Counting helicopters is a counter indicator. http://0at.org/blog/movie_suck
What do you mean, all these pictures are superb: https://twitter.com/chopperfireball
Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
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Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
It got progressively bad and by the end the director's touch was nowhere to be seen, just rushing to finish the story and blasting that overbearing Hans Zimmer score. Then the final line "This is only the beginning" came. Meanwhile, “Blade Runner”, “Arrival”, “Prisoners”, “Sicario” are all great.
That's a hot take. What didn't you like about it, specifically? Aside from the best score ever made by Hans Zimmer?
It has always weirded me out that Zimmer keeps getting jobs. His overly pathetic drone has always been like a parody soundtrack. But people plays it straight as if he is actually making something that adds to the movies. Dune was peak Zimmer so if you like him I guess it makes sense to call it his best. But to me it was him making fun of himself with a straightface and nobody calls him out on it.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It got progressively bad and by the end the director's touch was nowhere to be seen, just rushing to finish the story and blasting that overbearing Hans Zimmer score. Then the final line "This is only the beginning" came. Meanwhile, “Blade Runner”, “Arrival”, “Prisoners”, “Sicario” are all great.
That's a hot take. What didn't you like about it, specifically? Aside from the best score ever made by Hans Zimmer?
While I loved the overall production, for me the choice of actors for several of the side characters actually made it feel like a more generic Hollywood action movie.
For me it had been better to pick less well-used actors than Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem etc. Just robbed it of some of the mystique I think.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#44> Editor’s Note: The claims in this paper have not been verified because the researchers have refused to yield their full dataset and methodology, citing “intellectual property rights,” “the sanctity of the First Amendment,” and “the Wright brothers never had to show their work.” We are publishing their paper here because they won’t stop mailing hard copies in triplicate to our homes and offices. Love it.
Also:
> 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.
lol
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#45The best bit about this is that the authors registered that entire domain purely so the article could have a vaguely official-looking URL.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#46Like 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 got progressively bad and by the end the director's touch was nowhere to be seen, just rushing to finish the story and blasting that overbearing Hans Zimmer score. Then the final line "This is only the beginning" came. Meanwhile, “Blade Runner”, “Arrival”, “Prisoners”, “Sicario” are all great.
"the end the director's touch was nowhere to be seen"
...did we see the same movie? It's a Villeneuve piece through and through.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#47Why it should win best picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFQbjQbPq0 Do I need another reason?
Flow state achieved.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a hot take. What didn't you like about it, specifically? Aside from the best score ever made by Hans Zimmer?
While I loved the overall production, for me the choice of actors for several of the side characters actually made it feel like a more generic Hollywood action movie. For me it had been better to pick less well-used actors than Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem etc. Just robbed it of some of the mystique I think.
You need big names if you want big bucks nowadays.
Unless you're a studio onto yourself, there's no way you can get $150M+ of funding for movie with only no-names as leads.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#49Coughing is satisfyingly human and easy to connect to, but is also slightly distracting.
So, when it is just the right amount, it makes for awards, but when too much - especially in a thriller - it gets panned.
By extension, eating and sleeping could work, though that is boring.
Now, if there was just some other vice that wasn't boring.... wait! So that is why porn is so popular ;)
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bladerunner 2049 is amazing as is Arrival and Sicario.
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…
Not everything is a space opera (Lucas' is terrific!). 2048 has strong emotions stretched over a weak story. 1984's somehow had more story, but also quite slow paced.
Some of my favorite movies almost don't have a story at all, neither sfx.