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PostPosted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 16:43 
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In any case I actually preferred the way it was done with mostly practical effects, even if that limited the scale of some of the shots. The bits with a couple of actual Spitfires was approximately a million times better than a full squadron of CGI ones blowing up a dozen digital Messerschmitts.


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In any case I actually preferred the way it was done with mostly practical effects, even if that limited the scale of some of the shots. The bits with a couple of actual Spitfires was approximately a million times better than a full squadron of CGI ones blowing up a dozen digital Messerschmitts.


It's based on what actually happened. They only sent three for air support apparently.

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Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

Unless they showed a different film, that's not going to help the lack of boats or people on the screen.

Quite. It seemed like they'd forgotten to add in the cgi for a lot of it.

Nolan actively refused to use CGI.

Although he used it in other places, so :shrug:

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Quick Alien quiz for Grim... and GazChap
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article ... alien-quiz

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Quick Alien quiz for Grim... and GazChap
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article ... alien-quiz

8/13. Only 61% awesome :(


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All of them, obv.

Although I confess I got a lucky guess at 'What was the title of the legendary abandoned film on which designer H.G. Giger and writer Dan O’Bannon first collaborate?'

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9/13 for me, apparently I suck.

Ones I got wrong:
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Harrison Ford
Meryl Streep
Snark and Leviathan
Dune


Although the one about androids isn't actually correct any more, not since Covenant.


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9/13 for me, apparently I suck.

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Harrison Ford
Meryl Streep
Snark and Leviathan
Dune


Although the one about androids isn't actually correct any more, not since Covenant.


Tut tut. No full profit share for you!

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8/13

8 lucky guesses there!


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All of them, obv.

Although I confess I got a lucky guess at 'What was the title of the legendary abandoned film on which designer H.G. Giger and writer Dan O’Bannon first collaborate?'


It's like you've practiced.

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Having seen every Alien film and read some of the novels and listened to the director's commentary on Alien ages ago I was a shoe-in for a big score here.

I got 4.

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All of them, obv.

Although I confess I got a lucky guess at 'What was the title of the legendary abandoned film on which designer H.G. Giger and writer Dan O’Bannon first collaborate?'


It's like you've practiced.

:D

For context, Craster and I play a drinking game where we do online quizzes and drink if we get it wrong (the other drinks if we get it right).

It got to the stage where Craster was telling me the answer and I was telling working out the question.

Craster did Star Wars, fact fans.

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And West Wing, obv.

Then we did a load of the citizenship tests and got badly shitfaced.

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got badly shitfaced.


Do you mean 'really well shitfaced'? I'm not even sure what bad shitfacing would present as.


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got badly shitfaced.


Do you mean 'really well shitfaced'? I'm not even sure what bad shitfacing would present as.


Swearing at a pork butt, in this instance.

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Y'all should watch the Netflix original movie, The Babysitter. Dark, uberviolent comedy. Under 90 mins, for you movie length officionados


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the evacuation lasted for over a week. So although hundreds of boats evacuated 300,000 men they didn't all do it at the same time.


That is true, yes, but comparing shots from the film with contemporary photographs his version still looks a bit empty. There's also a lack of consistency in the film - e.g. the queues of blokes on the beach are there one sequence, gone the next, and then back towards the end. I know the evacuation took place over the course of a period of time, but the beach thread within the film didn't cover more than a day or so I thought.

The Spitfire bit was accurate (and also very good), as there was very, very little aircover, and almost none of it over the beach.

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Apart from right at the end where
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And shoot down a JU87 while he was at it! I still loved it, though. Tom Hardy's unflappable pilot character was cool as fuck.


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:this:

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Andy Garcia was the coolest Muthafucker alive in Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, a film which I remember very fondly. He hasn’t been in a good film for well over 10 years and so it comes to pass that he is in the god awful Geostorm. He ain’t in it much thankfully, no, the real star is Gerard Butler. Yup. Exactly.

The film sucks dick.


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I also watched Enter The Dragon. Again.

It’s not my favourite martial arts film but, by god, it has the best soundtrack. That intro music is pure jive, you honky honk a honks. Honk.

And Bruce Lee? Man that guy looked like he was carved out of oak. What a beautiful man he was.

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Andy Garcia was the coolest Muthafucker alive in Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, a film which I remember very fondly.

Fucking :this:

He was in Passengers, though, which was good.

And Ghostbusters, which was meh except for when Hemsworth was on the screen.

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I’d say Passengers was average and it felt like #beautifulpeopleproblems

I’ve watched The Disaster Artist an’ all. It’s very good but it does require at least a basic understanding of The Room. I can imagine some people going in cold my be put off by Franco’s peformance but it might actually be a damn goood performance of a child-like nutcase. I’d recommend it but only with that caveat.


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Coco is superb. I'm not crying, you're crying!


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A challenge for you all: name a film with a stronger opening scene than The Lion King.

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Raiders of the lost ark.
The shining.

Lion king is certainly up there though.


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Shining is just drinking up the mountain, isn't it?

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I was more thinking of the tour of the grounds.


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A challenge for you all: name a film with a stronger opening scene than The Lion King.

Up
Saving Private Ryan (is the beach landing the opening?)
Lost in Translation (just for you,Grim...)

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Saving Private Ryan (is the beach landing the opening?)

Nah, it's some veterans at a memorial or something I think.


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Nah, it's some veterans at a memorial or something I think.

Cancel that one then.

Difficult challenge to think of a memorable opening scene. But I can’t think of how the Lion King opens either.

Another guess though: Star Wars (take your pick) for the iconic crawl.

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I’ve never seen The Lion King. I’m sure Russell told me it’s basically Hamlet, though. The only things I am aware of is some baboon holding the baby over a cliff, in homage to Michael Jackson waving someone’s baby over a balcony and Hakuna Matata, as my old workmate would sing it every day, despite knowing only two words of it.

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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe starts with a pretty intense bombing raid.


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A challenge for you all: name a film with a stronger opening scene than The Lion King.


Lethal Weapon 2 - the toilet bomb
Inglorious Bastards - the interrogation
The Matrix - face kicking in leather
Train spotting - choose narration


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Also:
Casino
Mean Streets
Pulp Fiction

Though I'd go with Up or Trainspotting.


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Up's opening scene isn't the sequence everyone is thinking about. The film starts with the old man as a young boy watching a news reel at the cinema about Paradise Falls and then has a little adventure with the wife to be.


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Up's opening scene isn't the sequence everyone is thinking about. The film starts with the old man as a young boy watching a news reel at the cinema about Paradise Falls and then has a little adventure with the wife to be.


That’s exactly the sequence. You have to introduce the characters before you kill them off in a bitter sweet montage.


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Four minutes isn't enough for The Matrix.

Trainspotting is a good shout though.

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Best opening sequence of recent films I’ve seen is Baby Driver, although I’ll need ten years to think about it before I can decide if belongs in the classics or not.


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I'd put a joke here about using the 'Remind me' feature of the forum but I can't remember how to do it.


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The opening scene of Baby Driver for anyone who, like me, couldn't remember it:



It's pretty good to be fair.


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Baby driver is a good shout. On a similar tip, based on something I saw on Reddit this week, what about Shaun of the Dead? Apparently they lay out all the film's key plot points in a monologue about how their night will pan out. Not seen it for years so can't say for sure however.


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You're thinking of The World's End.


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https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/7r66zg/in_shaun_of_the_dead_the_films_key_events_are/

They may well have repeated the same trick in world's end though.


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Natural born killers, but I haven't seen the lion king, so don't know what I'm competing with.


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:this:

That's such an incredibly kinetic opening, especially in the uncut version.

Baby Driver is so consumed with being delighted at how clever its opening sequence is that I found it rather annoying. (And yes I did 'get it'.)


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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Jaws
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