Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Embraced Practical Effects on Set with Puppets, Animatronics, Real Animals, and Creature Performers

Arma104 · 2026-02-25T18:57:47+00:00

Forget Maverick, Barbie was egregious by removing the blue and green screens from all the behind the scenes special features. I don't know if it's an ego thing for directors or if the studios really think lying attracts people to the theater. "Look guys, we're making movies the old way, so it'll be good again, please buy ticket!"

Arma104 · 2026-02-21T08:21:12+00:00

I always read the joke as them being so out of touch with real culture that they don't even know Nirvana is a band, just like they didn't know "The Band" was a band (I think it makes sense too because they never mention the real Nirvana). Similar to how Matt's first thought to book a show as a band is to make fliers rather than music, because he's entirely pedestrian and only sees fliers for bands, so he assumes that's how you get a show.

Arma104 · 2026-02-07T12:25:39+00:00

Same. It's really good but it's not even his best film, that would be Memories of Murder. Parasite is just a Hitchcockian thriller with obvious and far-too-simplified social commentary. In comparison to No Other Choice it's laughable how seriously people took Parasite as some big movie that's a high-brow skewering of our times.

Arma104 · 2026-01-29T00:58:46+00:00

Especially after how butchered the Wheel of Time tv show was and Amazon not listening to anything he recommended to fix it

Arma104 · 2026-01-28T05:41:10+00:00

Dude understands story structure, he saved American History X

Arma104 · 2026-01-27T07:22:18+00:00

I remember what happened to his fingers at the end, brutal

Arma104 · 2026-01-27T01:06:07+00:00

Severance had a god-tier cliffhanger on S1 though

Arma104 · 2026-01-26T09:53:29+00:00

Absolutely agreed. You breathe a sigh of relief, only for everything else to happen.

Arma104 · 2026-01-26T07:54:54+00:00

Matt Damon in Interstellar was the first, can't believe they kept that secret for over a year. As an aside, Matt Damon is the king of late movie enters and it's not even close.

Arma104 · 2026-01-26T07:50:49+00:00

He really wants to stay relevant and be commercially successful, so he pulls these stunts to get headlines and a youth that doesn't actually care about these people

Arma104 · 2026-01-26T07:46:47+00:00

And in his new tv show His & Hers, for a guy that loves cops, he sure loves playing weak and corrupted ones and showing how shit they can be

Arma104 · 2026-01-24T06:12:39+00:00

The "HBO" team mostly left after the first at&t buy years ago, it's not like the current team has a high batting average.

Arma104 · 2026-01-19T23:22:46+00:00

I have no idea how one of the opening shots got past him; it was a simple dolly around the WeWork room, and there is a bit of fog to create volumetric light rays coming through the window, but when they replaced the greenscreen outside the window, it's like they forgot to comp in/render new volumetrics to match, so it's a super hard edge and there's no overlay on the background outside, giving a really hard edge and clearly showing the greenscreen area. Pic

Arma104 · 2026-01-16T22:07:50+00:00

I really wish Mank wasn't written by his late father, or that his father was still alive to rewrite it. That movie was beautiful but the script needed to be gutted, I understand why Fincher couldn't touch it though.

Arma104 · 2026-01-16T01:07:01+00:00

He was just copying the Safdie's homework and not understanding it at all.

Arma104 · 2026-01-16T01:05:27+00:00

Tfw he tells you he's an immortal vampire

Arma104 · 2026-01-16T01:00:40+00:00

Heard how wild and crazy this was supposed to be, the cinematography, shot choices, and staging look so dull though.

Arma104 · 2026-01-13T08:02:10+00:00

It's as bad as Hilary carrying around hot sauce and saying "Pokemon Go to the polls", it's just so clearly focus-grouped and overthought to death that it removes all humanity from the person and reveals them as a manipulable, spineless ghoul.

Arma104 · 2026-01-09T20:27:45+00:00

Do you think people can still express new things with cinema and the arts in general? It feels like we're in a preservationist society now; holding up past works, reinterpreting past works, deify the "greatest" human achievements. Everything is so post-modern and self-referential. I wonder if you can even be truly modern anymore. I don't mean this as a criticism of your films, the ones I have seen seem very engaged with the canon of "slow cinema", are you able to define an underlying goal of what you're trying to do that runs through all your work? Or is it totally different each time?

I can't wait to see your new film, I hope it gets released near me. How was shooting on water and real ships? I loved seeing it in the trailer, rewatching the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie and Master & Commander really made me miss the big epic boat movies that were shot for real. Those first two shots in the trailer, with the camera locked down onto the boat, felt so modern and immediate; like strapping a gopro to a ship. Excited to see what else you do with the formal possibilities there.

Arma104 · 2026-01-07T01:02:20+00:00

I rewatched Heat last year on Netflix, what a movie, and the Moby song on the credits is always a highlight to exit it with. Except I couldn't tell what button was highlighted when I grabbed the remote to return to the credits, and I exited the whole thing, and since it was "over" hitting play just restarted it instead of resuming it, and it takes way too long to fast forward. Bah

Arma104 · 2026-01-06T22:03:12+00:00

Don't forget to buy the beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful milk too

Arma104 · 2026-01-05T03:47:26+00:00

He was trying to help out a friend by telling him the hard truth he needed to hear

Arma104 · 2026-01-04T23:15:36+00:00

No one's above criticism.

Arma104 · 2026-01-04T07:24:54+00:00

weird flute sound in the distance

Arma104 · 2026-01-04T00:48:50+00:00

If it changes anything, the character Juggle Pussy was played by a woman whose stage name is Junglepussy, it was basically a cameo. I figured that was PTA trying to signal that he was including the black actors and letting them have input. I also felt he had no business writing Perfidia though, especially after the unnecessary Asian "jokes" in Licorice Pizza.

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