Red Mosquito

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Technically marvelous

I don't even think this is true

Other than the mix (lots of dialogue was tough to hear), what technical problems did you have?

Burt, same question.

BurtReynolds wrote:I guess you could say they are choices, but I don't understand any of the bizarre choices he makes. For some reason he really loves to drown out the dialogue with music.

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.

VinylGuy wrote:Dunkirk was stunning.

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.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I guess you could say they are choices, but I don't understand any of the bizarre choices he makes. For some reason he really loves to drown out the dialogue with music.

Nolan’s sound mixing is infamous in the home theater enthusiast world. He hates dynamic sound design.

He also hates good picture quality. He is like the only person alive who creates release prints/files from interpostives instead of negatives, meaning you lose tons of fine detail. It’s idiotic. Again, a great way to waste 70mm.

it's funny that i can see more detail on a closeup on a digitally shot tv show than in Dunkirk. And thanks for this post verm, some new concepts for me in there.

tragabigzanda wrote:All technical stuff aside, i didn't really care about anyone in the movie, other than Mark Rylance. That was the biggest failure.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:Man, I tried to watch Sunset Boulevard last night but I just couldn't hang. The dialogue and acting were just so stiff and hammy. I wish I could chalk that up to the era, but films like Casablanca, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, Seven Samurai, and the entire Alfred Hitchcock filmography render that defense false.

I could not enjoy this movie. Maybe I'll try again sometime.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Loved, loved, loved Murder on the Orient Express. Beautifully atmospheric, and holy shit, I have never noticed how great of an actor Kenneth Branagh is before. He is AMAZING in this. I have seen other adaptations of this story before, but this blew those away, and a lot of it is because of how he brings Poirot to life.

I really like this article about some of the technical aspects of the film: http://www.studiodaily.com/2017/11/hari ... t-express/

I think the most important thing mentioned is this:

The 65mm format worked in concert with film grammar that featured fewer cuts. Zambarloukos estimates the film has an average of 150 edits per reel, a fraction of what’s considered normal in current cinema.

You can really feel this in the way the film breathes; it's like it's ripped from another era. It's still, patient, and controlled - much like Poirot himself. I found it very refreshing. What a wonderful movie.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Pretty Woman. I've never liked Julia Roberts, and I've never really understood why she got so uber-famous for a while. Now I understand why: I had never seen Pretty Woman. Talk about someone being perfect for a role, wow.