Certainly a long shot can be valuable and interesting, as that Touch of Evil clip demonstrates. But that's something else entirely, where a long shot provides a different experience to the viewer. Clovis is saying that the ONE SHOT MOVIE BRO has value in and of itself, exactly because of how difficult it is. Even though the exact same visual effect could be produced with dozens of cuts, as I'm sure he agrees.

And the fact that the movie is crassly advertised as a ONE SHOT MOVIE BRO adds to my point. The director is bragging about his pointless achievement. Gross.

I hate that it's advertised as a one shot movie - you can imagine all the hipsters stroking their bushbeards and nodding along, pretending to be experts on film - but that probably comes from the marketing side, not the director.

This is a more eloquent version of what I'm trying to say

http://www.avclub.com/review/victori...t-movie-226392

Exactly my point. ONE SHOT BRO is like the only technical aspect of film making that casual hipster film fan can grasp and appreciate. Which is the whole reason it is a thing! Like no hipster is going to be all OMG THAT LIGHTING IS SO SICK. Or DID YOU HEAR THAT SOUND EDITING!?!? But they can see that the film is one shot (not that they would have noticed it if they hadn't been told). Which is the only reason ONE SHOT MOVIE BRO is a thing.

The long action takes from Children of Men are a big part of the reason that film was so brilliant. The fake one take in Birdman and Rope were expertly done, and enhanced the viewing experience. Some movies (and directors) need lots of small cuts (watch anything by Guy Ritchie). It's a different style. This seems like that taken to the extreme.

I'll give a bad analogy. I'm not a huge magic fan, but I do enjoy the close up card tricks that obviously take a lot of practice and hard work. Other people like the big spectacles like disappearing airplanes. And then there are those people who, I can't understand why, but enjoy watching a man sit on a block of ice for a week straight without eating, drinking, peeing, etc... I don't get the fascination with this, but some people obviously do because David Blaine is really famous and rich from doing things like this. This seems like the film version of that stunt.

The long action shots in Children of Men were indeed great. They did add to the film. But that actually aptly demonstrates my point. They were done for a purpose, and they weren't actually single shots

Yes. Exactly. Cuaron was shooting these shots not because it was difficult, not because he wanted SINGLE SHOT BRO bragging rights, but because it added to the visual effect of the film. He didn't care that he actually had to splice five shots together to make it look like one shot. He wanted a certain visual effect, and he got it.

I didn't care much for Victoria, wrote about it here in January. For a better action movie with a female protagonist in Europe, try Run Lola Run.

On cinematography, that's not really how it works. I could see an argument for it with Victoria but I didn't think it was particularly memorable and I would definitely favor Hateful Eight (which I also don't like overall). It's not relevant whether it took place in a single room or not (Hateful has enough beautifully shot outdoor snow scenes to make that complaint irrelevant anyway), you're confusing basically "most" cinematography with "best" cinematography as Film Crit Hulk would say. (Example: people are quick to jump to a flashy role like the Joker or a drug addict for Best Actor awards, with no thought to understated performances. "Most" acting, not "Best" acting. Costumes are often some 18th century period piece, etc.)

Wonder Woman coming in at 94% after 120 reviews is blowing my mind.

Prepare to be preached to...

Yes indeed.

From "women only" screenings to the press junkets touting "woman power",I'd imagine it's already got the "don't say anything bad about this or be labeled misogynistic" vibe.

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That's beyond idiotic.

Dumb ****s. Both should be tempbanned for misogyny. Seriously.

You're just an utterly gigantic piece of trash if you have something bad to say about a woman only screening, or put "woman power" in quotes like that.

I don't know, Baltimore, I don't really care if theaters have women-only screenings of Wonder Woman, but, by definition, to do so is sexist.

lol elite trolling

Seems to me like women only screenings is the sexist thing here not these posts.

Really?

Perceived "misogynistic" views are not allowed?

No one was personally insulting,maybe the view isn't popular with you,but you can't say film hasn't been used to drive an agenda.







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Locke - 5/10

Locke stars Tom Hardy and he is the only person to take the screen the entire movie. In fact, the entire 90 min movie takes place in real time while he's driving in his car taking multiple phone calls that will determine the course of his night and subsequently his life.

I hesitated to watch this because I thought the format sounded boring and I was both right and wrong. Hardy is a fantastic actor and one of the few who could make this movie work at all. It's a simple performance but maybe reason enough to watch.

The story is mostly interesting and well done and they found some cool ways to keep it fresh and engaging. But I did not feel like this was a complete story and ever since the closing credits I have liked it less.

I don't even know how my comment, "prepare to be preached to", would be misconstrued as something that it is not... unless that misconception is tainted inexorably by the viewers own misgivings and insensitivity.

I think it is perfectly natural and in fact natal to expect a healthy dose of "mothering" from the storyline... which was the context of my initial comment.

Boom... headshot.

Locke is the kind of movie a talented budding director would make in film school. It's apt you brought it up when you did since I felt it fitted SenorKeeed's description of a filmmaker adding an unnecessary restriction to "prove themselves". Except I can actually say that since I've seen Locke.

Also that ****ing accent is immensely distracting. Part Russian, part Welsh, part English part god knows what, 100% ****ed.

Oh good the men's rights morons get to whine for weeks now because a movie was made that stars a woman.

It's Baltimore's incessant politarding up this movie thread with pc bull**** I object to.

My raggedy misogynistic are is waiting in line to see WW...
Knucklehead.

What ever happened to Thora Birch. She was gorgeous. Talented too. She just kind of disappeared.

She had father-manager issues...some weird stuff