A question about Blue Ruin

already mentioned it but i was wrong about it coming out in april apparently it just came out

cold in july is a very entertaining thriller

planning to watch blue ruin today on demand

watched Blue Ruin last night thought it was really good , it was an hour and a half and it went by really fast , dont think i was bored for a second of it.

If this was 1937 he'd be complaining that the newfangled "talkies" were ruining cinema. He's pissed that the medium that he has mastered is becoming less relevant.

what's that... story telling?

I can see why purists love 35mm. I'd be all for it if the projection were consistent everywhere. I HATED poorly projected film. Dim bulbs, scratches and awkward reel changes? I don't miss them one bit.

there is that... the variance was huge between theaters.

kubrick would have each theater inspected and if it wasn't up to his specifications he wouldn't let his film be played.

Tarantino sounds like the crazies who argue records are superior to CDs. Baseless nostalgia.

they are better... though, it depends on era, quality of the CD and how much compression was used.

Radio station around here does bits where they play albums on vinyl and it's ridiculous how much hiss there is. That's with presumably really good equipment. Back in the day we were just used to it.

I saw Eyes Wide Shut when it came out in Berkeley. In those days anyway, the theaters in Berkeley sucked as far as sound, picture quality and projectionists. The movie started 45 minutes late, which isn't helpful when that movie is too long already. Kubrick had died already so maybe the inspections didn't happen.

Hiss... thats not associated with vinyl. Hiss is associated with tape as the medium is drawn across the pick up.

Snap crackles and pops... now thats vinyl.

The issue isn't really so much the extraneous sound, it ability to record and reproduce dynamic range... That and the resolution.

ya he didn't even finish the movie.

Digital cinematography have, and also a long ways in the last decade as I'm sure everyone who is a regular movie theater goer will agree. The early digital works all looked weird to my eye, especially Michael Mann's works which I understand were not entirely digital (or so wikipedia tells me). The motion in them just looked really strange.

In any case it's pretty much a complete nonissue today. A lot of the most beautiful movies shot recently are digital and the technology is only improving. So I don't even understand those decrying the death of cinema - how many times has cinema been declared dead in the last 50 years? It ain't dead unless your definition of cinema = film. Film is certainly dead. I don't consider cinema to mean film. I take it to mean any motion pictures intended to be seen on a large canvas before an audience. Nothing more. The day movie theaters go extinct I will declare cinema dead. Saying we're watching TV at the theater is straight up trolling.

I don't even use the word film to describe cinema any more and haven't for years. I either use movies or cinema and I love both words; to me they are synonymous.

What have you been watching? :P

Honestly I truly believe we live in a new golden age for cinema. These last three years have blown away any era since I've been alive (1980) or at least a movie goer (late 80s to now) every level. Many of the 70s & 80s masterful artists have done their absolute best work or close enough in the last 3 years. Specifically with The Wolf of Wall Street, The Tree of Life, Inside Llywen Davis, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln; and from the 90s I'm thinking The Master, Django Unchained, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Gravity... just to name a few and not even including the new artists out there.

I mean there's simply no other period from the 80s and beyond that touch this current era..The closest thing is 99-01 which if you think was better than fair enough. I don't. Another reason QT gotta be trolling. I've been blown away by the quality of movies as of late. I really can't see how anyone has been disappointed unless you're watching the wrong things.

Cmon, you know I was talking about film.

When Michelangelo was at his peak, he was the absolute master at painting wet plaster fresco. It was an extremely difficult and tedious medium. When it went out of style he didn't pack it in and demean the new mediums, he proved his genius and mastered them too.

The longer Tarantino spends yelling at clouds, the longer he's going to take to catch up. The dude's a Michelangelo, he will master digital, and it will be fantastic.

Only just saw Her. Kind of like a Scifi version of 500 Days of Summer. Nice mood throughout the movie.

I came to this thread looking for explanations for the ending. Thanks for the link. Really good movie.

Also, while I was here I saw heaps of people talking up Blue Ruin so I just watched that. They really nailed the constant tension. Buzz Mccallister ftw

2007 still better.

Maleficent - Holy **** this is an abortion of a film. I couldn't care less for every character in the film. It was aggressively bad with some horrific edits. There was zero flow in the film and holy **** this set women back at least 50 years.

*edit* MAJOR spoiler about a plot point not advertised in the trailer but introduced early on

HIGH FIVE!! Devin Ratray (Buzz from Home Alone) has a great role in Nebraska. It's an easy recommendation. I have high hopes for that guy, he's terrific in Blue Ruin.

My worst fears have been realized... that Angelina Jolie only makes abortive crap when shes the central figure of the film.

this definitely seemed like a money grab by Disney right from the get go, however I do like the generalized idea of back storytelling on Villians. I can see however that many of there potential motivations would be dumbed down into simpleton ideology that would lack any real creative "Reasons For".

For the thanks of the rec of Beasts I take it all back + for Short Term 12 and that is saying A LOT. I actually watched the whole damn thing thing thinking there must be something more to it than the 3 redeeming minutes I found... but no. I could have started cutting myself after 10 minutes and woke up this morning half expecting to be completely fileted. It was Blair Witch all over again. Should have gone with my first instinct.