BladeVenom
Lifer
- Jun 2, 2005
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My thoughts exactly.Unfortunately, modern audiences require over-the-top exposition, a heavy-handed score, convenient transitions, cliffhangers, super attractive actors, superfluous sound effects, cliches, archetypes, and neat, tidy, happy endings.
My thoughts exactly.
It's like having a narrator shouting at you in a slow and condescending tone.
All of the characters in Avatar felt like that.
"THIS MAN IS A BAD MAN! HE IS ARROGANT AND CARES ONLY ABOUT MONEY! DO YOU UNDERSTAND? I WILL REPEAT THIS AGAIN SEVERAL MORE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE!"
If you wanted Avatar, except with an added proper storyline and character development, you're looking at a 4 hour movie.
Yeah there are only a few actors who will actually eat on screen. Brad Pitt being one, and the dude that plays Jason Stackhouse in True Blood being another.
I'm sure someone has mentioned this, but the fact that people never eat their food. They will order some meal at a diner, chat with whomever they are meeting and take one bite and never touch the meal.
I wanted to like Avatar, but it was just too heavy handed, and honestly, embarrassing to watch. It could have been a great movie, but aside from the stunning visuals, it turned out well below par.
It was an ok movie. Yes, well-done effects, no doubt there, and Pocahontas In Space isn't necessarily a bad thing. (I'd also be ok with a 4 hour movie. - I do own, and have watched, the extended edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.:awe But it was fairly predictable, and a lot of the character interactions were annoyingly poor because they shot any hints of "subtext" and "subtlety" out into interstellar space, where they were splattered onto the windshield of a starship en route to Pandora.I loved Avatar. Sure, the story was simple and overly obvious, but that was just so they could get it out of the way. If you wanted Avatar, except with an added proper storyline and character development, you're looking at a 4 hour movie.
Another one from Stargate SG-1: They got stuck in a recurring time loop. O'Neill's loop would start with him holding a spoonful of Froot Loops to his mouth. According to something on the Stargate Wiki, they glued down the cereal on the spoon so that it would look the same in each take.The amount of liquid in their cups though will constantly change. Common mistake in movies
Clothes and hair being dry right after they get out of the water.
Clothes and hair being clean right after they get dirty.
Other thing I loved, in another episode. General Hammond asks an engineer how long some job will take.
"That'll be 24 hours General, minimum."
-- "I'll give you half that."
"No Sir, it doesn't work that way. 24 hours is the best I can do"
-- "Then you'd better get back to it."
So often that shows up on TV.
"That'll take at least 48 hours! But if you ask me again, and shout it really urgently, I'll do it in 30 minutes."
In fact Cameron seems to pay attention to detail more often than most directors. He tends to show the guns in detail and keeps track of the rounds, (see Aliens, Terminator, T2, etc)
It depends on who you're working with. If you know they're going to automatically slice off time, you pad accordingly.I see you come from the other school of thought regarding project completion. I grossly overestimate the time it'll take to do something. If that appears to be entirely unsatisfactory, I'll begrudgingly reduce it by a slight amount, but still greater than the time it really takes. If they REALLY need it done, I can complete it early and be a hero. If they only want it done just because they want it done, I get extra fuck off time :^D
NSFW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg59wBbegvk
I've done Calculus I-III, differential equations, linear algebra, physics I-III the gibberish the guy talks about at the end makes no sense. So much for suspension of disbelief.
I see you come from the other school of thought regarding project completion. I grossly overestimate the time it'll take to do something. If that appears to be entirely unsatisfactory, I'll begrudgingly reduce it by a slight amount, but still greater than the time it really takes. If they REALLY need it done, I can complete it early and be a hero. If they only want it done just because they want it done, I get extra fuck off time :^D