Topic: The RAWK Film Thread

[DadsRedArmy]

Brightburn - fantastic ‘what if’ movie with more gore than anticipated and a few little jump scares.
Only downside to it was it was strangely edited and some of the scenes made it feel like a ‘made for TV’ movie. On the while though, i’d give it a solid 7-8/10

Totally agree with the above, thought it was a great little film, and full of surprises

[Trada]

Mouse Guard was cancelled by Disney after the merger with fox but the makers of the film have released  demo of what the film would have been like I guess hoping someone else will pick it up I think it looks like it would have been good.

Wes Ball
Published on Jun 26, 2019

The following is a collection of tests that explore the visual potential of a Mouse Guard movie. Everything you see here is rendered in realtime using Epic's UNREAL ENGINE.

Basically what you're watching is very good looking previz, with environments capable of streaming live to stage during motion capture with our actors.

While the visual quality is impressive, it's important to note this is only meant to illustrate how the movie will 'feel' not how it will 'look'. Everything will ultimately be sent to WETA Digital to be recreated with cutting-age photorealistic CG.

This was made from scratch in about 12 weeks with a relatively small team. Credit goes to our team at Halon (led by Casey Pyke) and Fox VFX labs (led by Glenn Derry)

Thanks for watching y'all!
~wes



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[Skidder.]

Watched Interstellar again last night, seriously, what a film!

[AndyMuller]

Watched Interstellar again last night, seriously, what a film!

One of my favourites ever that! Love it.

[classycarra]

One of my favourites ever that! Love it.

Wow, really?

The outer space shots in it are incredible to be fair.

[Agent99]

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[Something Worse]

Looks shit but Jonathan Tucker is in it so I have to watch it.

[Skidder.]

Wow, really?

The outer space shots in it are incredible to be fair.

It's not just that though, the dialogue is very good for a hard sci-fi film - I was critical over the dialogue as a younger man... but after seeing some of the torrid dialogue in some concurrent sci-fi, the mechanisms they put in place to underscore the dialogue is pretty good.

For example, simplest scene ever (and stolen from Event Horizon)... The scene were Bromley explains the concept of wormholes/folding space with a piece of paper and a pen. We all know this concept because it has been brought up in films before.

However, rather than try to explain the concept in an entirely different (and convoluted) way, Nolan simply lifts the paper analogy and adapts it for his film. The dialogue around it is so simple, you could almost get frustrated as a sci-fi fan.

A very simple concept boiled down to a scene. The film is full of them...

Matt Damon's monologue as he and Cooper go to find 'the sites'... It's terribly guffaw at first, and you can't help but feel that if a person was driven to that length, the last thing he would want to do is rationalise it, like out loud... regardless of mission status or the line of command. The bloke is supposed to have been alone for what? 10 Years?

It's pappy, pithy and pretentious all at the same time, but what the dialogue does do, is humanise a very inhuman action (the 'lie') and produces a centrepoint for you as an audience member to choose one moral or another - ask yourself what you'd do. And that scene is possibly one of the most human scenes in the whole film.

People will point to Coop and Murph's communications and goodbye... but no-one here would understand the feeling of leaving a child (potentially) forever. However, we've all experienced that feeling of just wanting to go home regardless of the knock-on effects.

So to summarise - I always thought it was a great, great film. But the dialogue was always a problem for me (it was the same with TDKR, but different)... Time has passed and I can totally enjoy this film, which could be said, to now be in fact, soft sci-fi. Which for me is one of the many successes of the film - it is a hard sci-fi film at its core, but after viewing and in time, it has become a kind of funnel.

Great film...

[Agent99]

Interstellar is boss as fuck and I won't have a bad word said about it. The soundtrack is also amazing.

[thegoodfella]

Seen Interstellar more than 10 times, and it is easily one of the most watchable film in recent memory. The soundtrack elevates it immensely, I sway with the emotional intensity every time!

[classycarra]

It's not just that though, the dialogue is very good for a hard sci-fi film - I was critical over the dialogue as a younger man... but after seeing some of the torrid dialogue in some concurrent sci-fi, the mechanisms they put in place to underscore the dialogue is pretty good.

For example, simplest scene ever (and stolen from Event Horizon)... The scene were Bromley explains the concept of wormholes/folding space with a piece of paper and a pen. We all know this concept because it has been brought up in films before.

However, rather than try to explain the concept in an entirely different (and convoluted) way, Nolan simply lifts the paper analogy and adapts it for his film. The dialogue around it is so simple, you could almost get frustrated as a sci-fi fan.

A very simple concept boiled down to a scene. The film is full of them...

Matt Damon's monologue as he and Cooper go to find 'the sites'... It's terribly guffaw at first, and you can't help but feel that if a person was driven to that length, the last thing he would want to do is rationalise it, like out loud... regardless of mission status or the line of command. The bloke is supposed to have been alone for what? 10 Years?

It's pappy, pithy and pretentious all at the same time, but what the dialogue does do, is humanise a very inhuman action (the 'lie') and produces a centrepoint for you as an audience member to choose one moral or another - ask yourself what you'd do. And that scene is possibly one of the most human scenes in the whole film.

People will point to Coop and Murph's communications and goodbye... but no-one here would understand the feeling of leaving a child (potentially) forever. However, we've all experienced that feeling of just wanting to go home regardless of the knock-on effects.

So to summarise - I always thought it was a great, great film. But the dialogue was always a problem for me (it was the same with TDKR, but different)... Time has passed and I can totally enjoy this film, which could be said, to now be in fact, soft sci-fi. Which for me is one of the many successes of the film - it is a hard sci-fi film at its core, but after viewing and in time, it has become a kind of funnel.

Great film...

I remember enjoying quite a lot of parts of it, and that most of the emotional elements resonated with me (McConnaghey video messages and the scenes on the planet with Damon - which I agree, do exactly that)

I just found a lot of the Earth stuff with Casey Affleck et al a waste of time and too hammy.

Still, thoroughly beter than TDKR which despite its great production values was mostly rubbish (dialogue and story) aside from some of the grand concepts

[AndyMuller]

Wow, really?

The outer space shots in it are incredible to be fair.

I loved it mate. As others have said the soundtrack is incredible too.

[Something Worse]

I couldn't stand Interstellar, mostly because of the cosmic bookcase and the ridiculous ending, but I've been meaning to try it again and it might hold up better with lower expectations.

Inception is the worst one for me.

[Spongebob Redpants]

I couldn't stand Interstellar, mostly because of the cosmic bookcase and the ridiculous ending, but I've been meaning to try it again and it might hold up better with lower expectations.

I felt pretty much the same , but thought some of the scenes on Millers  planet were spectacular .

Not sure if I judged it too harshly , but will give it another watch and find out .

[Skidder.]

If you watch Interstellar again, in true sci-fi fashion.

Whilst it may not make sense.

Spoiler

Imagine and think, believe that Coop actually dies in the crash and everything from then on in, is him living in 'his' fifth-dimension. He's the past, future and present and the creator of the world he experiences from waking up - he even has a 'ghost' of himself.

He dies again when he enters the Black Hole (in a Dream within a dream-like scenario), and resets his '5-D'.

He can't inherently change time in his 5-D (dead) world, but he can literally live out timelines within the bounds of relativity (but not time travel), whilst his 'real' family (and everyone else), lives in another 4-D multiverse like Back to the Future 2.

Coop is now living in a fantasy land of endless existence - he can return to a Black Hole and become a ghost (and kind of reset), or he can live out his days in a fantasy world.

Does it stack up to criticism? Does it fuck, but its a different way of watching it.

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[BER]

The problems with Interstellar are partly Spielberg's fault, he advised Nolan to make it about the father daughter relationship.
I love the film but have to skip all the bits back on earth once they leave, they ruin the pacing for me.
That and Anne Hathaway, just one of those actors I can't stand and see straight through.

[Titi Camara]

Alita is fucking clown shoes! Like a Smash Hits! of 80's films!

[soxfan]

I was one of the few humans under the age of 60 who hadn't seen either the first Toy Story or Avatar. Saw them on a long flight this week. Really liked both.

Next up on the bucket list: The Godfather, Star Wars and the Wizard of Oz. 

[Skidder.]

Nephews played a bit of a 'jape' on me tonight by putting on Beach Bum.

They kind of found it funny and had a little in-joke between them about my likeness to MM in this film. Even the fact that I have the same shades, a similar shirt and well, I have hair like Charles Manson.

Anyroad, what a fucking piece of moon dogshit. I know I read somewhere in here it was just good clean stoner fun... but that is a god awful attempt to play The Dude lite.

It's worthy of the similarities, but in good god... Everyone from the tea lady to the editors... must have all been high when creating, because it is a piece of shit film. Cliche after cliche and MM with another stinker after his Oscar. It is a shit attempt to hook in on the stoner culture, and while most may watch it, what a waste of a good opportunity to do something of tangible worth. Make a serious fucking film about the highs and lows, the crimes and passions... Waste of good talent on a no brainer story with little or no payoff.

I think it quite frankly is a film that all these actors clubbed in on as a tax haven or scam of some sort - it had some production in Switzerland after all.

Budget of $5 Million? Seriously?

I mean, I can't think of a half-decent stoner film that is as subtle as The Big Lebowski. It's half-cocked, half-baked and just the right side of wasted. Matthew Mahogany has gone full dude - you never go full dude, dude.

[moondog]

Yesterday , Danny Boyle makes a feel good Rom com for all of the family. Manages to call Liverpool a shit hole and get away with it and has some great footage around the city. Was really enjoyable but lighter than I would have expected from him. Must be the Richard Curtis input. Robert Carlyle makes a nice cameo and ed Sheeran is in it.
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[Skidder.]

Perfect timing Moondog, I was just talking about you, you waif!

[soxfan]

Watched "City of God" last night. Very good. Made me appreciate my lucky life in the States (that I still sometimes complain about!). So many people in the world are born into difficult circumstances, in this case the poverty of a crime-ridden Brazilian slum.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Toy Story 4

Excellent story. A few tearful moments for not just the kids in the audience. Great, amazing, incredible just WOW!!! Graphics and effects.

Lots of funny bits, slapstick comedy, serious moments, a look into life and what happens when things move on and some really endearing characters

LOL @ Forky (Who I thought was Sporky the way the girl say it, but hey ho!)

[Barneylfc∗]

Watched "City of God" last night. Very good. Made me appreciate my lucky life in the States (that I still sometimes complain about!). So many people in the world are born into difficult circumstances, in this case the poverty of a crime-ridden Brazilian slum.

I remember coming across that years ago on Film 4 and leaving it on as there was fuck all else to watch. Delighted I made that decision. Been a while since I last watched it, must do again soon. Great film.

[Cracking Left Foot]

Yesterday , Danny Boyle makes a feel good Rom com for all of the family. Manages to call Liverpool a shit hole and get away with it and has some great footage around the city. Was really enjoyable but lighter than I would have expected from him. Must be the Richard Curtis input. Robert Carlyle makes a nice cameo and ed Sheeran is in it.
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Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Massively cheesy and plot holes the size of the moon but still enjoyed it.

Spoiler

One of the early gags is that, if the Beatles had never existed, then Oasis wouldn't either. But, as we say, Jack's love of singing and performing stems from a school talent show where he sings Wonderwall. So, as soon as he wakes in the alternate Beatles-less timeline, then the talent show performance wouldn't have happened, as Wonderwall wouldn't have been written. Yes, I have over-thinked this.

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Not an Ed Sheeran fan, but he was bearable enough, and the scenes in Liverpool were great. Weird seeing Lime Street Station on screen, especially when I've passed through there literally hundreds of times!

[[new username under construction]]

How's the lead in Yesterday? He comes across as zero charisma in all interviews i've seen

[J-Mc-]

Watched "City of God" last night. Very good. Made me appreciate my lucky life in the States (that I still sometimes complain about!). So many people in the world are born into difficult circumstances, in this case the poverty of a crime-ridden Brazilian slum.

Had to do my A-level in Film on that. Fantastic film.

Another film in a similar vain is Tsotsi if you're looking for decent foreign films.

Also, the Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

[Cracking Left Foot]

How's the lead in Yesterday? He comes across as zero charisma in all interviews i've seen

Yeah, he's...ok I guess. He handles the songs well, and he's pretty good at looking bewildered and deadpan, which is what's called for I guess. There's not much chemistry with Lily James though. I think, ultimately, he's meant to be this 'everyman' in a ridiculous high concept scenario, and so it works that way. I wouldn't be surprised if he was back in Eastenders in the next couple of years though, put it that way...

[Peabee]

Yeah, he's...ok I guess. He handles the songs well, and he's pretty good at looking bewildered and deadpan, which is what's called for I guess. There's not much chemistry with Lily James though. I think, ultimately, he's meant to be this 'everyman' in a ridiculous high concept scenario, and so it works that way. I wouldn't be surprised if he was back in Eastenders in the next couple of years though, put it that way...

He returns after Phil dies as the only character who can remember The Mitchell Brothers.

[moondog]

He returns after Phil dies as the only character who can remember The Mitchell Brothers.

 

[J-Mc-]

Toy Story 4 - fucking brilliant.

Perfect way to end it all.

[oldfordie]

Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Massively cheesy and plot holes the size of the moon but still enjoyed it.

Spoiler

One of the early gags is that, if the Beatles had never existed, then Oasis wouldn't either. But, as we say, Jack's love of singing and performing stems from a school talent show where he sings Wonderwall. So, as soon as he wakes in the alternate Beatles-less timeline, then the talent show performance wouldn't have happened, as Wonderwall wouldn't have been written. Yes, I have over-thinked this.

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Not an Ed Sheeran fan, but he was bearable enough, and the scenes in Liverpool were great. Weird seeing Lime Street Station on screen, especially when I've passed through there literally hundreds of times!

Same here,just back from watching it, we all enjoyed it.
 worth seeing.

Spoiler

Just 1 criticism, I wish they would have done more with the John Lennon scene. there were some obvious questions he would have asked him and would have loved to hear a twist to explain why no Beatles. 

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[TepidT2O]

Toy Story 4 - fucking brilliant.

Perfect way to end it all.

There’s people you can talk to....

[Henry Gale]

Anyone seen Midsommar yet? I noticed it’s from the same writer and director who made Hereditary which was my favourite horror for some time. Saying that I often get told my taste in horror movies is shite as I also loved Brightburn   

[Something Worse]

Brightburn was so disappointing I have since watched Superman Returns, Man of Steel, BVS and Justice League just for some proper Supermanning.

Deadwood was unreal although I doubt anyone who didn't watch the show would like it. Timothy Olyphant as a hat-wearing lawman is gold.

Harry Potter 10 was shit and I fell asleep for the ending.

Weck It Ralph 2 was mediocre

Godzilla 2 was fantastic

I think that's all I've seen recently? Oh no wait Casino is still incredible.

[Peabee]

Anyone seen Midsommar yet? I noticed it’s from the same writer and director who made Hereditary which was my favourite horror for some time. Saying that I often get told my taste in horror movies is shite as I also loved Brightburn   

I liked Brightburn too. The sadistic little twat > Clark Kent. 

[LallanaInPyjamas]

Toy Story 4 - fucking brilliant.

Perfect way to end it all.

Agree. Loved it. Proper lump in the throat:

Spoiler

when Woody was saying bye to Buzz. Could see it coming.

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[AndyMuller]

Brightburn was so disappointing I have since watched Superman Returns, Man of Steel, BVS and Justice League just for some proper Supermanning.

Sounds grim that mate hope your ok.

[Skidder.]

Brightburn was so disappointing I have since watched Superman Returns, Man of Steel, BVS and Justice League just for some proper Supermanning.

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That's some self-flagellation right there... You should have thrown in Superman 3 the Quest for Peace to top it all off.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Saw Brightburn

Spoiler

There were some interesting things about it, but I think a major reason why it wasn't that good was because of the 15 tag.

A few of the scenes weren't really explored and when you saw characters getting bumped off, for the most part you didn't really care.

Some pretty way-off ideals - "I'm your mother!!" Er. No. You weren't.

Obvious sequel is obvious. I think it could have been a lot more, but meh.

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