Surely by publishing these findings it will now sabotage the predictions as it will affect the unconscious criteria/bias by raising awareness of it?
Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
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Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#52Before anyone takes this too seriously -- and it is surely too late for that -- I should point out that they did nothing to disambiguate the length of the movie. It may not be the coughgeist but the ... er ... timegeist (they should have a german word for it).
Anyway, the point is, coughs per hour would help us know if audiences simply favor longer or shorter movies at different points in time.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lynch-dune is mostly good, but Villeneuve's is so much better in a beautifully indescribable way that only cinema can really do. Villeneuve has been dreaming of making his Dune since he was a boy and it shows. ignoring the visuals, the tone is just so much more ominous and alien than Lynch's. One thing that really dates old movies versus their modern counterparts (of sorts) is the sound design. Dune's sounds are abso…
Dennis Villeneuve has been watching David Lynch's Dune since he was a boy, and it shows. Villeneuve lifted dozens of shots directly from Lynch's version, and relied on the same key scenes as the 1984 Dune. I started out impressed by all the homages to Lynch's Dune, but beyond a certain threshold "homage" becomes "ripoff". In Lynch's the Harkonen's were brutal. In Villeneuve's Dune Gurney had to explain to us that the…
They are based on a book. They adapted the key scenes from the book.
Also Lynch’s Dune descends into farcical whimsy, it’s not a good movie, although it has some good costume and set design.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#54Why it should win best picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFQbjQbPq0 Do I need another reason?
… because of a fifteen second ad for chocolate?
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#55Like 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 cinema…
I can't stand the Avengers/Marvel style of pacing and switch off immediately with the constant CGI and fighting scene.
I was completely gripped with the new Dune but God help her if she tries to watch Lawrence of Arabia, Tarkovsky (e.g. Stalker), or 2001. For me it works, I appreciate others might not like it but I thought the style was great.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#56Before anyone takes this too seriously -- and it is surely too late for that -- I should point out that they did nothing to disambiguate the length of the movie. It may not be the coughgeist but the ... er ... timegeist (they should have a german word for it). Anyway, the point is, coughs per hour would help us know if audiences simply favor longer or shorter movies at different points in time.
The German word for 'time' is 'Zeit', so that would be 'Zeitgeist' :)
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely! Villeneuve caught the Dune-universe as I pictured it in my head incredibly well, from visuals over story telling to sound. And it showed just how alien and dangerous / harsh Arrakis is. I'm just a tad worried about Feyd-Rautha so, Sting was just brilliant in that role!
Arrakis is alien but it's depicted as relatively friendly in the dream-sequences. They used sounds of waves crashing on beaches, which makes a lot of sense as to the Fremen it is their home. My only gripe is that Arrakis doesn't feel hot enough, but I also don't really care.
The Mongolian Gobi desert seems to top out at 27C - https://www.amicusmongolia.com/climate-average-monthly-tempe...
(Low of -33C, harsh)
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#58Why it should win best picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFQbjQbPq0 Do I need another reason?
sure the music was fine, it might win best achievement on music score, or music edition... but best picture? you cannot evaluate a picture from the music lol
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Not saying they had to go no-name though, plenty of good known actors out there who hasn't been in a bunch of blockbuster movies recently etc.
But I get what you're saying. Sad, because it really detracted from the movie for me.
Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes
#60Before anyone takes this too seriously -- and it is surely too late for that -- I should point out that they did nothing to disambiguate the length of the movie. It may not be the coughgeist but the ... er ... timegeist (they should have a german word for it). Anyway, the point is, coughs per hour would help us know if audiences simply favor longer or shorter movies at different points in time.
Dauergeist [dowr-ghaist]
= Durationgeist :)