movies are cool. here is a place to talk about how cool they are. or maybe how much they suck, sometimes. like that fucking piece of shit 'mac and me'. worst fucking movie ever, a two-hour ad for fucking coca-cola.
From the review at Newsarama (which is sporting an exceptionally ugly new look):
That sequence also boasts the coolest-sounding effect I’ve heard since the seismic charges in Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
Wait... you mean that when space was actually silent in the Star Wars universe, completely contradicting every space battle scene before and since (including in the same movie), and we hear one guitar chord to represent a seismic charge, there were people in the world who actually thought this was cool and not reason to kick Ben Burrt in the balls?
I guess there are some demented people in the world.
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Was that the part in AOTC where there was a chase through the asteroid field? The explosion sounded like some dude hitting a power chord on his electric guitar. However, they were not cool enough to have the amp set at 11. More like 7 or 8.
Yup, that's it. As mediocre as AOTC was, I could probably have given it more credit were it not the single worst job Ben Burrt did in his entire career. That whole thing felt phoned in, from multiple characters talking in Jabba's voice to the Winger seismic charges.
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that wasn't a guitar chord dude, that sounded like someone smacking a bass with something with a ton of reverb and flange , sounded like totally open tuning, then a heavy envelope in the after-processing
anarky wrote:From the review at Newsarama (which is sporting an exceptionally ugly new look):
That sequence also boasts the coolest-sounding effect I’ve heard since the seismic charges in Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
Wait... you mean that when space was actually silent in the Star Wars universe, completely contradicting every space battle scene before and since (including in the same movie), and we hear one guitar chord to represent a seismic charge, there were people in the world who actually thought this was cool and not reason to kick Ben Burrt in the balls?
I guess there are some demented people in the world.
I thought the seismic charge sound was cool.
So anyway, I might be seeing this at midnight tonight. A friend of mine is a big Hulk fan and he offered to drive everyone to the theater. Might as well go. I enjoy the rowdy Marvel crowd at the midnight shows.
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
mabudon wrote:that wasn't a guitar chord dude, that sounded like someone smacking a bass with something with a ton of reverb and flange , sounded like totally open tuning, then a heavy envelope in the after-processing
Yeah, next time you talk about "ninja boots," I'm gonna correct you.
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that wasn't a guitar chord dude, that sounded like someone smacking a bass with something with a ton of reverb and flange , sounded like totally open tuning, then a heavy envelope in the after-processing
no, it was just the sound of slicker's mom's labia smacking together when she uses the stairmaster.
that wasn't a guitar chord dude, that sounded like someone smacking a bass with something with a ton of reverb and flange , sounded like totally open tuning, then a heavy envelope in the after-processing
Why would hit a guitar with a fish? Is that some sort of Jimmy Page or Eddie Van Halen thing?
If I expected that sort of Spanish Inquisition, I would have just said something about "distortion of an electrical stringed instrument".
It seems like the Hulk toys have been out for a while, but that commercial I mentioned was the first one I've seen. Think of me as some sort of control test subject in an experiment since I don't typically seek out info on new movies (other than threads you guys may start). That said, I hope the Punnisher isn't coming out this summer becasue I haven't seen anything about that movie. Come to think of it, I've barely seen any ads for Narnia.
Let me go on record as saying something that (despite what some believe) I hardly ever say before a movie is released:
I will not watch hulk 2 at all unless everyone I know who sees it is blown away.
I have zero interest. I don't know what is more "blah" about it--the absolute shittiness of every preview, or the complete disrespect shown to the first movie and its creators.
Sure, it's got 70-something % positive reviews. So did Transformers. So did Revenge of the Sith. So did Knocked Up. So did A History of Violence. All those movies sucked. (Yeah, I'm going to get some disagreement, particularly on Knocked Up, but that's what I thought of them.) Whereas Mr Bean's Holiday and Speed Racer are two of the worst-reviewed films of the last couple of years.
Fuck Hollywood and all the idiots there. I'm not going to bother with this even on TV unless everyone thinks it is the best fucking movie they've ever seen.
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I'll definitely disagree with you on Knocked Up... and A History of Violence. But as The Dude would say, "that's just like, your opinion man". And because my opinion is different from yours, I'm not going to argue about it (unlike other places and people) and try to convince you otherwise.
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
If you're interested, I thought A History of Violence lacked any real character definition or development, and had way too many instances where it seemed like important information was cut out. Knocked Up wasn't so much bad as overrated--it's like it couldn't decide whether it was a comedy or a drama. As a comedy, it was hilarious, but the drama bits were pretty slow.
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