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I'd have to see the stage show to get a proper gauge, but the songs they kept in the film were fairly terrible, IMO. The film's rendition of "The Worst Pies in London" is nigh unlistenable.
Unless it's supposed to be like that -- I'm convinced that the POPEYE movie, for instance, is a deliberate satire on movie musicals and that's why the songs are inane and unpleasant. But considering that it started as a stage musical I'm assuming that's not the case for SWEENEY.
Not a bad start, and an interesting effect, but it's not quite a match. The biggest issue I see is that your method doesn't protect the whites -- they flatten out to cyan.
The screen-accurate way to do it involves a bunch of color channel math where you split out the three channels then average and mix them in fun and frightening ways. It's essentially converting RGB to CMYK color space and I have to admit I haven't wrapped my brain around doing it in After Effects.
The quick and dirty, 90%-there way is just to go to Effects > Channel > Set Channels and set the Blue channel to Green. But there's a richness in the orange/browns in the AVIATOR images that you don't get that way. You're getting more of it your way, but again, losing the whites along the way.
I actually really liked DOG SOLDIERS for pretty much that reason. Early on you go "Oh, it's going to be like that," but if you accept it on its terms it's actually pretty entertaining. Some fun characters.
Brian Finifter wrote:Inquiring minds want to know...
...did you plug us?
Like a BP oil leak.
Haphazardly and too late to do much good?
The bag in the graphic is probably the most flammable/potentially explosive thing I've ever seen in my life.
It's pretty obnoxious to say we "reallllllly need to tell you what 'Monsters' is" if you already Googled it. And if you hadn't, it's obnoxious that you hadn't bothered to Google before posting.
Here, I'll save you the time. You shouldn't see it. Specifically you, Gregory Harbin, shouldn't see it.
There, all settled. No one is asking Gregory to see a movie he isn't interested in. Let's move on.
Whereas you could have spent thirty seconds or less Googling the film instead of demanding that we get down and beg you to watch/listen.
If you don't want to watch it then don't. This thread is for the people who do.
Spielberg did believe, at the time. Since then he's changed his position. I don't have the exact quote but it's on the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Blu-Ray BTS documentary, and he says something very much akin to Randi's own sentiments, to the effect of:
If this were a real phenomenon that was only rarely caught because stills and motion picture cameras were rarely owned by non-professionals, then as more people got cameras we should see a matching increase in the amount of photographic and video evidence. But instead we've seen just the opposite. Nowadays everyone has a camera and most people have video cameras, and we almost never see UFO imagery anymore. As a result, though he would like to, Spielberg no longer believes that we are being visited.
MONSTERS.
(RAWR)
Yeah, as fun as communal development sounds, I've tried it before and it's a big notsomuch. And that was just fanfilmy stuff. Make it a real movie and then you get the suing and whatnot.
Sooo we'll take this one off-list, I think. Carry on everyone.
Okay, now I'm excited and having a bunch of ideas. I'll probably write a treatment over the weekend.
This is not what we meant by "suggest a movie," but it works.
It's the story of an entomologist who discovered that the larvae of a certain Amazonian flying beetle secrete an amazing narcotic that he has become addicted to. But said beetle larvae live only in the rotting corpses of primates. Now, in the Amazon, there are plenty of monkey carcasses for the beetles to live on. But in New York City.....
Development note: the larvae should require a live host. If they only need corpses, it's just a serial killer movie. If the host needs to be live, then the horror comes from his victims being forced to survive as long as possible while being consumed.
Say it takes a few months for the little buggers to come to full potency. He'd kidnap his victims, implant them, then let them go to just live their lives until the time is right -- too risky to try to keep them locked in a basement that whole time. You could play with almost an inversion of stalker tropes, where they're being stalked by someone intent on keeping them alive at all costs.
But, of course, he's less concerned with their quality of life, so by the end of the film -- in which we've been following the story of one of his victims; a woman, naturally -- it's turned into MISERY while he waits for the final stage.
Bonus horror points if the beetles eat the brain as they grow. Then the victim goes slowly insane and suffers the psychological horror of losing a hold on herself while undergoing the physical horror of having her brain eaten, trying to kill herself, and being hobbled in some maniac's spare room. In the final sequence she could escape and manage to triumph over the killer just before going completely insane and/or having her head burst open and a bunch of bugs come pouring out.
...
Okay, in all seriousness, if one of you doesn't write this, I will. I've got a RED, friends who are actors, makeup artists, and VFX artists, and this would be totally cheap to produce. Someone writes a script, we set this in L.A. and I could totally have this shot by this time next year. Who's in?
EDIT:
When you understand none of the dialog, you're free to assume it's all deep and meaningful
I liked DONNIE DARKO way better before I had it explained to me.
Everybody loves Angel so much, but it baffles me as to why. I mean, Angel kills the cat at the beginning! Literally! Angel murders a dog for money! How am I supposed to like any character who does that, and how am I supposed to feel bad when that character dies?
To be fair, it's not like Angel takes a corkscrew to the dog's heart. Just played until the aggressive little bastard jumped off a balcony to try to get at him.
It's a revenge fantasy. You've never dealt with an incessantly yapping dog living next door and felt like strangling it? If not, well, lucky you. But it's a common enough occurence to warrant an Onion story.
That said, "Today 4 You" is easily my least favorite song in the show.
Why is Collins in the story? Oh, you know. 'Cause.
Collins is the only one who understands and appreciates the value of living and enjoying one day at a time, instead of obsessing over what might have been or what could someday be. He gets into his relationship with Angel knowing it's got a time limit and he doesn't regret their time together when it's over. He's the example the rest of them eventually come to understand, at least somewhat.
That said, the music is absolutely fantastic. It's everything that I want in a contemporary musical. I just wish that it had a decent story to go along with it.
It's the equivalent of an indie movie about relationships -- like LOVE ACTUALLY with music, except some of the people have AIDS and die. It's not about people trying to save the world or whatever, despite what they may say, it's just about people learning the difference between living and merely surviving.
On another note, it's interesting to me that RENT got a PG-13 rating despite several non-sexual occurrences of "fuck" and its derivatives in the lyrics -- usually you only get one. I guess if you sing it, you get a few free. I wonder if you get even more if it's an animated musical. THE PROFANEST LITTLE TOASTER, coming soon!
THE PRODUCERS is suffocatingly stagey and I don't care for it. But I also don't care for it as a musical, so it's not like they ruined a great opportunity in my book.
RENT, on the other hand. Oh, what a waste. Chris Columbus is mediocrity incarnate. As with pretty much all his films, it wasn't bad and it wasn't good. It was just right down the middle -- no risk, no passion, no energy, playing it totally safe and standard. Which I'm sure is exactly why the studio hired him (and just keeps hiring him) but it's also exactly the opposite of the whole point of the show.
If I find something merely okay, that means I don't have much of an opinion about it either way. So I'm unlikely to bring it up since all I think of it is "meh." Why would I spend much time thinking about things that don't excite or interest me -- for good or ill?
EDIT: FUCK HOMEOPATHY GRAAAAAAAAHHHHH
TIN MAN was awful. I wanted to like it, and I liked the idea, but it insulted the audience's intelligence at every turn.
Like, they'd do a cool subtle thing like have the so-called "Tin Man" of the title be a right asshole, and we're watching going "Oh, he's heartless, I get it. Nice." But then the next thing out of Zooey Deschanel's vapid mouth would be "Have a heart, Tin Man."
I kept expecting the director to stick his baseball-capped head into frame and going "Did you all catch what we did there? Yes? Are you sure? We'll do it again, just in case."
And yet even with a hardcore porn version out there, no one's fucked Alice in Wonderland harder than Tim Burton did.
It looks like a Sci Fi (sorry, SyFy) channel movie.
Which I mean as a compliment, considering the rest of Asylum's oeuvre. If you can make SyFy out of Asylum, well, hats off.
Now you have to make a SyFy movie and see if you can raise their game, too.
Yeah. You've got that all wrong. I'm definitely the cute one.
Wanna join us fucking literally?
Unfortunate syntax is unfortunate.
Option six: BRAINS!
It's funny to me how people who love the movie take exception to the unicorn -- that's the only part that actually makes any kind of setup-payoff sense to me.
I like Dawn of the Dead, and am damned interested to hear you guys talk about it.
I found on iTunes U a podcast series with a professor of literature who does a whole course on zombies and their relevance to the culture and what they represent and why they're popular. I think we should just link to those instead. Comparatively we might have dropped the ball.
This is my brain on lack of sleep.
Regarding your list:
5. I do spit-takes sometimes. It's usually not even about the obviously funny jokes, either, so it's essentially at random. Expect the unexpected!
4. That wouldn't make us reset. We'd just spend five minutes talking about it before getting back to the movie.
3. Pretty unlikely, it's way up near the ceiling and she'd have to get in front of the TV on her way, so we'd spot her well in advance. Although she might attack the one that streams the timecode.
4. This has happened before. Both on THE MATRIX and THE FLY. Since getting a new disc player, and usually someone has to watch/refresh on the movie beforehand, we haven't run into any unexpected disc errors. In fact since the anniversary show -- in which we discussed show meltdowns shortly before having one -- we haven't had any real issues with the show. Which is good considering we've started doing it live.
5. Could happen. That would be awesome.
I wouldn't mind doing a BLADE RUNNER commentary so someone can explain to me what's any good about it -- without discussing the art direction or visual effects.
I'm very aware and appreciative that it's an important film, but like DAWN OF THE DEAD and TRON, I don't know what people are talking about when they say it's a good film.
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