What was the last movie you've seen?

[Hobie-wan]

What's a tracking shot?

A great example from Oldboy. As mentioned, a longer shot where the camera does a lot of moving to follow action, generally without cuts. So the camera movement has to be carefully planned and usually a lot has to happen just right all together for it to work out properly. This isn't actually an action movie, but it is the big action shot in it.

[Pulsar_t]

2019: After the Fall of New York

Having suffered through Kojima's trollfest (MGS4) last week, I resorted to a random B-movie to wash away the repugnant aftertaste. And by jolly it worked!

[noiseredux]

^I slept in this room that last night. Srsly.

Ti West's The Innkeepers?

YES!

[KillerJuan77]

YES!

I liked it a lot. Thankfully it's good enough so I can ignore his spectacularly shitty collaborations on The ABC's Of Death and V/H/S.

[noiseredux]

YES!

I liked it a lot. Thankfully it's good enough so I can ignore his spectacularly shitty collaborations on The ABC's Of Death and V/H/S.

what are these films you're speaking of? I know of Trigger Man, The Roost, Cabin Fever 2, House of the Devil and The Innkeepers.

The last two were amazing. CF2 was shit. Roost was so-so.

[KillerJuan77]

YES!

I liked it a lot. Thankfully it's good enough so I can ignore his spectacularly shitty collaborations on The ABC's Of Death and V/H/S.

what are these films you're speaking of? I know of Trigger Man, The Roost, Cabin Fever 2, House of the Devil and The Innkeepers.

The last two were amazing. CF2 was shit. Roost was so-so.

The ABC's Of Death is an anthology film where 26 directors from many countries did a short based around a death using the alphabeth. Some of the deaths are A for Apocalypse, Z for Zetsumetsu (This one apparently involves nazis, penis swords and other random bullshit), I for Ingrown, F for Fart , etc. Srdjan Spasojevic (A Serbian Film), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Helldriver), Noboru Iguchi (Robogeisha, Machine Girl, Zombie Ass: Toilet Of The Dead), Marcel Sarmiento (Deadgirl), Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun), Jon Schnepp (Metalocalypse) and Ti West are some of the directors behind some of the letters.

Apparently Ti West's segment (M for Miscarriage) is horrendous since it's just a woman going to the bathroom and then... there's a fetus! End of the short . I haven't seen it (It gets released on demand on the 31st) but every critic and friend (That has seen the film) is saying the exact same thing..

V/H/S is a found footage anthology film about a group of thieves that get hired to get some VHS tapes from an old house and they decide to watch 5 of them. Ti West's part is absolutely terrible, boring and it feels a lot like Gerry (That film about Casey Affleck and Matt Damon walking through a desert for 2 hours without much plot) and a shitty slasher film compressed into 15 minutes. I didn't like the film that much but I've heard the sequel S-VHS is A LOT BETTER.

The VERY red band trailers for the films are here and here.

[noiseredux]

ah I'm not a big fan of short films anyway. But now that you mention it, VHS did look intriguing to me. Forgot about it. Last short film I enjoyed -- if you can call it that -- was Eli Roth's fake "Thanksgiving" trailer. Though that borrowed heavily from um... Majorettes I wanna say?

At any rate, if West continues with his HOTD/Innkeepers vibe, then I'm gonna be real happy with his work.

[Gamerforlife]

What's a tracking shot?

A great example from Oldboy. As mentioned, a longer shot where the camera does a lot of moving to follow action, generally without cuts. So the camera movement has to be carefully planned and usually a lot has to happen just right all together for it to work out properly. This isn't actually an action movie, but it is the big action shot in it.

Oldboy, I was trying to remember the name of that movie when I was talking about movies that have done the long tracking action shot before The Protector. Cool movie, though I always hated the way Oldboy ended, which kind of soured me on the movie.

[indecks]

Got my bro in law and sister in law to finally start watching the Harry Potter Movies. We started with HP2 since they'd seen the Rifftrax version of HP1, and we watched HP3 tonite. They started asking questions about Sirius and his connection to Harry, who X was and what was Y's deal, etc. It was cool. We'd stop the movie and explain something without giving away spoilers, etc. It was a lot of fun.

They have no interest in the books, but I strongly recommended they read the HP6 book since it's more of a Voldemort book rather than Harry, and the HP6 movie almost totally disregarded that fact and made it a Harry movie.

We also watched the Rifftrax version of The Avengers today. It had some funny moments, but it wasn't all that great. The movie is too awesome, too. I kept finding myself trying to watch the movie again, lol. That scene with Hulk punching that alien whale snake thing... still makes me smile every time.

[Gamerforlife]

Got my bro in law and sister in law to finally start watching the Harry Potter Movies. We started with HP2 since they'd seen the Rifftrax version of HP1, and we watched HP3 tonite. They started asking questions about Sirius and his connection to Harry, who X was and what was Y's deal, etc. It was cool. We'd stop the movie and explain something without giving away spoilers, etc. It was a lot of fun.

They have no interest in the books, but I strongly recommended they read the HP6 book since it's more of a Voldemort book rather than Harry, and the HP6 movie almost totally disregarded that fact and made it a Harry movie.

We also watched the Rifftrax version of The Avengers today. It had some funny moments, but it wasn't all that great. The movie is too awesome, too. I kept finding myself trying to watch the movie again, lol. That scene with Hulk punching that alien whale snake thing... still makes me smile every time.

I'm a hardcore Batman fan, and I gotta say I enjoyed The Avengers more than Dark Knight Rises. That's how awesome that movie was. Though The Dark Knight kicks both their asses, and not just because of Heath Ledger.

If Avengers follows the same path as Spider-Man, X-Men, and Batman, we'll see an Avengers 2 that will be even better than the first and we'll be calling it a masterpiece. Then Avengers 3 will come out and somehow fall short of its predecessor. Number 2 seems like the magic number in these recent superhero trilogies. Each of these trilogies had an episode 3 that fell short of what came before.

EDIT: Strangely enough, Mass Effect seems affected by this rule as well