26 Reply by Isaac

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Interesting.  For what it is worth, even though I pretty much loved Gravity as is and wasn't distracted by that which broke it for you (Sandra's face nonwithstanding), I would totally watch your version.

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27 Reply by Isaac

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Are there many people who do listen to FIYH with the movie?  That isn't snark, but an honest question.  I know the show is formatted around that premise, but most people seem to have a specific place in their lives for podcasts, such as the car, the gym, or at work.  Do many people actually listen to it in perfect sync?

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28 Reply by Isaac

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LatinAlice wrote:

David Tennant, the handsome man being rained on, is a dad in his 40's. And we would so totally welcome him with open arms.
Welcome Isaac!

Thanks Alice.  As I have tried to explain to my Fiance many many times, David Tennant and I are basically the same person.

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29 Reply by Isaac

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JP, would you like the desert version of this movie?  Take out the fridge logic issues but leave in Ryan Stone's story.  Is that a movie you would enjoy or does her lack of drive in the first half still kill it for you?

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30 Reply by Isaac

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Yup, boring old straight white guy.  That's me!  Nice to meet you Drew.

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31 Topic by Isaac

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Regrettably, I was watching Diamonds are Forever the other day which stars James Bond.  James Bond is a monster of a human being, and this film shows Bond at maybe his ugliest.  One thing I noted with some delight was that instead of having a "save the cat moment", in this film, Bond has a kick-the-cat moment.

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32 Reply by Isaac

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Oh, Hi.  I've made a few posts already, but I guess I should introduce myself.  I'm Isaac.  I love movies, I try to squeeze in two or three a week, which when I was younger seemed like hardly any but as a dad in his 30's seems like a lot of cinema. 

I write about movies and other nerdy things at http://www.the-triangle.net.  I'm currently chronicling my slog through the James Bond canon. 

I came across DIF/Friends in Your Head by searching Itunes for podcasts about whatever random movie I was watching some week.  I soon made it my ritual to listen to the podcast the day after watching any given film that they have covered.  At some point, I had some half-amusing though relating to an episode, and I emailed the podcast.  Teague wrote me back and in his very enthusiastic fashion, encouraged me to join in the forum, much as he does in ever podcast. 

Nine months later I took him up on it.

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33 Reply by Isaac

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Dorkman wrote:
Invid wrote:

I have a general question. I've heard many say, including you guys, that Gravity really has to be seen in 3D for it to work. I didn't, which probably explains my feelings towards the film smile However, unless 3D TV REALLY catches on, from this point forward very few of those watching the movie will see the 3D version. I therefore wonder if it will have any more lasting impact than Avatar did. It's certainly not unwatchable the same way, say, How The West Was Won is (the three strip, curved screen image doesn't convert to flat letterbox well), but does a filmmaker have any obligation to "future proof" their film so it has a life beyond the theater? The answer used to be, "no", as they were competing against TV and home video didn't exist. Now, however...

...the answer is still no.

Cuaron in particular -- and now I'm wishing this had come up during the episode -- is most concerned with the experience and possibilities of cinema. All the choices he made in making GRAVITY were with the goal of creating that experience for the audience. If you don't watch it in an environment designed for that experience, you simply will not get that experience. There is nothing he or any filmmaker can do about it.

It's like the difference between going to Disney World and watching a home movie of your trip to Disney World. You can capture the gist of the experience and even enjoy the home movies on their own merits, but they aren't and can't be the same as the experience of actually going.

But a side effect of this is that it may well blunt the film's legacy, right?  If 99% of important films can replicate, say, 80% of the theatrical experience with a 65 inch screen and a blu-ray player, those that will only be preserved with, say 60% (or whatever) of their original impact will probably be suffer in regards to how they are though of.  And more's the pity.

Ours is a culture increasing hostile toward ephemera.

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34 Reply by Isaac

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The point I'm about to try to make can easily be misconstrued but... did Sandra Bullock's face bother anybody else watching this movie?  The thing that took me out of this movie the most wasn't the where the science didn't hold up or where the FX didn't hold up.  What distracted me the most was her face. 

To me, Sandra Bullock's face doesn't look anything like a face one would find in nature.  She has a face that clearly has had cosmetic plastic surgery, right?  There is nothing wrong with that, of course, but her face totally looks like the face of a woman that has had very good very expensive plastic surgery.  Ryan Stone doesn't seem to me like a person who would have that. 

To be clear, I am not saying that cosmetic surgery is bad, either aesthetically or philosophically.  I am also not saying that it is unheard of for intelligent, resourceful people to also have a sense of vanity.  I'm not even saying Bullock shouldn't have been cast, because she kicked some serious butt in this role. 

It just seemed like an incongruity to me and it was an incongruity that the camera was focused on for most of the run time.  Was it just me?

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35 Reply by Isaac

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Isn't this story basically "a jerk does a jerky thing to a super rich guy for a good cause"?  That's basically half of all con artist stories.  Basically, I'm saying this act of public bullying could be a movie.

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36 Reply by Isaac

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Just showed Raiders to my six year old.  She loved it.  She thought the action was exciting, the heroes wonderful, and the treasure beautiful.  Her biggest takeaway of the whole film, however, was the mind-blowing scene where THAT GUY ATE A BUG!  DID YOU SEE THAT DAD!!  THERE WAS A FLY ON HIS MOUTH AND HE ATE IT!  I CAN'T WAIT TO TELL ALL MY FRIENDS ABOUT THIS MOVIE!

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