Originally Posted by Jerjo
Rope is a fun one to watch, trying to catch the little edits. Love it.
I only remember one, but it was pretty epic.
Rope is a fun one to watch, trying to catch the little edits. Love it.
I only remember one, but it was pretty epic.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
indeed! absolutely brilliant
that's why he will always be the master of film-making
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
When it's done in a single take, it's called a tracking shot. There's lots of movies and TV shows. I don't know if they still do it anymore, but a lot of police and medical dramas (e.g. St Elsewhere, ER, Hill Street Blues, etc), at least from the 80's and 90's made stock use, in like every episode, of tracking shots that would go on for several minutes, where the camera would pick out a couple actors talking, then as they walk past a bank of elevators, the camera lingers, an elevator opens, and picks out another couple actors, who walk across the set, talking, past an entrance, the camera again lingers and a new actor walks in, and so on. Can you imagine the choreography you'd have to put into place to pull that stuff off.
I saw a documentary on PBS once about medical dramas, and it was someone from either E.R. or St. Elsewhere (or maybe both) who said they hated doing the tracking shots because if anyone messed up, blew their line, missed their mark, or stumbled or whatever, they'd have to reset and shoot the whole thing all over. They said that they pitied whoever had to be at the end of such a sequence because that person had the most pressure in terms of making sure they didn't frell up. One wonders how many takes they typically had to do on those shots. The blooper reels have to be hilarious.
I also remember there being quite a few music videos that made use of tracking shots, sometimes lasting through the entire song. Tommy Shaw had one for a song called Girls With Guns, that had one of those "preludes" that precedes the actual start of the song, and I remember Steve Perry had a video with that mostly one tracking crane shot, with the camera up in the balcony of a concert hall as he walks onstage, then the camera swings up to the stage and, if I remember correctly, goes around him a couple times as he lip synchs the song, before tracking back out to the balcony at the end of the song, and Steve walks offstage. There was a Janet Jackson video with a lot of cuts, but it was styled to make it look like a continuous shot (though it doesn't take Albert Einstein to figure it out if you're paying attention).
I don't know why, but I'm drawing a blank on tracking shots in movies, though I'm sure I must have seen dozens, maybe even hundreds. The only one I can think of is in Tenebrae, where they again used a crane do a two story tracking shot.
That's an incredible shot. The choreography involved is pretty mind boggling, and the way it ends, with them sitting at the table and Lorraine Bracco, who is so overwhelmed by it all, just has to ask "What do you do?" Amazing.
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This is a nice split-screen version:
Forgot about that one! Great one!
"That gum you like is going to come back in style."
My favorite oner is in Atonement, the scene at Dunkirk is amazing. I do agree with A Touch of Evil, really damn fine flick. Didn't know that the scene in Snake Eyes was doctored as I always though that was a oner also.
Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
Excellent video and a pretty damn good song to boot. I keep telling people about this vid but no one listens to me so screw them if they don't want to watch five minutes of damn good cinema.
Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
Blindspotting - A pair of lifelong friends, one black, one white, who grew up in Oakland, California, confront the everyday violence, racial divides, and gentrification realities of living there as adults. Good story, well acted, and not nearly as dull as my spoiler-free synopsis makes it sound.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Please, point to absolutely any part of what I said that suggested that I'm interested at all in what you, or anyone else, choose to watch to the degree that I want to dictate those choices. Also, what were the words I used that you think implied I feel that everyone should only watch positive films?
I think you just went at my post all kinds of wrong, and somehow it offended you. If you were on the writing or production team, I apologize.
What was ridiculous? That should be easy enough to articulate for me. Was my take wrong? Was it counter to how you felt about the movie, so my take becomes ridiculous? I just wanna be clear here about how I apparently fucked up so badly sharing my opinion about how a depressing movie was a depressing movie.I get you didn't like it, fair enough, but your post is kind of ridiculous.
It wasn't bad, and it was well acted, but it was just utterly bleak and without redemption or consequence, for anyone, and that's really all I meant. You read a lot more into what was there.
It was a find ending for a movie about a chain of horrible coincidences.
We're asked to accept the same kind of empty satisfaction that McDormand's character is willing to accept for taking out her pain on anyone she wanted to blame. The movie ended with her on the road to becoming backwoods Batman, but she's willing to murder.
As for consequences, I'm talking about McDormand's and Rockwell's characters as well. He only lost a job he hated and was terrible at for beating a man nearly to death, so that was of little consequence to him overall. She torched a building and put lives in danger because she was angry. She ended up getting a free dinner from the guy who kept her out of prison, and she just pissed all over his gift.
There was another good example recently in an episode of Daredevil, the most recent season.
Matt Murdoch goes to a prison and he breaks a guy out, but it erupts into a full blown prison riot, with him working his way through the halls and corridors and having endless fights with inmates and guards. All done in one shot with some very involved fight choreography.
It's kind of a homage to the hallway scene in the original oldboy, and also borrows a little from the first Raid movie.
It's just, ah, a movie. Bad Country for Old Men left unresolved but is still powerful. Three Billboards was excellent film making.
Yes
Reindeer Games (2000)
Stars Ben Afleck (bad, but not by his standards) as a guy who assumes his murdered cellmates identity to get with his smoking hot pen pal. (Charleze Theron, who graciously appears topless) upon release.
Quickly gets sucked into a casino holdup plot, where things get wacky and unpredictable. Not a bad thriller considering. Has a great supporting cast, including Gary Sinise, Dennis Farina, Danny Trejo, and
Isaac Hayes.
A Comfort Zone is not a Life Sentence
Wow...after all that you actually claim that you think I am the on who is offended?Please, point to absolutely any part of what I said that suggested that I'm interested at all in what you, or anyone else, choose to watch to the degree that I want to dictate those choices. Also, what were the words I used that you think implied I feel that everyone should only watch positive films?
I think you just went at my post all kinds of wrong, and somehow it offended you. If you were on the writing or production team, I apologize.
What was ridiculous? That should be easy enough to articulate for me. Was my take wrong? Was it counter to how you felt about the movie, so my take becomes ridiculous? I just wanna be clear here about how I apparently fucked up so badly sharing my opinion about how a depressing movie was a depressing movie.
It wasn't bad, and it was well acted, but it was just utterly bleak and without redemption or consequence, for anyone, and that's really all I meant. You read a lot more into what was there.
It was a find ending for a movie about a chain of horrible coincidences.
We're asked to accept the same kind of empty satisfaction that McDormand's character is willing to accept for taking out her pain on anyone she wanted to blame. The movie ended with her on the road to becoming backwoods Batman, but she's willing to murder.
As for consequences, I'm talking about McDormand's and Rockwell's characters as well. He only lost a job he hated and was terrible at for beating a man nearly to death, so that was of little consequence to him overall. She torched a building and put lives in danger because she was angry. She ended up getting a free dinner from the guy who kept her out of prison, and she just pissed all over his gift.
Some movies are supposed to be bleak. Some movies are supposed to have characters that are unlikeable. Some movies have characters that act irrationally because that's how people are in real life. Some movies are supposed to be open ended for you to use your imagination.
You may not like these concepts, but they are very commonly used and are not faults of the director, bad writing, bad editing or anything else...which is a very common and irrational form of criticism I often see about many movies.
Re watched True Grit (1968) last night.
Still enjoyable, but clunky.
The Coen's remake is a better film, although John Wayne will always be the infamous Rooster Cogburn imo
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Watching a random horror flick on Comet TV......The Beast Within. What a creep show.
Just saw Get Out. I'm not into horror (my wife is) but this was a supremely crafted piece of work. Really tightly written (only saw one niggling hole) and the direction was first-rate.
"I'm T-S-Mother Fucking-A!"
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Although I still have mixed feelings on "Us", Jordan Peele is the real deal in horror.
Watching a random horror flick on Comet TV......The Beast Within. What a creep show.
I've been wanting to see that one.
The Terminal Man An early movie by Michael Crichton. A scientist has a head injury, and gets some microcomputers implanted into his brain to help his seizures, mayhem ensues. I wasn't aware of this one, and it sort of reminded of THX-1138 the way it was shot/or the time period. Pretty good.
Yeah, that was on TCM a couple nights ago, but I work on the weekends, so I can't stay up late on Friday night anymore, and the DVR is playing up again, so I wasn't able to record it. That's at least the second time in the last year or two they've had that one on.
I just saw this the other day as well. Liked it a lot!
A Comfort Zone is not a Life Sentence
This is something I've noticed in Coen films but not given much thought
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Here's a recent documentary I caught off YT with David Attenborough, called First Life. He's a really good host.
Papillin already discussed here, but yes, great classic movie.
We Were Soldiers stars Mel Gibson and others about one of the earlier battles (1965) in Vietnam.
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