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Post by robocat »

hermitcrab wrote: post #284
robocat wrote: post #169

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> it was weird to see my countrymen as the cartoon baddies I really enjoyed IP Man 2 for the one dimensional portrayal of the British antagonists. Disclaimer: I’m from the colonies.

Are the "Ip Man" films supposed to be based on this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man ? The few clips I have seen seem to have no relation to the life of the historical figure whatsoever. It is so disappointing when they make a film with a real historical figure and then distort their story out of all recognition (e.g. "Dragon" for Bruce Lee and "Imitation game" for Alan Turing).

Yes.

The films are mostly entertainment only - only the facts have been changed.

The movies are hilariously sinocentric, but enjoyable for what they are. Much the same as plenty of US movies being sickeningly rah-rah the USA.

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Post by GiorgioG »

random314 wrote: post #113
GiorgioG wrote: post #99

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I don't think American films strive for believable action scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpUGB9Ap1Y

Except that it is claimed that Tom Cruise actually performed that stunt https://youtu.be/afS5ks54tms

He did, but he was strapped to the side of the plane (digitally removed to appear he was simply holding onto the plane.)

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Post by oarabbus_ »

coldtea wrote: post #211
otikik wrote: post #190

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Isn’t that a bit like saying that Australians are great at playing piano and singing songs and cracking jokes about religion because Tim Minchin exists?

No, it's more like observing that a region with 30%+ of the world's population is rising (economically, influence, cultural appeal wise, and so in) and another with a paltry 350M one appears to have had its heyday... The US had a couple of Tim Minchins back in the 18th century too, and even up to the early 20th century it wasn't that much of a deal in terms of global cultural cachet. As for GDP terms it only surpasse…

>As for GDP terms it only surpassed Great Britain around 1880 and then had its global share peak in 1960. It's been downhill since.

If you have a bizarre, adversarial world where someone else's gain is your loss, then sure. In nominal terms it's been uphill since.

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Post by Doxin »

lizardactivist wrote: post #203

It's very cool to see Blender grow bigger each year and moving into the mainstream movie production. I can recommend Blender Bob's YouTube channel, he has worked in the VFX industry for many years and primarily uses Blender and shows how VFX is made: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderBob

As long as we're doing recommendations: I can't recommend Ian Hubert enough. Especially the lazy tutorial series. They aren't good beginner tutorials at all, but they are great inspiration for once you get the blender basics down. Witty enough to watch even if you're not even using blender.

https://www.youtube.com/c/mrdodobird/videos

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Post by NavinF »

amelius wrote: post #274
NavinF wrote: post #263

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> All other FreeCAD work should stop until this gets fixed. Period. Ha ha that's exactly what would happen if FreeCAD was a company and had a product manager, but it's very unlikely that would happen organically. Maybe some day a megacorp will get so pissed off by solidworks licensing that they fork FreeCAD, rewrite opencascade, fix the high priority bugs, and release code+binaries out of spite. A man can dream.

Why? We have several open source file-systems and if they started to corrupt your harddrive, people would run away from them.

About that... https://danluu.com/filesystem-errors/

Things have gotten better, but filesystems still drop errors.

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Post by deskamess »

Melatonic wrote: post #244
bozhark wrote: post #158

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Americans are paid a higher wage. Dollar goes further with exchanges

VFX is also the one hollywood industry that is notorious for massive exploitation of the VFX artist. And also the only non unionized part.

Its tech based. And people in tech are unfortunately somewhat union agnostic or lean anti-union. The pay is so good on an individual/self basis they are happy without looking at the bigger picture of their contributions to the content.

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Post by deskamess »

krama wrote: post #69
tandr wrote: post #48

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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 am partial to #Home - an intergenerational dramedy (Malayalam, Amazon Prime).

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Post by echelon »

nicolas_t wrote: post #265
thematrixturtle wrote: post #212

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I agree with your broad assessment that the glory days of Hollywood are over, but am not quite as optimistic on the future of Asian cinema. Chinese media is crippled for the foreseeable future by heavy state censorship, including micromanagement of plotlines: can't do anything that lets the bad guys win or shows the state in a bad light. I also note you don't include Japan, which is rich and has a population of 100M+…

China's movies have peaked in the 90s. Take a director like Zhang Yimou, he hasn't made any decent movies in the las 15 years because of state censorship. None of his best movies could be directed today: To live, Ju Dou, The Story of Qiu Ju or Raise the Red Lantern. The same with Chen Kaige or any of the great directors in Mainland China. Even a relatively recent movie like Beijing bicycle would not be possible today…

I miss the Zhang Yimou that directed Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Those were some of my favorite films of that time.

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Post by Melatonic »

deskamess wrote: post #296
Melatonic wrote: post #244

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VFX is also the one hollywood industry that is notorious for massive exploitation of the VFX artist. And also the only non unionized part.

Its tech based. And people in tech are unfortunately somewhat union agnostic or lean anti-union. The pay is so good on an individual/self basis they are happy without looking at the bigger picture of their contributions to the content.

There was also a huge illegal wage fixing scheme (and later settlement) between George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and other big tech industry moguls to kill any kind of VFX or Tech union. Super illegal.

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Post by pen2l »

pen2l wrote: post #17
vipa123 wrote: post #5

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Is it any good?

I liked it. It’s like if you mix Snatch with Inglorious Bastards and then made it over-the-top cheesy. But on the topic — I think this changes everything. Blender is now literally a viable alternative against behemoth setups that easily go in 5-digits (and 6 digits if you have hundreds of designers as some shops do). It’s now crossed that magical threshold where competent firms will choose it for their projects and a…

s/the, the big buys at big chops/them, the big guys at the big shops/
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