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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 13:39:34 GMT
of film, and rant about it ruining film and the film going experience and viewing, and the ease of which films can be made is churning out shite compared to proper films' thread. Fuck it, i tried to be open minded but i'm with marty. You Go Marty.......I Said.....YOU...GO....MARTY!!!
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Post by harrylemon on Feb 23, 2021 0:02:09 GMT
Is that the same Marty that made his last film for.........NETFLIX.
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 23, 2021 4:46:01 GMT
...and who’s opinion about streaming films being Oscar worthy changed as soon as he made a film for streaming?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 23, 2021 8:50:08 GMT
Netflix is shit for films. It makes no sense. I get what he means.
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 23, 2021 10:56:09 GMT
It's the real problem with Netflix and Prime, the interfaces are absoultely terrible, you decide you've got a couple of hours to watch a film, then when you've scrolled through lists featuring the same films over and over again, bookended with 2,000 Bollywood films, it's time to go to bed. Just give us some useful information on screen, and don't make us scroll through some massive screenshots.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 11:08:37 GMT
I think the reception to marty's Irishman, pushed him more in to this point of view. He is right though and it is sign of the times in general. When there is a smaller amount of something (films in this case), there's a bit more ceremony in settling down, making time to watch it or go to watch it in the cinema. You're invested to watching it. Now, with films on tap, it's more like you'd half watch a new film to pass a few hours. It's a sad sign but whatca gonna gonna do.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 23, 2021 16:03:10 GMT
It's the real problem with Netflix and Prime, the interfaces are absoultely terrible, you decide you've got a couple of hours to watch a film, then when you've scrolled through lists featuring the same films over and over again, bookended with 2,000 Bollywood films, it's time to go to bed. Just give us some useful information on screen, and don't make us scroll through some massive screenshots. yeah, it's not just the selection it's the fact that the interface is really amateur hour and is not geared towards film fans
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Post by harrylemon on Feb 23, 2021 16:38:39 GMT
I have a watchlist made up from when movies are previewed as coming soon. Don't waste much time browsing aimlessly.
The selection of vintage films is pish across all platforms.
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 23, 2021 16:59:20 GMT
I have a lot of respect for Marty Baby. Can I call you Marty Baby? No? I have a lot of respect for Mr. Scorsese. If HE isn't entitled to an opinion about this sort of stuff then who is? Me, I think "Roma" & "American Factory" are award worthy movies regardless of where they were shown. Do I think the aspect ratio etc.. is changing? yeah, I do. Do I think it's a bad thing? well, sometimes.
Vista Vision and 3D and Sensurround were all changes in the way we watched movies. YEAH, we still watched them in movie theaters but still, those innovations & gimmicks weren't done out of the goodness of anyone's hearts. they were trying to get butts in movie theaters. well, now - if we like it or not - a lot of those butts are staying home. It was happening even before the Lockdowns. Now the studios are in a position they'd rather not be in. the shoe is on the other foot. Any life long movie fans will know about "the Consent Decree" which ended the practice of studios being both the makers,distributors & exhibitors of their own product. Just in the last couple of years many lawyers made a lot of money getting it overturned. These conditions don't exist anymore, they argued. www.justice.gov/atr/paramount-decree-reviewwell, guess what? Amazon & Netflix are Paramount and FOX now. should we enact more laws of this type or continue loosening them? I don't pretend to know. I DO know that if Paramount and FOX had algorithms in the old days that they would have jolly well used them.
times change. the way we make and watch the movies change. what we want changes but William Goldman's rule holds fast. nobody REALLY knows what will hit the gold mine and what won't - both financially and artistically. this might not be a new lesson but I think it's an enduring one.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 23, 2021 17:31:05 GMT
Watching a film in the cinema is a precious thing. Fragile, delicate like and it can be easily ruined by the cunt with the sweetie packet or the heavy breather or the fella with the BIG HEAD who for SOME FUCKING REASON sits in front of you....or the cunt who *insert annoying thing people do here* but....at its best, it is something very personal, intimate and beautiful that has a sacred, ritualistic quality that moves and elevates. Yes there are so many times when I am irritated by X or Y and sometimes you can't be arsed going out and you just wanna slob out in front of the telly with yer jamas on and have COMPLETE CONTROL OF ONE'S ENVIRONMENT but, please remember, that meaning comes through sacrifice and sometimes you need to sacrifice the above for the risk that you might experience something more profound. More often you not you miss but....the moments when it hits are the moments you recall. Such is life. It's all moments. Me crying my eyes out over Llorando in Mulholland Drive is the cinematic equivalent of the Catholic mother crying at the altar and clasping her hands together in devotion you know.
In short, fuck Netflix up its fucking arse.
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 23, 2021 17:42:08 GMT
Harry Cohen had Sammy Davis Junior beat up for fucking Kim Novak but he also made Frank Capra movies. would the ballad of Buster Scruggs" have been made without Netflix? yeah, maybe. I like it so I'm glad it got made. I FAR prefer seeing movies in theaters. in fact, the one thing I really hate about the last year is not being able to go to the movies.
I don't care how big the screen or how dark the room - people at home don't respect the process of movie watching. they just don't. you still get yobbos in the theater but most people have an investment in the movie watching contract that's hard to achieve in the home.
they used to call those old movie palaces "churches". that sounds a little overboard to me but I'm glad I went to a few "palaces". here's the thing - those palaces went condo. I think the movie industry has bought a lot of this on itself. when I was a kid in the 60's my Dad was one of two projectionists in every theater he worked. by the time I was a Popcorn Jockey in the 80's I was running upstairs to start one of three to six movies before running back downstairs to sell more popcorn.
the seats got less comfortable the picture got darker and wobblier. yeah, the movies I miss going to have sharp digital pictures and BIG comfy seats NOW. I like seeing movies that way but it might be too little too late. I'm sure guys like us will continue to see movies in theaters but I think the distribution of New Movies has changed for good. I hope there is good along with the bad. we'll see.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 17:44:29 GMT
The biggest best precious thing about the cinema i've come to realize is the lack of distraction. You dare not open your phone (you can, but you're a bona fide cunt), take a notion to hit the shop half way through. You there in your seat and beside taking a pish, you're there until the end. Whereas, if you're watch it at your gaff, you can pause, check your phone, have a conversation in the middle of it etc. It takes away from your full concentration that should be on the film. Marty's on a losing battle here i think. In the next 30 to 40 years, going to the cinema will be see as a kinda hipster thing, or up you're own arse type of thing to mention, as it sounds like you're trying to make yourself sound cultured. Sad really, that and wagon wheels getting smaller, but mostly this.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2021 8:48:59 GMT
I haven't been to the flicks since 1994. I have no trouble concentrating on a movie via the t.v or watching on my tablet in bed.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 28, 2021 9:51:53 GMT
You're missing out.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 28, 2021 10:01:03 GMT
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