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only with more energy
Lol, even in the performance of Fascist pageantry, Trump can’t help but be the shitty actor he is. The Republican Party was so ready for someone to say the lines they didn’t/don't care about the delivery.
I had not realized how much I looked forward to reading these, Abbie.
I feel like the most interesting 'Klan' adjacent films I've seen recently were Blackkklansman and 3 Billboards, and now Watchmen. This seems like a good addition to add? I'd never heard of it.
I came back too and changed usernames to what everyone was thinking.
Just finished Cats. The CatPeople weren’t creepy, just really poorly executed. Storywise, it made more sense than TROS did. Despite those two nonfactors which the papers have made such hay over it was still an utter disaster. Our audience was there to poke the bear, which might have been pathetic if it weren’t for the constant barrage of bizarre choices that seemed calculated to amp up the weird as much as possible. Also not helping: the volume level of the woofers in theater 5. Anytime there was a break in the music you could hear a pin drop... and the sub component of every single explosion in Avengers: Endgame.
Some characters have teleportation powers, but the movie does not give a shit and just teleports the whole cast around wherever and whenever it wants, MTV style.
Sir Ian’s performance suggests he was kidnapped and forced to perform at gunpoint. The audience could not contain itself whenever he came onscreen.
Conversely, everyone seemed to know that we WERE NOT TO LAUGH AT Jeniffer Hudson, and the whole theater would go real quiet whenever she came out.
Multiple characters fly and levitate ala Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain.
For the sheer amount of erect tails everywhere there is a distinct lack of butthole.
The scale of the characters changes from shot to shot. Sometimes this is intentional.
Mice with human faces are eaten. Cockroaches with human faces are eaten. Everyone is the correct scale for these things to happen.
There is near constant ballet. The trailer did not prepare me for this. This actually helps, since it reminds your brain that everyone is supposed to look like a ken doll. But also, they've taken that musical adage and rearranged it to: if you can’t sing it, dance it with cat moves, and when you can’t take it anymore, bust out the ballet.
Choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler seems to have decided that “cats put their leg up in the air” and had each actor workshop their own version of this. Judy Dench’s routine got a pretty big laugh.
So there are probably ghost dancers in this for some sequences. So, we’re watching a computer painted dancer, with another performer’s head pasted on, and then that head is computer painted over with a cat head.
The unceasing fat jokes were unpleasant.
Judy Dench’s fourth wall break (not once, not twice, DO IT AGAIN) took everyone by surprise and got one of biggest laughs of the show. Just do something first or something OH GOD SHE’S LOOKING RIGHT AT US.
Someone named Sarah Dowling was paid to be a Cat Movement Specialist for this and got placed before the actors in the credits.
There are at LEAST 5 minutes worth of overcooked takes of reaction closeups, that you can still almost hear the director yelling “hoooooooold iiiiiiiiiiit” from his chair in video village in.
The cat effect was so poorly executed. Jim Carey looked better as The Grinch than any single character in this. Although also, the more effect there was the better it looked. My theory: they tested it without a green screen or CG backgrounds and tested it on a more or less live plate instead. And it probably looked OK. The main problem, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with matting or tracking or the fantastic shader they’ve got themselves to do all that fur (how much of that body fur was real?) and everything to do with the light and shadow on the human face that is all that’s left of the original plate, not interacting with any of the digital assets, giving the effect that the actors are standing behind the screen poking their faces out of a “face in the hole” cutout at the pumpkin patch
The whole cat world/human world being different scales made sense from a story perspective, but again the execution was terrible. The scale changes so erratically it just kind mashes the whole thing into a distorted Alice in Wonderland kind of disorientation thing instead.
Had a very good laugh, zero stars would not recommend, but go see it.
So, Anakin’s “This weapon is your life” lightsaber:
Is ignited for the first time in Padme’s bedroom in the beginning of AOTC, then falls into Obiwan’s speeder, then back with Anakin til the end of RotS when Obiwan picks it up and puts it in a trunk for 20ish years, then gives it to Luke in the beginning of ANH, who loses it with his hand in TESB. EDIT5: Briefly picked up by Han to cut open a Tauntaun. Somehow Maz gets ahold of it and has it in her basement when Rey arrives in TFA. Finn wields it briefly vs Kylo, but loses it like Luke, but it’s immediately picked back up by Rey. EDIT4:Rey takes it to Luke who tries to throw it in the ocean and misses, then Rey takes the saber with her to Snoke’s ship in her escape pod and it gets exploded in half after Snoke’s demise when she and Kylo get in a force tug of war over it. Then, in the next scene Astrally Projecting Luke Skywalker is wielding it, whole, against Kylo Ren. And then again after they’ve escaped, Rey has the broken halves of it together with the secret Jedi texts. Then in this new movie, the saber is whole again, Rey tries to throw it in the ocean but Ghost Luke catches it and gives it back. Then it is teleported to Ben, who brings it back to Rey, who uses it to kill Palpatine EDIT2:, and then buries it in the desert.
Have I got that straight?
Also, was that door to Palpatine’s secret dark side closet there the whole time?
Also, did the ancient Sith daggersmith see a vision or use a time machine or something to make an ancient dagger that lined up with a modern ruin?
Also, why are the knights of Ren rolling coal so hard?
EDIT: Much more enjoyable the second time around when reactions weren’t getting in the way
Also: Are there different cuts floating around? Saw Real3D tonight, and IMAX last week, and this one felt different in a couple of subtle “close the blast door” kinda ways, but I’ve only seen the 2, without a pause or rewind button, so I’m not sure at all.
EDIT3: Was Ochi dead in a cave looking for a dagger that he’d just used to stab Rey’s parent’s?
Except also there is a universe-killing fleet crewed by the kidnapped children of the whole galaxy???!!
EDIT: ABBIE I WANT TO TAKE YOUR HAND.
But I can’t. At least not yet. I want to hate this so bad I just can’t trust my own reactions, [insufficient punctuation)
Regardless of the objective quality of the film, I’m weirdly enjoying the drama, try to reach back in time to clench fists with those fans in 83 who were nearly completely abandoned for 15 years. We represent what’s left of THEM.
EDIT2: The New Trilogy purposefully misunderstands War so badly...
Just got back from an IMAX3D showing. Wow. Loved the sound and the music. The score is doing so much work. It's JJ, and I've read this thread so I know the whole thing is basically gibberish, but I literally can't remember what just happened, and the parts I do remember don't make a lot of sense. Gonna hafta see it a couple more time before I can figure out what just happened.
I liked the Morricone call backs.
EDIT: Read that wikipedia, YES THAT. I get it from stereo phasing.
That's on purpose for sure. This is Star Wars TM, but not STARWARS. I'm enjoying the music. Haven't rewatched anything yet, or pulled up the soundtrack. Are the cartoon spinoffs (er, Rebels?) more JWesce?
Loving the shit out of the physical acting. The stormtroopers!
Cool! Will be nice to hear what you've got
If you post the dry tracks I’d take a crack too :-D
Nice! I'd always just inferred what they sounded like.
This is scripture/required reading for recording rock esp metal:
Without having listened yet, I can concur with your assessment that you need a better mixing stage. Have you considered buying a couple hours in a studio to whip it out? 'Cause otherwise this isn't really gonna help much.
Listened:
On my setup the drums are real quiet. The kick sounds thumpyish, but I don't really hear any snare, and the rest of the kit sounds like it's at the end of a hallway. Maybe too heavy on the reverb?
Bass could be more consistent throughout. Mebe some automation or compression. Might experiment with blending the bass/kick sound with a sidechained dynamic.
Vocals could use a little thickening maybe, although the doubling and delay are maybe a little heavy?
Another tip: Mix to mono. If you have access to a proper room and you know what you're doing, and you really need the effect, go for a stereo mix. Otherwise, they just cause so many problems that mixing in stereo isn't worth it. If you must have stereo, use the abbey road hard pan method to avoid the worst of the stereo swamp. Mixing in mono makes things obvious.
It's catchy. I'd take a crack at the stems.
The only thing I care about re: terminator Dark Moon or whatever it is is I'd like to know how the terminator grew a beard. Also The Internet seems to think because the producers remembered Linda Hamilton it is therefore The Feminist Terminator. I feel like we've been here before.
I was in the middle of watching that when I wrote the OP! Fantastic stuff.
Buh. If the advertising was more interesting, I might be less annoyed by it. IMO video adverts should be for announcing new products I’ve never heard of, and text adverts should try to get me buy stuff I’ve already heard of. But the money goes the other way around, so you get vid ads for beer, and text ads for new Musics or RasPis.
Ah. Bent and broken is fine.
This whole album is amazing, but this video just dropped:
your projector has a built in mic? I thought I was escaping the secret microphones and cameras by not buying a SmartTV
There was also a brief period where Taboola like companies were auto shotgunning links onto text, especially in forums, that popped up little annoying hover boxes if you accidentally moused over one. We managed to banish those for the most part, but the real links died too?
Also it seems the ddg folks are only concerned with the privacy part of the goog’s devil’s bargain not the advertising half. Also they aggregate their results from yahoo and bing. Back to square one
@Regan you let them listen?? I turn all that shit as off as I can on my phone, use a projector and PC displays, and no hockey pucks or speakers. I mean, I also use Hangouts/Voice/gmail, so I know they have all my comms, but not on all the time listening in the house.
I’ve a quarter of a mind to build such a bot for RSS feeds. Yeah, my next thought was, huh, ok are there any good alternatives (indexes, not advertisers). I’d discounted DuckDuckGo because the Nazis I was keeping an eye on seemed so proud of themselves for using it, but perhaps I should give it a go? I’d already begun considering how to unravel myself from the goog for other services, but hadn’t considered an alternative search provider. Also, I read an article earlier today on The Verge that linked externally to a press release they were quoting, and it made me happy.
it used to be linking to source on a reputable server, but that got exploited so now it's just yelling the most? Which makes setting up shop on the side of the Superhighway kinda... quaint? Thanks Teague. The pie is excellent.
For example, I googled the results of of a recent vote in the national legislature and got pages and pages of articles proclaiming the totals. Neither Google, nor any of the pages listed linked back to the source they were ALL using (the internal search tool on https://www.congress.gov/roll-call-votes). Instead, I had to search, "congressional vote tallies", find that page, and do a search on that site to see the source everyone is quoting and not linking. and it has a decent URL! http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll560.xml
This was a super easy one. It usually takes long enough that it doesn't feel worth doing.
Hi everyone.
I really like this place, and it feels like home in a lot of ways.
I've been worried that the rest of the Information Superhighway turned into Wal-Mart while I wasn't looking, and I've been struggling to articulate coherent thought about some of my concerns. But I made a connection a moment ago, and I feel like it's a start.
Once upon a time a company called AOL ruled something they called the internet. There was already The |nternet, but they claimed the internet, and for some, that was all there was. This company and their internet forswore URI's in favor of something they called "Keywords". No one hears much about AOL anymore, their imagined kingdom was really small no matter how many CD's they managed to blanket the surface of the North American continent with.
Once upon a time Google searches were ranked by hyperlinks, because hyperlinks made The |nternet, so it was an exceptionally good way to search |t.
Now Google searches are ranked by... S0mething E|se
S0mething E|se was built because it turned out it was pretty easy to fool the original Hyperlink Crawler that the the Googlers were planning to use to turn The |nternet into a private eYellow Pages piggy bank.
It was turning said tomfoolery into a business that really got the ball rolling.
Search Engine Optimization: SEO*. That really should be GSEO these days (what other search engines were these businesses supposedly expert in?) incensed the Googlers. They hired a ludicrously huge moon shot team and spun up multiple research divisions and we've been living with S0mething E|se now for 8...ish years(???) I haven't pinpointed a specific threshold or divergence point.
End result, unlike The |nternet, S0mething E|se doesn't need hyperlinks to know if Thing One is related to Thing Two, and so, hyperlinks are disappearing from the internet and are being replaced by memes and short soundbite like phrases.
It's making vetting news/reporting stupidly difficult. Google will return me 10 pages of articles talking about a subject before they ever offer a source document even when these documents are easily crawlable. And it takes a needle in a haystack search through those 10 pages before I can find one article that hyperlinks back to the source they are all quoting so greedily from to score the top Goog slot. If there are links, internal is the rule, external; the exception.
Somehow, we've come full circle and are all swarming around AOL Keywords.
The Upside Down
Anyhoo. Just that.
*not in reference to the practice of SEO as carried out by webmasters and admins and such, but to the firms of Lawyercoders and Blackhats who prey on young companies
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