Also, seeing a bunch of women's names in the credits was pretty great
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-t - Feb 20, 2020 6:30:47 pm PST #2548 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Toddson - Feb 21, 2020 10:32:17 am PST #2549 of 3424
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I enjoyed that - women in front of and behind the cameras.
I did wonder what ita would have thought about the fight scenes - they looked good to me, but it's not something I have any expertise in. On the - literally - bright side, they were done with enough lighting you could see what was going on.
askye - Feb 21, 2020 3:13:08 pm PST #2550 of 3424
Thrive to spite them
I read an article about the movie and the fight scenes and the director was heavily influenced by Jackie Chan and the movie The Raid but she also has a background in dance which she drew on for the fight scenes
I've been watching the Youtube channel The Corridor Crew and they have VFX Artists react to good and bad FX and Stuntmen React to Good and Bad stunts and they love Jackie Chan , obviously, but they've featured The Raid fight scenes as examples of really good fight scenes (well lit, well choreographed and well shot) so the director really paid attention to making good fight scenes. I'm looking forward to the Corrirdor Crew reacting to the fight scenes in Birds of Prey.
They've had one of the stunt guys from the Marvel movies (and a bunch of other stuff) on a few times and he is great to listen talking about the mechanics of the fight scenes.
-t - Feb 21, 2020 4:08:35 pm PST #2551 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Such a pleasure to have the fight scenes be coherent!
Gris - Feb 22, 2020 2:15:44 pm PST #2552 of 3424
Hey. New board.
I am halfway through La La Land. I really love musicals and yet meeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh.
Gris - Feb 22, 2020 3:16:56 pm PST #2553 of 3424
Hey. New board.
The ending was really good, but as far as odes to old movie musicals I'd honestly watch Once More With Feeling again instead.
dcp - Feb 24, 2020 2:48:53 pm PST #2554 of 3424
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Saw Joker this weekend.
I was impressed. Joaquin Phoenix earned his best actor awards.
It is not a movie I ever want to see again.
Calli - Feb 26, 2020 6:06:44 am PST #2555 of 3424
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I am halfway through La La Land. I really love musicals and yet meeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh.
Yeah, I felt the same. For starters, I didn't think the leads' singing or dancing was particularly good, and that's kind of important in a musical. I mean, it wasn't Russel Crow's Javert-level bad, but that's a nearly subterranean bar.
-t - Feb 26, 2020 6:13:36 am PST #2556 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What I liked about La La Land was that it kind pof took the opposite approach of most musicals - instead of using music and dance to pack more emotion into a storyline, for example, they used spectacular visuals to pack more emotion into the music. I enjoyed it but I've had no desire to rewatch it and I don't actually remember much about it now.
Gris - Feb 28, 2020 8:53:02 am PST #2557 of 3424
Hey. New board.
They did not earn the musical numbers at all. I hate having conversations with musical haters who are always like "I don't understand why they just start singing and dancing all of a sudden it is so stupid" but this movie completely felt like that to me. The musical numbers almost entirely came out of nowhere and added little. I haven't seen every movie musical from the fifties or anything and it's possible that many of them do seem this random, but I feel like the ones that have stood the test of time at least make the musical numbers feel integral to the story in some way, or at least START that way.