lool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Would've given Cody Horn Best Supporting Actress (knew nothing when watching, didn't google her til later).
― The End**^ (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit, Mons Venus is a real name and the best name ever.
― The End**^ (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the Florida-ness of it, but there wasn't enough to interest me, idk
the naturalism is fine but those lives were kinda boring
tatum & that sister chick had all the chemistry of a block of wood
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
my first strip club experience
xpost
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the slice of life aspect of the first half of the movie, the Actual Conflict And Danger of the second half felt a little forced and unnecessary
― some dude, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
otm, it felt like soderbergh was tryna emulate the ~darkness~ of similar movies like Boogie Nights and Saturday Night Fever and stuff and it fell a little flat at points. good movie overall though
― thot police (fadanuf4erybody), Friday, 7 June 2013 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
color palette is incred & love that everything is shot so wide
i really like that the characterization is v shallow for basically everyone, they all care abt sorta common dumb stuff, small talk abt 'rich dad, poor dad'; plus everything feels just super casual, even when it gets "dramatic", yeah ryan otm re: naturalistic vibe
― johnny crunch, Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
h4a so far offtm abt cody horn tho
― johnny crunch, Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― The End**^ (Eazy), Thursday, June 6, 2013 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
http://i.imgur.com/1jh2w.png
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 7 June 2013 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
gotta love that piss-drenched color palette... or something
i think i see a lotta piss drenchers up in this house
― goole, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
was there dick in this movie?
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Sunday, September 16, 2012 10:40 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
uncommented-upon penis pumping large in the front of the frame is p funny
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 June 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
that was so funny! I had such high hopes for the movie based on that moment
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
i finally saw this, and it was better than i thought it would be in spite of the corny tacked-on unnecessary happy ending romance with the sister. CT played a convincing misunderstood bohunk with rather impressive dancing skills. that's about all i remember.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 14 June 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, June 7, 2013 1:19 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
soderbergh has been doing that for a while. i kind of Don't Get It. i mean, I get that he's emulating to some extent the subdued, flashed-out palettes of 70s New Hollywood cinematography, but I don't recall that stuff being so soft, blown-out, and sickly-looking. i mean i suppose soderbergh is getting the results he wants, and he's very thoughtful and consistent about it, but it still looks like shit a lot of the time.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 14 June 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
see also the informant, parts of traffic, haywire... side effects looked a bit better/cleaner, as did contagion (some of the time)
basically a lot of his recent films give me eye strain even when i see them in a theater
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 14 June 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
pee-vision
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
"see the new Soderbergh movie in bold vibrant PEE-D"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
erin brokovich was completely drenched in piss iirc
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Traffic was this was in the Peeajuana sections.
― lols lane (Eazy), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, June 14, 2013 10:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
wes anderson is addicted to the piss filter too and it drives me even crazier with him because his movies would be amazing looking without it. i think soderbergh's movies have looked worse since he switched to digital... DPs have figured out how to shoot good-looking movies on digital now, to the extent that it's pretty difficult to tell when you're watching digital nowadays unless you're looking out for the right things, but soderbergh either hasnt figured that out or just isnt interested in looking like film. he even admits that DPing his own movies means they dont look as good as they could, but i think he likes the level of control it gives him
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
For Soderbergh it worked best in the sand-blasted landscape of Erin Brockovich.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
piss-blasted i think u mean
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
well moonrise kingdom was on super 16mm which gives it a bit of grain and anderson definitely gave it a more subdued palette than the previous films, more '70s. but all his films before that make a lot of use of really sharp photography and eye-popping color. darjeeling limited is pretty intense that way, although there are a few sequences that are self-consciously otherwise.
soderbergh has been going for variations on the flashed 70s look for a while but i agree it's when he moved to digital that it started looking dim and ugly. when i saw the informant on the theater i had to ask the manager if the bulb in their projector was dim. a problem is that by default digital cameras don't have as much latitude as 35mm, so if you aren't careful to balance the range of light intensity in a shot, you end up with either some parts of the frame incredibly blown out or parts that are really dim. that eastwood film on hoover tried to use this as a positive by making it a basic part of its almost-monochromatic "prestige" look, but i thought that film was incredibly ugly.
i think you're right that soderbergh likes having direct control over cinematography, and of course he knows that there are ways to get around the sort of problems i mention above, as many digitally-shot films (among them david fincher's) look a fuckton like 35mm. but i think he's become enamored of the "ugly" look he gets. which is why i note above that it's clearly intentional. it just hurts my eyes (literally).
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
except for the good german i can't think of a film where soderbergh uses the kind of expressive depth of field that anderson relies on. and anderson still relies a lot on wide-angle lenses (although i think they were less in evidence in moonrise kingdom) which soderbergh def does not. just note all the very long-lens work in magic mike.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
to be pretentious i think most of anderson's films starting w/ rushmore est. a kind of internal dialectic b/t the sort of depth of field/wide angle stuff associated w/ welles (and also to a great extent, scorsese and bogdanovich, both big influences on anderson) and (in smaller doses) the longer-lens, hazier, more freewheeling (zooms etc) photography closely associated with other new hollywood stuff anderson loves (think ashby, altman, much of the graduate, etc....)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
i think anderson is probably the smartest director working in terms of knowingly and expressively utilizing past styles. see e.g. the rough handheld work used to cover the max fischer players staging of "serpico" in rushmore. or the weird sloooowww zooms in darjeeling limited.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
soderbergh's aesthetic has always seemed less eclectic, and a little too stuck on notions of "realism" as the motivation for different forms of camerawork (or perhpas more charitably, he tends to work within a range of period and contemporary styles that signify "realism"). i think he's a fascinating filmmaker but because he's so whip-smart in interviews he maybe gets more credit than he deserves for the sharpness of his style....
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
a problem is that by default digital cameras don't have as much latitude as 35mm, so if you aren't careful to balance the range of light intensity in a shot, you end up with either some parts of the frame incredibly blown out or parts that are really dim. that eastwood film on hoover tried to use this as a positive by making it a basic part of its almost-monochromatic "prestige" look, but i thought that film was incredibly ugly.
j. edgar was shot on film, and used the expensive silver retaining process that WB indulges clint with on all his movies. i agree it was really ugly
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 15 June 2013 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
really? well then they intentionally went for that blown-out look that comes more naturally to digital. and yeah it really did look like shit, it seems like a not-uncommon look for prestigious historical pictures nowadays though?--although clint went over the top with it.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
it's like he decided to remove all the color from color film, but then also eliminated the full greyscale range, so it just ended up looking a 23rd generation print or something.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
hmmmm I don't know anything about this stuff, really
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
i don't either but i am interested in the discussion. also i agree that j.edgar is one of the ugliest films i've ever seen.
― Treeship, Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
Fight Club seems like the first major Piss Filter movie I can recall, but it worked great there
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
what about o brother where art thou?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
could be, I saw that once on video and was just overwhelmed by the cement-truck humor (last film in the God I Hate the Coen Bros cycle)
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
i tend to be a little autistic about style btw, some poor cinematography decisions or imprecise editing can almost ruin a decent film for me.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
e.g. the only reason l'argent isn't my favorite bresson film is b/c of two cuts in the 3rd act
much more basic things come first for me, such as DiCaprio is playing Hoover; OK, not entering theater.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 June 2013 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
i must have missed that part of l'argent
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
i watched this again last year and was really distracted by all the digital color gradin (?) in it, the look of that film has not aged well imho
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Saturday, 15 June 2013 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Loved this. Far more subtle and naturalistic than I expected and the final scene is a peach. Reminded me a bit of the end of The Apartment.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 10:59 (nine years ago) link
I also loved how Mike has non-stop slick patter when he's presenting himself to the world, ie in the club and the meeting with the bank, and borderline incoherent when he's talking about emotions. I couldn't imagine what was in the script at those points because he was just fumbling from one half-sentence to another, and in the scene where he realises Olivia Munn has a fiance he's pretty much dumbstruck. It won me over on both the character and the theme of selling yourself.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 11:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwPR0q5es0A
Directed byGregory Jacobs
Produced byReid CarolinGregory JacobsChanning TatumNick Wechsler
Written byReid CarolinChanning Tatum
StarringChanning TatumMatt BomerJoe ManganielloKevin NashAdam RodriguezGabriel IglesiasAndie MacdowellAmber HeardJada Pinkett SmithJane McNeillMax WebsterElizabeth BanksDonald GloverMichael Strahan
CinematographySteven Soderbergh
Edited bySteven Soderbergh
― gr8080, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
cast is lmao
― goole, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
goole this isn't quite fit for the MRA thread but i feel it shld be on your radar
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11395576/Men-are-now-objectified-more-than-women.html
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
"regular people" essentially took no notice of the arty touches in MM, so they'll show up for this.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
you can look but you still cannot touch
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
wait a sec Matthew McConaughey isn't in it? why bother making this then!?!?