This makes a good double-bill with Centurion (and maybe even Bruckheimer's King Arthur) which are all set around the same time in the same region (Hadrian's Wall frontier, late Roman occupation of Britain).
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152 2015-04-16 14:23:11
Re: FIYH Movie Club :: Suggestion Thread (96 replies, posted in Movie Stuff)
BigDamnArtist wrote:
Your name goes in the little name space, so we can see who suggested it in Lamer's fancy list thingy.
sorry - new to all this interweb and tweeter and factbook stuff.
153 2015-04-16 12:12:57
Re: FIYH Movie Club :: Suggestion Thread (96 replies, posted in Movie Stuff)
Week 4 :: 1 :: avatar :: AGORA
154 2015-04-16 11:41:02
Re: FIYH Movie Club :: Suggestion Thread (96 replies, posted in Movie Stuff)
How do I nominate AGORA for week #4? Or MR NOBODY for Week #5?
155 2015-04-14 14:32:34
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
REIGN OF FIRE (2002): some big names before they were big: Matthew Mcconaughey, Christian Bale, and Gerard Butler.
The movie doesn't resemble the poster-art at all. There's no 'Smaug strafing London' scenes in this. That movie is still to be made.
Most of the talking takes place underneath a castle ruin in the north of England. The tone is gritty and dark and there are a couple of decent set pieces with passable VFX shots. But poor characterisation lets it down. No one sells their character convincingly. Dramatic tension and character arcs feel forced. The script needed a second draft to clearly establish who wants what and why. And world building fantasy movies need longer running times.
And we need to distinguish humans oppressed-by-dragons from humans-oppressed-by... zombies/aliens/robots/monsters/dinosaurs/mutants. Otherwise all these movies become interchangeable.
Score: 6/10 - needs a 150min remake, with the VFX of Smaug crossed with the tone of The Road.
156 2015-04-12 23:57:04
Re: Interstellar (with spoilers) (70 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Doctor Submarine wrote:
Also remember that this is a 2001-monolith thing. The future humans wanted to engineer a situation where the present humans would significantly advance their science and culture. The point wasn't just to save their lives, because if it was they could've just stopped the blight. They wanted to advance the human race.
But the future humans are already advanced. If we had a time machine now, why would we feel compelled to go back to the Palaeolithic and help them along? "Here's how you smelt metal you numbskulls. And here's how you plant seeds. And you can domestic x,y,z species but not these ones. Now stop hitting each other over the head with clubs and get civilized.
It's gotta be aliens coming along to give us a leg up (in a vague and round-about way). That makes more sense than future humans. Nolan just threw that in there to fuck with us. Not tying up all the loose ends keeps people talking about it.
Just give us the blight pesticide, Mr Alien. Good ol' Earth, even with the blight, looked more hospitable than that barren Anne Hathaway planet orbiting a turbulent supermassive black hole.
157 2015-04-12 13:59:37
Re: Interstellar (with spoilers) (70 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Squiggly_P wrote:
An earlier draft(s) of the script called for the wormhole to collapse when they try to send the data from the black hole back through. I don't think it ever gets mentioned in this film, tho. The tessaract collapses, but the tesseract is a pocket dimension inside the black hole (lol science and shit!). The wormhole is a separate thing.
The wormhole is connected to the the Gargantua system. Gargantua conceals the Tesseract in/near it's singularity, while is connected to the wormhole going the other way. It's a Y-shaped passageway for some reason. Or someth'n. Who the fuck knows, least of all Chris and Jonathan who don't seem to care about such details.
Apparently humans from the future pushed the y-shaped wormhole towards Saturn, which is apparently an easier thing to do than give us a pesticide to spray on the blight.
I dunno know much, but I'm willing to bet five-dimensional wormhole physics is a bloody lot harder than a new weedkiller formula. So if you want to help us out you aliens/humans from the future, then just help us out.
159 2015-04-01 12:00:21
Re: What Are You Watching - TV Edition (164 replies, posted in Off Topic)
GOING CLEAR - SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF
Another good documentary from Alex Gibney. Well worth a look.
Scientology is no wackier than any other religion. It's just that we can study its foundation in modern times.
Thankfully, it's on the decline, with falling membership (but rising tax-free property assets). You'd think in the age of the internet with everything out there, these cults would disappear quickly. So it's more a study into human psychology than specifically into Scientology. What makes people stay? To continue to be exploited for their labour, money, to voluntarily imprison themselves, etc? Stability? Isolation?
This church must have destroyed thousands of families.
I'm finding it hard to reconcile Tom Cruise the actor and the utterly deluded nutjob that uses the 'Church' as some sort of concubine pimping agency. There was plenty of eye-opening stuff on the Nicole years, but nothing on Penelope or Katie.
The current leader, David Miscavigne seems an even more evil megalomaniac than Hubbard. I'm sure the dirt that Gibney dug up is just the tip of the iceberg. Amazing how the Church was able to bully the IRS into giving it tax-exempt status and all the slavery, etc is shielded from the law because it's a Church.
Religion gets a free pass. It's a bit like the Catholic Church offering to deal with its child abuse allegations internally.
Great business model - in charging for endless levels in their courses. Like a Freemium game for the gullible. And what a reinforcement mechanism. All the dirt dug up in the course of auditing is held against you if you ever try to leave. Poor old John Travolta is trapped. He's their bitch for life.
160 2015-03-30 22:02:18
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Invid wrote:
Skeptical Inquirer (in an article not yet available online) mentioned the film uses the same structure as a pro-psudoscience doc. Lone visionary against the closed minded establishment, that kind of thing. However, the art world has no problem with his views in reality, one reason there aren't really any interviews with art experts in the film
Great film about obsession, but be skeptical about the attempt to put it into context. It does things like compare a Vermeer painting to one done 500 years earlier, implying they're contemporary.
Here's a recent talk by Philip Steadman who first outlined the theory about Vermeer using the camera obscura...
161 2015-03-25 12:13:59
Re: Alien (12 replies, posted in Episodes)
Alien, with Science Commentary...
163 2015-03-23 12:07:41
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Squiggly_P wrote:
Interstellar, again:
I guess I'm gonna be on a kick of watching movies, given that I have a full week of time off. I'll probably watch at least one film every day in an attempt to catch up with some of the flicks I've missed over the last year or so. This is one of the few films that I absolutely watched on day one, and then again on day two. This is the third time I've seen it now, and I can report that even after the third viewing it still carries almost as much emotional weight as it did the first time. It's fucking good.
That said, there are some interviews going around over the last couple of days that are saying that the original ending as written by Jonah Nolan was going to be much darker but also more grounded. I can understand why Christopher Nolan decided to make some alterations to the script and give it a more uplifting ending. Not only does it make for more box-office - which I'm sure has some influence on this sort of decision - but also as a way to make the film something that he could get behind. More importantly, I think he felt it would make people more interested in getting back into space exploration from an emotional point of view.
Anyway, I personally think the film is fantastic, even with the tesseract and the weird time-travel stuff. They make the movie take an abrupt turn in the third act, but I think that's one of the things that makes the film stand out so much, beyond the amazing visuals and the solid science and procedure on display. It does foo-foo the science up a bit in order to include the weirdness, but it gives the film a very unique identity. I think the only thing you can compare it to is 2001, even though I don't think many would say that Nolan's third act stands up in the same way as Kubrick's. He's being a bit too literal with his weirdness, where Kubrick was trying to make an abstract philosophical point.
It's made me think back on Nolan's catalogue of films, and it dawned on me that the guy's only made one 'bad' film, and there are probably a lot of people who would argue with me that TDKR isn't that bad of a flick. They'd probably have a point. But even with that one black spot on his record, the guy's made some fucking great movies over the last 15 or so years.
For those living in London, coming up next week is Interstellar - Live at the Albert Hall, with Christopher Nolan, Kip Thorne, Hans Zimmer, and Michael Caine and the score performed live to projection...
http://www.interstellarlive.com/
164 2015-03-23 02:10:24
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I knew the reviews were poor, but I watched it anyway as a comparison to Noah and to see some "spectacle". Everyone thought this was "meh" and they're right. You'd expect a good ol' Biblical epic to piss off the Christians, Jews, Atheists, etc, but the only minor controversy it stirred up was in casting white people.
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, such a story would entail a 400 day shoot, massive cost over-runs, cast of thousands, cutting edge VFX, production of a lifetime, etc. But this was more akin to a B-movie like Paul W.S. Anderson's Pompeii.
Ridley Scott knocked this movie out in 74 days without breaking sweat.
I heard the audio commentary and, like Prometheus, it makes fascinating listening. Scott is completely unaware that few people like his late oeuvre. He seems to live in a bubble where criticism doesn't reach. He's constantly congratulating himself on a job well done, delivering his commentary in a gruff bluster e.g. "I've got the vision, and you just have to get behind me, don't question it, and go with it", "looks great doesn't it?" I was astonished how casually he treated the subject: most of his statements about Ancient Egypt were factually wrong. He prides himself on how many camera set-ups he can knock over in a day. No need for more than 2-3 takes. Two plants and a rock will do for this scene: just film it. And so on. And it shows: his legendary attention to detail (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator) has long gone. Now it's just a production assembly line cranking out substandard fare. "Cut! let's move on, don't worry about it, put the camera over there, quickly now, and.. Action!"
I recommend the audio commentary as a study in autocratic megalomania.
165 2015-03-21 11:53:28
Re: So, Mike was hit by a car. (248 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Any updates on Dorkman? It's been ages.
166 2015-03-13 16:02:20
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Squiggly_P wrote:
Nightcrawler:
Fucking loved the shit out of it.
Gyllenhaal's sociopath is one of the best things I've ever seen in a movie. The shooting style and editing are fantastic. The subject matter is unique and weird. The tone is a well-balanced mix of black comedy and creepy as fuck. Even the music is cool. For some reason I thought the soundtrack was going to be of the 80s throwback synth score, but it's got a really neat minimalist acoustic vibe to it.
I just liked it a hell of a lot, and can't recommend it enough.
Yes, great movie. Jake's was the biggest snub of the Oscars, for me. His performance was 100% commitment.
I thought the third act was going to go darker i.e. he starts "making" the news (instead of just directing/producing it) but they chose to go in the 'setting up franchises' direction instead, which is more grounded. Fair enough.
Would have liked to glimpse the Jake & Rene sex scene that was referred to... that would have been some fucked up shit there, worthy of a David Fincher moment.
To paraphrase Teague, Nightcrawler is the runner-up "Feel Bad Movie of the Year", after Gone Girl.
167 2015-03-05 09:44:01
Re: Announcement: Goodnight, Goodnight! (156 replies, posted in Episodes)
joerule wrote:
Eddie wrote:So.....
Does anyone want Documentality to continue? Because I'm thinking I can keep it going, provided there's enough interest on me doing so.
I'll add another vote for this. Documentality was quickly becoming my favorite podcast on the FIYH "Network"
Deamon wrote:
eddie please keep going!
I'll also add a vote...
168 2015-03-01 19:03:04
Re: Announcement: Goodnight, Goodnight! (156 replies, posted in Episodes)
mascan42 wrote:
Do you guys have any backlog of podcasts that haven't been released yet? Something to tide us over till the inevitable JJ-bashfest in December?
Yep, Trey watched every Marvel movie and recorded his thoughts
169 2015-03-01 16:25:51
Re: Movie quotes modified to express our OUTRAGE (24 replies, posted in Off Topic)
So you've finished the series, Teague?
170 2015-03-01 16:08:32
Re: Movie quotes modified to express our OUTRAGE (24 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Teague: Goodnight Goodnight.
Well that's great, that's just fuckin' great, man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now man...
Burke: Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that?
171 2015-03-01 16:00:16
Re: Movie quotes modified to express our OUTRAGE (24 replies, posted in Off Topic)
1000 hours? You're gonna need a bigger mp3 player.
172 2015-03-01 15:14:32
Re: Movie quotes modified to express our OUTRAGE (24 replies, posted in Off Topic)
It puts the friends in its head!
173 2015-02-28 19:38:24
Re: Announcement: Goodnight, Goodnight! (156 replies, posted in Episodes)
Can someone do a face replacement with Teague, Trey, Dorkman, and Brian's faces?
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