If you want to know where MoS went wrong, you can probably start with the decision to jettison the John Williams score. Granted, given the (atrocious) decisions regarding tone and character that Snyder makes, the John Williams score no longer works, but it’s the clearest symptom of what’s wrong with the movie.
That…
Zach Snyder is a great cinematographer. Unfortunately, they keep hiring him to direct.
I do hate Illinois Nazis, but Indiana is still more red than Illinois, even when you take Chicago out of the equation.
I was driving the other day and saw a Porsche with the license plate “Aryan 14", in what had to be a custom paint job because it was perfect brown-shirt tan. Of course it was fucking Indiana plates.
Never wanted to sideswipe someone more in my life.
Arrival: the movie you watch again when you want to be reduced to a blubbering mess three seconds into the film, because you now understand the rest of the film.
I’m not sure I’d accept a recommendation that anyone watch it at first time, at this point.
Ben Shapiro is condescending, but he has yet to appear knowledgeable.
Sounds like you should write it.
Slasher films get made because they’re cheap. Shooting at a music festival would be pretty massively expensive. That’s a lot of extras.
They may not be your cup of tea (or mine, as I’m largely coming up “Meh” about most superhero stuff), but they are the biggest thing in movies right now, and this is a website about pop culture. If you’re looking for in-depth reviews of indie films, maybe go to a site specifically focusing on that?
No, but I work on TV shows, so I know plenty of Assistants to _____. You’re welcome!
You think the guy who’s biggest claim to fame is dying in the third season of an eight-season TV show is the closest thing we have to a movie star?
Above guys like Timothy Chalomee, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor Johnson? Or hell, take your pick from any one of the Chrises (Evans, Pine, Hemsworth, Pratt).
As Dr. Gumby says, personal assistants on film sets are very rarely called that. They’re “Assistants to _______” or “Director’s assistant” or whatever. And on set everyone just calls them by their name, because they’re the only one doing that job, whereas you might ask production for a PA for something, because…
You watch your TV shows with motion smoothing on, don’t you.
No disagreement on it being a feat of technical filmmaking. I’m just pointing out that (for once) AVC did have a bit of a coherent thesis in putting together this list- it’s all about the firsts and/or trend-setters.
Forced perspective has been around since the days of still photos though. Even as incredibly well done as it was in LotR, it really isn’t “new” per se.
YMMV, I suppose. I thought the high frame rate made the hobbit films look like soap opera crap.
Just rewatched it not so long ago. The effects work still holds up. Maybe not quite as well as Jurassic Park, but way better than dozens or hundreds of movies that came after (cough, cough, Scorpion King).
The reason both of them work as well as they do is largely because they don’t try to do EVERYTHING all at once.…
They mention it in the slide about the Alice shorts. While Roger Rabbit pushed the idea farther (and probably to its technical conclusion), it really didn’t invent that much, which seems to be the deciding factor here. Same reason Willow got the nod over Terminator 2 in terms of morphing.
Yeah, but they run the math for like three months at a time. Everything about how Zaslav* runs the company is the absolute shortest term thinking possible.
*He’s just the worst offender. It’s rampant throughout modern capitalism, where companies don’t attempt to build a brand or create loyalty and goodwill any more so…
