that's a good one

Addition, also directed by Jeunet's frequent collaborator Marc Caro. I completely forgot about him.

The City of Lost Children (1995) Trailer | Ron Perlman | Daniel Emilfork YouTube video by Film Trailer Channel

The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995) was on my top 5 all time favorite movies back then. Now it's just gone. I don't own it on anything but VHS and I haven't heard anyone but myself talk about it for over 25 years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-F3...

Heh

Also "this film has an apple" means you can confidently say THIS FILM USED NO BANANAS

Thank you, that means a lot!

I want to add "crap from space" but I'm caught between the unlikeliness and the worst case consequence

The dangers of space, ranked by danger
1) going up into space
2) coming down from space
3) being in space

I wish more people thought about why they couldn't premiere Oppenheimer during the actor's strike even though it was in the can. Because every single interview, talk show or red carpet attendance is paid actor work, and anything they say, like in the movie, is in the script the studio gave them.

(I'm posting this only to Bluesky and not the the other two platforms, because people there will shitstorm me with "tell me you don't know how filmmaking works without telling me..." because my 2 decades of filmmaking are no match for 19 year old film bros)

2) I've worked on the VFX of 3 Marvel scenes, every one of them was a practical set.

Marvel spends a crap ton of money on practical sets and effects.

AND, CGI.

Where's the film bro crowd going "OMG Marvel is so dedicated to practical sets!"

"But Marvel..."

1) SURELY people know other films than Marvel exist? Like, Marvel is less that 1% of the movies you should be watching... they do not represent "moviemaking in general" in any way whatsoever.

How did media literacy reach a low where any sight of any set is seen as "OMG REAAL SEEETS PRACTICAL FILMMAKING IS SO BACK".

They never. Stopped. Buildings sets.

I think of this when I hear the voice announcing the "peggie 18" rating.

Regardless of which Indy movie is best, I have to say Temple of Doom is the best Indy Harrison has given us. His balance between darkness and humor and just getting to know the character better peaked here.

Seth rogen Dude this is total bullshit. It's completely the directors fault often. 12:08 PM - 15 Nov 2017 Seth Rogen • @Sethrogen Replying to @: Vfx are tool like anything else, and if a director can't use it properly it's no different than being able to use the camera properly or direct actors properly.

Lexi Alexander Bad take my friend. VFX is so competitive, you'll be hard pressed to find a whole company that sucks still in business. Bad CGI means the director was a self-important dick or production asked for a castle while paying for a tent and demanded it be done in 24 hours on top of it.

Duncan jones I would go further and say the blame belongs with the director, the credit with the VFX house.

James Gunn @L "!.A good director oversees every single VFX shot, again & again. The director has as much say as anyone in the quality, the artistry, & the consistency between vendors. Along with editing a film, it is the primary job of a director in post on a VFX heavy film.

From 2018:

"Every once in a while, Twitter is great. Like the time a bunch of film directors dunked hard on an ignorant VFX take."

Putting the scene in the movie happened by accident when the directors reviewed the footage the filmed to put in the film, a practice they insist on

I would love if that was in a VFX breakdown

The directors like it so much they kept it in the movie

Sandra Hüller really sings like that and the reactions in the room are real.

LOL I'm legit not even 100% sure

Project Hail Mary used ZERO CGI for the glasses hanging from Ryan Gosling's ears and Sandra Hüller singing Karaoke, opting instead to rely on practical effects

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Also I get it's a plot point that earth is being smashed by the anti matter bursts and Brad Pitt needs to go to the space station without being vaporized by them, but they toss in this "the bursts increase as they approach earth" as if it makes sense and you just gotta go "uh ok whatever"

"Stopping to change direction" is also my problem with Gravity. You don't just go "Oh look the ISS, let's float over there" as if it's a hovering Starbucks. It's like jumping out of one airplane to jump onto another going in a different direction, except much much worse.

Haha yes, exactly! Why does he need to go to Mars to make a phone call when they could send his message to Mars from Earth.

I loved the moon car chase like hell, but I'm fairly certain tires couldn't get that kind of traction on dust in 1/9g. Still, 10/10 set piece.

Haha, fair. Which parts, specifically?

But the mere fact that such a dark, nihilistic non-commercially pleasing film with so many scenes made entirely for space nerds even exists, with such a high budget, is just awesome

yea, that's the core of the film. What I find stupid is the idea that we can "definitively" determine if there's intelligent life out there after a few decades of listening from Neptune. That's like picking up a glass of water from the ocean and conclude fish don't exist