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yo, what's your favourite [movie] (thread)

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    I do not think it is a very controversial postulate that far fewer people have a problem with HD than HFR

    I have significant issues with HD, I really don't like looking at it.

  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    Wholesome storytelling?

    does it?
  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    FroThulhu wrote: »
    Wait, everybody stop talking about framrates

    Those Power Rangers clips just lead me to watch the Green Ranger vs Ryu

    I feel better about life

    No this is much more interesting

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    HD had its detractors when it initially came out. But this was usually centred around older stuff being released. Like effects looking bad because they weren't meant to be seen with high definition. The newer stuff didn't have the same problem. Usually. I know that when I saw District 9 on bluray the effects looked slightly worse compared to the theatre, but they weren't eye searingly awful.

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Gimme all the frames. 48 is nowhere near enough, film at 120 you weasels! I want movies to be buttery-smooth! The biggest difference to me is the huge increase in detail when the camera moves, and higher framerates (not frame interpolation, but real frame refresh rates ) also seem to give a lot more depth of field and visual space to the footage. Kind of like 3D without the glasses, for me.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I wish modern pixel games would emulate the way pixels actually looked on a blurry crt

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    I wish modern pixel games would emulate the way pixels actually looked on a blurry crt

    Some manage to make pixel art look beautiful though. Check out some screencaps or footage of Risk of Rain for a decent example. I'm sure there are better.

  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    I definitely thought that large flatscreen TVs made everything look weird and fake when we first got one.

  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    I just watched the Age of Ultron 720p60fps trailer.

    I guess it just looks like it's playing at 1.5x until your brain gets used to it?

    does it?
  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    Mad Max did some frame shenans and it was rad as fuck, over/underclocking some scenes really worked out. Hobbit at 48 was weird but helped distract from how boring that flick was.

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    Soap operas have been filmed at 48fps for yeeeeaaaars. That's why they look so weird.

    Langly
  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I do not think it is a very controversial postulate that far fewer people have a problem with HD than HFR

    I have significant issues with HD, I really don't like looking at it.

    This is a crazy statement!!!

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I do not think it is a very controversial postulate that far fewer people have a problem with HD than HFR

    I have significant issues with HD, I really don't like looking at it.

    This is a crazy statement!!!

    I dunno yours used three exclamation points

    THREE!

    Who's statement is truly crazy?

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Crazy Langly bought a surplus of exclamation marks and he's passing the savings on to you!

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    To deal with insanity you must become the abyss!!!!!?

    -Tal
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I do not think it is a very controversial postulate that far fewer people have a problem with HD than HFR

    I have significant issues with HD, I really don't like looking at it.

    This is a crazy statement!!!

    Not really, she doesn't really like looking at people in real life either.

    tynic
  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2015
    I cannot tell the difference between 24 and 48 fps.
    All this talk about it looking bad sounds like so much "old man yelling at clouds" to me.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    To deal with insanity you must become the abyss!!!!!?

    Five exclamation points, the sure sign of an insane mind.

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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    I have no idea about filming and projecting technology, but couldn't you use a dynamic framerate that adjusts to the movement on the screen to keep the impression of the familiar cinema film and have better visuals in action scenes at the same time?

    -Tal
  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    HD looks good when the film is shot for HD, or cleaned up really really well.

    high frame rate just looks weird. I attribute this to having watched movies at 24 fps my entire life and just being used to it though.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Langly wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I do not think it is a very controversial postulate that far fewer people have a problem with HD than HFR

    I have significant issues with HD, I really don't like looking at it.

    This is a crazy statement!!!

    To be fair, it depends a lot on the film - it can be used well. But I have a definite thing for low resolution imagery. Cameras as well. It's probably the visual equivalent of being a vinyl nerd.

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    Out of curiosity...why do soap operas film at double of what has traditionally been the standard?

    Especially before digital and with them having to produce daily content (sans weekends). Wouldn't having double the amount of film be more expensive and take longer to edit and such?

  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    honovere wrote: »
    I have no idea about filming and projecting technology, but couldn't you use a dynamic framerate that adjusts to the movement on the screen to keep the impression of the familiar cinema film and have better visuals in action scenes at the same time?

    this is essentially what Mad Max Fury Road did

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    Lars wrote: »
    Out of curiosity...why do soap operas film at double of what has traditionally been the standard?

    Especially before digital and with them having to produce daily content (sans weekends). Wouldn't having double the amount of film be more expensive and take longer to edit and such?

    because it is/was filmed on video which is a cheap production method

    edit: and video isn't locked to 24 fps so it just never was. I don't know if they actually shoot at 48 fps, I imagine they just shot at whatever was native to the format.

    Langly on
    tynic
  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    I do not think it is a very controversial postulate that far fewer people have a problem with HD than HFR

    I have significant issues with HD, I really don't like looking at it.

    This is a crazy statement!!!

    To be fair, it depends a lot on the film - it can be used well. But I have a definite thing for low resolution imagery. Cameras as well. It's probably the visual equivalent of being a vinyl nerd.

    I think there is a not small visual and tactile component to being a vinyl nerd.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Oh no no no

    Len Wiseman is making Die Hard: Year One, set in 1979 and showing how John McClane became the cop he is in the first movie

    I was fine with the sequels, even if 5 was real bad, cause hey more Bruce Willis John McClane

    But dang it now some young pretty boy actor is playing him and I am gonna be annoyed forever

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    I liked 4, that was Len, right?

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    It was, but he has also done all of the Underworlds and the Total Recall remake so I'm guessing Live Free or Die Hard was a fluke more than anything

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Oh no no no

    Len Wiseman is making Die Hard: Year One, set in 1979 and showing how John McClane became the cop he is in the first movie

    I was fine with the sequels, even if 5 was real bad, cause hey more Bruce Willis John McClane

    But dang it now some young pretty boy actor is playing him and I am gonna be annoyed forever

    Shia LeBeouf is John McClane.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    It was, but he has also done all of the Underworlds and the Total Recall remake so I'm guessing Live Free or Die Hard was a fluke more than anything

    I dunno, I think it's a fluke somebody liked the fourth Die Hard movie.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    It was, but he has also done all of the Underworlds and the Total Recall remake so I'm guessing Live Free or Die Hard was a fluke more than anything

    I dunno, I think it's a fluke somebody liked the fourth Die Hard movie.
    You mean the one with an 82% on Rotten Tomatoes?

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  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    i finally watched spy, dang that movie was good, it makes me actually way more optimistic about ghostbusters. i have hated everything else she did/was in, but this seemed to finally hit a good balance

    yeah i just watched it this past weekend too. started out feeling like i was gonna be a bit disappointed but it was pretty good! Didn't change my opinions on McCarthy (they weren't negative to begin with) but made me love Rose Byrne and Jason Statham more. Never seen Miranda Hart in anything but she was great too

    i also watched it on a tv with frame smoothing and the CG in the plane scene looked like goddamn flight simulator. my dad got borderline hostile when i informed him of his tv's failings though. "i went online to forums to determine the optimal settings for this tv," he said

    Miranda Hart is absolutely delightful in Call the Midwife.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    It was, but he has also done all of the Underworlds and the Total Recall remake so I'm guessing Live Free or Die Hard was a fluke more than anything

    I dunno, I think it's a fluke somebody liked the fourth Die Hard movie.
    You mean the one with an 82% on Rotten Tomatoes?

    While I'm sure you are quoting facts and statistics.

    I'm sure you are lying.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    The fourth Die Hard movie is worse than the third Die Hard movie.

    And I hate the third Die Hard movie.

  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    Bruce Willis is kind of a shithead.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    It was, but he has also done all of the Underworlds and the Total Recall remake so I'm guessing Live Free or Die Hard was a fluke more than anything

    I dunno, I think it's a fluke somebody liked the fourth Die Hard movie.
    You mean the one with an 82% on Rotten Tomatoes?

    While I'm sure you are quoting facts and statistics.

    I'm sure you are lying.
    Yeah

    Yeah that's fair

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    One of the few things I remember about Die Hard 4 is how the R-rated version for some bizarre reason has a worse one-liner after the scene where he takes down a helicopter by crashing a car into it (if I remember right).

    In the PG-13 version, Mac is freaking out about "Holy crap, you just crashed a car into a helicopter!" and he responds with something like "Yeah...well...I was out of bullets."

    In the R-rated version, his response is to ramble about statistics of automobile-related deaths.

    Oh, and I remember in the commentary you can practically hear Bruce Willis eye-roll at the actual title before deciding to just call it Die Hard 4.

    Also, wasn't Kevin Smith in it for some reason?

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    The third die hard movie is also great

    The only bad one is 5

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    The third die hard movie is also great

    The only bad one is 5
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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Oh no no no

    Len Wiseman is making Die Hard: Year One, set in 1979 and showing how John McClane became the cop he is in the first movie

    I was fine with the sequels, even if 5 was real bad, cause hey more Bruce Willis John McClane

    But dang it now some young pretty boy actor is playing him and I am gonna be annoyed forever

    What if we get Joseph Gordon Levitt to put on that prosthetic and CGI again

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