Agree about the steering wheel shot, though I imagine in 3d that would play better. It's sort of irrelevant though as the tanker crash is a real stunt (!!!!!??), and the perfect climax to one of the all time greatest sustained action sequences

I feel like this demands multiple viewings just to absorb the degree of action involved here. The final third might be the densest, most relentless, jaw-dropping piece of action I've ever seen.

That's the crazy thing with this movie, it's not good because it's a "throwback", no it slingshots past its contemporaries and feels like some insane action movie from the distant future that's time-traveled back to the present to blow peoples minds. I feel like someone in the 1920s watching Terminator 2.

The geography manages to be mostly coherent, but without some single-take gimmick a la Gravity or something, no the editing is relentless and in your face.

Ohh, great choice. The Criterion blu-ray is fantastic if you can get your hands on it.

The cinematography and compositions are off the charts great, and the story is a pretty cool retro-procedural, in that you get to see how this type of investigation would be carried out 60 years ago vs today.

GH4 is a fucking great camera at that price point, Panasonic respects its customers, and it's going to be even better when log-color gets added later this year in a firmware patch. I've used it for a year and I'm in love with this camera.

As for MFT, I use mostly Canon glass with a speed-booster, and it's worked great

The counter-argument though is that if you put it in its own section, you will only get people who already know about the project to click there, whereas having it as part of the off-topic section, you'll get people just browsing casually to see it.

No idea if that's true but it had occurred to me. I certainly visit the Reviews section way less than off-topic for example, so the more you divide the forum into sub-sections, the more you segment the userbase.

It is a really weird movie in terms of figuring out why he wanted to make it. It teases all these moral conflicts and ultimately shrugs and doesn't actually grapple with any of them. As a little slice-of-life story it works, but it really feels like a 1st part of a trilogy or a pilot for a tv show or something. There's very little meat on the bones.
I like it but it feels incomplete.

That's definitely an issue with any story about leaving the earth. The fact is, in almost any conceivable scenario, it would be cheaper and easier to engineer a solution to the problems on Earth than to migrate the population to another world. You certainly have to wonder how their space-station cornfields magically don't have any of the problems with blight, it would seem like that would still be a problem for them.

Personally, I think they should've leaned harder on the atmosphere becoming unbreathable than focusing so much on the corn. That seems like the much bigger issue long-term, but they kind of gloss over it.

Weirdly, the trashy scifi-horror movie Pandorum actually handles this same setup in a more believable way, and with way less screen-time.

It's bad if it looks fake. The moment I realize I'm just watching CG things blowing up on screen, I'm completely detached from the experience. There's nothing more boring than a CGI car crash, or CG buildings collapsing.

The reason Fast Five is great, is you can tell there was a real practical safe they were dragging, so all the action feels crazy intense and you get a real rush out of it.

CG cars jumping between CG buildings does nothing for me. digital Vin Diesel out-driving a collapsing parking garage does nothing for me.

You know the best scene in this whole movie? The fight on the door as its sliding down. It's inventive and crazy, but in a context that still feels believable, so you get a real good kick out of it.

That's my big disappointment with this entry.
On top of that, the car driving sequences are shot in like 2 second bursts, so you never even really get to appreciate the chase, or the driving skills involved.

When the hacker they're rescuing is hanging on the hood of the car during the big mountain chase, all I could think is how much more exciting the end of Death Proof was.

Is it really too much to expect a driving-centric 200 million dollar action movie to have well filmed car chases? Not every movie can be Ronin or French Connection, but even by the standards of this series I find it pretty weak.

My hope, if the new Mad Max is the masterpiece I think it will be, is it will show mainstream audiences how this type of action is supposed to be filmed.

Wait, ya, I was confused. I thought we didn't start discussing the movie until the next one is picked, or that there would be separate threads or something. Maybe a time cutoff? So the movie discussion only really begins once the next movie has been picked?

This movie is really bad, and I say that as a huge fan of the series. DocSub, I think you're being swept up by the hype, and when you re-watch it down the line you'll reconsider your stance.

Justin Lin captured lightening in a bottle, and without him, this one just does not work.

The first 40 minutes of this movie are pure torture, like some of the worst attempted dramatic scenes I've seen in years. Like, Attack of the Clones bad. Then finally Kurt Russell shows up to breath some life into things. Then we finally get to the action and....James Wan blows it.

Instead of awesome practical stunt-work, you're constantly getting fake-looking cg car crashes, explosions, last-minute-saves. It all looks phony and digital.

On top of that, the action filmmaking sucks. Cutting on every punch and crash, constant pointless camera movement, mtv montage editing, ugly-ass speed-ramping. It reminds me of a Paul WS Anderson movie.

3, 5, and 6 I will defend big time, but they dropped the ball on this one hard, and much like with Godzilla last year, I suspect that with some distance from all the marketing and hype, the consensus will be that it's a bad movie.

It Follows - Really cool 80s horror throwback. Amazing synth score, excellent cinematography and camera-work, very simple straightforward story. Not particularly scary, so much as it's very creepy and conceptually terrifying. Which I like, it doesn't rely very much on shock tactics, so I can see it being very re-watchable.

First one to win an oscar namedrops DIF in their acceptance speech