• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        … and ‘politics is Hollywood for ugly people’.

        I feel like Trump is the actual best possible example of that, along with the considerable set of shitass right wing commentators who are failed creatives/entertainers of some kind.

      • Shindo66@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        “I’m going to make it in hollywood, i was so good in my high-school production of “Oklahoma” there’s no way I’m not going to make it.”

        • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
          5·
          4 days ago

          LoL, I mean its one of those one way connections. Like all Hollywood actors are weird theater kids but not all weird theater kids are Hollywood actors.

          And its not all, but its probably more “most”. But for the most part, some random, jock football player isn’t turning into the next big time Hollywood actor, its the kid who did an overzealous Oklahoma production.

          Actually probably not that kid either, they probably went on to broadway. Hollywood will be the one who did “a good job” as the reocuring background character.

    • Ech@lemmy.ca
      21·
      5 days ago

      Yeah, all movies look weird and awkward behind the scenes. People don’t realize how important framing is and how much is tweaked in post production.

    • usernamefactory@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      Imagine hiring theatre kids to act. Obviously they should be recruiting from business majors and STEM departments.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    27·
    5 days ago

    Here, The Matrix now takes place in either Mexico or a late 2000’s / early 2010’s shooter game:

    … or the original release version of Deus Ex Human Revolution.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Interesting!

        I did know that the first 3 at least, a kind of green filter/color grading was intentionally used on/for scenes that take place in the matrix, whereas a kind of blue filter/color grading was used for scenes in ‘the real’.

        But… yeah I’m going off of the old, like, original DVD releases… and apparently that is actually slightly wrong from the actual movies, and then apparently they regraded the movies again for bluray, and apparently they fucked it up even worse.

        Awesome.

        EDIT

        Ok, I’ve watched the whole video now…

        Its worse. Its so much worse.

        I think I’m going to take the blue pill and believe whatever I want to believe, regarding the greeness. Ugh.

  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
    23·
    5 days ago

    The funny thing is that they obviously didn’t have blue tint on the day, so this picture is probably exactly what it looked like while they were doing it.

    No music, no sound effects, no graphics. Behind the scenes footage is so awkward it’s amazing any movie gets made, and I love it.

    • tpyo@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 days ago

      I have a problem when watching a show or movie, and I’m a little bit stoned, that I start thinking about how it was filmed, the camera angles, and the actors in the scene. It really takes me out of the moment

      • papalonian@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        There’s a scene towards the end of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring at the River Anduin where they’re fighting off the orc/ Urakhai raiding party. As the camera jumps from one bit of action to the next, there’s a short (maybe 2 second) shot where an orc gets his face bashed into a rock.

        I just imagine the orc actor, halfway hunched over the rock, with another actor holding the back of his head, waiting for Peter Jackson to yell “action!” Just to smack his head against a rock. And for them to look over the footage, and say “no, I don’t really like the angle we got here. And your facial expression isn’t really what I’m going for. Alright everyone, let’s run “face into rock” one more time and take lunch”

      • 1D10@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 days ago

        I’m like that when I’m not stoned, which is probably why as a 50 year old man I mostly watch romcoms and animation. With romcoms the set and lighting is straight forward so it doesn’t distract me, unless they are outside in the “tropics” then all the wrong plants and animals bother me.

      • k0e3@lemmy.ca
        3·
        4 days ago

        I watch a lot of Corridor Crew videos with my kids and now they just call out bad CGI all the time and they complain everytime they see AI slop out in the city. I’m glad they have critical eyes now, but I feel like I ruined the joy of simply enjoying movies for them.

  • ferrule@sh.itjust.works
    39·
    5 days ago

    Twilight was the most “theater kids being theater kids” movie ever. The entire movie was people over acting as if that’s what makes you a vampire. I kept waiting for Jon Lovitz to walk by yelling “ACTING!!!”

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 days ago

      There’s a parody called taintlight and they parody the overacting by overacting EVEN HARDER and it’s the funniest fucking thing. The production value is exactly in the realm of “high school project” but that somehow makes it better.