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May 15, 2024 9:37:11 GMT
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Post by rfan8312 on May 15, 2024 9:37:11 GMT
There are terrible things happening there, Mike.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 15, 2024 9:35:57 GMT
Unbelievable, Tim. Unbelievable.
Thank you for watching it though. Johnny Quid is one of my favorite movie characters.
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May 14, 2024 20:25:39 GMT
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Post by rfan8312 on May 14, 2024 20:25:39 GMT
^Very glad to see this
There's a documentary on Netflix called 'What the Health'.
It would turn any stomach as a few investigators go into American food processing plants to expose what is happening in there and on American grocery shelves. I won't even repeat what is revealed. It's far worse than I imagined.
I hope this development in the UK sets some kind of change into motion beyond the UK.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 14, 2024 20:14:32 GMT
Looks great Paul but where is this all going to be in 5 years or 3 years?
Are we monkeys tinkering with creation or are we geniuses shlepping pixels around into funny looking shapes?
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Post by rfan8312 on May 12, 2024 20:26:58 GMT
Last summer I had to help a friend move who lives about 1 hour away. I became obsessed with Creedence Clearwater Revival on those drives.
Well, it's time to help that friend move again and will try this on those night time drives.
2/5 to start and hoping to find magic
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Post by rfan8312 on May 12, 2024 15:44:44 GMT
Thanks Tim. Wow, a 50k headphone relegated to the background and only the tubes are visible lol. Still very cool.
Fair enough regarding Guy Ritchie, Tim. Personally what I have come to believe though is that his use of music transforms a scene into something entirely different than is what is on the page of the script. Especially in Snatch, Wrath Of Man and Rock N Rolla. And each film has many scenes like that. One example is the scene of the rabbit being chased in Snatch. Imo regardless of how his films can be graded objectively, Ritchie's films in great part due to the music selected and how it is applied, create a spell for the viewer to experience.
Have you seen his film Rock N Rolla? I think it's his best work. Released in 2008. 10/10 imo.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 11, 2024 20:36:47 GMT
Tim, if you watch it, can you report back whether it's true? And then after that can you take your fingers and place them the on keyboard once again and admit that the film Snatch is a masterpiece?
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Post by rfan8312 on May 11, 2024 19:40:42 GMT
Apparently the $50,000 Sennheiser HE-1, successor to the Orpheus (HE-90) headphone system, makes a cameo in the film Parasite.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 11, 2024 18:04:16 GMT
I just saw Alien at the theater. It really is that visceral experience that I've heard about. Seeing it on the big screen with the big sound is much different than watching on a small screen at home. Everything comes together including the acting to create something that feels real. The film feels creepy too. We are right there with the crew wondering wtf are we seeing unfold in front of us. Watching it was a powerful vicarious experience of being on that ship. Nothing felt rushed.
My first favorite movie ever was Predator from 1987 and we all know that those yautja hunt xenomorphs. Let's use this thread to occasionally dump some links to that world and to discuss the bonus situation.
This sound in Blade Runner can be heard in bits of Alien leading up to the scene when Kane wakes up at which point the sound is identical in both films. Sometimes I just let this play on the soundbar in the kitchen while I read or work on the house.
For anybody who never saw the original deleted scene of Fifield coming back to the ship in Prometheus here it is.
I've seen a lot of negative comments on social media about Prometheus but I love that film for the look it has and its atmosphere. Same with Covenant. These are slasher flicks set in space. The crew is expendable.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 9, 2024 13:50:00 GMT
I saw a film recently, The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare. There is a scene of one character going about his work of dispatching many of the enemy during an invasion scene. The music in that scene hasn't left my mind for a week. Each new weekend I go to the movies to see something I am always tempted to go back in to that one to see Eiza Gonzalez and hear that music.
And I wonder about the music...oh that's right ...it's a Guy Ritchie film.
So far nothing has beat his use of Johnny Cash in Wrath Of Man.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 9, 2024 13:38:31 GMT
Men of culture, I salute and bid you adieu as I retire to my quarters for the remainder of the year. Godspeed gentlemen.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 7, 2024 20:19:55 GMT
Bump
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Post by rfan8312 on May 7, 2024 12:28:49 GMT
Bit funny to me that this thread comes up now my parents are moving to south Carolina very soon. Their house just went up for sale. Everything must go.
For that reason just yesterday I acquired a chainsaw, handheld circular saw, reciprocating saw, sledgehammer, axe, endless large plastic clamps of all sizes and tbh my possible favorite besides chainsaw is this saw on a stick that is pulled with a string to cut. I used this a lot last year when a massive section of tree fell and partially crushed my landlady's shed and I cut this rather massive tree and it's large branches by hand with this thing because of how deep it cuts quickly though without using the string and just manually cutting.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 5, 2024 17:54:14 GMT
Wow. I'd watch it right now if I could. I'll look around but will try something creepy as a warm up.
There was a show called Fortitude. I've always wondered if it ended well. Never got to finish it.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 5, 2024 17:42:36 GMT
Reading reviews on Constellation people are calling it creepy and chilling.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 4, 2024 14:00:13 GMT
Any AI Salma Hayeks in that contraption of yours, Paul?
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Post by rfan8312 on May 2, 2024 17:14:31 GMT
Thanks Martin, will do. I'll come up with some material for one.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 2, 2024 16:56:50 GMT
Thanks. I wish we had a Weyland Yutani thread. There's a LOT to this world.
Also, let's not forget. In sci-films these days the camera cuts 15 times during a simple conversation (like in Event Horizon), it's not immersive. It looks/feels like flashy Hollywood stuff.
In Alien, when Dallas is explaining to the crew that they've picked up a signal...the camera barely cuts once. It's handheld but moving only very slightly. It's immersive it feels like we are sitting at the able with them.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 2, 2024 16:15:05 GMT
Lol yes. I thought Bill Skarsgaard can't lose. I'd read reviews that touted this film as Kill Bill meets Ninja Assassin (give or take an ass).
It sucks...but in like new and interesting ways.
On my way to see Alien. Never got to see it in a theater before.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 2, 2024 15:55:00 GMT
Boy Kills World
Wow. They fucked it up. A few cool moments but I walked out. Too bad because its Bill Skarsgaard in the lead role and Sharlto Copley has a good role.
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