Lounge of Tomorrow - Miscellaneous Movie Musings

I liked the Beowulf story but I have mixed feelings about the animation/CGI thing. It's become, lately, more "look how cool the animation is" and they seem to use it as a substitute for actual story. I was glad to see Beowulf still had an actual story, and while I didn't want to see it live-action so much, the animation but not quite realness was distracting.

NickO'Time

03-16-2008 11:53 PM

Had Glory Road on my DVR, finally watched last night. Great film, awe inspiring.
Sports film.

innerSpaceman

03-17-2008 08:10 AM

Sports films. Meh. Hate that genre, sorry.

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I would have preferred Beowulf as straight animation. It seems like a lazy short-cut to scan human movement to create animation. If you can't draw it, don't do it.

Cadaverous Pallor

03-17-2008 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 199132)

I would have preferred Beowulf as straight animation. It seems like a lazy short-cut to scan human movement to create animation. If you can't draw it, don't do it.

I don't know exactly what technique they used in Beowulf, but if you're knocking motion capture, you might have to never watch anything ever again to get away from it.

If you're talking about the age old practice of taking film and copying it to make animation...

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in Yellow Submarine

Waking Life

Gemini Cricket

03-17-2008 10:51 PM

Waking Life gave me motion sickness. Good film, but I yaked.
:)

I'm watching GoodFellas right now. Uh, why didn't this movie win Best Picture? Love this film.

wendybeth

03-17-2008 11:21 PM

That is probably my favorite mafia film, GC. I like it even better than the Godfather series. Ray Liotta was awesome, as was Lorraine Bracco. Great cast, great score, great editing, etc. :snap:

Bornieo: Fully Loaded

03-17-2008 11:31 PM

Goodfellas was about 45 min. too long. All that stuff with the drugs and helicopters just dragged the film down. The first half is good but the just bores me to death.

wendybeth

03-18-2008 12:16 AM

I thought it did a fantastic job of capturing the drugged-out paranoid state, and then it turns out he was right to be paranoid! I don't know; I suppose my life in the Eighties wasn't too far removed from his, so I appreciated things on a different level. (As far as drugs and such go- I only had casual acquaintances with some minor league mafioso. Spokane is a favorite repository of Henry Hill-types for the Witness Protection Program, after all.)

The Seventies and Eighties were wild. It's a wonder any of us survived, let alone reasonably intact.

mousepod

03-18-2008 05:34 AM

Two quick suggestions (posting from the airport):

€uro: check out Soderbergh's The Limey, if you haven't already. He uses Poor Cow for the flashback sequences. Pretty neat.

iSm: Can you imagine an early 80s punk band featuring members of the Sex Pistols on guitar and drums, a guy from The Clash on bass and Beowulf singing lead? Come to our next movie night, and prepare to be amazed.

Snowflake

03-18-2008 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid (Post 72817)

No no no. What's Up Doc?

One of Bogdonovich's best (Last Picture Show being first best and then Paper Moon or What's Up Doc)

What's Up Doc is the best nod to 1930's era screwball comedy. Madeline Kahn, fabulous!

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