love him as a director and have seen pretty much everything except for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Game, which I have now seen. I know to expect some kind of twist or misdirection, classic Fincher shit but The Game took me on a complete emotional rollercoaster that left me breathless. Seriously, has a movie portrayed the eccentricity of the rich so well since My Man Godfrey. The ending just left me with my heart racing and my mouth hanging. Men and women of reddit, thoughts?

FOUND THE NAME OF THE MOVIE

KNOWING

Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, and yes I've already Google searched it.

Anyways, the movie is about the end of the world. It focuses on a man who recently met this woman who worked for nasa, and found out that she had 2 kids. They get closer and then she finds out the world is going to end because of some space shit and the only way they could survive is like going way down into a cave. Then like halfway through they go to a gas station and people are raiding the gas station, and yeah thats all I can remember..

I think the film was made in the late 2000's

Sorry if this was wayy to vague.

Thanks in advance!

Just got Fury and it's the first time viewing it since seeing in theaters. I still very much enjoy the movie but after checking out the Deleted/ Extended Scenes has anyone else felt some of those scenes were very important to the overall story?

At least for those asking the logical questions and/or understand some points about the tanks overall.

For example after the Tiger fight and even after the mine breaks their tracks you would question why don't they radio in what has happened? It wouldn't exactly cross your mind per chance but in the deleted scene following the Tiger fight Pitts character states that the radio has been 86ed.

Another scene when they swap out the 30 cal coaxial they just seem to randomly do it without reasoning why. Again there is a deleted scene where it shows the original 30 cal over heated and they pulled it out with the barrel glowing red.

These scenes are only maybe a mere minute long each so it wouldn't be for time constraint so what would the reasoning behind cutting them be?

Granted there are some alternate and deleted scenes where it wouldn't be too hard to join in with the humor of the crew and make the movie seem like some sort of comedy. There is a bit that extends on the Chocolate for girls joke in which Gordo tries to summon an elderly lady for Norman by using a Chocolate bar.

Just curious what other people who have picked up the recent release and watched both the movie and deleted/ extended scenes felt.

Just finished the movie Submarine directed by Richard Ayoade. Absolutely fantastic! What did you guys think?

this is his profile and he goes by acdc-1989 http://ift.tt/1z9ok3A he says stuff like "THE original 3 are TOO OLD FAT AND UGLY", and "ABSOLUTELY RIGHT this is a cash grab" and "thisll cheapen the living hell out of star wars", and "youre DELUSIONAL", i pray every night "dear god, please kill acdc-1989, hes the human disease, thank you" i just wanna strangle that little shit, and mop the floor with him. acdc-1989 if you're reading this right now, STOP Repeating these phrases, i hate you!, youre mother shouldve had an abortion when she was pregnant with you, your fetus couldve went on to help cure diseases, but your mother made a huge mistake, letting you be born, there will be a new star wars whether you like it or not, we dont care if there too old, fat or ugly, what if youre not a looker yourself, so accept there will be an episode 7 and SHUT UP!!! thank you, and if anyone has any solutions on how he can stop being an entity to me please say so now, thank you, oh, and btw acdc-1989 "nolantards" are not SNOBS, and get rid of the shift and all caps, thank you.

I think it's an 80s or 90s film. During one of the final fight scenes it turns out that the antagonist has been winning his fights by cheating. He would throw little balls of powder to blind his opponents.

Just a curiosity. What do they look for? Is it a gut feeling, or is there an actual list of set guidelines? A combination of the two is my guess, but I'm very curious as to how the official selection is made.

I watched it and it was great

It is the lovely-odd genre that I can only describe as fictional-non-fiction; perhaps my favorite type of movie. But that is why I ask: how realistic is this movie? It seems pretty legit.

Now that Chris Pratt is becoming a household name, and has shown that he can be popular in bad shape or good shape, I think it's time the whole world knows how hilarious he is. He's easily the funniest character on Parks and Recreation, and watching outtakes or interviews with Chris show how good of a sense of comedy he has. I'd love to see a great comedy with him in the lead. It would be hilarious.

So i remember watching this movie, it's not really a movie, there was no talking, no plot, but there were just creepy scenes the entire time. I remember the start of a movie was just an abandoned house with tons of sand inside, in the middle of nowhere, then one point in the movie there was a Japanese woman sitting in one of those japanese styled homes, fully covered with makeup, not moving but crying. There was also a scene with an American soldier and he was standing still and his face was extremely creepy, it seemed like it was all blownup before and there was a cask on his head. also there's a part about third world countries' factory workers. there was also a part of a person painting his own face and making it into a very creepy looking scarecrow. sorry for the extremely vague description, hope someone could help me find the movie :) thanks

I am stuck at a crossroads right now between different career paths. The thoughts and emotions I am feeling are getting too overwhelming for me to process. The more I analyze which option will be better for me, whether that be in terms of wealth, happiness, etc, the farther away I get from actually making a decision.

I am looking for a movie, documentary, something, that delves into difficult life choices so that maybe I can more understand what I truly want to do.

I read the rules and I believe this is ok to post, apologies if this is inappropriate for the subreddit.

Personally I really liked the chase sequence in Jack Reacher. The geography and timing of the scene was top-notch, and it was photographed and edited in clear, logical sense, rather than being a flurry of shaki-cam and quick-cuts.

I'd expect any action scene with Tom Cruise to be spectacular though. Regardless of what you think of the guy, he's dedicated as hell, and I give him the upmost respect for that.

So, naturally I'm reading some of the back and forth going on surrounding "American Sniper". I don't know what I believe, but I know that every wartime U.S. film is from the perspective of the soldier. In fact, I realized that I cannot think of one movie that I've seen that is shot entirely in the viewpoint of a civilian in an area of heavy conflict.

Sure...there are some that take place in such places but not plot-driven by civilians.

I'm sure I'm wrong here.

Is anything standing out?

After reading this comment I was wondering what other films still look technically and visually stunning?