March 2010
34 posts
February 2010
32 posts
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Ninja Assassin Review
Ninja Assassin is exactly what an action movie should be. Too often, most Hollywood Big-Budget action films spread their stories so thinly that they come off as silly and tacky. Sure, the argument could be made that they’re supposed to be mindless, so the lack of development is passable, but it is more than just a lack of development. Most of the time, action films try to at least give the...
54 Amateur Filmmakers Started a Footloose Remake... →
makingofmovies:
We are a collection of amateur filmmakers and video-making enthusiasts, recreating the Kevin Bacon classic and releasing it this summer. Different filmmakers from “around the world” have divided the original 1984 Footloose into 54 different scenes. 54 different filmmakers. 54 different Ren McCormack’s.
In October 2008 it was announced that Paramount Pictures and Dylan Sellers...
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via theessentialman) (via kerryingon)
He also has maybe my favorite quote: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
(via ronenreblogs) (via 1000reasonsnottostartmakingart)
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The Last Days of Disco Review
You know, it makes perfect sense that Chloe Sevigny plays the main character in this film. She is the iconic “celebrity hipster” that I guess is supposed to represent the whole Vice/Williamsburg Hipster Chic (Emphatically so when you consider that not only did she do the cover of Vice only a few months ago, but it was for their “90s throwback” anniversary issue. The whole...
Watchthedailywhat:
Lights Out: If Tim Burton remade Weekend At Bernie’s with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, it might look exactly like this.
Needs more Andrew McCarthy.
[thanks jared!]
Ha, this is a pretty good parody. They really get the “Tim Burton ton” down pat.
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This Article Get's It. Ipad + Media Production
What About the Ipad And Media Production?
The Ipad is just the first step in making productions more interactive. And it’s that very interactivity that will actually incentivize the actual purchase rather than pirating of material. When individuals are allowed to participate they are more willing to contribute or give back. Give the power of the creative process or production to the...
Joanna Newsom - Emily
That the meteorite is a source of the light And the meteor’s just what we see And the meteoroid is a stone that’s devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee And the meteorite’s just what causes the light And the meteor’s how it’s perceived And the meteoroid’s a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee
WatchDoes incentivizing EVERYTHING actually work?? Are people actually more willing to do better at things/be better people because they are not only earning “points” but because they are under constant scrutiny?
It’s scary to imagine technology being so pervasive that it not only exists in everything, but becomes part of a world wide network of point earning that goes back into the...
The Editing of Successful Hollywood Movies Follows...
(SlashFilm)
Physorg has an interesting article about how Hollywood movies follow a mathematical formula that “lets them match the effects of their shots to the attention spans of their audiences.”
Here is an excerpt:
“Psychologist Professor James Cutting and his team from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed 150 high-grossing Hollywood films released from 1935 to 2005 and...
WatchIMAGINE MOVIES LIKE THIS (AUGMENTED REALITY)
Seriously. If this is what Augmented Reality can actually do, can you imagine also being immersed in an artificial fictional world that’s playing out right before you? Not necessarily a video game, but somewhere between a game and a movie.
Beyond even 3D it would be a film that immersed you in it a full 360 degrees. No longer occurring on a...
WatchI love the Onion. What if Lars Von Trier made Tourism Videos?
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A Serious Man (Minor Spoilers at the End of...
There isn’t much I can think to say about this film at the moment, which is not to say there is nothing to say about it. A Serious Man is a film loaded with meaning, too much for me to go into here, especially since it’s been days since I watched it.
However, I found it both peculiar and fascinating how little appears to be happening in this film. It is as if the entire film is...
Shutter Island (A Brief Review)
I once had a professor at SVA who said the problem with many great directors is that as they get older they stop being great directors and become great cinematographers. This notion is especially poignant since if I remember correctly, the film he used as an example (or maybe what motivated him to make the point), was Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator. I would say, my opinion of Scorsese’s...
“More than 200 inmates have been moved out of a Mexican prison, despite the...”
– http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/12/mel-gibson-displaces-mexican-prisoners
There is something extremely troubling about a film shoot being so important that it begins to affect the actual lives of people in no way involved. Especially when it involves moving PRISONERS. I mean seriously,...
I think I'm going to make a list
of every film that has so far been announced as being converted/released in 3D. If only for my own cataloguing purposes. So I can at least see how far the trend has spread.
Somewhat inspired by this post on Cinemablend since it really does seem that a film being released in 3D isn’t news anymore. Which is scary. I don’t think it’s that simple to rush into something that has only...
Film Appreciation & Networking
I have been thinking a lot lately about social networking and integrating it with film production and film appreciation. Of course there is already overlap among these communities, but I have been trying to think of ways to give power to a collection of individuals rather than to a select few who speak to those communities, separately.
There are already people who love film enough that they will...
The Hurt Locker
I’d like to get this off my chest quickly. There isn’t much I can think to say on the subject.
This was a great action flick. It was a great war film. It was tense, jarring, edge of your seat, blah blah blah. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
However, I really don’t understand why it’s receiving the acclaim it is. It is what it is. But the best movie of the year? The best...
My Overlong Up Review
Up is a tale about an old man’s journey to fulfill his and his late wife’s dreams of adventure. Inspired by childhood hero, Charles Munz (Christopher Plummer), Carl (Ed Asner) dreams of traveling to exotic locales all over the world. As a child, he meets his soon to be lifelong sweetheart, Ellie, who shares in his dreams of adventure. They grow up together, get married and settle down....
Neuroscience explained through LOLcats →
Ghostbusters 3 (Spoilers)
I’m not sure how I feel about this necessarily. The Ghostbusters films are a couple of my favorite movies ever. I would love to see a great sequel, but I’m not sure how possible that is at this point. Considering some of the stipulations regarding the sequel (as per Bill Murray’s requests) I’m not sure it’s going to turn out very well.
What is odd about this is the...
I have decided..
to forgo the original intent of this Tumblr and to transmute the idea simply into a twitter account. This way I don’t embarrass myself with my poor InDesign skills and I can use Twitter my effectively to produce 140-character constrained pieces of writing using only words from Word of the Day generated updates. Maybe occasionally I will use something like Wordle to create clouds, but since...
