maxlevel wrote:@scojo I like that quote! I’d develop it a little and say ‘any film is better than no film’. It pays to be open minded about film as a rule, there’s always something. After all, someone has loved the idea enough to pay for it to be made. And often, it’s usually in the making the best ideas get lost entirely(or become a total stroke of genius of course) . Bad performance, bad editing, director losing or winning a fight over a specific point. Actor getting hammered drunk every morning despite being a public teetotal, which means the director can’t really get a point across. I had a long chat with a producer before Christmas about modern editing cutting too fast for audiences, so where you once had a magical helicopter shot like the Shining opening, you would now just cut after a few seconds and bring the pace up, even though the footage was shot and all the money spent. You don’t get the lingering photography as much, even in films like Revenant where it’s all photography heavy. There’s a beautiful scene at the end of Wind River which is really what storytelling is about, very rare to do this style in this decade at least. And yet nobody’s seen the damn film. So even when the cream rises to the surface it’s possible nobody notices.
Anyway... Really enjoying altered carbon right now. My other half prefers it to bladerunner 2049. It moves very fast but the episode format does allow ideas to develop.
@max- love (and agree with) all of this.
Except...La La Land. A garbage film for garbage people.
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*Thank god this is a
safe space. Anywhere else online, I'd have already been ripped to fucking pieces, humourlessly, before I'd even posted that!!!
** And yet- I fucking meant it.
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