maegul
@maegul@lemmy.ml
A little bit of neuroscience and a little bit of computing
- Comment on David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' dies at 78 5 days ago:
Season 2, episodes 9 to the last two or so, IIRC.
The magic was definitely gone, but if you know ahead of time that patch kinda has its charm as a mid season spin off.
- Comment on David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' dies at 78 5 days ago:
Hits me pretty hard TBH. No other celebrity/artist death has like this for me.
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 2 weeks ago:
I wish i could put a finger on what the movie was missing.
Yep. That’s the thing … It’s hard to work out, but I think there’s something missing from Eggers. Like he needs to work with a few great writers just learn some master craftsperson skills.
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 2 weeks ago:
Interesting! I haven’t seen Murnau’s, but Herzog’s and Coppola’s (if that counts). Interestingly, I don’t remember much of Herzog’s at all apart from enjoying Kinski.
Which forces me to wonder if it isn’t that great a story, or at least not worth remaking. I’m not convinced that the whole “he’s coming” thing, after having literally been in his castle for a whole sequence, really works. I think in the three tellings of the story I’ve seen (including Eggers’), I’ve probably felt a let down from that structure.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 2 weeks ago:
Good Will Hunting comes to mind as one that hasn’t already been mentioned.
As one of his non comedic roles, I’d say he kills it and kinda steals the show.
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 2 weeks ago:
Let me know what you think of it!
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes it slipped a little into a parody of the original
Yea, there was definitely a ridiculousness to the tone at times. I read one critic say that they thought they could hear Eggers laughing in joy behind the camera.
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 2 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 2 weeks ago:
It certainly is effective! Interesting that you found the castle sequence to drag! For me it captured a heightened but still realistic/grounded horror feeling very well. Like I could imagine being in that situation and just believing that you’re having bad dreams when really you’re in a demonic lair, with that realisation haunting you in the periphery of your mind.
“Feeling” long is a good way of capturing what I’m saying I think. Thanks! The way I put it to someone else was that it lost its momentum too easily and readily and too often. To the point where it feels like a once over in the writing or editing could probably elevate the whole film.
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- Comment on After a disastrous opening, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim heads to digital on Dec 27th 4 weeks ago:
Sad to hear. Though it always felt like a hard sell TBH, just a bit niche for todays cinema world.
- Comment on Trams are expensive here 4 months ago:
Oh yea, I hear you.
What your point does though is open up the discussion about whether enforcement makes financial sense in isolation. And once you open that door, the whole becomes uncomfortable for a lot of people who are stuck in a simple black-and-white justice mentality, where “do what you’re supposed, pay what they charge, or be punished” is all there is to making the world work well. You know, “law and order” types.
You’re trying to talk about incentives. For many though that’s a very dangerous slippery slope. So I’m trying to get a head of that and wonder if the end of that slippery slop is actually a demonstrably good thing.
- Comment on Trams are expensive here 4 months ago:
I remember hearing rumours during the role out that tech employees were found asking for help on forums in ways that weren’t promising for the health and talent of the people building it.
But yea, it’s the embarrassment of this sort of stuff that must be masking the real financials of PT and how viable a free system would be.
- Comment on Trams are expensive here 4 months ago:
Yea I’ve kept track of how often I’ve encountered inspectors, and most of the time it’d be worth it to not get the ticket or not tap on. Sometimes though I’ve noticed an increase in the number of inspectors that would definitely shift the equation. Also train stations with gates complicate the matter.
I don’t know if it’s out there, but I’d personally like to know how the finances come out for making PT free. You obviously lose revenue, but also all the overhead of paying for inspectors and for all of the ticketing infrastructure. I also wonder if the part that makes the finances work is all the fines collected, which would be pretty fucking shithouse if true.
- Comment on Denis Villeneuve Says ‘Dune 3’ Is ‘Not Like a Trilogy’ and Will Be His Last ‘Dune’ Movie: Other Directors Could Take Over So ‘I’m Not Closing the Door’ on the Franchise 4 months ago:
Funny to only ask/report on Zendaya if she’d come back after Messiah.
- Comment on Lord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Books 4 months ago:
Similarly, heroes are emphasised in the film more and villains under emphasised. Sauron, Saruman and Denethor all having less screen time than mentions.
That Sam is relatively underplayed is interesting also.
- Comment on About THAT one obviously bad part in Alien Romulus [SPOILERS] 4 months ago:
Yea, let’s get the “puppet cut”!
It was clearly a fuck up, and the film is almost lucky to have been so good in almost every other aspect that we can forgive the ash synth CGI.
It would be really cool if someone just put the work in to clean it up for a blue ray release or something, just for the fans and the franchise, which is going on 45 yrs now, as old as Star Wars.
- Comment on Fedi Film Club Live Watch Thread - Sun, 7pm CT (Central Time, USA) - August 4 months ago:
Maybe, I’m not in the US, so I’m not sure. Time and date dot com C (see link in post) says CT is no different from CDT, so I figured it was convenient. But I’m going there’s a more commonly used Timezone that would be better?
- Comment on About THAT one obviously bad part in Alien Romulus [SPOILERS] 4 months ago:
Yea I agree, a simpler approach could have been taken. Though I don’t think any of the film’s fan service was intended to be subtle.
I personally liked the appearance of an Ash type synth. I think it adds weight to the sense of synchronicity of Romulus and Alien 1. Shame about the execution of it and the focus they put on it, of course.
- Comment on 😳😳😳 4 months ago:
So … you seen Romulus?
- Comment on 😳😳😳 4 months ago:
That is beautiful! Thank you, made my day.
- Comment on Results - Fedi Film Club - "Fringe Theatre" (August) 4 months ago:
Thank you!!
- Comment on Dredd (2012) - Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 4 months ago:
Oh yea, that makes sense especially the slowmo scenes, which IMO work without 3D. For me the film was always about Karl Urban’s clenched-jaw dialogue.
- Comment on About THAT one obviously bad part in Alien Romulus [SPOILERS] 4 months ago:
There’s also no reason at all that it had to be Ian Holm, other than misguided continuity porn. Him being the same model as Ash has zero bearing whatsoever on either this story or the lore as a whole.
I don’t think this is true. It connects what’s happening on Romulus/Remus station with the Nostromo and heavily implies that Ash was always on the Nostromo because it was always intended to rendezvous with the planet/moon (LV-426) and that the Ash model was in some way ideal for or dedicated to the xeno/goo research program.
I can’t recall the exact details, but from Rook’s info-dump we know he is aware of the events in Prometheus to some extent, in which case it makes sense that WY were aware of something valuable being out there. It’s explicit in Alien that Ash was added to the crew last minute and so it’s clearly implied that his ulterior motives originated from before the launch of the Nostromo. That Rook is the same model adds weight to this.
It also kinda widens the range of things happening simultaneously in the alien universe in a relatively organic fashion. David (prometheus) could still be out there or his ship in some way, and Rain is now out there, and they both have the black-goo, plus the planet in Engineer planet in Covenant, the planet in Prometheus, the surviving Queen from Aliens (?) and maybe the ship from LV-426 survives the nuclear blast to some extent … all within decent time-proximity that some creative license could easily leverage.
- Comment on Dredd (2012) - Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 4 months ago:
it leaned in on 3d at a time where people were getting tired of it.
I’d completely forgotten it was in 3D. I think I saw it in the cinema in 2D and I’ve definitely seen it since in 2D, so I guess the whole 3D thing didn’t quite register for me.
But yea, this makes a lot of sense. Shame really becuase the film does not need the 3D thing at all!
- Comment on First "Ever frame a painting" video in 8 years 4 months ago:
Yea even this one demonstrates this … the sheer density of cinematic references on visual display without any need for explicit description.
- Comment on First "Ever frame a painting" video in 8 years 4 months ago:
It’d be interesting to see how the stack up today and how the feel to someone watching them the first time now. My (obviously biased) prediction is that they’d maybe lack a certain kind of production polish but have a higher content quality and density that’d feel strange compared to a lot other YT content.
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- Comment on About THAT one obviously bad part in Alien Romulus [SPOILERS] 4 months ago:
Yea interesting. I’d bet the animatronic also landed somewhere in the uncanny valley. Which is why I feel like the problem is that they wanted to put a spot light on the character. The better option is to cleverly obscure it just enough. Broken mechanics/manerisms as I suggested would be one way … shadows another. Full on close ups were not the right choice. In the end it was probably a misstep by a director not experienced enough with that sort of effect.
- Comment on About THAT one obviously bad part in Alien Romulus [SPOILERS] 4 months ago:
Ha. I saw it coming I guess, and I figured why not have some fun. Apart from the line, the whole scene was pitched as very triumphant, so I’d say I didn’t like the whole scene that much and the particular bit was just part of it.