'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
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.
Such a pleasure to have the fight scenes be coherent!
I am halfway through La La Land. I really love musicals and yet meeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh.
The ending was really good, but as far as odes to old movie musicals I'd honestly watch Once More With Feeling again instead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The James Bond film No Time to Die, which was supposed to open in April, and for which tickets are already on sale, has been pushed back to November.
It seems like the studio is concerned about what kind of impact Covid-19 will have on their bottom line.