You've got to hand it to Ridley Scott, though. Stanley Kubrick spent about forty years trying to make a Napoleon movie. I saw a museum exhibit once with a bunch of Kubrick items. It included an entire bookcase of Napoleon books, all marked up and bookmarked, multiple scripts with handwritten notes. It took up much of his creative life and never amounted to anything.
Ridley basically just said "fuck it, I'll do it live" and banged out a four hour Napoleon in a year, complete with epic battles and everything. Got to appreciate the hustle
The Argonaut wrote:I'm no artist or color guy, but, yeah, maybe this movie is a little too...grey? sometimes
Same with the Martian. It’s an extremely limited colour pallete throughout.
I think this is a new thing? I only became aware of it with last Jedi. Someone did a big compilation of thousands of frames from it and it’s all white and red and black
If it’s been a thing forever I haven’t noticed before
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I think making him a buffoon in private life could have worked if they also explained why he was so brilliant on the battlefield. Could have been an interesting story to show that contrast. But this is just bad comedy...it all feels so surface level and choppy...no real characters come through.
