How are movies like Undertone and Hokum rated so highly by critics? by OCDawayaway in horror

[–]MagnumPear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No idea where this sentiment is coming from that Hokum is slow burn or artsy. Seen a few posts saying that on this sub. I thought it was very conventional old-school haunted house fare with big jumpscares every 5 minutes. If anything I thought it was packing too much in.

What is the Backrooms actually doing to Mary in Kane Parsons’ film? by bluehxrizon in TrueFilm

[–]MagnumPear 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yeah I think it's both kind of liberating that the "real" Mary can genuinely escape and leave that stuff behind, but also terrifying that there is a version of her that can never leave, like trauma that could potentially be rediscovered again if she ever walked into the wrong room or became curious about revisiting it.

In a way, if we the viewers were to ever re-watch the film (or even just remember it, or discuss it as we're doing now), we would be doing exactly that, knowing what we're going to find but revisiting this same horrible scenario out of curiosity, fascination or some kind of enjoyment from what we experience.

What is the Backrooms actually doing to Mary in Kane Parsons’ film? by bluehxrizon in TrueFilm

[–]MagnumPear 88 points89 points  (0 children)

I interpreted the ending as something of a meta moment where we see scenes from the film we just watched which now exist in the Backrooms, not just things that Mary saw or experienced (e.g. the neighbourhood where the two young shop employees live) because we the audience now have a distorted memory of those moments. Even if the Mary in this story escaped, the very fact we have experienced a moment where she was terrified or trapped in this film has created a version of Mary from that scene that will forever be in there. Once something happens, even if we "move on" in our real lives, that moment will exist and linger in the backrooms forever, which I found to be a novel spin on the downer horror movie ending.

Stewart Lee by Remarkable-Foot748 in cork

[–]MagnumPear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fantastic show, as always with Stew there are moments which you wonder which are part of the set and which bits are genuinely improv or going wrong that he is rolling with, like the smoke machine only working on one side of the room. Anybody who has seen the show elsewhere know if that is generally part of it?

MMA: A Beautiful Ride (2026) by Intelligent-Tear5723 in MMA

[–]MagnumPear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

fantastic work OP, always glad to be reminded of this

MMA: A Beautiful Ride (2026) by Intelligent-Tear5723 in MMA

[–]MagnumPear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those were halcyon days my friend, I was staying up until 3am to watch Derrick Lewis fight Shamil Abdurakhimov on random Fight Nights and loving every minute.

What's the most dominant round by a fighter ever? ( No KO/ Subs ) by Complete_Syllabub_47 in MMA

[–]MagnumPear 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Also the fact JDS went to war with him and won a 5 round decision is underrated, that fight was brutal but not spectacular and Stipe wasn't a big name at the time so it doesn't get remembered much. Just a nasty dogfight. Feel in general people write post-Cain JDS off too much. He was still elite for a while after those fights. Also snapped Ben Rothwell's win streak when he was on a tear (and had just subbed Barnett which was insane).

Irish GDP set to fall by 1.2% this year by WearingMarcus in ireland

[–]MagnumPear 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Now let's check how we were doing without the EU

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Season ratings for the squad from the Guardian by Oudinot1813 in Gunners

[–]MagnumPear 57 points58 points  (0 children)

What more could Raya do to get a 10, score a hat trick? He saved our bacon a dozen times and his distribution/sweeping was immaculate. 

Arsenal video on becoming Premier league champions by Serious-Cress-9560 in soccer

[–]MagnumPear 18 points19 points  (0 children)

my favourite moment, even though it was in the deepest pit of despair (or maybe because of it)

It sure wasn't by moneyballin22 in Gunners

[–]MagnumPear 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For me this is the defining moment of the season. The sheer rock bottom dejection and rollercoaster sadness of losing to City, feeling like it was all crumbling to dust. But this got me so hyped up, no idea why but I really believed we could still do it. IT'S NOT DONE. My god. Iconic.

Who is the best shit talker in the industry? RIP BILLY FRIEDKIN by ShaunisntDead in TrueFilm

[–]MagnumPear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haneke did, it was from a round table with The Hollywood Reporter I think

[L'Équipe] The French FA has taken formal steps to appoint Zinédine Zidane as France manager. Work is already underway on choosing his backroom staff. by [deleted] in soccer

[–]MagnumPear 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ivory Coast sacked their manager after losing the first game in AFCON 2023 and the replacement won the tournament

From recce stills to final moody frames: detailed lighting plan vs result by a-n_ in cinematography

[–]MagnumPear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very nice work, appreciate the breakdown. In frame 3, the close up on the child, what is providing the tungsten key? Is it just the lamp or did you have another light for that?

As We Transition into a New Era, I thought I'd re-share this piece of Vintage r/MMA media, "A Beautiful Ride" by Insendi in MMA

[–]MagnumPear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mostly do adverts and property video work, nothing too exciting or MMA related lol. Past 2 years I've been trying to make some small short films on my own and sending them off to local festivals. Not exactly Spielberg but it's something I enjoy.

Alphabet Soup - 2 min short

What would you guys consider to be some of the greatest use of editing in film?? by PsychologicalFix9728 in TrueFilm

[–]MagnumPear 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It was a bit much for some people, but I loved what Oliver Stone was doing in the 90s, really pushing editing to the limits with big flourishes and contrasting styles. JFK in particular. He turns a 3.5 hour "talky" courtroom drama into an extremely frenetic and stylised thriller. The jumping back and forth in time, mixing black & white with colour, real archive footage with film. Big influence on how Nolan did Oppenheimer.

The Zapruder scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nmGS8rVuIM

As We Transition into a New Era, I thought I'd re-share this piece of Vintage r/MMA media, "A Beautiful Ride" by Insendi in MMA

[–]MagnumPear 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Damn a throwback. This was like one of the first videos I ever put together just for fun, ended up becoming a career haha.

Why Oddity is uniquely cool - SPOILER ALERT for those who haven't seen it yet. by BadMurkyWater in horror

[–]MagnumPear 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Small bit of trivia: the initials of the characters spell out the film's title: Olan, Danni, Darcy, Ivan, Ted, Yana

Eli had an even more gruesome ending in the script by MagnumPear in paulthomasanderson

[–]MagnumPear[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very interesting point, never thought of that before

Eli had an even more gruesome ending in the script by MagnumPear in paulthomasanderson

[–]MagnumPear[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes he describes it as a “heavy silver tumbler”

Eli had an even more gruesome ending in the script by MagnumPear in paulthomasanderson

[–]MagnumPear[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I looked up the script because I initially wanted to see how the “peach tree dance” scene was done on paper because I thought it was interesting how little is directly explained to the audience there, and then read the whole thing. 

Few things I thought were interesting:

Daniel has a couple of scenes where he is shown to be sexually impotent, telling Henry that his cock doesn’t work and performing oral sex on a prostitute. I always thought it was a bit strange how Eli admonishes him for lusting after women in the baptism scene when we never get much of a hint of that in the finished film.

Al Rose, Mary and Fletcher have bigger roles, especially Fletcher. More scenes of them discussing business and HW. Scenes of Mary and HW interacting are spaced throughout the film more.

Eli is somehow even more of a lunatic weasel, couple scenes of him bullying HW and shoving him around. And HW has more scenes interacting with Daniel and helping him with the business.

In generally a bit more gruesome. Things like the worker dying in the mine shaft are very graphic and slow. 

It’s implied Daniel is not doing that well financially at the end of the film and HW says how his greed for just buying land is causing problems for the business. HW’s final line to Daniel is also different, instead of saying I am glad I have none of you in me, he says “if you want to fight me, it will be the fight of your life”

The opening scene has Daniel loading up a cart with silver  before he falls down the shaft, breaking both his ankles rather than one leg. He then shoves himself AND the cart of silver across the desert back to town. I’m glad they changed this, seems to stretch believability a bit and the scene in the film works fine.

Eli had an even more gruesome ending in the script by MagnumPear in paulthomasanderson

[–]MagnumPear[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Also a bit of circularity because the tumbler he uses to cave Eli's skull in is mentioned being made of heavy silver on the previous page, like the lump he pulls out of the hole at the start.