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tragabigzanda wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone name a director that started out bad but then improved to become good?
Kubrick.
It seems that great directors are at least decent from the start. Makes me think there is some innate talent required.
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I can't think of one that made a truly awful first film. Maybe james Cameron with Piranha 2, but I've never seen it.
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The escape scene in Hanna is fantastic
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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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That CGI Beast in the new Beauty and the Beast looks awful.
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BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone name a director that started out bad but then improved to become good?
Just thought of one: Francis Ford Coppola. Dementia 13? The Rain People? Yeesh.
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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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tragabigzanda wrote:
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BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone name a director that started out bad but then improved to become good?
Just thought of one: Francis Ford Coppola. Dementia 13? The Rain People? Yeesh.
But then he got bad again (The Rainmaker, Jack).
The Rainmaker is great.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone name a director that started out bad but then improved to become good?
Just thought of one: Francis Ford Coppola. Dementia 13? The Rain People? Yeesh.
But then he got bad again (The Rainmaker, Jack).
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Currently watching Netflix 4K UHD. What a time to be alive.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Currently watching Netflix 4K UHD. What a time to be alive.
It looks great, I wish there was more content though. It also completely ruins my data cap. I usually only watch it towards the end of my billing period.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Currently watching Netflix 4K UHD. What a time to be alive.
It looks great, I wish there was more content though. It also completed ruins my data cap. I usually only watch it towards the end of my billing period.
Ugh. Data caps are such bullshit.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Currently watching Netflix 4K UHD. What a time to be alive.
It looks great, I wish there was more content though. It also completed ruins my data cap. I usually only watch it towards the end of my billing period.
Ugh. Data caps are such bullshit.
You're telling me. It is the only way I could get decent internet for less than 60 or 70 bucks a month. It is usually not an issue but it is total bullshit.

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It bums me out that Shelley Duvall has been in need of help for so long, and that her mental health is now being exploited
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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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That's cool. I wish I could do accents or impersonations.
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BurtReynolds wrote:Saw a trailer for that Trolls movie. Shitting/pissing jokes and pop culture references, based on a decades old fad. Perfect for the whole mouth breathing family! Art is dead. DreamWorks is cancer. Kill yourselves.
Seeing this tomorrow. Free tix from my old workplace. The kids will probably love it.
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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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tragabigzanda wrote:The 20 Most Exciting Cinematographers Working Today:

http://collider.com/best-cinematographers/
Is Benoit Debie on the list? Because if he's not I'm not clicking that link.
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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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