Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

RamSteelwood

nick_md wrote:

ZL2 looks good, enjoyed the first one. What's with this recent trend for having a trailer for the trailer at the start of the trailer tho? Odd.

It did seem odd, especially in this instance as it totally undercut the 'serious dramatic movie' tone joke it then went with for a few seconds

LivDiv

It's for the 5 second ad skip on youtube.

Minnesänger

Yup, need to grab them eyeballs quick.

afgavinstan

See Also: trailers with stylised subtitles, in case the person watching on their phone hasn't tapped to put the sound on. They annoy me as well.

jdanielp

djchump wrote:

https://vimeo.com/61177793

That was fun although some of the choices of films were quite unexpected.

Raiziel

I have just watched a trailer for a Jacob’s Ladder remake. Who on earth thought remaking Jacob’s Ladder was a good idea? Adrian Lyne’s original is basically perfect.

davyK

I like the look of Dr Sleep.

At least the arrogance of remakers doesn't extend to tackling Kubrick.

Yossarian

Midsommar. Um, yeah, I guess?

Blocks100

Yeah, was similarly underwhelmed. Will try and post thoughts later.

nick_md

I liked it but 2.5hrs was a bit too long. I watched Hereditary last night and felt the 2hr run time fine.

I enjoyed both films.

Yossarian

This is mildly terrifying:

On Tuesday, [...] The Lion King crossed the $1 billion mark at the box office [...] It’s the fourth Disney-owned movie to rake in more than nine figures at the box office in 2019 alone, alongside Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, and Aladdin, Deadline reports; Toy Story 4 is also sitting at the threshold, having made $919.1 million so far.[...]

Disney’s year at the box office is history-making; only six films in history have made $1 billion so far, and four of them came from the studio this year alone. And that’s before the premieres of Frozen 2 and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker bump those numbers up even higher. Couple that with the impending launch of the company’s streaming service, Disney+, and it’s hard to overstate the company’s dominance in the ever-shifting Realm of Content.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/07/the-lion-king-disney-box-office

Diluted Dante

I dont understand the appeal of the live action remakes at all.

GooberTheHat

I thought the jungle book worked, but ive got no interest in any of the others.

LivDiv

GooberTheHat wrote:

I thought the jungle book worked, but ive got no interest in any of the others.

I loved The Jungle Book but yeah, not too fussed about the others.
I'll watch The Lion King at some point but it sounds like they have gone too close to the original.

Christopher Robin was great, although not a remake as such.

Dark Soldier

Its all shit.

LivDiv

I would say a lot of it isn't for us really.
It's hardly shocking that a bunch of men in their 30s and 40s didnt like the Beauty and the Beast remake.

Dark Soldier

marvel, live action disney, burn it all to the fucking core

poprock

I enjoyed the Marvel stuff. Bored of it now though, time to move on.

The live action Disney is a bit of a ‘why bother?’ for me. They’re creatively bankrupt.

The answer is clearly because it makes a shit-ton of money while helping them perfect their future film making methods. Disney are prepping for fully CGI films featuring realistic human actors. And non-human too, I suppose.

nick_md

Lion King isn't even live action, I don't know why people say it is. It's all CGI isn't it?

g.man

Apparently the original CGI tests were for a complete reboot Disney were going to call The Lying Coon.

for some reason it didn't fly with the test audience tho...

g.man

*runs away*

Yossarian

I’m not particularly bothered about any particular series or set of films, it’s more the fact that one company has such an insane amount of dominance over our entertainment.

LivDiv

I think it's all Hollywood gearing up for CG people not just Disney.
Theres that deaged Will Smith movie coming out. The Paul Walker stuff was insanely accurate as well (not the wave at the end, bits in the movie you would never have guessed).

I reckon when they had to put Ollie Reed into scenes in The Gladiator someone had a eureka moment and Hollywood have been working on it since.

I wonder how many Hollywood contracts involve the actors having their heads 3d scanned for "insurance purposes". How long before Hollywood studios end up in lawsuits over who owns the likeness to a deceased actor after those scans.

Diluted Dante

LivDiv wrote:

I would say a lot of it isn't for us really.
It's hardly shocking that a bunch of men in their 30s and 40s didnt like the Beauty and the Beast remake.

Given plenty of them would like the animated original, I dont see why not, had it not been a bad film.

hylian_elf

Yossarian wrote:

I’m not particularly bothered about any particular series or set of films, it’s more the fact that one company has such an insane amount of dominance over our entertainment.

Yeah, never a good thing.

Matt_82

hylian_elf

Was reading about that on Sight and Sound website, it’s on my to watch list.

Frosty

Should probably break Disney up along with all the other US monopolies that somehow definitely aren't monopolies.

mannaboy

Following on from LivDiv’s comment:

With technology like that, and it’s only going to get better, we’re not going to trust our eyes anymore. An aging Cruise will eventually quit running and get fat and watch his image bring in the moola.

LivDiv

Yeah I watched that Cruise deepfake thing the other day.
Very impressive and easy to see how bigger budget and more time could tighten it up. The only real give away for me is the guys jawline isnt as square at the back.

I was thinking that if you could motion track the lookalike onto a 3d scanned Tom Cruise you could iron out the facial differences. Then deepfake on top of the 3d model. The deepfake eliminates much of the uncanny valley tells that tech is still catching up on.

That channel is really good btw, shame the guys come of as a bit smug sometimes.

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