(Not Patrick Stewart’s hands)
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If we’re going to talk about the actual making of movies then i have complaints:
One movie filming trope that i despise that really takes me out of a movie is when action is filmed too dark, too shaky and too close. Add a lot of cuts to the scene as well. I know a director is likely trying to make it feel real and dynamic, but it just ends up being an unintelligible mess of a scene. Light your damn scenes and show the action for the love of god.
Unintelligible dialogue. I’m looking at you Christopher Nolan, although other directors are guilty of this. The times i’ve wished the movie theater i was in had subtitles… def one thing i miss about living in Venezuela. Watching English current release films that have subtitles often improves the experience for me.
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I’ve heard that’s a huge reason why a lot of people now watch with subtitles. Terrible sound mixing, on top of mumbled dialogue, makes it difficult to hear what characters are saying.
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I keep reading about this but it’s never been a problem for me, Nolan included. If anything I think it’s a step in the direction of more realistic, although gunshots are still ludicrously quiet. It’s said that if the gunfire was mixed at a realistic level against the dialog the audience would trample each other scrambling for the exits.
Other complaints - Overheard at my house during any Western or horse race movie: “That’s not the same horse he was just riding!” “That’s a mare, not a stallion!” “That’s an Arabian, not a Mustang!” and, always, “Give him his head! Quit yanking the reins!”
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I gave up on the John Wick series when they had that scene where they’re shooting at each other with silencers in the crowd in a tube station and NOBODY NOTICES. Pu-lease!
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That used to make sense in the days of manual telephone connections. When you raised the handset off the hook, a light would go on at the operator’s switchboard. So if you rapidly raised and lowered the hook it would cause that light to flash, getting the operator’s attention.
ETA, I guess I owe @FGD135 a fizzy drink.
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Have you ever tried to close a dead person’s eyes? I have, and I couldn’t do it; it’s quite hard, actually.
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As a retired librarian, I have to agree with #1.
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I have not because I knew it wasn’t a thing. I have witnessed a few people’s deaths and they don’t close their eyelids. The mortician has to sew them shut.
That’s why they used to place coins over the eyes of the deceased.
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I saw Sinners this evening (in a packed theater!)… what a fantastic movie with tons of stuff to sift through. In case you haven’t seen it, here is Lil Bill’s take on the film (or some rambling musings, rather)…
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There’s some interesting points in there i hadn’t considered, def there’s a lot to talk about in regards to the movie. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
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THUNDERBOLTS* is not a movie about superheroes.
THUNDERBOLTS* is a movie about mental illness.
Thank you for coming to my TEDx talk.
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About depression. About unrestrained government.
And about chosen family.
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And PTSD. And it’s pretty clear that Bob is bipolar, even before the experiments. Indeed, his trauma and attempts to self-medicate his bipolar is what put him in the position to undergo the experiments.
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I give it a solid A-/B+.
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Just saw Sinners this weekend. Was so great. And be sure to stay for the after credits!!!
I absolutely loved the music scenes. Having gone to college in New Orleans, blues was the big discovery for me during that time. It’s hard to really feel the blues in recorded music. They do the best job I’ve seen of showing what it feels like to be in a room where a great artist is playing the blues live. You feel it in your soul and it makes the hurt turn into joy.
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Big props to the actor that plays Preacher boy, his voice/performance in the movie is spectacular.
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That’s how I was seeing the movie, the way he discusses it. Definitely about the dangers of whites to blacks in the South, no matter how friendly they acted.
I didn’t go into the movie with any preconceptions. My daughter said we should see it, because she is a Michael B. Jordan stan.
The initial shots of people picking cotton, chain gangs, all of that…it was supposed to be in Mississippi in the 1910s, but boy did it feel a lot like my early childhood in the 70’s in Alabama. Now you just don’t see that kind of land anywhere, but as a kid, I do remember seeing cotton fields and the little shacks out in the country areas. I loved how the movie showed those scenes with such a humanity and dignity; that these lives mattered and that people had their pleasures even though they also had hard work. At times I felt I could smell the dirt, the sun, the tobacco, the sweat, the morning breeze.
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My interpretation is that the vampire was offering peace, and a place to belong to, to the black characters… but what it really wants is to seek its own “salvation” by plundering another culture’s soul, its own connection to its own pagan roots are long gone so it needs black culture to serve its own needs.
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