TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

For those interested in movie visual effects there's been a quite interesting Radio 4 series on the changes in the business over the last 45 years:

Unreal: The VFX Revolution
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xlth

Episode 1 of 3
A Long, Long Time Ago...

The story of how visual effects changed and changed cinema told from the inside by the Oscar winning Paul Franklin. In 1975, in a nondescript warehouse in Van Nuys, George Lucas and John Dykstra created a visual effects startup that would make history. Industrial Light & Magic. A group of many talents spent well over a year in R&D to perfect the dream of motion control before X-Wings and the Millennium Falcon could soar. Meanwhile the magic eye of Douglas Trumbull and his team was creating the light show for Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters. It was the beginning of a revolution.

[Liep]

New Dune trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk

[Josquius]

For those interested in movie visual effects there's been a quite interesting Radio 4 series on the changes in the business over the last 45 years:

Unreal: The VFX Revolution
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xlth

Episode 1 of 3
A Long, Long Time Ago...

The story of how visual effects changed and changed cinema told from the inside by the Oscar winning Paul Franklin. In 1975, in a nondescript warehouse in Van Nuys, George Lucas and John Dykstra created a visual effects startup that would make history. Industrial Light & Magic. A group of many talents spent well over a year in R&D to perfect the dream of motion control before X-Wings and the Millennium Falcon could soar. Meanwhile the magic eye of Douglas Trumbull and his team was creating the light show for Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters. It was the beginning of a revolution.

Strikes me radio is not the optimum medium for this kind of show

[Sheilbh]

New Dune trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk

Hyped

Although separately and I've no idea why but the Green Knight release date in the UK has been cancelled

[grumbler]

New Dune trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk

Nice, but too many random explosions.  Done right, the movie isn't about explosions.

[viper37]

New Dune trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk

Nice, but too many random explosions.  Done right, the movie isn't about explosions.

TBF, it's a trailer. If you want to catch people's eye, explosion are a sure way to do it.

[Darth Wagtaros]

New Dune trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk

Nice, but too many random explosions.  Done right, the movie isn't about explosions.

TBF, it's a trailer. If you want to catch people's eye, explosion are a sure way to do it.

Less likely to repel people than the part where Paul skins Harkonnen to make war drums.

[Syt]

https://twitter.com/TheWorstNun/status/1418251256535994374?s=20

I must not get hype. Hype is the realistic expectations-killer. Hype is the little death that brings great disappointment. I will face my hype. I will permit hype to pass over me and through me.

[The Minsky Moment]

New Dune trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk

Very bad water discipline in the opening scenes.

[FunkMonk]

That cast is amazing 

[crazy canuck]

New Dune trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk

It is time!

This is going to be great 

[Oexmelin]

It's visually very beautiful. The generic "action-movie music" + michaelbaysplosions is also keeping my expectations in check.

[Sheilbh]

It's visually very beautiful. The generic "action-movie music" + michaelbaysplosions is also keeping my expectations in check.

After Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 I'm convinced that Villeneuve will make it reasonably interesting.

I'm just worried that like them it won't do well enough with audiences or awards to justify studios giving him another chance - which would be a shame

[Oexmelin]

After Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 I'm convinced that Villeneuve will make it reasonably interesting.

I'm just worried that like them it won't do well enough with audiences or awards to justify studios giving him another chance - which would be a shame

Me too. My fear is, like Blade Runner 2049, the scenario will not be on par with the visual language and artistry. I think the seams between the tragic intimate story + the standard fare action movie in Blade Runner 2049 were showing a bit too much. I was really hyped for Blade Runner 2049, and ended up a bit disappointed because of that. Even if many of the shots, and many individual scenes I found hauntingly beautiful, the end result was a bit less than the sum of its parts.

[Sheilbh]

I don't disagree with any of that - but I still loved it. I think probably because there's not many people making mainstream films - especially in that genre - that are making interesting stuff either in ideas or visually (Blade Runner) or both (Arrival).