via herocomplex.latimes.com
This looks like a lot of fun.
“Born Rich”
09-Sep-10
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Nolan then fails to dramatize his concepts. His primary—indeed, practically his only—tool for delivering information to the audience is character dialogue. Rarely does anyone shut his or her mouth during the 148 minutes that are Inception. Its actors are talking threadbare ciphers, eager mouthpieces for their director.
Examples abound. After failing in their mission to deceive Saito, Cobb remarks to his teammate Arthur: “We were supposed to deliver Saito’s expansion plans to Cobol Engineering two hours ago. By now they know we failed.” (A potential response: “Hey, dude, I’m, like, your partner. I know the score!”) An even better one: the line where Cobb points out to Michael Caine’s character—a university professor teaching in Paris—”You know extradition between France and the US is a legal nightmare.” Yes, Mssr. Professor Caine probably does, in fact, know that! But I’m sure that somebody way in the back row was happy to hear.
via bigother.com
This is a fabulous, negative review of Inception. (For the record, I liked the movie and recommend it.)
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Everyone on TV reads the same newspaper
06-Jun-10
via boingboing.net
“Everybody on TV and in movies reads the same newspaper, it seems. And they’ve been reading that standard newspaper prop for decades.”
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The Perfect Storm: Gimbal Madness
26-Nov-09
The amount of work and engineering skill that goes into making movies often astonishes me. Via The Perfect Storm: Gimbal Madness
Petersen scouted the film world to find the ideal spot to shoot his actors swarming on the Andrea Gail. One by one, the Malta tank, Universal Lake, and the Baja facility where Titanic was made, were shot down. Petersen and Frazier decided instead to dig the largest soundstage tank in the world-a 95′ square, 22′ deep hole in the floor of Warner’s legendary Stage 16.
In addition to Stage 16′s huge motion base, the project demanded a whopping seven gimbals. Frazier had his hands full insuring that the full-scale prop boats could weather the rough ride. He says that although the real Andrea Gail was all steel, the film’s construction team initially wanted to work in wood. “We said, ‘Forget it! The first time we turn this gimbal on, it’s going to come apart’,” Frazier recalls. “So our Andrea Gail’s all steel too. Anything else wouldn’t have held up under the g-force we were pulling.”
Meanwhile, Frazier and company set to work building what he says is the most complex gimbal ever designed for a feature film, a six-axis hydraulic motion base measuring 25′ in diameter and 15′ high. “Most gimbals have a universal pivot joint in the middle which gives us two axes of movement,” Frazier explains. “Instead, this one has six intersecting rams on a 15-degree angle arranged in a circle. Each ram looks like an inverted ‘V’, and all six rams supported the Andrea Gail, which weighed 150,000 pounds. Each ram was capable of picking up 25,000 pounds. It’s a take-off of flight simulator technology, but I don’t think anyone ever thought 150,000 pounds would be sitting on top of one!”
The Invention of Lying
05-Oct-09
Oooh, I want to see this…
The Vampire Assistant
10-Aug-09
Adam
16-Jul-09
Looks cute:
Via ersigh.
Drag Me to Hell?
27-May-09
Evil Dead I. Evil Dead II. Army of Darkness. Spiderman. If you liked those movies, you’ll probably like Drag Me to Hell, the latest movie directed by Sam Raimi. I’m planning to see it this weekend. Who wants to go with me? It should be pretty good — the film is pulling 93% on the Tomato-meter. If you want to go send me an email crasch at Google’s mail service, with the day’s (Fri or Sat) and times that work for you.
World Builder
05-Mar-09
World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.