Matthew on 21/7/2009 at 14:20
What annoyed me more was that the tank was able to ding him with a shell the first time around. At that elevation, at that speed?
oudeis on 21/7/2009 at 14:56
Now that you've got me thinking about slo-mo, I'm amazed it never made its way into porn. I have no doubt that the legions of the exploitative would appreciate a drawn-out money shot. Or seeing it four times in a row from four different angles. In slo-mo.
rachel on 21/7/2009 at 14:59
Quote Posted by Matthew
What annoyed me more was that the tank was able to ding him with a shell the
first time around. At that elevation, at that speed?
Agreed, that was pushing it. Hell of a sharpshooter :D
Xenith on 21/7/2009 at 15:07
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Now that you've got me thinking about slo-mo, I'm amazed it never made its way into porn. I have no doubt that the legions of the exploitative would appreciate a drawn-out money shot. Or seeing it four times in a row from four different angles. In slo-mo.
I think it's already been done, you probably just have to search more for it.
DDL on 21/7/2009 at 15:23
Veering back away from slomo moneyshots (as fast as possible..all the way to page 2, in fact), the rocket dodging in the trailer for GI Joe bugs me in particular because, as far as I can tell, the dodged rockets go on to explode vast swathes of pedestrian-heavy paris street fronting.
Images of GIs whooping and hi-fiving while dazed and bloody parisiennes look for missing limbs in craters spring to mind.
EvaUnit02 on 21/7/2009 at 16:04
Ohhhh, so Koki was talking about GI Joe. The characters are wearing fucking mechanised armour that greatly improves their reflexes. So yes, rocket dodging makes sense in terms of that film's rules.
Quote Posted by DDL
Images of GIs whooping and hi-fiving while dazed and bloody parisiennes look for missing limbs in craters spring to mind.
Heheh, reminds me of how they tear up Shanghai in at beginning of Transformers 2. (But apparently the public still doesn't know about the presence of giant alien robots, even after this aforementioned incident and destroying Downtown Los Angeles in the first film. *sigh*)
DDL on 21/7/2009 at 16:07
See, this is something I've always found irritating: "enhances reflexes". Unless that suit is wired DIRECTLY INTO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, and in fact, largely replaces it, then it's going to do bugger all for the reflexes, they'll just move faster when they DO react.
Unless the suit reacts for them, in which case...screw the pilot, just send the suit.
...but then I remember the movie I'm objecting to, and feel stupid.
Koki on 21/7/2009 at 16:10
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Ohhhh, so Koki was talking about GI Joe. The characters are wearing fucking mechanised armour that greatly improves their reflexes. So yes, rocket dodging makes sense in terms of that film's rules.
Too bad the rules themselves don't.
Rocket bows > magical suits of armor
Iroquois on 21/7/2009 at 16:16
"Sense" isn't exactly what older action flicks had over the more recent ones. An attempt to keep up appearances was. They weren't realistic, but they pretended to care to a point about their own framework. Lately, they don't seem particularly interested in bothering with a script at all. They just say "bugger all", make a string of stuff blowing up and lo and behold! An action flick!
I don't mind the later techniques (i.e. shaky camera), as long it as it's consistent with the movie's framework. For example, I liked it in Batman Begins (especially in the scene at the Docks), because it was aiming at the elusive and mysterious nature of Batman, like a monster or a ghost that nobody can quite see and define. But it got annoying in, say, Transformers, where the robots already looked like an identical mesh of metal and things blew up all over the screen at any given time.
catbarf on 21/7/2009 at 17:19
Here's something that gets me: Why is it that having the hero's adversary be a really strong guy always mean throwing the hero across the room repeatedly (So he can grab a gun or makeshift device) instead of just punching him right in the fucking face. Terminator 4, I'm looking at you.
