Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue February 25, 2020 3:01 am
Pain & Gain is so ridiculous it's fantastic
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.
I always thought that the term "continuous shot" in this sense was just as few cuts as possible, not necessarily one long shot.The Argonaut wrote:Why does everyone talk about 1917 as being one long shot? There is a very obvious cut in the middle of the movie. I don't even mean that Mendes and Deakins don't disguise a transition well. There is a literal cut to black and then a cut back into a different shot. The movie is two long shots with a short black bit in the middle.
McConaughey's hair transplant is truly awesome.Strat wrote:I love Variety's "Actors on Actors" series.
Little intrigues as much as hearing artists actually talk about their craft whether it be actors or musicians or chefs.
It's designed to look like two long, continuous shots with no visible cuts. But everything I hear is people talking about one long shotE.H. Ruddock wrote:I always thought that the term "continuous shot" in this sense was just as few cuts as possible, not necessarily one long shot.The Argonaut wrote:Why does everyone talk about 1917 as being one long shot? There is a very obvious cut in the middle of the movie. I don't even mean that Mendes and Deakins don't disguise a transition well. There is a literal cut to black and then a cut back into a different shot. The movie is two long shots with a short black bit in the middle.
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.
Trag there is a really good episode of Mr robot coming up for you that is continuous shottragabigzanda wrote:my favorite version so far was the 6-minute shootout from True Detective 1
He has to make it through seasons 2 and 3 first!E.H. Ruddock wrote:Trag there is a really good episode of Mr robot coming up for you that is continuous shottragabigzanda wrote:my favorite version so far was the 6-minute shootout from True Detective 1
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.