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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014
    Ralph Kruhm wrote
    Syriana

    Ouch! What a depressing (but obviously very realistic) tale. There are several serious punches in the gut. And Desplat´s score doesn´t help one bit. Which is the point, I guess, so, well done.


    I really dislike that movie.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014
    Why?
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014 edited
    Because it has too much information communicated exclusively through dialogue. I hate that. I like dialogue light-movies that communicate as much as possible with image and sound alone. Otherwise, I would read a book instead.
    I am extremely serious.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014
    My cats eyes look like they're done with CGI.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014
    Thor wrote
    Because it has too much information communicated exclusively through dialogue. I hate that. I like dialogue light-movies that communicate as much as possible with image and sound alone. Otherwise, I would read a book instead.


    Didn't you like LINCOLN? Quite possibly the most boring film I've ever seen though I must admit I haven't seen that Andy Warhol film where a camera films the Empire State Building for 24 years, I'm sure that would be a close second.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014 edited
    Timmer wrote
    Thor wrote
    Because it has too much information communicated exclusively through dialogue. I hate that. I like dialogue light-movies that communicate as much as possible with image and sound alone. Otherwise, I would read a book instead.


    Didn't you like LINCOLN? Quite possibly the most boring film I've ever seen though I must admit I haven't seen that Andy Warhol film where a camera films the Empire State Building for 24 years, I'm sure that would be a close second.


    Yeah, I agree. And I was rather lukewarm to the film at first, for those same reasons. But then I watched it again, and realized just how many audiovisual trademarks there were -- fluttering curtains, eons of backlight, the dirty beauty of Kaminiski's photography, the Spielbergian themes of deceptive father figures etc. So it quickly rose quite a few places on my list. For me, it's a film that works DESPITE its reliance on dialogue information.

    Never had the same experience with films like SYRIANA or THE INSIDER, even though I tried them again too.
    I am extremely serious.
  7. Dialogue or not, that depends on the genre. I love Dead Poets Society for example. It is almost entirely driven by dialogue. The story is constructed like a classic stage play and the film does have a distinct theatre feeling to it. I like that kind of film.

    Volker
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  8. Thor wrote
    Timmer wrote
    Thor wrote
    Because it has too much information communicated exclusively through dialogue. I hate that. I like dialogue light-movies that communicate as much as possible with image and sound alone. Otherwise, I would read a book instead.


    Didn't you like LINCOLN? Quite possibly the most boring film I've ever seen though I must admit I haven't seen that Andy Warhol film where a camera films the Empire State Building for 24 years, I'm sure that would be a close second.


    Yeah, I agree. And I was rather lukewarm to the film at first, for those same reasons. But then I watched it again, and realized just how many audiovisual trademarks there were -- fluttering curtains, eons of backlight, the dirty beauty of Kaminiski's photography, the Spielbergian themes of deceptive father figures etc. So it quickly rose quite a few places on my list. For me, it's a film that works DESPITE its reliance on dialogue information.

    Never had the same experience with films like SYRIANA or THE INSIDER, even though I tried them again too.


    Interesting you mention The Insider (which I have to rewatch)... It IS Michael Mann.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014
    Captain Future wrote
    Dialogue or not, that depends on the genre. I love Dead Poets Society for example. It is almost entirely driven by dialogue. The story is constructed like a classic stage play and the film does have a distinct theatre feeling to it. I like that kind of film.

    Volker


    Well, sure. It's not only a question of being 'driven by dialogue', it's also in how much narrative information is communicated through it. In the case of that film, the dialogue isn't particularly complex or full of vital information about the intrigue. It's not that kind of film.
    I am extremely serious.
  10. Thor wrote
    Never had the same experience with films like SYRIANA or THE INSIDER, even though I tried them again too.


    Silence TROLL!!!!!
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014
    He, he...it is the ONE aspect where our preferences differ radically, franz.
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  12. Those who bemoan the overuse of dialogue should speak less.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014
    biggrin
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      CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014 edited
    Re Syriana: Okay, there´s a lot of dialogue exposition, but the movie has some spectacular images, especially of landscape and scenic shots.

    It is more beautiful to look at as a Sorkin movie, and has less dialogue. ^^
    How would you rate those, The Social Network, for instance?
  15. Thor wrote
    biggrin


    wink

    I should have added that from now on you're required to post on this forum in a visual language with the religious aura you so deeply prize. Away with words, buddy. smile
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeMay 15th 2014
    franz_conrad wrote
    Those who bemoan the overuse of dialogue should speak less.


    smile
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2014
    franz_conrad wrote
    Thor wrote
    biggrin


    wink

    I should have added that from now on you're required to post on this forum in a visual language with the religious aura you so deeply prize. Away with words, buddy. smile


    I agree! From now on Thor must communicate through the medium of interpretive dance.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2014
  19. Came across one of the most memorable older Dr. Who stories on the Horror Channel this morning - "The Green Death." It was already on episode 6 but I would have watched it if I'd caught it from the beginning.

    I remember it being really scary - something about foot-long maggots doesn't really appeal. It was great to see Jon Pertwee in action!
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  20. GODZILLA

    shocked shocked punk punk

    They kept the Ligeti piece in the film, by the way! Breathtaking scene!
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2014
    Good to hear. I'm seeing it tomorrow. GOJIRA!
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2014
    I'm going to London tomorrow to see it at the IMAX. The warmest day of the year and I'll be sat in a dark , (hopefully) air conditioned theatre.
  23. You're in for a treat. That movie in IMAX will be absolutely stupendous!!
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2014 edited
    Edmund Meinerts wrote
    GODZILLA

    They kept the Ligeti piece in the film, by the way! Breathtaking scene!


    Nice! And by that, you mean the actual Ligeti piece with the length of, for example, how it was used in the trailer, or the Ligeti mimicking moment of Alexandre Desplat at the end of 'Airport Attack'?
  25. It was... I think the Requiem by Ligeti? It's a fully-fledged Ligeti piece, credited in the film.
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2014 edited
    Awesome! I'm sure it's the Requiem then, yes, as that's the piece used in the trailer and mimicked by Desplat in the score (and for me, as well as probably many others, it shall always remain 'the 2001: A Space Odyssey-piece).
  27. BobdH wrote
    Edmund Meinerts wrote
    GODZILLA

    They kept the Ligeti piece in the film, by the way! Breathtaking scene!


    Nice! And by that, you mean the actual Ligeti piece with the length of, for example, how it was used in the trailer, or the Ligeti mimicking moment of Alexandre Desplat at the end of 'Airport Attack'?

    Yep, the actual piece as used in the trailer.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2014
    GOJIRA!!!!
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  29. I find it quite funny how people stick to the original Japanese Gojira term just as if the Godzilla spelling was improper. Actually, both are equal in these terms, due to the term for the monster coming partly from the English gorilla and also because the Japanese use R and L interchangeably, because they don't hear the phonetic difference we do in Europe smile .

    Half of the so-called Engrish fun in Japan (coming from a Japanese book called "Learn Engrish") come from the fact, like this bit of dialogue during an interview a Japanese Prime Minister gave in the US:

    Interviewer: How often do you have elections in Japan?
    PM: When I wake up.

    There is a major university in Tokyo having UNIVELSITY on the gate. Not to mention a certain famous guitarist called Eric Crapton wink
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  30. I think it's just that GOJIRAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! is more satisfying to bellow/roar/yell than "Godzilla". wink

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