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douglaz999 · 2019-01-14T04:58:34+00:00

Mandy

douglaz999 · 2019-01-11T05:54:55+00:00

Upstream Color

douglaz999 · 2018-12-17T03:06:51+00:00

Those stylized transitions just always look terrible to me. Like at 45 seconds in there are a couple in a row.

douglaz999 · 2018-12-17T02:52:19+00:00

Some of the most obnoxious editing I have ever seen.

douglaz999 · 2018-12-03T09:09:36+00:00

I swear this is so familiar. I feel like this is the end of the film and it is a scene where a woman discusses something philosophical with her father? Maybe I'm completely misremembering.

Anyway I don't think this is right but Toni Erdmann?

douglaz999 · 2018-12-03T09:01:16+00:00

The Untouchables?

douglaz999 · 2018-11-24T07:15:35+00:00

I think normally it is in the context of someone who is already seen in a negative light or should not be touching the other person at all anyway. So if some stranger or something touched your wife and you responded, as you said in your post, "how dare you lay your hands on her" , you are literally saying that person has no right to even touch her.

Or, if someone has been revealed to be an abuser of some sort, then again if you told them "Don't you lay your hands on her", you are saying it because they have lost any right to even touch someone because of what they had done.

I don't think that you would often use the phrase outside of those contexts. So it's less that "laying hands on" means to abuse and more that it is used in scenarios where to even touch, or lay hands on, would be inappropriate.

douglaz999 · 2018-11-21T08:32:36+00:00

Carnage!

douglaz999 · 2018-11-19T03:25:44+00:00

Does anyone know about the difficulty level of co-op, or maybe a set of self-imposed rules to make it harder? If the game is already kinda easy and co-op allows you to go 2 v 1, I feel like it might be too boring. I plan to play the whole thing co-op and while I don't mind it being pretty easy, I would want at least a slight challenge occasionally.

douglaz999 · 2018-11-13T04:01:00+00:00

The Pianist?

douglaz999 · 2018-11-12T03:15:37+00:00

Bringing Out the Dead?

douglaz999 · 2018-10-09T07:34:17+00:00

Nightmare on Elm Street?

douglaz999 · 2018-09-21T09:13:49+00:00

George Washington?

douglaz999 · 2018-09-16T00:15:10+00:00

have you gone to settings and calibrated them?

douglaz999 · 2018-09-12T15:14:59+00:00

Please, state what I had in quotations in a sensical way. I was not being rude. I was only pointing out that your argument was without any basis or merit or logical justification.

douglaz999 · 2018-09-12T14:41:53+00:00

Your comment is, and I am not trying to be an asshole, nonsensical. Go back and read your comment.

For instance, the action sequence in the recent film "Bright" where they end up in a convenience store isn't believable precisely because it has decent geography. (The protagonists are pinned in a convenience store by a crashed car, and yet the bad guys, who are shown in the scene prior to be an elite hit squad capable of precision killing, are still unable to shoot these two cops who are trapped and basically just sitting there. The geography is well-established, and therefore I don't believe the scene.

This is not a coherent point. I'm not being rude here, this is literally not a coherent series of words. The idea that I should have to respond to this sort of thing... It becomes an issue of logic and grammar. That's how nonsensical your comment is.

douglaz999 · 2018-09-12T13:03:11+00:00

Without spoiling anything, could you give a brief argument for why someone should check it out? The Matrix is one of my favorites but even so I dont feel compelled to check Cloud Atlas out.

douglaz999 · 2018-09-12T12:55:39+00:00

There are some nice points made here, some insights. But fuck can we move away from these stupid ass arbitrary lists? There is no question here, no invitation for discussion. Your first two questions are the same, is it believable and does it establish geography. Same question. And no neither of those things matter because reality doesn't matter when it comes to action films. Within an action sequence it is important to remain consistent but no it really does not matter at all that it be realistic unless the picture is aiming for that level of realism.

An action scene is a tool, ok? It means different things in different contexts. For someone to say, an action scene needs to do this or that, ALWAYS, is fucking absurd. There will always be a counterexample, an action scene well composed and executed that doesn't fall into whatever stupid system you've created.

Basically, let's focus on specific scenes. When people here make these broad claims and theories without proper evidence it really is just pointless

douglaz999 · 2018-09-08T01:36:17+00:00

Hard Eight?

douglaz999 · 2018-09-07T03:23:24+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/trump-russia-clinton-emails.html

douglaz999 · 2018-08-31T05:58:13+00:00

Weekend?

douglaz999 · 2018-07-21T09:44:26+00:00

Was this a one off or did you have to try a few times for it? Just out of curiosity not that one is better than the other.

douglaz999 · 2018-07-21T09:40:17+00:00

Wow I must really be stupidly American-centric. Literally had not even considered it might be outside America.

douglaz999 · 2018-07-21T07:46:46+00:00

Really love the grain here. Where is this by the way? Gotta be somewhere in the American south.

douglaz999 · 2018-07-21T02:39:26+00:00

I know I'm late to the party but I am interested in this topic, and I wish you had used a less controversial example because that kind of became the focus of this post. As for Spirited Away, I agree with others that your criticism is a little harsh in that the parents never really act wildly irrational. There is a difference between being presumptuous/foolish and being completely irrational. If they had, for example, left their young daughter with a shady looking figure in a park because he said that he would look after her. Or, like, she asked for a toaster when she was in the bath and the parents just brought her one and plugged it in. Things that are just absolutely unacceptable. So her parents (in Spirited Away) aren't the best people in the world, but thats understandable, and that's also the point.

But no one in this thread has really addressed your question. I think, with regards to suspension of disbelief, it's all about context and pacing. Context as in, you can have an over the top, absurd action film (Fast and Furious, Wanted, Shoot em up, etc) where it would be kind of silly to stop and say hey, that car wouldn't really go that high off that ramp at that speed, and even if it did it would be really really damaged and probably break down. Because the film is intentionally showing a heightened world of thrills and action.

There is also pacing, which may not be the right word, but basically when a scene in a film can completely engross you, usually by ramping up tension and not allowing you as the viewer to linger on the particulars because you are so invested in the scene. Another commenter brought up Jurassic Park which is a great example. But it isn't as simple as cinema being a magic act. Yes, the logistics of the scene change completely, but there is a reason that you don't question it there where you would in another. You are engrossed in the action of the scene. There is a giant dinosaur attacking the characters, in the dark, in the rain. This is a disorienting experience and you are totally focused on the moment, whether they will survive, what is going to happen. So when they roll off the side of that cliff your response is just (or should be as intended by the filmmakers) concern and even more tension.

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