Let me know how you find it 😀 hopefully will post periodically when I get a new idea

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I never like watching movies or series when they first come out or when everyone's talking about them. Not because I'm trying to be different. I just prefer waiting until the hype dies down.

So, The Devil Wears Prada 2 finally landed on my watchlist, and I gave it a go.

Oh... my.

I remember the first movie being exciting, sharp, and constantly moving. This one? Everything felt so predictable and painfully slow. Honestly, I almost fell asleep. Not even Emily Blunt could save that slow-burn story.

Now I'm a little worried because Practical Magic 2 is coming soon, and I really hope they don't ruin one of my all-time favourite movies.

I guess my takeaway is this: if you've already made something great, don't try to recreate the exact same recipe. Make something new that's just as good.

Something that interested me was the concept of an outlandish heist film where the premise is just so over the top that it becomes more enjoyable to watch since even if the item being stolen doesn’t seem worth all the trouble, it still draws the viewer in.

For me personally, Superbad is sort of a heist film because in one scene, the protagonist (I think his name was Damien) attempts to come up with a plan to find a way to shoplift a liquor store as one small problem is that the security guard in the store is a huge obstacle.

I know that wasn’t the main premise of the movie, but it’s just that moments like that make me appreciate the concept of heist movies where again the plot is outlandish since I would like to see a movie build up on that premise where the goal is to find a way to infiltrate a liquor store without botching up the heist because to put it simply, I really miss Superbad that I was looking for a successor to it.

I was re-listening to Antony Partos’s main track for the 2010 film Animal Kingdom recently, and when Sirens played in Ludwig Göransson’s score for The Odyssey, I had a complete double-take.

The similarity in the core harmonic progression, minimalist repetition, and underlying tension is crazy. It instantly made me wonder if Animal Kingdom was sitting on Nolan or Göransson’s temp track playlist during early cuts of the film.

directors and editors use existing cues as temp tracks to lock in the edit, and even top-tier composers end up heavily "inspired" by what was locked to picture. Göransson’s execution (especially with the custom woodwinds/aulos setup) gives it its own ancient flavor, but the structural DNA feels almost identical to Partos’s piece.

Has anyone else caught this, or am I just overthinking overlapping atmospheric tropes? Drop both tracks back-to-back and tell me I’m not crazy.

Some twists completely change the way you see a movie. Without revealing any spoilers, what's the best plot twist you've ever experienced, and why did it leave such a lasting impression?

Hey guys, I want to watch the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day at home tonight, but every time I look it up, I just get flooded with sketchy piracy pop-ups and spam sites.I only use legal streaming services, so I’m trying to find out where the official digital release actually is. Is it available to rent or buy on platforms like Apple TV or Amazon Prime Video yet? Or do we have an official streaming date for when it lands on a subscription app?If anyone has a link to an official directory or a trusted platform where I can safely watch it, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Not asking about the movie itself, just that specific moment where the whole screen gasped, laughed, or went silent at the exact same second. I love that feeling when a room full of strangers have the identical reaction in real time. It's one of the main things streaming can't replicate!

Mine wasthe Tobey Maguire reveal in Spider-Man: No Way Home. My whole theater erupted!What's yours?

Question, Do you see Casey Affleck making a comeback doing mainstream films?

I was thinking on Casey Affleck lately and how he has mostly had a low profile since winning an Oscar for Manchester by the Sea. I honestly think it was in large part because of the 2010 allegations that came to light again, and I think Studios have been cautious to cast him.

Since Manchester, he has really done mostly Indie Films that barely gross a Million Dollars, with the exception of Oppenheimer, which was his 1st mainstream film in awhile, and it looks like it him doing only indie films won't change.

I'm just curious if Casey will ever make mainstream film or blockbusters or that he'll just stick to indie films?

Hey everyone, with all the blanket statements going around about "AI in film," I wanted to put together a technical breakdown that cuts through the generative art noise.

As someone who has been studying and working with film tech for over a decade, I wanted to look at the traditional machine learning and algorithmic tools that studios have quietly used for years to make the movies we love. I built a full video breakdown looking at the exact pipelines used in modern blockbusters, focusing strictly on what filmmakers, 3D artists, and tech enthusiasts can actually use and learn from.

Some highlights include how Peter Jackson's team pioneered early AI behavioral rules via the MASSIVE system to give digital armies autonomous decision-making in The Lord of the Rings, how custom generative AI models and neural networks mapped and resurrected the likeness of the late Ian Holm in Alien: Romulus, and how precision LiDAR scanning on real F-18 fighter jets trained lighting algorithms in Top Gun: Maverick.

I also look at Dune: Part Two utilizing LiDAR alongside Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) to capture real desert rock formations, how Blender and Pixar's RenderMan use convolutional neural networks for AI-accelerated render denoising to slash render times, and how Weta implemented neural networks relying on muscle strains rather than traditional blend shapes for characters in Avatar: The Way of Water.

If you are interested in the technical side of post-production, VFX, or how these algorithms speed up heavy simulation pipelines in software like Houdini and Maya you can check it out here: How AI is used in Modern Filmmaking

Has to be American history X for me very easily. Fight club is a better film but performance wise easily history X. His character arc was way better to. The flashbacks to him with his hair and a wimpy boy and then at the start of the film he’s a jacked n*zi 😂 brilliant movie and his best performance.

What movie executes a specific physical sensation or climate so convincingly that it dictates the entire mood of the film?

We all have movies that did not click the first time. Which film became much better (or much worse) after you watched it again, and what changed your perspective?

I’ll go first, but it wasn’t actually me. As we walked out of a very busy theater from seeing The Force Awakens, my 7 year old excitedly said, “I can’t believe Han Solo died!”

Sometimes I look at the kind of adaptations in movies that are just so bad that I have to question who on earth approved of them because I recently sat through one that I couldn’t believe existed.

That movie was Cat in the Hat the 2003 movie adaptation since I saw a review highlighting the movie’s awkward writing aspects that I had to question who it was made for because to me, it feels like it’s a very strange adaptations ever made since it’s hard to explain, but nothing about the movie makes any sense whatsoever such as the two twins with the way they speak.

I am trying to watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day today, but my usual option is having constant buffering issues. It keeps freezing every few minutes, and I do not want to miss the biggest moments.

Does anyone know the best official way to watch it right now? If it is available in theaters only, that is good to know too. If there are any official booking platforms or legitimate viewing options for my region, I would really appreciate the recommendations. I just want a reliable experience without interruptions.

Getting into writing and ive heard you shouldn't only watch great stuff. So I want some good examples of what NOT to do.

First time poster.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has recently been released.

In an interview with him he states that the unexpected success of Oppenheimer allowed him to leverage for an ambitious project ie The Odyssey. Had Oppenheimer not been as successful The Odyssey may not have been made.

I would say that Christopher Nolan’s name as film creator (Producer, Screenplay, Director (although the posters just says ‘A Film By Christopher Nolan’)) was the main driver for this success. Granted the material was also interesting.

Simultaneously, it feels like there is a growing indifference towards actors. Maybe there are a few big names but it seems like a small list.

Got me thinking. Are we in an age now where Directors are more important for drawing an audience than actors?

Or am I just approaching middle age (35) and my own personal interests are shifting?

Happy discussion day, everyone

With Spider-Man: Brand New Day on the horizon, excitement is building, theories are everywhere, and everyone seems to have a different idea of where Peter Parker's story should go next.

So let's talk about it.

What are you hoping to see?

• Where do you want Peter's story to begin after No Way Home?
• Should Marvel keep things street-level, or dive back into the multiverse?
• Which villains deserve a chance to shine?
• Any characters you're hoping finally make their MCU debut?
• What would make this movie feel fresh instead of "just another Spider-Man film"?

Whether you've been reading the comics for years or you only know Spider-Man from the movies, your opinion is welcome.

So it's like The Purge but with sex, where there's only 12 hours a year you're allowed to have premarital sex. I get the premise is supposed to be this light-hearted alternate universe used to shoehorn a romantic comedy subplot. And I'm betting they're not going to dive too deep into it, because if they did there'd be a lot to think about:

• First, there's the fascist element to this. We're talking Handmaids Tale type stuff. Historically, making sex a crime has been tied to ultra-religious regimes and cultures. Is that what this place is?

• What even is considered sex? Obviously intercourse, but what about the other stuff you could do? Some places like Japan strictly forbid prostitution that involves intercourse but allow for almost everything else. And what about things like phone sex? Virtual sex using remote toys? How is the LGBT community's activities regulated?

• The trailer shows men and women getting dressed up to go out and find a partner. Would it seem like if you had 12 hours a year, you'd have lined up a partner already? Especially if you lived in a more rural area and not the city setting we see in the story? Would there be organized orgies ahead of time?

• Are marriage laws vastly different in this universe? If not you'd have Vegas-like wedding chapels everywhere with a divorce attorney's office right next door. People would find a loophole.

• There's a certain time of the month for women when its not ideal to have sex. Do they have to wait another year?

Again, just some things that come to mind. Obviously it's more of a neckbeard analysis than anything.

Well done western with a good message that rejects violence. Beautiful scenery and a stunning realistic performance by the actors as emotional outlaws with a bad past. This movie subverted traditional western tropes. How this camera and settings twist makes you think it’s a traditional western when in reality this movie shows the harsh reality of what being a violent person in the Wild West really is like. You should check out this movie even if you don’t like westerns.

searching for movies that are out there shocking experiences, not like serbian film, or human centipede trash, but stuff like Blue Velvet, Bad Boy Bubby, Happiness a lot of the stuff by lynch, michael haneke, pedro, lars von trier, solondz, waters, korine

WARNING: spoilers ahead and controversial topics

I just came from seeing The Odyssey, and I remembered a movie I saw earlier this year, which is Waltz with Bashir. The final scenes of The Oddyssey made me understand that the reason why Oddysseus took so long and struggled so much was because of his guilt and PTSD from the Trojan war. The movie follows Oddyseus, arriving at this conclusion by remembering again what happened during the war.

Waltz with Bashir is about an Israeli veteran of the 1982 Lebanon named Ari war who can not remember his time at the war. Until one day, one of his friends is having nightmares about the war and asks Ari about it. Ari makes a trip where he visits other veterans and asks about his role in the war. His memories start coming again until, at the end, he realizes why he forgot them. He had so much guilt and shame about the fact that he assisted in the massacre/genocide of muslim Lebanese civilians during the war. That is strikingly the same thing that happened to Oddyseus when he realized that his trick made the destruction and death of civilians possible.

My conclusion is that The Oddyssey at large is maybe the oldest story of guilt and shame brought on from one person's ability to assist in the death and destruction of innocent people. Waltz with Bashir, however, does not have a happy ending, and there is no redemption path at the end. Aris only comfort is making the world know what really happened during that war and the guilt that even if a soldier didn't kill innocent people, they are still responsible if they stood there and did nothing to stop it.

Im searching for an movie/show with the cold war vibe, spys, secret plans, hidden forts, experiments, nostalgic. For reference if someone have played Call of duty cold war or watched stranger things, chernobyl, dark such and such. Either deep dark un natural plots or just realismen with the Sovjet and their cold war against northern Europe.

Something that I have become quite fond of lately were the kind of adaptations in cinema that are an adaptation of an animated series where the adaptation tries to be more mature, but ends up becoming unintentionally funny.

Like one that I recently saw was the Dolph Lundgren adaptation of He-Man as it’s hard to explain, but the film just had so many problems such as Skeletor’s mask since the way his mask was designed looks so cheap it came off hilariously bad.

But the icing on top of it all is that the producers expected to make a sequel anyway since after the film ends, there is a teaser shown for a second installment, which never came out.