Wall-E question. I have a friend with vertigo. One thing that sets her off are spinney or whirling things. She could not watch Moulin Rouge, or even the Lady Marmalade video for example. So is Wall-E OK for her? Having to close her eyes occasionally is OK; she'd never make a movie if it wasn't. But too much spinning, fast movement at odd angles and there is no point in her going.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
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Typo Boy - Jul 04, 2008 8:12:37 pm PDT #6830 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
megan walker - Jul 04, 2008 8:16:41 pm PDT #6831 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
She could not watch Moulin Rouge
Are you sure it was the spinning?
DavidS - Jul 04, 2008 9:04:31 pm PDT #6832 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Typo, there are a couple scenes where it's shot sort of documentary style. As if there was a camera on the space ship taking off, for example, that are a little shaky.
But that's very small part of the whole movie, and I don't remember a lot of spinning. Though there are some scenes of lyrical swooping.
Ailleann - Jul 05, 2008 3:43:19 am PDT #6833 of 10000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
shot sort of documentary style
I was very entertained to see some Firefly-esque shots.
Theodosia - Jul 05, 2008 4:14:38 am PDT #6834 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
(Having had a course in 3d animation: you animate the camera just as you do everything else, and can imitate lens flares and other camera "artifacts" that we expect to see in live action filming. It's really quite neat, because you are deliberately tricking the viewing mind into accepting the reality of the animated film.)
le nubian - Jul 05, 2008 12:28:01 pm PDT #6835 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Are you sure it was the spinning?
tough room!
Typo Boy - Jul 05, 2008 5:32:58 pm PDT #6836 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK now seen Wall E. Great animation, lovely music, wonderful characters but....
Until now I did not realize that I and all the other fat people in the world are the man. No: no direct fat bashing. Just underlying equation of fatness with passivity and destruction. Even Wal-mart is called "Buy N' Large".
Polter-Cow - Jul 05, 2008 7:24:54 pm PDT #6837 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which I didn't realize was a pun until halfway through the movie.
Laga - Jul 05, 2008 7:54:05 pm PDT #6838 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just finished Paradise Now. Wow. Yet another example of a film that if people watched it before they got all up in arms they might learn something instead of just being angry all the time. It certainly wasn't pro-Israel but it didn't paint militant Palestinians as pure and noble creatures either. I'm shaken but I'm glad I saw it.
DavidS - Jul 06, 2008 8:55:32 am PDT #6839 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The 1967 Bollywood film, Jewel Thief, has been described as a supermod cross between Hithcock and James Bond.
I think I need to own this.
When one watches the world presented in Dev & Vijay Anand's "Jewel Thief" (1967) one knows they have been transported to an incredible fantasy land that is both baroque and exotic. This is a world that is full of all the wonders, accessories, and excess' of the Modern Western landscape. American Cars and Western clothes, Modern Western architecture and furnishings of the hippest design, gadgets that automate the most mundane of tasks, it's the Western lap of luxury, all on full display. What is pictured here is an 'Exotic West' that becomes absolutely one of the main features of "Jewel Thief". In 1967 for the majority of Indians who had never traveled to the West, watching "Jewel Thief" must have been a thrill to watch. T.K. Desai's fantastic art direction for the sets created a make believe world that most could only dream of.
As a Westerner I am so used to seeing kitsch images of the 'Exotic East' in Hollywood films. It struck me watching "Jewel Thief" That the East also does the same thing when picturing the West. One of the finest examples of this exoticizing of the West is the set design for "Jewel Thief".