KingNor

I don't need to ruin my Macross to see naked women.

whats that mean?

i didn't catch it word for word but it's a military transmission saying something like btw i love this spoiler tag, when did MW start using it?

can't think of anymore, and i really want to.

NICE!!! let me try one: The Japanese branch of China's First Feng Shui Bank said "for this economic change we are positioned nicely."

pic no worky worky

i dunno man, i associate very much with how the characters look in their line art. EVERYTHING would need to be remade to make it work. cosplayers are living proof that you can't just take an anime design, replace the character with a human, and have it all work. a RADICAL redesign of SDF is exactly what i don't want. "do not want" as it were.

...hug?

This is very true. SDF isn't the best because it's the first. It's the best and it's the first. I personally feel Kawamori has a bit of Lucas' Free Reign Syndrom. When Kawamori, like Lucas, was under tight budget and had lots of outside influence, he produced gold. Now that he can do what ever he wants, his projects have more and more of his personal quirks to them, and they've become less grounded. then, you are lost! It's over, i have the high ground, don't do it!

btw low viz, that gun pod sound effect is one of my "this is macross" things. when i hear that Bbbrrrvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv i know there's a valkyrie around kickin some ass. or an A-10, either way good times.

I love seeing NYC get destroyed movie after movie, I hates me some of that pretentious city. Like what's up with that commercial they're running in my area (SF bay area) where New York is begging for my money to fund some truck that gives food to the homeless. Good cause and all, but is NYC really so full of itself that it thinks it can justify funneling money from all over the country to feed it's homeless? there's plenty of homeless in SF why shoud my money go to NYC. because of this, i welcome the aliens, robots, giant monsters, earthquakes, zombie vampire virus's and anything else that feels like putting that city in it's place. btw this ends quite possibly the rantyest day i've ever had. I'ts been great guys.

i .. i jsut don't see how you can all laugh about this. financial crisis is serious business

Here's my tip for watching I am legend as the bleakest, lonelyest masterpeice of emotional moviemaking ever.

I was just trying to be topical T.T and trying to liven my current gloomy mood.

Will Cloverfield be forever forgotten due to a somewhat popular actor dieing right after it came out?

if it turns out to be drug abuse i won't feel bad for him anymore. this kind of abuse is so self centered in general, when kids are involved, thats just down right unacceptable. it better be accedental/perscription.

Yah, that was a bit forced, I know some victums of trauma say that filming the horrors of the event kind of keeps them "out" of it. Like "i'm filming not experiencing. So i can sorta see why filming would be important to someone, too bad they don't mention that angle.

yeah, i HATE that!

i think one reason shakey cam is used so much is it makes editing REALLY easy. Just film a bunch of non-descript actiony scenes of bourne driving a car, and shakey cam some cops driving a car. cut it together with a very few KEY scenes shot clearly and you can make the chase last 5 minutes or 20, mixing and matching what ever shot you want. easy peasy.

eugimon, i think the fact that cloverfield tends to have longer slower ups and downs, OR such fast motions that render you unable to focus on anything, helps it be less vomit inducing that bourns constantly moveing, yet focusable visuals. cloverfield is, in truth, the shakeyest movie since blair witch during an earthquake, BUT it does it in a way that's truely intergrated to the film and at the same time less distracting than a "omnipresent" eyeball movie where you're supposed to be a phantom watching from your own vantage point. in those cases a shake or two is ok, but too much is just annoying. you make fine points about when and why the camera moves in bourne, i just think it does it poorly.

this is very true, i've been trying to explain the difference between this movie, where you can ffor the most part let the image blur and take in the shakey cam, and you'll be ok, for most of the shakey parts and the gut wrenching shakey for no reason stuff in something like bourne supremacy, where you're expected to focus on things through the shakeys. this movie uses it propperly.

the rumor is that it was actually filmed on some kind of retail small camera. that might be part of the hype though, i guess we may have to wait for some behind the scenes footage.

Bsu you're getting pretty close to ad hominem attacks on jenus, which i dont' think is fair. we're all argueing opinions here, so lets back them up with our own experience with the movie rather than attacking someone else's lack of knowledge. I dont' think cloverfield is a "deep thoughtful movie" but i do think it's deeper than jenus gives it credit for, i've backed up my opinion with specific examples and he's free to agree or not. The only thing that will change his mind is seeing the movie again, and maybe seeing something there he didn't notice the first time. Insulting each others intellegence wont' accomplish anything.

Now now, Jenus is an ok guy, i kind of unloaded on him because a lot of my friends have the same opinion and i needed to vent. It's not really his fault either, i mean, hollywood has been feeding us garbage for so long it's hard to forget to *look* for depth when the movie isn't spelling it out. I can easily see how someone might feel how jenus feels, i just hink they're undercutting the movie is all.

Jenus, are you serious? Every time these kids desert a nearly sure escape to plunge back into the city to save a girl that is probably dead, it raises ALL KINDS of moral questions. this is my problem with most peoples takes on more subtle movies. people WANT to be beat over the head with simplistic story lines and obvious exposition and plot recaps. These kids could have escaped the city over and over, and each time they didn't, they're posing the question to you: "what would you do in that situation" there is even a moment when they all face the fact that beth almost certainly dead already. "would you go even if you knew your friend was dead?" "would you go WITH your friend if it was just to recover a loved ones body?" Just because there's no jerry bruckheimer moments where the characters all sit down and say "look, theres a monster out there, we may all die, every one makeyour own choice, i for one am going to save beth because i love her and i'm willing to risk.." goddamn i cant even write it it's so cliche' this crap happens in EVERY big stupid blockbuster these days. When the film got boo's at the end in my theater, all i could think was "god damn it.. these idiots actually wanted 'PirateSpider4: Sparow-iderman to the Rescue!'"