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?
"Thousands of people die in car accidents every year... that was like, two more."
Which is a great line.
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This video seems to do a pretty good visual comparison, make sure you have the setting set to at least 720p48fps. Can you still not see the difference?
(Note that this is an application where the 48fps won't look as weird and alien as it would for a something staged)
If you pause this video when it's doing the side by side comparison the images look exactly the same. There should be much more motion blur on the 24ps shots so that they don't look jerky. Which makes me think they shot this at a shutter speed suited for 48 frames per second and just dropped some frames out for the comparison,
Which basically means, 24fps on any movie will look better than the 24fps here does.
This video seems to do a pretty good visual comparison, make sure you have the setting set to at least 720p48fps. Can you still not see the difference?
(Note that this is an application where the 48fps won't look as weird and alien as it would for a something staged)
If you pause this video when it's doing the side by side comparison the images look exactly the same. There should be much more motion blur on the 24ps shots so that they don't look jerky. Which makes me think they shot this at a shutter speed suited for 48 frames per second and just dropped some frames out for the comparison,
Which basically means, 24fps on any movie will look better than the 24fps here does.
Luc Besson makes movies that make amazing trailers. No film was a bigger disappointment for me based on raised expectations from a trailer than The Fifth Element. The first and only trailer I saw for it was very minimalist, like no dialogue at all. Just epic shots of epic shit with absolutely none of the ridiculous stuff that was prevalent throughout.
I was Sofa King mad when I left the theater after seeing it. It took me years to get over the feeling of having been cheated out of what looked to be the most amazing sci-fi/action experience ever.
Now I love it for what it is; not hate it for what it wasn't.
Luc Besson makes movies that make amazing trailers. No film was a bigger disappointment for me based on raised expectations from a trailer than The Fifth Element. The first and only trailer I saw for it was very minimalist, like no dialogue at all. Just epic shots of epic shit with absolutely none of the ridiculous stuff that was prevalent throughout.
I was Sofa King mad when I left the theater after seeing it. It took me years to get over the feeling of having been cheated out of what looked to be the most amazing sci-fi/action experience ever.
Now I love it for what it is; not hate it for what it wasn't.
I think luc besson needs someone on set to say to him, "no, luc, that's fucking stupid"
because I do love the fifth element but goddamn is there some stupid shit in it
Lucy is an example of how particular my likes and dislikes are. Like, I hate that movie for two reasons, one is the 10% bullshit, and the other is the extent and degree of the powers she gets just for having more neurons firing at the same time.
The thing is, while I may have a case in the fact that it uses an outdated pseudoscience explanation, I'm not sure I'd have the same reaction of there was a mad scientist who had a perpetual motion machine that is powered by the Ether. Conversely, if there was a movie where trepanning was used as a serious way to treat mental illness, I'd probably find that hard to swallow.
On the second topic, if she had been given like an alien drug or had been mutated or something instead of just having more brainpower, the random grabbag of superpowers she gets would have been more palletable to me, even though those explanations are handwavy, they're handwavy in a way that leaps past my initial "this is not how this shit works." Yet I'm perfectly fine with a number of other "that's not how shit works in teh real world" things that happen in movies.
Basically, I hate that movie, but I should probably hate a lot more films for the same reason, yet I don't.
I think it might just be how proudly that movie parades around it's bullshit that gets me.
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Luc Besson makes movies that make amazing trailers. No film was a bigger disappointment for me based on raised expectations from a trailer than The Fifth Element. The first and only trailer I saw for it was very minimalist, like no dialogue at all. Just epic shots of epic shit with absolutely none of the ridiculous stuff that was prevalent throughout.
I was Sofa King mad when I left the theater after seeing it. It took me years to get over the feeling of having been cheated out of what looked to be the most amazing sci-fi/action experience ever.
Now I love it for what it is; not hate it for what it wasn't.
I think luc besson needs someone on set to say to him, "no, luc, that's fucking stupid"
because I do love the fifth element but goddamn is there some stupid shit in it
Luc Besson makes movies that make amazing trailers. No film was a bigger disappointment for me based on raised expectations from a trailer than The Fifth Element. The first and only trailer I saw for it was very minimalist, like no dialogue at all. Just epic shots of epic shit with absolutely none of the ridiculous stuff that was prevalent throughout.
I was Sofa King mad when I left the theater after seeing it. It took me years to get over the feeling of having been cheated out of what looked to be the most amazing sci-fi/action experience ever.
Now I love it for what it is; not hate it for what it wasn't.
I think luc besson needs someone on set to say to him, "no, luc, that's fucking stupid"
because I do love the fifth element but goddamn is there some stupid shit in it
Ah, the Hideo Kojima problem.
naaaaah it was observed most infamously with George Lucas so I'm going to call it the Lucas Imperative
Actully, shit, if Lucy had dropped the 10% stuff, had just made her become supersmart and then all of the superpowered stuff was caused due to technology she built, I would have been totally down with that film.
Luc Besson makes movies that make amazing trailers. No film was a bigger disappointment for me based on raised expectations from a trailer than The Fifth Element. The first and only trailer I saw for it was very minimalist, like no dialogue at all. Just epic shots of epic shit with absolutely none of the ridiculous stuff that was prevalent throughout.
I was Sofa King mad when I left the theater after seeing it. It took me years to get over the feeling of having been cheated out of what looked to be the most amazing sci-fi/action experience ever.
Now I love it for what it is; not hate it for what it wasn't.
I think luc besson needs someone on set to say to him, "no, luc, that's fucking stupid"
because I do love the fifth element but goddamn is there some stupid shit in it
Ah, the Hideo Kojima problem.
naaaaah it was observed most infamously with George Lucas so I'm going to call it the Lucas Imperative
When Kojima goes insane sometimes you get some good stuff out of it.
Luc Besson makes movies that make amazing trailers. No film was a bigger disappointment for me based on raised expectations from a trailer than The Fifth Element. The first and only trailer I saw for it was very minimalist, like no dialogue at all. Just epic shots of epic shit with absolutely none of the ridiculous stuff that was prevalent throughout.
I was Sofa King mad when I left the theater after seeing it. It took me years to get over the feeling of having been cheated out of what looked to be the most amazing sci-fi/action experience ever.
Now I love it for what it is; not hate it for what it wasn't.
I think luc besson needs someone on set to say to him, "no, luc, that's fucking stupid"
because I do love the fifth element but goddamn is there some stupid shit in it
The fifth element is so fucking great. I love everything about it.
Actully, shit, if Lucy had dropped the 10% stuff, had just made her become supersmart and then all of the superpowered stuff was caused due to technology she built, I would have been totally down with that film.
Honestly I think this is why I generally prefer fantasy over sci-fi. Made up magical stuff in fantasy feels whimsical, while wacky made up stuff in sci-fi feels like lying.
Like, Lucy would have been so much better if professor Morgan Freeman was giving this serious speech about magical potential how humans only use 10% of their soul and Lucy got her powers a ground up unicorn or something.
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"Thousands of people die in car accidents every year... that was like, two more."
Which is a great line.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
This No Small Parts video goes into 'actor playing themselves' territory.
The entire song is just so wonderful.
Well even that skateboard video just seems sped up.
Lockout isn't a great movie or anything
But it's title card drop almost managed to convince me i was in for a great time
(It was only a decent time)
"better"
But I remember like, nothing about it
I guess it was an okay movie then?
Yes
I was Sofa King mad when I left the theater after seeing it. It took me years to get over the feeling of having been cheated out of what looked to be the most amazing sci-fi/action experience ever.
Now I love it for what it is; not hate it for what it wasn't.
I would not call Lucy a good movie
Lucy is a movie I haven't seen and have no opinions about, come at me
I think luc besson needs someone on set to say to him, "no, luc, that's fucking stupid"
because I do love the fifth element but goddamn is there some stupid shit in it
The thing is, while I may have a case in the fact that it uses an outdated pseudoscience explanation, I'm not sure I'd have the same reaction of there was a mad scientist who had a perpetual motion machine that is powered by the Ether. Conversely, if there was a movie where trepanning was used as a serious way to treat mental illness, I'd probably find that hard to swallow.
On the second topic, if she had been given like an alien drug or had been mutated or something instead of just having more brainpower, the random grabbag of superpowers she gets would have been more palletable to me, even though those explanations are handwavy, they're handwavy in a way that leaps past my initial "this is not how this shit works." Yet I'm perfectly fine with a number of other "that's not how shit works in teh real world" things that happen in movies.
Basically, I hate that movie, but I should probably hate a lot more films for the same reason, yet I don't.
I think it might just be how proudly that movie parades around it's bullshit that gets me.
wow WOW
calm down killer
Ah, the Hideo Kojima problem.
naaaaah it was observed most infamously with George Lucas so I'm going to call it the Lucas Imperative
When Kojima goes insane sometimes you get some good stuff out of it.
Never Lucas.
Lucas Imperative is correct.
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The fifth element is so fucking great. I love everything about it.
Honestly I think this is why I generally prefer fantasy over sci-fi. Made up magical stuff in fantasy feels whimsical, while wacky made up stuff in sci-fi feels like lying.
mods?????
Satans..... hints.....
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