I hadn’t seen Minority Report for about 20 years and remembered it being fairly straight thriller with a few action beats, so upon rewatch I was not expecting a sci-fi Temple of Doom full of gonzo craziness like chasing after your own eyeballs
lol, projecting much? If you have that kind of hysterical reaction to someone disagreeing with you then I’m not surprised you have such a reductive view. His films are effectively all spaghetti westerns in different time periods and settings, with the style, pacing and tonality that entails.
There are valid criticisms to be made of Tarantino’s work, but that’s not one of them. The majority of his films aren’t especially violent, and what violence they do have is often in very short isolated bursts.
It’s extremely obvious to anyone who isn’t deluding themselves; the mechanics which might made a violent video game ‘fun’ to play are completely detached from the actual act of physically murdering someone. People don’t play violent games or watch violent movies to suppress a real life blood lust.
Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken from the movie Escape from New York (1981). The caption reads, “I don’t give a fuck about your war or your president.”
BHC2 has that gorgeous Tony Scott visual swag, but it’s a cartoon compared the original. No dirt under its nails.
American delusion, more like. An entire nation living in perpetual debt to keep up appearances.
Never seen a corn dog in the UK, they’re purely something I know from American films
Film emulation tone mapping often condenses shadows but with a lifted black level, it shouldn’t crush anything. Gamers always seem to think lifted shadows are a technical mistake; but they’re present in 95% of the films people watch. Personally I think it’s almost always stylistic & intentional.
No, his seated position is because they’ve just shot him sat upright rather than upside down.
I’ll be honest I feel a bit mad seeing people go this hard for Sinners, a film I genuinely really liked but still found pretty flawed in its own ways. It fizzles out.
Her raising more money in the district does not mean she wasn’t still outspent by other candidates.
Fascinating framing in that article that she not only ‘survived’ Doom but went from ‘strength to strength’ in Jonny English 2 and Wrath of the Titans.
Hell yeah
I’m a professional film colourist who has done plenty of restoration work in the past. The two tone appearance often came from the print stock, not necessarily the negative. And it’s absolutely pointless comparing films shot decades apart, using completely different stocks and laboratory methods.
That two-tone look is quite literally from the film stock, though. It’s not something which been added digitally, the colour teal in films wasn’t magically invented in 2010. I’ve seen an unrestored original print of 2001 which was absolutely full of teal in various scenes.
Yeah for many films the version we grew up watching on TV, the version we had on VHS and the version we had on DVD were often the exact same transfer and that’s what’s burnt into our brains. It can be very odd to see something looking different after so long. It’s a minefield and highly subjective.
When cinemas moved to digital I think we all collectively very quickly forgot how bonkers many old film prints actually looked, it’s only because I still occasionally encounter real film through my job that I throught to even check and compare.
It’s a faff finding identical screengrabs in 35mm but this is a fun site. filmcolors.org/galleries/al...
Your memory is playing tricks on you. The bluray is, if anything, more neutral than the original prints were. The issue is everyone is comparing to old, washed out DVD transfers which weren’t accurate to begin with.
Yeah I despise the horrible AI/degrained look, but I don’t have any real issue with the colour of any those versions. True Lies is by far the worst affected.
It’s always been a blue film. All of Cameron’s films have similar looks.
Your perception of what these films ‘should’ look like has been warped by overly white balanced TV/DVD masters. Many older films always had inherent blue tones, it’s not strictly contemporary revisionism.
This film has progressively grown on me for 30 straight years, to the point I now prefer it to any of the Connerys. This and Goldeneye are probably my two most watched Bond films.
It doesn’t actually look anywhere near that blue in context though. Your eyes adjust very quickly and it feels perceptually more neutral. Stills often make these remasters seem more drastic than they are.
Of all the many problems with Crystal (which I think is much better than most people give it credit for), I never felt like the aliens were one of them. Their portrayal was fine, they weren’t overused and the pivot to 50s B movies as inspiration was a smart one.
Spencer is also the guy who salvaged the disaster that was Xbox One with the BC programme and Game Pass, and oversaw the release of the three best bits of hardware they ever made (One X, Series X/S). Xbox was never actually on top of the industry, not even the 360.
Excellent thread, thanks
Wow!