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Post by WullieFort on Jan 1, 2020 16:12:55 GMT
When the story moves from one city/country to another, DON'T print the name of the new location on screen, as in PARIS, CHICAGO, LONDON, MOSCOW, NEW YORK, etc. That hasn't changed in 100 years. And don't include a line in the script like " Your plane leaves in 20 minutes, you're going to Rome". Have a game with the audience, along the lines of where are we? Simplistically you might throw in a few landmarks. Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Red Square, or some local shop signs that would give the game away, Macy's, Harrods, etc., not McDonald's for obvious reasons, but not PARIS, CHICAGO, LONDON, MOSCOW, NEW YORK. A little imagination, plz.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jan 1, 2020 16:28:20 GMT
I'd like to see - More reboots/remakes More CGI More Crossovers  |
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Jan 1, 2020 17:05:44 GMT
I'd like to see - More reboots/remakes More CGI More Crossovers Movies need less of everything you listed. We don’t need a Jurassic Park / Golden Girls cinematic event. |
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 1, 2020 17:06:28 GMT
When the story moves from one city/country to another, DON'T print the name of the new location on screen, as in PARIS, CHICAGO, LONDON, MOSCOW, NEW YORK, etc. That hasn't changed in 100 years. And don't include a line in the script like " Your plane leaves in 20 minutes, you're going to Rome". Have a game with the audience, along the lines of where are we? Simplistically you might throw in a few landmarks. Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Red Square, or some local shop signs that would give the game away, Macy's, Harrods, etc., not McDonald's for obvious reasons, but not PARIS, CHICAGO, LONDON, MOSCOW, NEW YORK. A little imagination, plz. right. i agree. why not just use a sign, like show the guy when in Virginia:  or Baltimore: 
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 1, 2020 17:06:48 GMT
I'd like to see - More reboots/remakes More CGI More Crossovers Movies need less of everything you listed. We don’t need a Jurassic Park / Golden Girls cinematic event. I just assumed he was being sarcastic.
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Post by WullieFort on Jan 1, 2020 17:14:27 GMT
When the story moves from one city/country to another, DON'T print the name of the new location on screen, as in PARIS, CHICAGO, LONDON, MOSCOW, NEW YORK, etc. That hasn't changed in 100 years. And don't include a line in the script like " Your plane leaves in 20 minutes, you're going to Rome". Have a game with the audience, along the lines of where are we? Simplistically you might throw in a few landmarks. Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Red Square, or some local shop signs that would give the game away, Macy's, Harrods, etc., not McDonald's for obvious reasons, but not PARIS, CHICAGO, LONDON, MOSCOW, NEW YORK. A little imagination, plz. right. i agree. why not just use a sign, like show the guy when in Virginia: or Baltimore: Welcome to Baltimore, Mr Bond
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 1, 2020 17:19:29 GMT
right. i agree. why not just use a sign, like show the guy when in Virginia: or Baltimore: Welcome to Baltimore, Mr Bond Felix Leiter played by this guy:
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jan 1, 2020 17:31:57 GMT
Movies need less of everything you listed. We don’t need a Jurassic Park / Golden Girls cinematic event. I just assumed he was being sarcastic. I just know how much hate they typically get so I like to 'poke the bear' so to speak That being said - I do enjoy a good remake - like Dawn of the Dead (2004) A good crossover - Freddy vs. Jason, Alien vs. Predator and I don't disdain CGI like the next guy - it just needs to be done correctly - like in I Am Legend or Terminator Salvation ( now that's sarcastic)
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jan 1, 2020 17:33:14 GMT
I'd like to see - More reboots/remakes More CGI More Crossovers Movies need less of everything you listed. We don’t need a Jurassic Park / Golden Girls cinematic event. I bet that would be a box office smash on Memorial Day Weekend - i.e. a Summer Blockbuster.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 1, 2020 18:10:17 GMT
That used to be the rule in movies. It was called an Establishing Shot. The Capitol Building for Washington, the Eiffel Tower for Paris, The Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood Sign, Mount Fuji, the Coliseum are other examples. Not used anymore because the normal clown doesn't know that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris anymore.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jan 1, 2020 18:18:20 GMT
That used to be the rule in movies. It was called an Establishing Shot. The Capitol Building for Washington, the Eiffel Tower for Paris, The Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood Sign, Mount Fuji, the Coliseum are other examples. Not used anymore because the normal clown doesn't know that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris anymore. Would people really caption 'Hollywood' under The Hollywood Sign? That's actually kind of comical and something you'd expect to see in The Naked Gun.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 1, 2020 18:37:31 GMT
That used to be the rule in movies. It was called an Establishing Shot. The Capitol Building for Washington, the Eiffel Tower for Paris, The Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood Sign, Mount Fuji, the Coliseum are other examples. Not used anymore because the normal clown doesn't know that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris anymore. not ben's for d.c.??!! 
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 1, 2020 18:38:40 GMT
That used to be the rule in movies. It was called an Establishing Shot. The Capitol Building for Washington, the Eiffel Tower for Paris, The Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood Sign, Mount Fuji, the Coliseum are other examples. Not used anymore because the normal clown doesn't know that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris anymore. Would people really caption 'Hollywood' under The Hollywood Sign? That's actually kind of comical and something you'd expect to see in The Naked Gun. The caption wasn't necessary. If the movie changed locations from say New York (Empire State, later Twin Towers) to Los Angeles, you would simply have a brief shot of the Hollywood sign. You wouldn't have had to caption "New York" if you showed the Empire State Building.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jan 1, 2020 19:08:43 GMT
Golden Girls/ Jurassic Park sounds intriguing. I guess they get Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty's DNA from a mosquito and clone them?
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 1, 2020 19:51:44 GMT
for Seattle? /cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/63311815/032119_002_JR.6.jpg) |
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Post by orlandogardner on Jan 2, 2020 13:06:16 GMT
That used to be the rule in movies. It was called an Establishing Shot. The Capitol Building for Washington, the Eiffel Tower for Paris, The Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood Sign, Mount Fuji, the Coliseum are other examples. Not used anymore because the normal American clown doesn't know that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 13:13:26 GMT
Specifically for horror films.
Move away from jump scares, to atmosphere and creeping creepyness... I don't want quiet, quiet, bang! I want the hairs on my neck to stand on end.
And lighting. Modern horrors are sometimes so dark, you can't tell what's going on. It is possible to have night/dark scenes, but still have believable lighting that works.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 2, 2020 13:22:25 GMT
That used to be the rule in movies. It was called an Establishing Shot. The Capitol Building for Washington, the Eiffel Tower for Paris, The Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood Sign, Mount Fuji, the Coliseum are other examples. Not used anymore because the normal clown doesn't know that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris anymore.For all the audience knows, they're in Vegas.
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Post by sdm3 on Jan 2, 2020 23:35:18 GMT
A recent phenomenon I’ve noticed is that movies have fixed the problem of the “nonexistent text message history.”
What I mean by this is that in previous movies, from around the early 2010s and prior, characters would receive a text message from someone they know, yet on their phone screen, the message would appear as though it’s the first one ever sent between those two people. Normally, our entire message history is accessible, extending above and beyond the screen. We simply scroll up to view all the prior messages. Yet in these movies, the message they just received would be the only one that exists on the screen. Like “hey, meet up later.” Nothing before that. That would not be the case unless it was a new contact messaging them for the first time, or unless the character routinely wiped all their message history (unlikely).
But recently, movies began to construct prior text message history on the phone screens of their characters, to make everything just that much more believable. You’d see prior messages at the top of the phone screen like “lol”, “yeah”, “can’t, I have homework”, that sort of thing.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 2, 2020 23:47:33 GMT
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