So I take it that the transformers movies were considered great date material in the tech industry?
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So I take it that the transformers movies were considered great date material in the tech industry?
Interesting ... Some of the actors and even some of the characters seem to be shared between the movie and the series, but not in a one to one overlap it seems. One actor plays the same character, while another actor plays in both but a different role it seems.
Thanks for the tip, may check it out.
As for Transformers, I like spectacle, but thought Transformers 2 was a bit too much here and there - it didn't manage to be something coherent as well as 1. If AlStrong says 3 is a return to form that's good enough for me and I will see it, though not necessarily in the cinema (I am a big fan of 3D though and who knows). Oh and yes my wife likes them too (at least the first).
Comparing it to Avatar, which is also a spectacle movie but less noisily so, and there the highs stand out higher, but the lows of Avatar are very low. In our case, anything involving the army doesn't really hold up to repeat viewing ... but my wife will watch the bits where he ends up in 'nature' for the first time each time it appears on one of the movie channels we have. The Lord of the Rings is similar - the good parts are really great, but almost any part that involves Sam and Frodo only make me sick. They are just too overly melodramatic. I have to reread the books to see whether it was really that bad in the original
but the actors and way of shooting lays it on extra thick. I got tired of it during the first view already. Because of it, only the first movie for me is a rewatcheable classic from start to finish.Haven't seen the new Harry Potter yet - haven't seen nearly any of them in the cinema, inviting my wife to take some potter fan with her instead. Generally they've been pretty good, though some parts I thought were stretching themselves a little thin. My wife wants to see the new one in 3D, just to give some counter balance to people negative on 3D.
We both love 3D. I rewatched Shrek Forever After on the movie channel the other day, and really missed the 3D there (had seen it in 3D in the cinema). While the movie holds up, 3D really added something meaningful there, like conveying points of view and emotion. Whoever was in charge of that movie's camera work is brilliant and I hope that 3D takes off, just so that guy can eventually take his important place in the history of its success.
Finally got around to seeing the new Tron.
I'm going to be generous and give it a 3/10 just because the music was good. If not for that it is easily a 1 or 2 out of 10. Even nostalgia for the original couldn't save this one.
As for Transformers it still amazes me that people like it. If I remember correctly I gave TF 1 a 2/10 and TF2 a 1/10. And those were only that high due to the special effects. I have no plans to see TF 3, but I'm sure one of my friends will make me watch it when he gets it on DVD or BRD.
Rewatching the Planet Earth series. It really is one of the very very few movies that I think actually provides a reason to get a HD player. Most BRD releases, I'm quite happy with the DVD version, but the Planet Earth series is spectacular in HD.
Regards,
SB
In my defense for watching the first two it was in such a scenario where friends had it and I watched them. I agree on planet earth as well. Have you watched the new series? Life or something like that I think. I haven't seen them yet.
DuckThor Evil
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Arwin said:
You have to consider that AlStrong might be trying to lure you into the dark side to further his evil plan. In any case I'm curious to hear your opinion of TF3. Coherence is a good word for why TF1 was ok and the two others not so much.
Silent_Buddha
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I recently had my cable disconnected as I just don't watch enough TV to justify the cost so know absolutely nothing about it. I'm curious now and I'm going to have to look it up.
Regards,
SB
Took me a while to figure out what you guys were referring to, cause its native pronounciation is Ray McA Nally. He was a top actor BTW.
Yes he did.
Malo said:
Yeah, I remember that waterfall scene too
The Planet Earth series is pretty much the first BluRay set I got, but I generally strongly prefer BD anyway for both picture and sound in most cases. We don't even rent anymore unless it is on BD. Also mistakenly got the movie that is basically a summary of the BBC series but with Patrick Stewart narrating. My wife already had a bunch of David Attenborough sets like the Blue Panet series. We have the Life BD set too. There is some overlap here and there though.
I recently had my cable disconnected as I just don't watch enough TV to justify the cost so know absolutely nothing about it. I'm curious now and I'm going to have to look it up.
Regards,
SB
http://www.amazon.com/Life-narrated-David-Attenborough-Blu-ray/dp/B002UXRGM0 Attenburough one
I haven't watched them either, I love the Planet Earth ones though so I was hoping someone here (like homer) has seen the Life series.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Very cool, I'll have to put that on my list of things to get. I was dismayed at first when I thought I had to listen to Oprah narrate (as posted above).
Regards,
SB
Ike Turner
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Life is really nice but IMO not as breathtaking as Planet Eath. Given that it was shot more recently it has better overall IQ espciallyi n low light (underwater etc..) but they also used staged shots throught out the whole thing (CGI and comped blue screened stuff etc. princiaplly for the time lapse stuff.)
Ike Turner
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THere was no CGI or Bluescreen use in Planet Earth. The timelapse Homer talks about it breath taking though but wasdone using a Bleuscreen and some clever composting (took them months to finalize the shot). Other bleuscreen stuff was used for filming some small animals/insects (can't remember exactl) because it was impossible to do it in real life without threatening/disturbing the life of said animals.
It had some differences to the book but not that significant. What in particular annoyed you?
Also, saw "Keeping Mum" (on Film 4) last week. We found it quite entertaining.
The climax in book was a fitting finale to the series. The climax in this movie was like, oh, pizza's here.
DuckThor Evil
Legend
wat
Heh sorry sometimes the goofiness takes over :smile:
I watched two movies this week.
The Fighter 4/5
Pretty good movie. Christian Bale puts few of those points there with his performance alone.
Faster 3.25/5
Rock acts pissed pretty good. this is a quite simple action movie where you don't have to yawn. I enjoyed it :smile:
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