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And the first 4K GoPros didn't come out until a year after Desolation of Smaug, so they used 1080p GoPro footage with 8-bit color recorded at 45 Mbps with H.264 encoding, overzealous digital sharpening, visible compression artifacts, and no motion blur since GoPros didn't have ND filters back then so everything shot in daylight was at high shutter speeds.
Possum Reviews1,261,324 Aufrufe • vor 9 Tagen
I talked about this in my review of Pixar's Elio after it was pointed out by another reviewer, JesterBell. Nearly every shot frames the action in the center. She speculated that it was so influencers could easily crop it for TikTok to give the movie free viral marketing.
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You know that scene in Shrek where he confesses to Donkey his insecurity about how being ugly makes him see himself as undeserving of companionship, and that he acts like a monster because people treat him like one? Did you notice that scene doesn't have any therapy speak?
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Well, for one thing, they had children singing literal worship songs about Obama.
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I call this the "Bayonetta Effect". The left will call something "problematic" because it's "sexist" or "fascist" or whatever, but when that fails to stop its cultural momentum, they switch to trying to claim it. Suddenly, "it was always woke". Just like how Bayonetta went from being a symbol of female objectification and male gaze to an empowering feminist icon, Frieren went from being fascist for revering the past and featuring an inherently evil race of demons to whatever this is.
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Real Life Fake Wizard made a video recently talking about how bad writers default to "morally gray" protagonists because it removes the need for consistent values and a story that challenges those values, so there's no need for a meaningful arc. It's a lot easier to write a character who just does whatever the writer feels like because a character who can do anything is indistinguishable from a character who has no traits.
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There's an episode of Beavis & Butt-Head where they sell candy bars to raise money for some thing their school's doing, but they keep selling candy bars to each other while passing the same two dollars back and forth. This is how the government and public sector operate.
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I hate the way modern movies are shot. Here's a scene from the 2024 Netflix movie Damsel, which I just watched last night. Notice how it's basically just two characters talking while looking directly at each other, filmed in a lazy shot/reverse shot fashion where one character will be filmed in a medium shot or close-up, then it will cut to a medium shot or close-up of the other character, and it just goes back and forth like that until they're done talking and one of them leaves. Notice how they have this interesting location where a lot could be going on, but one of the characters is just kind of fucking around, pretending to do something with the flowers until it's time for the other character to start talking to them, then when they're done talking, she just leaves instead of continuing whatever it was she was doing when the other character came in. It's like the scene was written with only dialog, and they didn't have anything in mind for the characters to be doing other than talking, so the director just told that one lady to fuck around with the flowers until the other actress made it to her mark so it wouldn't just start with her standing around. The context of this scene is one character is realizing the other character is hiding something sinister. Until this point, we don't know that the lady on the left is evil and is taking advantage of the lady on the right. The scene starts with Bad Lady up on the platform, which physically places her higher in the scene; a visually dominant position. But then Good Lady steps up onto the platform with her, visually putting them on equal footing, which contradicts the purpose of the scene. They could have had Good Lady looking up at Bad Lady from below, then at the critical moment, had Bad Lady lean over the rail while talking down to Good Lady, using her body language to convey a sense of power over her. I mean, that's not much, but it would have been something. Most of the talking scenes in this movie are shot this way. It's so bland that I wondered if they used the Volume, but then I found out they actually shot these scenes at real locations. They were given permission to film at these amazing locations, but barely utilized them to their visual storytelling potential.
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Leftists are pretending they don't remember the last twenty years again.
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You're not gaslighting us about something that happened six months ago, you piece of shit.
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