I thought Dredd did it well, and it is my go to example of ‘good’ 3D.
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I like Dredd, but good gracious… suffering the 3D to see it in a theatre was very unpleasant, and if that’s the good end of the scale, it’s no wonder I dislike the format so thoroughly. That film was more or less the nail in the coffin of my willingness to endure 3D just to see something on the big screen (although I did make an exception for Hitchcock’s “Dial M For Murder” some time later).
I am so curious, but possibly don’t want to know :).
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FWIW, I think the best 3D film I’ve ever seen was Coraline, which uses it to exceptional affect.
Avatar was fine, Dredd was fine, there were a bunch that were pointless or distracting that I’ve forgotten I saw in 3D.
Overall it’s not a technology I miss in film, but there are apparently still oodles of movies coming out that are using it.
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I’m more or less blind in one eye so i hate it cos i just see the weird technical effect as I’m not focusing on it from two angles
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Saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day this morning. Excellent film! Tom Holland has solidified his position as the best of the actors who have portrayed Spidey/Peter. I used to feel Maguire was the best Peter, Garfield was the best Spidey, and Holland was the best balance between the two, but he nailed both sides of the role here and takes the crown.
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I watched Project Hail Mary last night and… hmmm. The first half of the movie was awful… just Grace doing a series of the stupidest, most idiotic, most “I’m a complete moron and have no idea what anything is or does or means” in an infuriating way.
The last half still has a few “Really? THAT!? That’s what you’re going to do!?” moments, but they’re more forgivable. And the reveal almost forgives the idiotic, unforgivable behaviour in the first half of the film. Almost. Didn’t see the twist coming (either of them, technically), and the conclusion felt satisfying.
I still deeply dislike Weir. But the movie was pretty good. And Ryan Gosling is great. Even if the character is deeply problematic.
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I watched The Odyssey in iMax yesterday. I’ve seen imax before and was never greatly impressed. It’s very big, yes, but I seem to adjust to that very quickly and after a while I feel very similar to how I feel watching a film on my phone i.e. immersed; no more or less than that. It is also Very Loud, which is fine I suppose.
As for the film - impressively done and well-edited in that it has a good quick pace and didn’t feel too long to me, and it crams a lot in. It reminded me, however, why I don’t really get on with Christopher Nolan. I loved his early films but he recently seems to have become thought of as an absolute master of the craft, which I find odd because I find he’s competent enough but when it comes to Big Ideas, he often fails to make them land, at least for me. The Odyssey, because of course it does, has a Message that it wants to get across and honestly I think it fails at it, as Nolan’s films usually do for me. I think it irked me here more than normal because I feel if you’re going to attempt to nail a Big Idea onto one of the oldest stories we have from history, it would be nice if it was coherent.
Great acting for the most part, lovely diverse cast and didn’t really mind the anachronisms because it’s a myth, not a historical epic. I had a good three hours and it’s good fun and, for me, not as clever as it thinks it is.
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Went to the cinema tonight and was quickly reminded why I don’t go that often.
I’d forgotten that selfies at the cinema was a thing. Someone in my peripheral vision was on their phone for nearly the whole movie and someone else’s text alert went off four times near me.
And people on their phones was the least of it.
I got pelted with at least two items of food (biscuits it turned out after the lights came up) and one empty plastic bottle.
Reported it to the young staff as I walked out. As I was saying I thought it was the young guys on the back row a guy walked past and said, “yeh it was the c#nts on the back row. Not much more I can say, c#nts.”
That at least gave me a laugh.
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Cinema in Glasgow?
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Wow - I’ve had some annoying people but I’ve never had stuff thrown at me in a cinema. When I used to work at a cinema, I threw plenty of rowdy people out tho
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I do wonder what the point was. Get a rise out of me? Start an altercation?
I did think about causing a scene, but that would have ruined things for everyone else. Instead I spent the whole film wondering when the next thing was going to be thrown.
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I think I’ve said it before, but this is one of the many reasons I appreciate my local film society – the people who attend are actually there to watch the film and are respectful of basic movie theatre etiquette. I’ve only rarely encountered issues at film society screenings, whereas it’s disappointingly commonplace otherwise.
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Films I’ve been to during the past few weeks of NZ international film festival:
- A Fox Under a Pink Moon
- The Best Summer
- Betty Blue
- The Black Ball
- Black Rain
- The Blood Countess
- Blue Heron
- Buffet Infinity
- Butterfly Jam
- Chronovisor
- Comédie-Française
- Coward
- Extra Geography
- Father Mother Sister Brother
- Flies
- The Fox
- Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
- Ghost in the Cell
- Goodbye Cruel World
- The Ice Tower
- Kim Novak’s Vertigo
- La Gradiva
- La Perra
- Late Fame
- Minotaur
- Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
- No Good Men
- Nuisance Bear
- The Piano
- Saccharine
- Sheep in the Box
- Whispers in the Woods
(which is too many to include other notes here, but if anyone is interested in specific films then I can let you know what I thought.)
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How was The Blood Countess?
Might have to watch 4k The Piano, haven’t seen it since the original release.
And an extra hour of footage added to Betty Blue?!
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How was The Blood Countess?
Probably the biggest “what if” of the list, for me. Visually it’s stunning; genuinely a sight to behold, and that might be enough. But I think the writer-director needed another writer.
Might have to watch 4k The Piano, haven’t seen it since the original release.
I don’t think I’d seen it in a cinema since release, and I could recall not enjoying it so much the last time I saw it on a small screen and consequently I’d been a little hesitant to go, but I’m glad I did – it was so good on the big screen, and I feel that I appreciated it more this time than I’d ever done in the past.
And an extra hour of footage added to Betty Blue?!
Yup. Not that I know specifically where it all went, as I’d never seen it before. I can imagine that it gives the story more time to breathe, though. I didn’t feel that it was over-long, and I think the moments of intensity likely benefit from some more surrounding calm (I’m imagining they would have trimmed the latter more so than the former).
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Watched Project Hail Mary today. I must say, it is a damn fine film! Long, but with a good pace so that it doesn’t feel long.
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Tonight I saw Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which I’d missed at the film festival due to it being sold out, but which turned out to be one of the first films to see a local release afterwards.
It is an absolute trip.
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