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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Feb 6, 2019 12:29:55 GMT
Have any of you seen this yet? It looks interesting.
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Post by MrFurious on Feb 6, 2019 14:05:18 GMT
Its brilliant. It starts out on a small b&w screen and gradually builds up to an amazing full screen colour HD WW1 experience. Jackson worked magic with this one
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Post by hi224 on Feb 6, 2019 18:24:25 GMT
Ive heard it suffers from a lack of connection basically.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 6, 2019 19:16:36 GMT
It's pretty good. The quality of the restored 100-year old images is amazing. It doesn't really explain the war or sheds any new light on it, but that was never the intention. It's just ordinary British soldiers sharing memories of their wartime service to the background of actual footage from the time, impeccably restored and colorised.
There is a brief "making of" of sorts afterwards where Peter Jackson talks about the project, from its origins to the technical challenges, that is also extremely interesting.
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Post by Morgana on Feb 8, 2019 7:29:28 GMT
Have any of you seen this yet? It looks interesting. I haven't seen it yet, but I want to.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 9, 2019 7:42:45 GMT
I found it "very good" and will see it once or twice more. The documentary gives the viewer a greater, more fully dimensional sense of what it was like to be in the trenches, with the constant shelling, the exploding mines, the rats, the mud, the mess of barbed wire, and the sheer human carnage. Also intriguing is the lack of support that the British soldiers received upon returning home . And I too recommend sticking around for Jackson's behind-the-scenes dissection of his creative and technical process afterwards.
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Post by leesilm on Feb 18, 2019 22:47:46 GMT
A friend of mine told me it was the cinematic version of the punch to the gut (in a feelz-y way) that the song YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT IN COLOR is, but longer and awesome because it is Peter Jackson.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 19, 2019 10:32:26 GMT
I just viewed They Shall Not Grow Old for a third time (in 3D for a second time), and I liked it even better on this occasion—I now consider the documentary "great." The long sequence regarding the buildup to, and execution of, the charge out of the trenches—and the catastrophic consequences—is especially powerful and haunting.
The documentary features constant dialogue, so fully adjusting to the style and appreciating it can take awhile, especially given that the accents are all British, the nuances of which are not always the easiest for an American such as myself to grasp. Thus seeing it three times paid dividends. The film potentially could have used a little less dialogue and the occasional quiet space, but Peter Jackson's directorial choice is certainly not a bad one, given that he is featuring the voices of actual British veterans (as recorded by the BBC in historical interviews during the 1960s and 1970s).
Also, the restored black-and-white footage (seen at the start and end of the documentary and also in the post-movie behind-the-scenes chronicle) strikes me as clearer and—ironically—in some ways more naturalistic than the colorized images, which offer a bit of a contrived, if not cartoonish, quality at times. The black-and-white imagery is also more chilling. But the color does add something, especially, for example, in the images of the gangrene. So there is a tradeoff—neither option is perfect, and both carry a cost. Again, Jackson's decision is debatable yet certainly not poor. And 3D does add a little something, giving the viewer a sense of depth and contours regarding the trenches and barbed wire.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 19, 2019 20:43:23 GMT
And 3D does add a little something, giving the viewer a sense of depth and contours regarding the trenches and barbed wire. I wish Peter Jackson had included a section on 3D on his "making of" - why he did it and how.
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Post by hi224 on Feb 24, 2019 4:14:19 GMT
Seeing soon.
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