What movies are you watching?

[Monkey_Driven]

Dirty Grandpa is one of the best directed, edited, scored, and cast movies of all time. There stretches of filmmaking in there that are just sublime. Like GoodFellas, it's nothing particularly deep, but the craftsmanship is second-to-none.

[epilogue]

anybody seen dirty grandpa?

Go to hell

i've seen it so i'm already there

Why would you do that to yourself, Len?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

anybody seen dirty grandpa?

Go to hell

i've seen it so i'm already there

Why would you do that to yourself, Len?

i heard deniro hangs d*ng so i wanted to see for myself

[epilogue]

anybody seen dirty grandpa?

Go to hell

i've seen it so i'm already there

Why would you do that to yourself, Len?

i heard deniro hangs d*ng so i wanted to see for myself

[LoathedVermin72]

Jaws is one of the best directed, edited, scored, and cast movies of all time. There stretches of filmmaking in there that are just sublime. Like GoodFellas, it's nothing particularly deep, but the craftsmanship is second-to-none.

Both films that do very little for me.

Which makes sense, given your interests.

Actually, now that I think about it, it kinda makes sense that you're not on big on Spielberg. While his sensibilities seem like something you'd appreciate, the way he conveys them is extremely visual and visceral. It's not necessarily concrete.

Well, now, see here. Visceral is something all about, my friend.

Oh sure, but the visceral quality is conveyed visually, I mean. Spielberg's use of editing and framing (and score) is very specific, and crucial to appreciating his work.

Ah.

Yes. I agree. Look no further than that money shot of a big ol dinosaur perfectly framed with a banner falling perfectly across his midsection as he roars to Williams' swelling score in Jurassic Park.

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH!!!

Spoiler: show

blech

wtf, i love that shot

[LoathedVermin72]

i guarantee i will see dirty grandpa at some point

[epilogue]

Jaws is one of the best directed, edited, scored, and cast movies of all time. There stretches of filmmaking in there that are just sublime. Like GoodFellas, it's nothing particularly deep, but the craftsmanship is second-to-none.

Both films that do very little for me.

Which makes sense, given your interests.

Actually, now that I think about it, it kinda makes sense that you're not on big on Spielberg. While his sensibilities seem like something you'd appreciate, the way he conveys them is extremely visual and visceral. It's not necessarily concrete.

Well, now, see here. Visceral is something all about, my friend.

Oh sure, but the visceral quality is conveyed visually, I mean. Spielberg's use of editing and framing (and score) is very specific, and crucial to appreciating his work.

Ah.

Yes. I agree. Look no further than that money shot of a big ol dinosaur perfectly framed with a banner falling perfectly across his midsection as he roars to Williams' swelling score in Jurassic Park.

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH!!!

Spoiler: show

blech

wtf, i love that shot

blech

[LoathedVermin72]

Jaws is one of the best directed, edited, scored, and cast movies of all time. There stretches of filmmaking in there that are just sublime. Like GoodFellas, it's nothing particularly deep, but the craftsmanship is second-to-none.

Both films that do very little for me.

Which makes sense, given your interests.

Actually, now that I think about it, it kinda makes sense that you're not on big on Spielberg. While his sensibilities seem like something you'd appreciate, the way he conveys them is extremely visual and visceral. It's not necessarily concrete.

Well, now, see here. Visceral is something all about, my friend.

Oh sure, but the visceral quality is conveyed visually, I mean. Spielberg's use of editing and framing (and score) is very specific, and crucial to appreciating his work.

Ah.

Yes. I agree. Look no further than that money shot of a big ol dinosaur perfectly framed with a banner falling perfectly across his midsection as he roars to Williams' swelling score in Jurassic Park.

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH!!!

Spoiler: show

blech

wtf, i love that shot

blech

blech you

[epilogue]

Jaws is one of the best directed, edited, scored, and cast movies of all time. There stretches of filmmaking in there that are just sublime. Like GoodFellas, it's nothing particularly deep, but the craftsmanship is second-to-none.

Both films that do very little for me.

Which makes sense, given your interests.

Actually, now that I think about it, it kinda makes sense that you're not on big on Spielberg. While his sensibilities seem like something you'd appreciate, the way he conveys them is extremely visual and visceral. It's not necessarily concrete.

Well, now, see here. Visceral is something all about, my friend.

Oh sure, but the visceral quality is conveyed visually, I mean. Spielberg's use of editing and framing (and score) is very specific, and crucial to appreciating his work.

Ah.

Yes. I agree. Look no further than that money shot of a big ol dinosaur perfectly framed with a banner falling perfectly across his midsection as he roars to Williams' swelling score in Jurassic Park.

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH!!!

Spoiler: show

blech

wtf, i love that shot

blech

blech you

Look, it's a great photograph. If you're eleven years old and looking for a nice poster to hang on your wall, this is the image for you.

But I don't go to movies to look at posters. And I don't go to movies for Shiny Spielberg to get super obvious at me, either.

[LoathedVermin72]

joey

[epilogue]

I thought that was a pretty funny post. No?

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[LoathedVermin72]

blah blah story doesn't matter etc.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Jaws is one of the best directed, edited, scored, and cast movies of all time. There stretches of filmmaking in there that are just sublime. Like GoodFellas, it's nothing particularly deep, but the craftsmanship is second-to-none.

Both films that do very little for me.

Which makes sense, given your interests.

Actually, now that I think about it, it kinda makes sense that you're not on big on Spielberg. While his sensibilities seem like something you'd appreciate, the way he conveys them is extremely visual and visceral. It's not necessarily concrete.

Well, now, see here. Visceral is something all about, my friend.

Oh sure, but the visceral quality is conveyed aesthetically, I mean. Spielberg's use of editing, framing, and score is very specific, and crucial to appreciating his work.

Yea, or being supremely disappointed in it. All the framing, editing, and score add up to nothing without a great story, great script, and great characters (see Indiana Jones 4 or Minority Report). I agree that he makes very specific choices to convey his story, but I believe Spielberg's greatest strength is in his storytelling. The technical stuff is in service to that, and your average viewer wouldn't care if the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were shot with a steady-cam or over-the-shoulder unit, just so long as they look BIG.

back off minority report, buster

[epilogue]

In trag's defense, it is a terrible movie.

[E.H. Ruddock]

blah blah story doesn't matter etc.

blah you

[epilogue]

blah blah story doesn't matter etc.

blah you

Right in the blah.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

In trag's defense, it is a terrible movie.

WTF

[epilogue]

In trag's defense, it is a terrible movie.

WTF

Change my mind, Lenny.

[LoathedVermin72]

The only Spielberg movies I would call "terrible" are Crystal Skull and Tintin.