Movie Reviews 2.0

[Grall]

You should be able to compensate for that with a larger front lens on the camera that collects more light, but 48fps should not be a particularly difficult issue with modern tech, considering video cameras can shoot at 60fps no problem.

Also, the HD video era with regards to set dressings, makeup and such is something that has concerned people ever since the HD video era started. I noted as late as today actually how fake the fake fiberglass snow sets in the Hoth base hangar of Empire Strikes Back looks. They're alright as long as you actually don't LOOK at them, but if you focus on them rather than the actors you notice joints between individual pieces and the limitations of where these imitations of sets just can't match reality. Like how it interacts with light (snow is somewhat translucent for example and fibreglass generally is not, and so on.)

 

[Davros]

and still cameras have much quicker shutter speeds

 

[zed]

4K, 48p HFR and the challenge for set designers and makeup artists

bummer, must of been a pain back in the old days with good quality film (as the effective PPI on that is better than 4K)

ANSWER curiosity - the earth

 

[Malo]

New trailer

haha that is awesome, thanks!

 

[zed]

4K, 48p HFR would certainly improve this film

(created by a dude I know on another forum)

 

[Davros]

Is the film whiteout ?

 

[DuckThor Evil]

Is the film whiteout ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXm7hzMJ2I

That is what he tried to embed. NSFW.

 

[tuna]

bummer, must of been a pain back in the old days with good quality film (as the effective PPI on that is better than 4K)

ANSWER curiosity - the earth

Not when it was projected in a normal cinema.

 

[zed]

That is what he tried to embed. NSFW.

it shows for me, theres something definitely not working with this sites embedded YT clips

 

[Grall]

You forgot the initial underscore in the embed code, it would seem. Not sure why it shows for you, it doesn't here...

Non-alphanumerical letters in the movie ID code is relatively uncommon at youtube IME, but it happens every once in a while. I've missed including them as well every now and then, this has happened when the odd character has been trailing, and I simply overlooked it.

 

[WhiningKhan]

European/Scandinavian Avengers have NO previews at all! YAAAAH!

It's just a language selection screen, a Marvel logo animation, a Paramount logo animation, and then the title screen and that's it; not a single copyright or piracy warning in sight. You get to enjoy the movie "almost immediately", and FUCKIN WOW! What a movie! It was GREAT, I totally loved it; it was (almost) as cool as I thought Thor was. It's like, a few percent less of a movie than Thor - because the progenitor had more of Thor himself of course, whom is just awesomely portrayed by Chris Hemsworth, and more of Stellan Skarsgård, and then Anthony Hopkins. But seriously, this is clearly one of the all-time best action movies ever.

Sorry for the old quote: I just now managed to see the Avengers, after getting the Avengers-BD-box (Iron Mans, Hulk, Thor , Captain America and Avengers) for Fathers' day. Have been watching them at a leisurely pace (had to watch them in about 1 hour chunks spread over several days, at relatively late hours). I had a bit of a hard time staying awake watching Thor and CA, but Avengers was good. The only things that annoyed me was the lame emo-behaviour of the heroes in the first half and the related clumsy drama-deepening effort relating to the individual 'setup' movies (e.g. it somehow felt awkward when Thor was so in love with Earth now after spending a couple of days here in his old movie; actually it felt pretty awkward in Thor the Movie already but didn't have much time to bring it up before the movie ended), and the generic bad guys in metallic armour + blue death rays flying around in their scooters weren't that wonderful. Otherwise, the most entertaining superhero movie that has been made.

Iron Man is clearly the spine of the franchise, he carried the movie more or less single-handedly. IM movies were also clearly the best films of the 5 setups (actually I haven't been able to motivate myself to watching Hulk yet...).

 

[snarfbot]

Thor was good. I thought captain america wss kinda weak. It had too much talking, and all the action scenes were montages. I would have preffered if they were better integrated into the story, as i was expecting a fairly straight up action movie. Anywho still havent seen the avengers i have to get on that one of these days.

 

[Grall]

Captain America was a bit weak, maybe a bit talky I dunno; I thought there was plenty action. You have to introduce your hero though and show how he becomes a hero in the first place in such a movie though; that neccessitates more exposition. CA's weak point is the ridiculous badguy IMO, a red...talking...red...skull. ...Which is red. ....And calling itself Red Skull. Just for emphasis.

Fucksake. People paid to read comics like that? *boggle*

The Iron Mans are good of course. The first probably better than the second overall, but the second has a much much better-developed badguy, for starters we know there IS a badguy in the second, and we see him doing stuff throughout the whole movie. And he's well-played too, and has charisma and personality. Not that Jeff Bridges doesn't have oodles of both of those, it's just that it's a rather big left-hand turn in the plot when he turns up as the ultimate badguy pretty much towards the tail-end of the movie. Mickey Rourke is there the whole time in the second movie. Also, Sam Rockwell is friggin' hilarious and awesome in that movie.

Very versatile actor, you wouldn't recognize him from his role in The Green Mile. Or I didn't anyway (discounting the 15 years that preceeded the two movies, of course.)

 

[Billy Idol]

So, Laa-Yosh: how was HFR Hobbit?

 

[Arwin]

I thought the Hulk was probably the weakest. For Captain America, I thought the Action was weak, liked the rest quite a bit.

 

[Davros]

I thought captain america had the best cgi effect ive ever seen

 

[Billy Idol]

For me the weakest was capt america. Not only do I think that the captain is the lamest of all superheros, but also the action in the movie was boring.

I did not like Thor that much: good thing was the immense clarity of the picture when watching on BR, and the link of the stories with Loki.

But Avengers is my favorite. Just a real funny movie.

 

[NRP]

I didn't care for the Avengers, and I thought Thor was horrible (thorrible?). I liked Captain America better.

Having said that, the first Iron Man was/is my favorite. Loved Tony Stark's character. Loved how he came face to face with his company's legacy, and how it changed his outlook.

I guess I just really like origin movies.

 

[RobertR1]

A big no to HFR and 3D for me and this in an IMAX setting.

The movie itself: 8.5/10. Terrible first 30mins. Then it picks up greatly.

Bilbo and gandalf are good characters. None of the dwarves had any impact on me.

 

[Billy Idol]

A big no to HFR and 3D for me and this in an IMAX setting.

Why?