Stay away from moon (2009) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/ then, which I saw a few days ago, nice film. But if you think about the logicalness? of it you'll just drive yourself mad
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It is not like script and FX are in conflict with each other. Also, all media has been pretty dumb since the start of time.
Cloud Atlas.
I think it was the best movie of 2012 for me.
I loved it, from script to direction and acting.
I think it's one of those movies that you'll either love, or hate and it's quite difficult to describe what i loved about it.
I really want to go back through the thread pages and see what you guys had to say about the movie!
I think it was the best movie of 2012 for me.
I loved it, from script to direction and acting.
I think it's one of those movies that you'll either love, or hate and it's quite difficult to describe what i loved about it.
I really want to go back through the thread pages and see what you guys had to say about the movie!
Personally I found the linkage between the stories in the book, not that strong at all (from the trailer it looks like the film might of handled this better, which is unusual for a film based on a book). My favorite story was the dude in the old age person home, in the film did he say the line "soylet green is people"? Thats my catchphrase to say to strangers now 
I watched Beast of the Southern Wild / Hushpuppy last night and came away impressed. It's refreshing to see someone not rely on overly cheesy special effects and explosions to make up for a script with bad plot holes.
It's interesting in the sense that you see the world through the eyes and imagination of a young girl named Hushpuppy. By doing this, it allows the director to tell what is very much a sad story about a tough upbringing and turn it into a child's perspective, making it difficult to see the world painted black and white and pessimistic like adults tend to do.
It raises many interesting questions and I probably need to think a bit more about it to fully understand the deeper themes being presented.
It's definitely not for everyone, I noted the guy next to me fighting to stay awake between him yawning.
One thing you should notice, however, is the wonderful soundtrack used in the movie, although it may reek a bit much of pathos.
Overall I would rate this movie at 7/10.
It's interesting in the sense that you see the world through the eyes and imagination of a young girl named Hushpuppy. By doing this, it allows the director to tell what is very much a sad story about a tough upbringing and turn it into a child's perspective, making it difficult to see the world painted black and white and pessimistic like adults tend to do.
It raises many interesting questions and I probably need to think a bit more about it to fully understand the deeper themes being presented.
It's definitely not for everyone, I noted the guy next to me fighting to stay awake between him yawning.
One thing you should notice, however, is the wonderful soundtrack used in the movie, although it may reek a bit much of pathos.
Overall I would rate this movie at 7/10.
Worse than, say, "Iron Man", whose hero crashes at high speed in an suit with no crumple zone and yet doesn't end up just oozing out through the openings?
He does
But I think that phrase is from another film from the 70s.
Of course the book might be older than that!
Edit
After some quick googling
Well yes, a Charlton Heston film called Soylent Green funnily enough.
It's quite a famous film.
In the original movie they actually bothered to simulate filling the suit with fluid to remove any voids that would otherwise cause injury through squishing. Of course, Robbie Downie's lungs were still filled with air so it's unlikely to have been all that effective, but hey... At least they tried.
It's one of those movie magic things we can put down over there together with the collection of Mulder and Scully's cell phone batteries that never ran down, a million hero firearms with infinite bullets, and those TIE fighters from Star Wars that scream as they fly through space...
I sort of give Superhero films a pass (though I am obviously aware Stark is only meant to be human). In the Avengers movie, I also gave the two non-superheroes (Johanneson and the other bloke) a pass as well. Didn't think much of the alien supersoldiers who were simply cannon fodder for those two.
Back to my original moan about this sort of stuff, I actually think it detracts from any excitement or tension in the movie when the characters are impervious to the laws of physics. You can just about suspend disbelief when the hero is fleeing the bad guys and manages to dodge a hail of bullets whilst surviving 20 foot falls. The same can't be said when the hero(es) is/are hacking apart half a goblin nation whilst emerging entirely uninjured following falls of thousands of feet.
I've seen Iron Man 1 a few times and I'm quite sure the fluid stuff never happened. The Mark I suit was far too primitive, and you can see the Mark II and III both assembled and disassembled and no filling happens there either. Nor at the beginning of Avengers where the Mark VI suit is removed from Tony.
Perhaps you're confusing it with Halo?
At the beginning of H3 the Chief jumps from a Forerunner ship and falls 2 kilometers into the jungle; there the technicians mention that 'the gel layer could have taken most of the impact' or something. That, combined with the ceramic reinforcement of Spartan II bones would help in theory; however the Chief's innards would still be turned into hamburger...
Or maybe the Abyss, where Ed Harris gets a carbon-fluoride liquid before the descent?
There's blue gunk smeared on him in some scenes when he's getting de-suited and such. It's there, I didn't dream it.
Complete fluid immersement for increased shock resistance (as opposed to pressure resistance like in the abyss) is featured in Neon Genesis Evangelion for example. Of course, your organs would have varying density (as well as shape) which would cause shockwaves to move irregularly through the body and cause damage (not to mention there could be gas in the intestines), so it's not a foolproof concept. Still, it probably works even in reality to a certain extent.
Also, never played the halo games, at all, and I don't know anything about that series.
Complete fluid immersement for increased shock resistance (as opposed to pressure resistance like in the abyss) is featured in Neon Genesis Evangelion for example. Of course, your organs would have varying density (as well as shape) which would cause shockwaves to move irregularly through the body and cause damage (not to mention there could be gas in the intestines
), so it's not a foolproof concept. Still, it probably works even in reality to a certain extent.Also, never played the halo games, at all, and I don't know anything about that series.
Doesn't this actually work?
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