Return to what form? Was there a moment in time when Nicolas Cage was a good actor? The man has as much charisma as wall paper. He emotes as well as a potted plant.Pulsar_t wrote:Is this Nic Cage's return to form? One can hope so.
What was the last movie you've seen?
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Lord of War was good times.samsonlonghair wrote:Return to what form? Was there a moment in time when Nicolas Cage was a good actor? The man has as much charisma as wall paper. He emotes as well as a potted plant.Pulsar_t wrote:Is this Nic Cage's return to form? One can hope so.
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RAISING ARIZONA
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BEES!
nicholas coppola is just another case of Hollywood nepotism. RAISING ARIZONA worked due to an incredibly written script, terrific direction, and letting nic coppola drink lots of booze on set.
nicholas coppola is just another case of Hollywood nepotism. RAISING ARIZONA worked due to an incredibly written script, terrific direction, and letting nic coppola drink lots of booze on set.
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At least Sofia Coppola is pretty good at what she does.
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WILD AT HEART
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Sofia is damned good at what she does.marurun wrote:At least Sofia Coppola is pretty good at what she does.
I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but for the past twenty years or so, artificial snow in movies is usually this:
It's cheap, light, white, and "melts" with a little moisture. Fake snow in film is a difficult thing to make look legit, but when it comes to economies of scale, you can not beat the appearance and cost effectiveness of instant potatoes for snow.
I hope REPO reads this if he plans on having a movie with a Winter scene.
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We used this during a group project while I was in film school and I must say I have bad memories of cleaning it up with a small group of people. They were not happy that we used it on props in the green screen room.Luke wrote:I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but for the past twenty years or so, artificial snow in movies is usually this:
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the horror thread hasn't started, but my wife and I have already begun going through our pile of Halloween-time stuff to watch this year. We're *trying* to focus on stuff we've not seen OR at least not seen in a long time. Stuff we're less familiar with.
As such, we decided to go with a double-feature of Dark Castle remakes...
House Of Wax was actually a lot better than I remembered it. I last saw it whenever it was released on DVD. At the time I remember it being a vehicle to promote Paris Hilton's acting career. But in reality the movie is starring Elisha Cuthbert <3 ...Paris is in the beginning of the movie for like 15 mins, and there's a couple of sextape jokes. Then she shows up in the last reel just long enough to do a striptease and get butchered. Elisha on the other hand makes a pretty great little screamqueen in this one. And the movie is actually a heck of a lot of fun (and quite a bit gorier than I recalled). If you've avoided this for whatever reason, it's actually worth checking out. Don't expect anything incredible. But do see it if you're just wanting something fun.
Thir13en Ghosts on the other hand was way worse than I remembered. It's a slick looking movie. But ultimately it just feels like some stuff thrown together as a means to showing off some crazy CGI. I basically had trouble believing that any of these people were even people, nevermind having believable motivations. I mean it was still fun or whatever. Just not really good. I seem to recall from the last time I saw it (jeez, probably 2003-ish) that there was some bonus feature stuff that goes into the backstory of all the ghosts... and to my memory that stuff was a lot more interesting than the story bits that made it into the actual film.
As such, we decided to go with a double-feature of Dark Castle remakes...
House Of Wax was actually a lot better than I remembered it. I last saw it whenever it was released on DVD. At the time I remember it being a vehicle to promote Paris Hilton's acting career. But in reality the movie is starring Elisha Cuthbert <3 ...Paris is in the beginning of the movie for like 15 mins, and there's a couple of sextape jokes. Then she shows up in the last reel just long enough to do a striptease and get butchered. Elisha on the other hand makes a pretty great little screamqueen in this one. And the movie is actually a heck of a lot of fun (and quite a bit gorier than I recalled). If you've avoided this for whatever reason, it's actually worth checking out. Don't expect anything incredible. But do see it if you're just wanting something fun.
Thir13en Ghosts on the other hand was way worse than I remembered. It's a slick looking movie. But ultimately it just feels like some stuff thrown together as a means to showing off some crazy CGI. I basically had trouble believing that any of these people were even people, nevermind having believable motivations. I mean it was still fun or whatever. Just not really good. I seem to recall from the last time I saw it (jeez, probably 2003-ish) that there was some bonus feature stuff that goes into the backstory of all the ghosts... and to my memory that stuff was a lot more interesting than the story bits that made it into the actual film.
