OT: Movies/TV Shows

[CH1]

I’m impressed I’m only learning this now….I think I’d have mentioned it every time Tarantino was brought up in this thread.

It only sounds impressive to me in hindsight — in fact I forgot about it until a friend I saw RD with reminded me.

It was a more naive time — and more ramshackle perhaps — so these encounters were more common. There are so many filmmakers/comedians I spoke to back then that now would be sheltered by 2-3 handlers

 

[CH1]

I mean you don't have to go to festivals to see those flicks so you're only going to tiff to see and be seen. Which is fine.

I disagree. There are so many films I want to see that are not streaming anywhere.

I agree that TIFF has been a scene and be seen event but it wasn’t always that way. Their were galas for that type of “fan” but lots of stuff that only snobs and nerds attended.

I still know a few old school nerds that make the effort out of habit but most of them gave up like me

 

[LeafOfFaith]

It only sounds impressive to me in hindsight — in fact I forgot about it until a friend I saw RD with reminded me.

It was a more naive time — and more ramshackle perhaps — so these encounters were more common. There are so many filmmakers/comedians I spoke to back then that now would be sheltered by 2-3 handlers

It’s funny because every movie’s release in LA is sort of a festival in and of itself, celebrating just the one film. And usually there’s a solid contingency from the actors who come to the after party and just hang. No security, no nothing. Like, when that Sorkin Lucy movie with Bardem and Kidman premiered, Sorkin and Kidman attended the after party at a small restaurant and just hung in the bar area with no security and taking questions from average shmoes who just want to fawn over them. It kind of amazes me every time.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

I disagree. There are so many films I want to see that are not streaming anywhere.

I agree that TIFF has been a scene and be seen event but it wasn’t always that way. Their were galas for that type of “fan” but lots of stuff that only snobs and nerds attended.

I still know a few old school nerds that make the effort out of habit but most of them gave up like me

Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff that is still months away from being released.

 

[CH1]

That’s cool. And makes sense that it would be more relaxed in LA.

I did meet the cast of Brooklyn 99 when I saw Perretti do standup in MTL 5 yrs ago. No handlers. Just friends watching a friend do standup

 

[LeafOfFaith]

That’s cool. And makes sense that it would be more relaxed in LA.

I did meet the cast of Brooklyn 99 when I saw Perretti do standup in MTL 5 yrs ago. No handlers. Just friends watching a friend do standup

I met Sandler at his recent Netflix basketball movie premiere after party. Not much of a chatter, but Ted Sarandos who was near him actually was, and such an engaging and super cool dude who I talked to, just me and him, for like 10-15 minutes.

 

[zeke]

So Ahsoka is kinda great.

That's two in a row bangers for the star wars universe now.

 

[MindzEye]

Yeah, I fucks with it.

 

[mbow30]

the actress playing Sabine is a big time weak link imo. Uninteresting and unconvincing.

ep 5 (entirely without Sabine) is fantastic. The young asokha sequence (and actress playing here) is outstanding.

 

[zeke]

The acting was cringe all around to start (even rosario) but it's picked up very well all around....

Spoiler: ...and somehow they even....

turned Hayden Christensen into a good actor!!!

If only we had even a taste of that annakin in the prequels.

Filoni did the impossible - completely saved both the Annakin character and the actor.

Oh and of course

Spoiler

Baylan Skol has been perfect from the start.

 

[Habspatrol]

The acting was cringe all around to start (even rosario) but it's picked up very well all around....

Spoiler: ...and somehow they even....

turned Hayden Christensen into a good actor!!!

If only we had even a taste of that annakin in the prequels.

Filoni did the impossible - completely saved both the Annakin character and the actor.

Oh and of course

Spoiler

Baylan Skol has been perfect from the start.

Don't forget about my boy, David Tennant killing it as Huyang.

 

[LeafGm]

The acting was cringe all around to start (even rosario) but it's picked up very well all around....

Spoiler: ...and somehow they even....

turned Hayden Christensen into a good actor!!!

If only we had even a taste of that annakin in the prequels.

Filoni did the impossible - completely saved both the Annakin character and the actor.

Oh and of course

Spoiler

Baylan Skol has been perfect from the start.

RIP Titus Pullo. It’s both great to see and sucks that he’s been so good in what turned out to be his final role.

And honestly,

Spoiler

Mannequin Skywalker

has been a highlight in both of the Star Wars series he’s had a cameo in. Doing a decent job of proving the theory that George Lucas’s bad writing and hack direction were largely to blame for his wooden performance in the movies.

 

[mbow30]

The acting was cringe all around to start (even rosario) but it's picked up very well all around....

Spoiler: ...and somehow they even....

turned Hayden Christensen into a good actor!!!

If only we had even a taste of that annakin in the prequels.

Filoni did the impossible - completely saved both the Annakin character and the actor.

Oh and of course

Spoiler

Baylan Skol has been perfect from the start.

Yeah and the acting magically got better when we saw less of her.

hopefully it stays that way here on out. Nearly gave up on it after Ep 3.

 

[mbow30]

RIP Titus Pullo. It’s both great to see and sucks that he’s been so good in what turned out to be his final role.

And honestly,

Spoiler

Mannequin Skywalker

has been a highlight in both of the Star Wars series he’s had a cameo in. Doing a decent job of proving the theory that George Lucas’s bad writing and hack direction were largely to blame for his wooden performance in the movies.

they’ve opened up some new opportunities for the character, too.

 

[Montana]

@WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou watched High Noon……lived up to the billing, and then some. incredible flick.

unreal how brilliant some of these remastered black and white films look…..bought it off Amazon and it says it’s only HD, but it looked better than 85% of the 4K flicks I own.

was surprised to learn it came out after colour was the norm, and that it was made on a relatively shoestring budget for the day. ($700k…then made $12m at the box office).

Felt Hitchcockian at times, with how masterful it was building tension.

Great subtext re: blacklisting in Hollywood, Mccarthyism, The Red Scare, etc….

That crane shot of Gary Cooper in the street sweating bullets, as it slowly pulls back…abandoning him on the street, and he turns and walks to take on Frank Miller.


masterpiece.

 

[Slinger 48]

I watched High Noon years ago. First when I was a kid, probably 11 or 12, and later on maybe a couple more times. I think it's time to watch it again.

 

[JackBurton]

Sometimes "Classic" movies don't live-up to the hype. High Noon does. Masterpiece!

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

A couple of things...

High Noon was released in 1952. Color movies were becoming more common then but they didn't comprise 50% or more of all movies being made until 1954. And it wasn't until 1953 when movies switched from being filmed in a 4:3 aspect ratio into a 16:9 widescreen format. So if you saw High Noon in "HD" then it would have been stretched to fit although I'm sure that they probably made it look good by restoring it digitally.

And yes it was bang on with regard to the McCarthy era blacklisting. That's probably why John Wayne hated it so much since he simped for the blacklisters.

 

[Montana]

A couple of things...

High Noon was released in 1952. Color movies were becoming more common then but they didn't comprise 50% or more of all movies being made until 1954.

And it wasn't until 1953 when movies switched from being filmed in a 4:3 aspect ratio into a 16:9 widescreen format. So if you saw High Noon in "HD" then it would have been stretched to fit although I'm sure that they probably made it look good by restoring it digitally.

yeah I think they made a “4K restoration” Blu-Ray back in 2019….and this is what’s used to the digital version.



I’m still kinda gobsmacked by just how amazing it looked…legitimately one of the most visually impressive movies I’ve watched this year.

And yes it was bang on with regard to the McCarthy era blacklisting. That's probably why John Wayne hated it so much since he simped for the blacklisters.

John Ford too apparently.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

I remember the late Roger Ebert telling the story of an outdoor film festival he went to in Chicago. They were playing "Singin' In The Rain", a song and dance movie starring Gene Kelly that was made in 1952 when movies were shown on square screens. The festival organizers feared that modern audiences wouldn't be comfortable with the original format so they formatted it to fit the widescreen. Unfortunately, as Ebert pointed out, the effect of the formatting meant that Gene Kelly's feet were cut out of the picture. So here you had a movie centered around the fancy footwork of Gene Kelly and you couldn't actually see his feet, which defeated the entire purpose of seeing the movie in the first place.

I recall Ebert also lamenting the day he was a guest speaker at a film school class filled with wannabe "auteurs", some of whom confessed to him that they had never seen a black and white movie in their lives and had no intention of doing so. They also thought that the greatest movie ever made was "Fight Club". Little wonder why 90% of all movies made today are absolute derivative shit.