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Coming out for major release this weekend. Wife and I have tickets.
Just won Golden Globes for Best Picture.
It looks...intense.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
It looks like another terrible Hollywood military-porn, thinly-veiled recruitment ad, whizzbang flash bang boom here's some plot now some more explosions type of thing, to me.
The "single take" gimmick is the movie's primary hook. From what I've heard its likely not anyone's actual best picture, but its enough people's 3rd or 4th pick to weight the scoring in its favor. Not seen it myself though.
They do, but the movie hides it so that the whole thing appears as one continuous series of events from the perspective of the main characters. It's similar to the hospital shootout from Hard Boiled but expanded over the entire film.
I've taken it to mean the entire film is one long continuous cut with a single camera. I find it hard to fathom you could film an entire feature length film in one take, but surely one could edit the final product to be seamlessly one long scene?
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I've taken it to mean the entire film is one long continuous cut with a single camera. I find it hard to fathom you could film an entire feature length film in one take, but surely one could edit the final product to beam seamlessly one long scene?
Correct. It's still pretty tricky to pull off. Basically every time there's an ambush and someone shouts "what's that" while the camera swings to the side, you can bet they were giving themselves some frames of empty landscape to use as a break point. In prior films I've seen it used its great for tension. I'm not sure how it would feel for the full runtime of a film though.
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I've taken it to mean the entire film is one long continuous cut with a single camera. I find it hard to fathom you could film an entire feature length film in one take, but surely one could edit the final product to be seamlessly one long scene?
You couldn't. It would be utterly impossible.
I work in Locations for film and TV while I'm figuring out the final details of the whole lawyer thing, and I've spent enough time on or near set to know that they usually can't shoot a single five or six second sequence in one take. Back in August, I spent eight hours sitting on a very picturesque farm listening to a child run down a road and yell 'Sarah'. Over and over. For eight hours. I'm pretty sure they'd have kept going if it wasn't a child-actor.
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Excommunicatus wrote: It looks like another terrible Hollywood military-porn, thinly-veiled recruitment ad, whizzbang flash bang boom here's some plot now some more explosions type of thing, to me.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
You have favorite parts of the year 1917? I thought I was old...
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I'll get round to it but the cinema trailer got on my wick, its that new style thing where cast and crew, who have no vested interest of course, tell me how awesome sauce the movie is, I'll decide that thanks
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"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
Thargrim wrote: If there's anything about this movie that makes it worth watching it's probably Roger Deakins cinematography, he's one of the best.
Thrilling WWI movie? GUNS GUNS GUNS and PLANES and ARTILLERY
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I've taken it to mean the entire film is one long continuous cut with a single camera. I find it hard to fathom you could film an entire feature length film in one take, but surely one could edit the final product to beam seamlessly one long scene?
Correct. It's still pretty tricky to pull off. Basically every time there's an ambush and someone shouts "what's that" while the camera swings to the side, you can bet they were giving themselves some frames of empty landscape to use as a break point. In prior films I've seen it used its great for tension. I'm not sure how it would feel for the full runtime of a film though.
The Netflix move 'Bushwick' with Dave Bautista does this for about the first two thirds of the movie and it really does lend to a very different viewing experience. I noticed it within the first couple of minutes and was intrigued. this might be the new Hollywood toy directors will use for certain flicks, even though this movie was a couple of years ago. It is interesting and i find it much more engaging that the shaky hand help, bounce-around effect that got so popular a decade ago - thank God that has died down, since i did not care for that at all.
MDSW wrote: this might be the new Hollywood toy directors will use for certain flicks, even though this movie was a couple of years ago.
Alfred Hitchcock did something similar with long takes in 1948 with "Rope".
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Voss wrote: I know i don't follow Hollowood that closely, but it hasn't come out yet and won best picture? That seems pretty nutty.
I'm sure it had a limited release in a handful of theaters somewhere so it could qualify for that years awards, as is their way, prior to a later wide release.
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The reason I don't speak German as a primary language.
Your flag says Canadian. I figured you’d speak Maple Syrup as a language before German anyway, regardless of the events that took place in 1917.
I live in Canada, but my whole face is British.
even had Germany won WW1 I doubt the entire world would be speaking german. Germany would have demanded heft bits of land in europe from france, and the Central powers would have gleefully carved up bits and pieces of the British territorial posessions. I can't imagine they'd have gotten the dominions but you can bet the germans would have gotten some choice land in africa, India and the pacific.
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Voss wrote: I know i don't follow Hollowood that closely, but it hasn't come out yet and won best picture? That seems pretty nutty.
I'm sure it had a limited release in a handful of theaters somewhere so it could qualify for that years awards, as is their way, prior to a later wide release.
Yeah, I forgot they did that kind of thing.
I can never tell if they're trying to stack the deck in a weak year or worried that next year's movies are actually going to be good.
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The reason I don't speak German as a primary language.
Your flag says Canadian. I figured you’d speak Maple Syrup as a language before German anyway, regardless of the events that took place in 1917.
I live in Canada, but my whole face is British.
even had Germany won WW1 I doubt the entire world would be speaking german. Germany would have demanded heft bits of land in europe from france, and the Central powers would have gleefully carved up bits and pieces of the British territorial posessions. I can't imagine they'd have gotten the dominions but you can bet the germans would have gotten some choice land in africa, India and the pacific.
I'm not suggesting the whole world would. The part that I'm from almost certainly would, though.
October 1917 starts a chain of causation, IMO, that leads pretty much directly to the events of May 1945.
Yeah, I forgot they did that kind of thing.
I can never tell if they're trying to stack the deck in a weak year or worried that next year's movies are actually going to be good.
A lot of it is trying to get buzz around award season to win with recency bias.
It is really hard for a movie released at the first of the year to be in the front of everyone's memory come the next year's Academy Awards, so a short release at the end of the year so it qualifies and then the bigger release just as all of the voting is being done is a common ploy.
However, this was the Golden Globes and the Oscar nominations are still to come, I believe...
Saw it today and wow. Amazing work, the one cut gimmic really works for me. Scarier than any horror film I've seen in ages and the best war movie I've seen since Enemy at the Gates or BlackHawk Down.
Felt like they didn't quite stick the landing though, the end was just sort of there. Benedict Cumberbach was kind of wasted and also took me out of the emersion, instead of 'here's the climax of the film!' I was instead thinking 'oh hey it's Sherlock/Smaug/Dr Strange'. And the revelation at the end just didn't mean anything to me, I mean it's not like he'd denying having a family before. So I wasn't too excited to see he had one.
But overall definitely something to see on a big screen.
