TV/Movies Megathread

[Berkut]

We have spent way too much energy on a couple trailers...

You have better things to do? Good for you!

[celedhring]

Arguing about trailers is wholesome geekness. Feel no shame.

[HVC]

speaking of trailers one is unsure of, anyone see the new batman? I can't decide if i like it. to stay with the theme the last few pages, the movie is dark and i guess that's officially batmans voice now. Colin Farrell's make up is really good, but his Di Nero impression is not.

[celedhring]

speaking of trailers one is unsure of, anyone see the new batman? I can't decide if i like it. to stay with the theme the last few pages, the movie is dark and i guess that's officially batmans voice now. Colin Farrell's make up is really good, but his Di Nero impression is not.

I'm a huge Bats fan and I felt totally disinterested throughout. I think it's might be just Batman fatigue though, there's been just way too many movies featuring him in the past 15 years. And it looks like he'll be in The Flash movie now, too...

[The Larch]

speaking of trailers one is unsure of, anyone see the new batman? I can't decide if i like it. to stay with the theme the last few pages, the movie is dark and i guess that's officially batmans voice now. Colin Farrell's make up is really good, but his Di Nero impression is not.

I'm a huge Bats fan and I felt totally disinterested throughout. I think it's might be just Batman fatigue though, there's been just way too many movies featuring him in the past 15 years. And it looks like he'll be in The Flash movie now, too...

Yeah, Batman has featured in 4 movies since the end of the Nolan trilogy (Batman vs Superman, the Justice League one, two if you count the Snyder cut as a separate film, and the cameo in Suicide Squad, and that's without counting the Joker standalone film in which a pre-Batman Bruce Wayne also features) with a further 2 announced (this one and the Flash one, as you say). That's way too much, the character should take a 5-10 year break or so.

[Sheilbh]

speaking of trailers one is unsure of, anyone see the new batman? I can't decide if i like it. to stay with the theme the last few pages, the movie is dark and i guess that's officially batmans voice now. Colin Farrell's make up is really good, but his Di Nero impression is not.

I like the look of it but I quite like Robert Pattinson and think he'll be good. I've also more or less ignored the Affleck/Snyder films because life's too short (I've never liked a Snyder film) - so I'm just about ready for a new Batman film.

And I suspect I'm not alone. I think there might be a fair few casual viewers who liked the Nolan films but swerved the ones in between given they were generally poorly reviewed and will come back if this gets decent reviews.

[viper37]

So yeah, it's a movie, have some candles and even some torches lit outside of in daytime, sets some mood and so on. But don't light up a village inn like it's Disneyland, it ruins my mood and very much breaks my immersio at least.

Well, look at it this way.  In LOTR, the only character you need to be introduced to is Aragorn.  The Hobbits, you saw them in full daylight.  You can concentrate on giving lights to Aragon only, once he steps out of the shadows to be noticed.  The others?  We don't care.  We don't need to see details on the crowd.

Here, presumably, you get to see most of the party that will travel the world to have adventures.  What's the alternative?  Have it set during a sunny day.  But you lose the impact of the arrival of a shadowy stranger in a dark night at a crowded inn where everyone seems to know everyone.  Imho, the scene would not have worked well in full daylight, as strangers & mysterious wanderers are always less scary during the day than at night.

I did not really notice anything wrong about the costumes, but I ain't an expert of these books, so I'll pass. 

[viper37]

They don't use historical, natural lighting in shows or movies set in todays time.

Last of the Mohican did.  That's why you can barely see some people until they step forward toward a light source.

I will pass on trying to watch a show using historical, natural lighting set in medieval times where there is an insistence that it actually be lit naturally. You might as well just listen to an audiobook in that case.

But I agree with you.  For a tv show where you introduce a lot of characters, it's a major inconvenient.  Some realism has to be sacrificed, sometimes.

[viper37]

Could someone film the same scene lit in a way that seemed "realistic" without being completely dark? Probably... though I"m not a lighting director, so I can't say for sure.

You would need an artificial light source outside of the field of vision of the cameras.  Then people would complain it's way too bright for the number of candles they have on the screen.

[viper37]

I demand plate mail bikinis.

Plate armour intended to be absurdly sexy, emphasizing sexual characteristics, is not so unrealistic after all ... modern film-makers just got the wrong sex!

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/tower-london-henry-viii-codpiece-21048742.amp

There's no such thing as double standards in fantasy clothing


Women were totally comprehensive of the situation, too.

[The Larch]

I admit I was skeptic at first, but if Netfilx's Cowboy Bebop show is going to be like this then I think it'll be great fun. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JDWm1f6-M0

[The Minsky Moment]

Everybody has their own standards on that kind of thing. 

I used to have mine but eventually one tires of shouting "Objection - Sustained" every time a TV lawyer asks an improper question (i.e most of them).

[The Brain]

I have yet to tire of saying "the defense breasts" at the TV.

[Sheilbh]

Everybody has their own standards on that kind of thing. 

I used to have mine but eventually one tires of shouting "Objection - Sustained" every time a TV lawyer asks an improper question (i.e most of them).

UK lawyers get very annoyed at people shouting "objection" or judges having gavels in UK legal dramas, because we've just stolen it from US TV

[crazy canuck]

Everybody has their own standards on that kind of thing. 

I used to have mine but eventually one tires of shouting "Objection - Sustained" every time a TV lawyer asks an improper question (i.e most of them).

UK lawyers get very annoyed at people shouting "objection" or judges having gavels in UK legal dramas, because we've just stolen it from US TV

Yeah, watching Canadian shows where counsel carry on like lawyers on US TV is a bit off putting.  And would probably get a lawyer in a bit of trouble in reality.  Here we rise if we wish to make an objection and wait for the Judge to indicate that they wish hear what we wish to say.  Normally it goes something like : CC stands up - and thankfully that it rather noticeable; then the judge says Mr. CC do you have an objection?