What was the last movie you've seen?

[Forlorn Drifter]

On my scale of awesomely bad movies, I would rate Howard just below Battleship and just above Street Fighter. Seriously, you guys need to see Battleship. It's so bad, it's hysterical.

I've been avoiding it, but I think my girlfriend recorded it to her TVR when she had a free weekend of HBO...

Really? I like that one, as goofy stupid as it is. I honestly think that is how the whole 80's was.

[fastbilly1]

I finally watched Avengers. And while I thought it was a good fun summer action movie, it is going to be dated soon. So many 2010 film making cliches.

[Luke]

... it is going to be dated soon.

Why is that?

[Retrodude]

I finally watched Avengers. And while I thought it was a good fun summer action movie, it is going to be dated soon. So many 2010 film making cliches.

The funny thing about The Avengers is if the same movie had been made ten years ago, it would have been lambasted as one of the cheesiest, corniest movies ever, but today, it's widely considered awesome because the audience is willing to accept the kind of good-natured silliness inherent in the superhero genre. We've come a long way.

[fastbilly1]

... it is going to be dated soon.

Why is that?

Skipping the CG aging. There are filmmaking techniques common to different eras. Ie it is easy to date a film to the 70s if they use snap zooms. One of the common ones from the 2000s is the camera in the car as a CG car rolls into it, which they used in Avengers atleast twice. Other things like the use of odd angles and weird framing, mostly to show off the set. Id have to rewatch it to give you a solid list.

I really enjoyed the film, it was a fun summer blockbuster, but things like that just irk me.

[Ack]

On my scale of awesomely bad movies, I would rate Howard just below Battleship and just above Street Fighter. Seriously, you guys need to see Battleship. It's so bad, it's hysterical.

I've been avoiding it, but I think my girlfriend recorded it to her TVR when she had a free weekend of HBO...

Really? I like that one, as goofy stupid as it is. I honestly think that is how the whole 80's was.

Wait, do you mean Howard the Duck? I was talking about Battleship in my reply. I actually own Howard the Duck.

[Luke]

The funny thing about The Avengers is if the same movie had been made ten years ago, it would have been lambasted as one of the cheesiest, corniest movies ever...

That also happened on its release.


LABYRINTH

Still holds up as an amazing fantasy film.

Other things like the use of odd angles and weird framing, mostly to show off the set.

Understood. If you took a shot for every establishing shot, you'd have liver disease by the second act.

[AppleQueso]

LABYRINTH

Still holds up as an amazing fantasy film.

I miss Jim Henson

[Luke]

I miss Jim Henson

I think the world misses him.

[Ack]

... it is going to be dated soon.

Why is that?

Skipping the CG aging. There are filmmaking techniques common to different eras. Ie it is easy to date a film to the 70s if they use snap zooms. One of the common ones from the 2000s is the camera in the car as a CG car rolls into it, which they used in Avengers atleast twice. Other things like the use of odd angles and weird framing, mostly to show off the set. Id have to rewatch it to give you a solid list.

I really enjoyed the film, it was a fun summer blockbuster, but things like that just irk me.

I'm also a big fan of seeing how film advertisements and trailers have evolved over the years, ranging from the rough early days where a voiceover would give establishing information along with constant text overlays in a variety of fonts which obscure the film to explain it to the modern "heartbeat," the use of popular music (or dubstep), the matching of audio and video, etc. One that I absolutely love is the censorsing of swear words but still giving the implication of what was said, usually by splicing in an explosion ("Son of a - BOOM!" or "Suck my - BANG!").

Good times.