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painfully serious actor like Joaquin Phoenix

You misquoted, it actually states: “In addition to Harrelson, Venom stars Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Jenny Slate, Riz Ahmed, and Woody Harrelson.”

I was worried that Hardy wouldn’t treat us to a silly accent so this trailer puts that to rest.

What I think most folks don’t realize is that color, contrast, saturation, etc. have always been manipulated.

People might not think animation needs “special effects” because you can draw anything, but Disney’s multi-plane camera for Snow White was pretty major innovation in creating depth when compositing shots.

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Since “Special Effects” is a broad term that encompasses anything from practical, makeup, digital visual effects, sound effects, etc, - the dramatic tonal effect of the coloring of O Brother is classified as a “special effect”. It wasn’t global color grading to make everything sepia or “James Cameron silver”, but a…

So if we want to cover the whole book, we have to get some tape and a paper bag.

I think the very reason audiences’ minds weren’t blown by RuffaloHulk (though I recall people being impressed at the time) was because it was so much more successful than previous Hulks. By 2012, people expected a believable Hulk, and they finally got one. The effects that people don’t notice, that are seamlessly…

Yes yes but he still thinks this.

Studios seem to want to force Renner’s mushy puppy face into leading action roles and I just don’t get it.

I was going to cite that as a great example of Cruise’s lack of range (though I do like that movie). He’s playing a blue collar dude in Jersey by wearing an old hat and blue jeans, which would be like putting glasses on Jeremy Renner and calling him a physicist.

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For sure, I can totally appreciate the snow globe Gotham. Also Burton was taking the staginess of German Expressionism silent horror films that influenced BATMAN even further in Batman Returns. The Penguin looks like Dr Caligari or Chaney’s London After Midnight vampire; Catwoman is stitched together like…

I agree that none of the MCU’s effects are earth-shattering compared to any other VFX film of the era, but Avengers’ Hulk is still pretty impressive (he looked better in Age of Ultron, yet oddly not quite as good in Thor Ragnorok, perhaps because of the increased amount of interaction and screen time). Sure, Gollum…

I meant thematically uglier, I should have specified. Returns’ gothic urban winter wonderland certainly looks sharp, just as Edward Scissorhands’ suburban winter wonderland did the year before. But considering its gurgling vengeful man-beast bent on killing children, and wounded-vengeful-undead secretary aren’t even…

Tom Cruise is kind of a throwback to the 1950s bland pretty boy actors who just happens to have a ton of charisma. He’s great at “pretending”, but not at acting, i.e., he’s never played a character. He’s Jeremy Renner without the mushy face but with charisma. If I enjoy a movie he is in, it’s because of the team…

I get that there are a few people out there who prefer the uglier Batman Returns over BATMAN, but if you are going to include one on a list for effects, it has to be BATMAN. Never mind the ground breaking combination of art deco, pop art, and 1940s gangster films, but the batmobile, miniature work, and costume that is…

The movie opens with a giant balloon monster attacking a city...