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@Li3n

@Li3n

Ravenpoe said:
Probably early visual effects.
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It's not a visual effect, if you look at it full screen you can tell it's the actual sticks they used to better choreograph the scenes. And i looked for the New Hope trailer and it too has missing effect for sabers and other stuff.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

@Li3n said:
It's not a visual effect, if you look at it full screen you can tell it's the actual sticks they used to better choreograph the scenes. And i looked for the New Hope trailer and it too has missing effect for sabers and other stuff.
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I thought it might be just the sticks, but at least embedded here on the forum they appeared to have some glow to them. I thought it was maybe the early animation to track the saber movements before going in later to add the real effects.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

You guys are making me feel older than Dave. Some of these films you're quoting I remember watching either first-run or on video when first available...
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Null said:
What's weird is that, after being down on the movie for so long, some of the latest TV spots don't look too bad. The animation of The Thing actually looks pretty good.
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According to this particular Reddit thread, it really is that bad.

Quoting the relevant section in spoilers, just in case someone really doesn't want it spoiled:

The Good:
  • The acting is much better than the film deserves. The guy who played Sue/Johnny's dad was the best by far.
The Bad:
  • The tone is all over the place. There's more humour than the trailer implied but it's also quite brutal at times, especially when they transform and also when Doom goes on a killing
  • Michael B Jordan doesn't show up for the first 25% of the film
  • Characters are off screen for fucking AGES at a time and it's really noticeable, not sure if reshoots may have had a hand in this. The team aren't really all together as a unit much until the end of the film.
  • The only reason they go to the other dimension is because Reed, Doom and Johnny get drunk. Seriously. It is awful and people will probably be talking about how shitty this set-up is for years.
  • They don't get transformed into superheroes until half-way through the film. Seriously.
  • The CGI of the accident scene is WANK.
  • There's a very sudden time jump of 1 year roughly an hour into the film that feels like it was tacked on in reshoots
  • Doom doesn't show up until the final 20 minutes of the film and his screen time is only about 15 minutes. Oh and he looks like some sort of Downs Syndrome sock puppet, just awful.
  • The final set-piece doesn't make much sense at all, I was very confused by the logic of what was happening.
  • Someone also noted that some scenes from the trailers are missing (like Thing jumping out of the plane). I can only assume they were casualties of the struggle to salvage this mess.
  • Oh and Johnny talks about Instagram while he's in the parallel dimension. Fuck this movie.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

bhamv3 said:
According to this particular Reddit thread, it really is that bad.

Quoting the relevant section in spoilers, just in case someone really doesn't want it spoiled:

The Good:
  • The acting is much better than the film deserves. The guy who played Sue/Johnny's dad was the best by far.
The Bad:
  • The tone is all over the place. There's more humour than the trailer implied but it's also quite brutal at times, especially when they transform and also when Doom goes on a killing
  • Michael B Jordan doesn't show up for the first 25% of the film
  • Characters are off screen for fucking AGES at a time and it's really noticeable, not sure if reshoots may have had a hand in this. The team aren't really all together as a unit much until the end of the film.
  • The only reason they go to the other dimension is because Reed, Doom and Johnny get drunk. Seriously. It is awful and people will probably be talking about how shitty this set-up is for years.
  • They don't get transformed into superheroes until half-way through the film. Seriously.
  • The CGI of the accident scene is WANK.
  • There's a very sudden time jump of 1 year roughly an hour into the film that feels like it was tacked on in reshoots
  • Doom doesn't show up until the final 20 minutes of the film and his screen time is only about 15 minutes. Oh and he looks like some sort of Downs Syndrome sock puppet, just awful.
  • The final set-piece doesn't make much sense at all, I was very confused by the logic of what was happening.
  • Someone also noted that some scenes from the trailers are missing (like Thing jumping out of the plane). I can only assume they were casualties of the struggle to salvage this mess.
  • Oh and Johnny talks about Instagram while he's in the parallel dimension. Fuck this movie.
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I think we all knew it wouldn't be good, but I didn't expect it would be a giant mess. Didn't even hear about reshoots.
 
Just Me

Just Me

drawn_inward said:
Robin and Marian
$2.13
Never heard of it. Pretty epic cast though:Hepburn, Connery, Ian Holm, Robert Shaw, Denholm Elliot, Richard Harris, etc. I will have to Netflix it.[DOUBLEPOST=1438788185,1438788140][/DOUBLEPOST]

Beat you by a few months!
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Solid Robin Hood movie, really interesting take on the story.

My own birthday...
Jesus, Barbra...

$ 1.65
 
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