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 04/19/2005 07:34:03 PM · #26
Originally posted by Alecia:


ah, that explains it. i wasn't a big brittany murphy fan a few years ago, so i didn't really pay attention to her stuff. but she has done some decent movies recently, so i find her more tolerable--i will definitely have to check out spun.


I don't think Brittany is someone I would be able to stand being around for more then 5 minutes, but I do think she is a great actress. She was really good in the few movies I have seen her in. Bongwater, Freeway and Spun were all great movies and she added something important to each of those films. She doesn't stand out in Sin City. Good job, but nothing spectacular.
 04/19/2005 08:06:00 PM · #27
I can see SinCity right now for free as much as I want, so i dont have to wait untill dvd (the one benefit of working at a movie theatre) Spun is great... I love that movie (jason Schwartzmann is one of my favorite actors out there right now). Only thing though was that it resembled Requiem of a Dream a little to much.

Also I completely forgot that some of Bamboozled was shot digital. Also a great flick definately recommend...

I thought episode 1 was shot digitally, but I guess I was wrong. I have a question then. How did they release it for imax then. I thought you either had to shoot with their format stock or shoot digitally and then use enhancing programs to increase the size for imax? I thought that is how they have been able release all the disney cartoons lately for imax.
 04/19/2005 08:52:56 PM · #28
Originally posted by mrmojo:
Spun is great... I love that movie (jason Schwartzmann is one of my favorite actors out there right now). Only thing though was that it resembled Requiem of a Dream a little to much.



Requiem was a good movie, but lacked the severe reality of Spun. I never really understood the specific drug that the movie cetered on. There were too many contradictions for it to have been either coke or meth. Perhaps it was a combination of the two. With Spun at least you knew. And Spun was peppered with a good dose of comedy. Green dog and all. Me and my son laughed through the whole movie. Both movies kept me on edge and made me nervous. I think that was the intended purpose of both.

04/19/2005 10:34:47 PM · #29
Originally posted by mrmojo:
I can see SinCity right now for free as much as I want, so i dont have to wait untill dvd (the one benefit of working at a movie theatre) Spun is great... I love that movie (jason Schwartzmann is one of my favorite actors out there right now). Only thing though was that it resembled Requiem of a Dream a little to much.

Also I completely forgot that some of Bamboozled was shot digital. Also a great flick definately recommend...

I thought episode 1 was shot digitally, but I guess I was wrong. I have a question then. How did they release it for imax then. I thought you either had to shoot with their format stock or shoot digitally and then use enhancing programs to increase the size for imax? I thought that is how they have been able release all the disney cartoons lately for imax.


as far as i know, episode I has never been released on imax--although episode II has. episode I was released on the TI DLP digital projection system. interestingly, rodriguez used this same projection system in his post production workflow for color correction on sin city.

other than that, imax converts with their dmr re-mastering process, which is basically scanning each frame at a high resolution, but which is still not as good as the ones created with their 70mm format. the cool thing about the new age of digital projection though, is that soon TI will be releasing a new DLP that is entirely 3D. which is hot. ;)
 04/19/2005 10:40:54 PM · #30
Originally posted by mrmojo:

One of the other reasons I heard Terentino actually shot some of it was because he has become very good in coreographing fight scenes. Rumor is he did the fight scene with Benecio Del Toro.


He directed the scene in the car, with Del Toro and Clive Owen and charged $1. This was in return for Rodriguez scoring a Kill Bill vol. 2 for $1 earlier on.

Message edited by author 2005-04-19 22:41:51.
 04/20/2005 01:33:35 AM · #31
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by mrmojo:

One of the other reasons I heard Terentino actually shot some of it was because he has become very good in coreographing fight scenes. Rumor is he did the fight scene with Benecio Del Toro.


He directed the scene in the car, with Del Toro and Clive Owen and charged $1. This was in return for Rodriguez scoring a Kill Bill vol. 2 for $1 earlier on.


That was not exactly a fight scene. I mean there was no fight. More like a Ninja slaughter.
 04/20/2005 03:37:55 AM · #32
There were two drugs in Requiem. the mom was on diet pills (speed;meth) whatever the kids are calling it these days, and the other characters were on heroine. As for the reality of Spun compared to the abstraction of Requiem, it is just a matter of personal taste. I like surrealism and neo-realism, and some like a more journalistic aproach. Nothing wrong with either side just personal choice... Its been awhile since I have seen either one, but if I remember correctly, there was definate inspiration in spun from Requiem, it did come first; and has been a staple for drug movies since. Also it got away from the druglord side of the story and looked at the user, which was the general theme for drug movies before Requiem.... Plus you cant deny the reality of requiem when he pulls up his shirt sleeve and you see his infected arm.
 04/20/2005 07:54:08 AM · #33
Originally posted by nsbca7:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by mrmojo:

One of the other reasons I heard Terentino actually shot some of it was because he has become very good in coreographing fight scenes. Rumor is he did the fight scene with Benecio Del Toro.


He directed the scene in the car, with Del Toro and Clive Owen and charged $1. This was in return for Rodriguez scoring a Kill Bill vol. 2 for $1 earlier on.


That was not exactly a fight scene. I mean there was no fight. More like a Ninja slaughter.


There was no fight. Just the scene driving to the pits when Del Toro is dead, but talking, and Clive is 'speaking' the internal monologue.
 04/20/2005 10:22:07 AM · #34
Originally posted by mrmojo:
There were two drugs in Requiem. the mom was on diet pills (speed;meth) whatever the kids are calling it these days, and the other characters were on heroine.


I'm sorry but heroine does not make you buzz away the hours and bounce off the walls. Either they were doing several drugs (and I wasn't talking about the mother) or the writers pretty much got it wrong. Heroine does not make you act the way the people in that movie acted. They were acting more like meth heads. But then again it was not meth.

As far as the arm goes, I know that something like that has happened from time to time, but I've never seen anything like that myself. It is not a common side effect of being a junky. Most peole just find a different vein to use when one they were using gets sore.
 04/20/2005 03:26:34 PM · #35
Originally posted by nsbca7:
Originally posted by mrmojo:
There were two drugs in Requiem. the mom was on diet pills (speed;meth) whatever the kids are calling it these days, and the other characters were on heroine.


I'm sorry but heroine does not make you buzz away the hours and bounce off the walls. Either they were doing several drugs (and I wasn't talking about the mother) or the writers pretty much got it wrong. Heroine does not make you act the way the people in that movie acted. They were acting more like meth heads. But then again it was not meth.

As far as the arm goes, I know that something like that has happened from time to time, but I've never seen anything like that myself. It is not a common side effect of being a junky. Most peole just find a different vein to use when one they were using gets sore.


that's cocaine. there were actually a few prevalent drugs in the movie--cocaine heroin, weed and amphetamines (diet pills) that i was aware of. the bouncing off the walls you speak of is mainly the coke--i'm sure you all know people who do it, i unfortunately see the effects of it a lot, pretty prevalent where i live. worse, heroin is making a comeback here as well, but i digress.

i would assume that the dialated pupils are from the coke, so for all we know they may have been shooting speedballs. or perhaps they were snorting it to bring themselves back up from their heroin crash. who knows. aronofsky had a pretty artistic way of portraying these scenes so the imagery intent wasn't always blatant, in-your-face obvious. as far as the arm goes, i just figured it was an infection from a dirty needle, although why he would continue to use that vein is beyond me.
 04/20/2005 03:48:26 PM · #36
Sin City, though terrifically gorey, was lacking. Seriously. If it got any cheesier I wouldn't be able to sh*t for a week. That said, anything remotely creepy/scary freaks me out so I didn't sleep for a week after watching it....and I'll never look at a Hobbit the same way - Elijah Wood was way up there on the weirdo-scale. Even weirder than the baby that can turn its head around in Trainspotting.

Message edited by author 2005-04-20 15:50:51.
 04/20/2005 08:58:42 PM · #37
Originally posted by GoldBerry:
anything remotely creepy/scary freaks me out so I didn't sleep for a week after watching it....and I'll never look at a Hobbit the same way - Elijah Wood was way up there on the weirdo-scale. Even weirder than the baby that can turn its head around in Trainspotting.


LOL! That was the wierdest part of the movie for sure. He would give you the willies with that cold blank stare. He didn't even blink when he was being eaten.
 04/20/2005 09:04:33 PM · #38
Originally posted by Alecia:

i would assume that the dialated pupils are from the coke, so for all we know they may have been shooting speedballs. or perhaps they were snorting it to bring themselves back up from their heroin crash. who knows. aronofsky had a pretty artistic way of portraying these scenes so the imagery intent wasn't always blatant, in-your-face obvious. as far as the arm goes, i just figured it was an infection from a dirty needle, although why he would continue to use that vein is beyond me.


I'll buy the speedball theory. Both movies were good, but where Requiem stretched reality to make a statement Spun did it for the sake of levity. You just have to laugh when you see that green dog or the part where Dedorah Harry punches out the wannabe gangsters.
 06/05/2005 01:32:01 PM · #39
Sin City only came out yesterday in the UK, so off I went to check it out. The film noir lighting was really well done, and some of the set pieces really looked stunning. The Bruce Willis sequence in jail really looked great. However, this was just too dark and moody without the benefit of pace and plot development for my liking, so I do feel as if I wasted over 2 hours of my life. I'd have been happy just seeing some stills from the film. Rutger Hauer was great though.

Message edited by author 2005-06-05 13:33:50.
 06/05/2005 01:52:38 PM · #40
Originally posted by BobsterLobster:
Sin City only came out yesterday in the UK, so off I went to check it out. The film noir lighting was really well done, and some of the set pieces really looked stunning. The Bruce Willis sequence in jail really looked great. However, this was just too dark and moody without the benefit of pace and plot development for my liking, so I do feel as if I wasted over 2 hours of my life. I'd have been happy just seeing some stills from the film. Rutger Hauer was great though.


You should check out the graphic novels in which the style is copied from. They combine a couple different storylines into the single movie.
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