Love it! The sordid truths of data science laid bare! "We prefer subtitles over machine-learning-based detection because the presence of a cough in subtitles means it was prominent enough for a person to write it down. Also our postdoctoral fellow was the only one who completed the Tensorflow tutorial."
Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
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Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#32Counting helicopters is a counter indicator. http://0at.org/blog/movie_suck
I count 0 helicopters in the entire film.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#33Why it should win best picture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFQbjQbPq0
Do I need another reason?
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#34Counting helicopters is a counter indicator. http://0at.org/blog/movie_suck
Technically, I suppose they're ornithopters
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Dune's sounds are absolutely fantastic. Really? I can't understand a word they're muttering.
You're either deaf or unlucky. The copy of Dune I have on my hard drive sounds fine on headphones, speaker, phone, crap TV. Also sound design != Mixing dialogue.
A lot of theaters have awful mixes that make dialog harder to hear. Think there was an article about that recently.
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#36Like most films directed by Dennis Villeneuve I found Dune to be a work of art and visual masterpiece. His recount of how they prepared the set and the scene for the Gom Jabar ritual just shows how commited he is and how much passion he puts into his work. Absolute delight to watch. https://youtu.be/GoAA0sYkLI0
David Lynchs version of it is vastly underrated, Villeneuve's Dune is so much better so! Really looking forward to part two!
I don't think it's been underrated, in critics' circles, for 15-20 years or so by now. Since the tales about its production, and the related art, have fully emerged, it has been widely re-evaluated - also because Lynch has gone on to become a bit of a sacred cow after Twin Peaks and his later work.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Arrival
This is one of the few movies of the last two decades that brought me to tears at the reveal towards the end. Once it hits you, you'll look back at the entire movie in a different mindset and it's emotionally jarring. It also helps not having read the source story.
Consider editing your comment to not mention anything spoiler related. I feel the movie hits different if you’re not expecting anything.
Arrival is truly a masterpiece though. I won’t forget it as long as I live.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bladerunner 2049 is so slow with such a bland uneventful story and I don't think that cinematography or visuals are enough to compensate for a weak story. I just found the whole thing incredibly boring. To make a parallel between cinematography and special effects - I think at this point people are kind of dismissive of movies that emphasize special effects and there's this old George Lucas quote that "a special effe…
> Bladerunner 2049 is so slow with such a bland uneventful story Well, it follows a similarly slow and relatively uneventful story in the original, so that's not really a critique. That's not really the point of BladeRunner, anyway - the point is the ambience, the worldbuilding, and the philosophical questions it raises, which 2049 provides in good amount. It will never have the same cultural impact that the original…
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Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#39Like most films directed by Dennis Villeneuve I found Dune to be a work of art and visual masterpiece. His recount of how they prepared the set and the scene for the Gom Jabar ritual just shows how commited he is and how much passion he puts into his work. Absolute delight to watch. https://youtu.be/GoAA0sYkLI0
It was really beautiful but the pacing was horrible for modern attention spams. I loved the movie, but only because I read way too many of the books and played all the games and watched every Dune before it. My partner had no idea what was going on and fell asleep 1/3 of the way through... even though she is normally a movie completionist.
That dude had a certain style, cinematic intellectualism with beautiful cinematography. It's definitely not for everyone. Dune is that unique blend of world building, political intrigue, religious exploration, coming of age, and a tiny bit of action. Hard to get all of that in one movie, and the trailers made it seem more Star Wars than Blade Runner.
It's the sort of movie to watch when you're seeking quiet contemplation, not popcorn pulp...
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#40Why it should win best picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFQbjQbPq0 Do I need another reason?
Raising you the original:
DUNE (1984) - Brian Eno - Prophecy Theme: https://youtu.be/t4onBqilHvc