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Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
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Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#102Who cares if they used Blender or Maya. As an Indian (and a South Indian at that), I must say I’m embarrassed at the level of attention this movie is getting for its over the top use of cringey special effects. There are so many other worthwhile Indian films to watch and enjoy.
Really weird that we're reviewing a movie on a tech platform. Also, your comment suggests a need for western validation which I think is not needed for Asian cinema. I just enjoy Chinese and Korean cinema for the way they are. I searched for this film and seems its loved a lot by westerners too. Sorry if I misunderstood you buddy!
Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#103I can't finish watching this movie because I do not want to see the two dudes fight each other. lol. I want to live in a world where they still BFFs.
If that’s your problem, you can watch the ending and then rewatch the whole film.
Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would you recommend to watch instead?
Given the number of movies made and regions, and decades, I’d run out of breath. But I’d start here. Malayalam Films : Known for their subtlety and craft in film making, and obsession with crime novels. Dhrishyam part 1 & 2 are like no movies I’ve seen in Hollywood. Hindi Films: Or Bollywood movies, known for their big stars, great attention to set pieces of grand dance sequence s and decent romantic comedies / sport…
> Hard to pick one as nothing has shined recently. I’d give “Zindagi Na milega dubara” / “Chak dhe” a look.
+1 for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara - one of my all time favorites. For a more recent Bollywood film, Kapoor and Sons is pretty good.
Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indian action films typically don't strive for believable action scenes, like American films do. Instead, they apply the effects and stunts excessively -- they go over the top in a major way. The embarrassment is for the comparably unsophisticated tastes, and I don't share the feeling but I can understand. It's like everyone discovering that your uncle is addicted to something cheap and insubstantial that only childr…
> Indian action films typically don't strive for believable action scenes, like American films do. I'm taking your "believable American action scenes" with a big semi full of salt.
>a big semi full of salt
Let's have the semi jump off the end of an unfinished highway overpass and do a barrel roll. While the truck is slo-mo flying through the air we'll cut to a ground shot of a middle-aged dad about to salt some meat on the grill, but the barrel-rolling truck overhead spills just the perfect amount of salt on his burgers so he just looks up and shrugs. Finally we'll cut back to the massive explosion as the truck hits the ground.
Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#106The film certainly took the level of art and craft in Indian cinema several notches up. Pleasantly surprised that some of the visual effects used the Blender pipeline. Very cool.
Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#107Who cares if they used Blender or Maya. As an Indian (and a South Indian at that), I must say I’m embarrassed at the level of attention this movie is getting for its over the top use of cringey special effects. There are so many other worthwhile Indian films to watch and enjoy.
For what it’s worth I love all S S Rajamouli movies I have seen. And like them or not, they are crazy successful.
(I haven’t seen this one yet though)
Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#108This movie is apparently available to U.S. audiences only on Netflix with a Hindi dub. I'd really like to see it in its original language with English subtitles. As well, the total size of the UHD stream is about 14 GB which isn't going to be the best quality for a 3 hour runtime.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Bluray/comments/v3fzni/rrr_bluray/
I'll watch it anyway. Looks like a fun time.
Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it any good?
It’s highly enjoyable though it is also very nationalist propaganda in parts, which foreigners won’t pick up on. For the most part it never becomes an issue because the brunt of the movie is fighting colonialism and therefore quite appropriate and incredibly good. The end credit scene is the only part that I’d consider problematic from a messaging standpoint as it takes a hard line on who they celebrate and isn’t sub…
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Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would you recommend to watch instead?
Given the number of movies made and regions, and decades, I’d run out of breath. But I’d start here. Malayalam Films : Known for their subtlety and craft in film making, and obsession with crime novels. Dhrishyam part 1 & 2 are like no movies I’ve seen in Hollywood. Hindi Films: Or Bollywood movies, known for their big stars, great attention to set pieces of grand dance sequence s and decent romantic comedies / sport…
I will also add "Andhadhun" to the list of bollywood movies. One of the best movies I have ever seen.