Enjoyable. Dialogue errs on the side of corny and you can tell where character arcs were truncated, either while writing the screenplay from the original novel or in the editing bay after shooting, to save runtime.
I went into it knowing its pedigree of a dystopian YA novel. Do the same and you'll have managed your expectations enough to enjoy it. It won't make any sort of lasting impact but it deserved more than the dozen or so people in our theater on opening weekend.
(Also I want a badass longcoat, as is generally the case after seeing movies like this.)
Perhaps we should start a company "Long Badass Coats" dot com. Because I need one as well.
Quake's music and sound design was done by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, using ambient soundscapes and synthesized drones to create atmospheric tracks.
In an interview, Reznor remarked that the Quake soundtrack "is not music, it's textures and ambiences and whirling machine noises and stuff. We tried to make the most sinister, depressive, scary, frightening kind of thing... It's been fun." Thought of Teague when I saw this one.
Metallica's Master of Puppets has a recurrent riff that doesn't perfectly correspond to any kind of time signature; the band just plays it by feel.
Did you ever feel like something was off in that song's rhythm? I didn't. The measure feels right and is performed correctly in unison by the whole band, but though it's often transcribed as a 5/8 measure, it's not exactly the case. There's an added pause that permanently shifts the beat onwards.
I personally love that this beat is incorrect from a technical point of view, but the song still feels perfectly right. Something about the instinctive nature of music that can't be narrowed down to technical terms.
Ian Fleming served with Christopher Lee during World War 2. The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare and its operations served to inspire Fleming in writing about James Bond, and included other future authors such as Roald Dahl.
We'll see happens in the mid-terms... blue-wave, red-wave, or status-quo. Any bets? I wouldn't be surprised if nothing much changes. Millennials would have to stop taking photos of their cereal and go and vote...
Sad but true. As a moderate/conservative here it pains me at the fact that I hesitate to explain my political views because I'll get lumped in as a "alt-right" racist/bigoted/hater camp. But, the thing that pains me the most is the absolute lack of interest in voting currently. More painful is that it decreased even more since I did a report on it 15 years ago in college and that was at 33 percent of the population.
Re-upping due to the burning of the Library of AlexanDIFa—here's 50 pages' worth of scans from the 1981 American Cinematographer issue on the making of Raiders, including in-depth articles on the shoot, the VFX, and the stunts as well as content by Spielberg himself.
I posted this in another thread, but this song has taken on a new significance recently for me.
Song: Oculus Artist: Project 86 Something: It's a reflection upon death and life and things remembered. Since my grandfather passed, it's been on my mind.
There's nothing quite like a thousand foot tall, and naked, advert when your weighing up life's options. That, at best, has got to be an inconvenience to your day somewhat. And here I thought adverts were obnoxious now. I wonder if there is an adblock palliative in this world...
Smart glasses, but adblocking costs extra, and might not run all programs
I am very intrigued by Fireproof's thing, because he has detected a trend in the world that I have not, and I love it when that happens.
Probably a niche that I'm in to, since I want to write military science fiction, and really enjoy studying armor, and ship design. The trend I've noticed, in that very small niche, is ME's style, like Boter noted, was aped quite a bit for other games, and concept art and costuming. It's frustrating when trying to get inspiration in a way that isn't a rip off of Star Wars, Star Trek, and now ME.
And then fans feel like ME should be inspiration for new Star Trek...
I haven't ever played the game, and frankly, I don't want to. I have a weird hobby of checking out different science fiction concept art, spaceship design and the like, and it feels like everything I stumble upon is Mass Effect related.
Please stop the "FemShep" the N7 and all the constant references. I just want fun science fiction, not a Mass Effect ripoff.
Oh god, I've got a Beetleborgs story. When I was six or so, I started a new school and for some bizarre reason claimed that I was the green Beetleborg. Obviously, the other kids didn't believe me - so to prove that I wasn't the green Beetleborg, they got me to have a race with the fastest kid in the year (the green one had super speed).
