Yeah, when we did the truck transfer where Terminator crawls out of the little pickup truck onto the hood of the big rig… the run across the back bed of the pickup. It was all free-handed at 60 miles an hour, no safety line on or anything, so if I fell I would’ve been smeared. I remember looking up at the stars saying to my mother “I love you mom” and wondering over the last time I was ever going to look up at that sky or see her. Having said that- you can imagine I was somewhat relieved to get the first take and get the sequence in the can after 5 takes! I also smashed my nose on the side of the truck when we did the flip over onto its side. Busted and bloody.
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Watching a lot of Neil Breen lately so I decided to construct this bingo card, which covers some (but definitely not all) of his films’ eccentricities
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Scrolling down after this post I see ‘scorsesee doubles down’ and now I am imagining what it would be like to see Scorsesee’s ‘Double Down’
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got hold of the 4K terminator 2 because you all were talking about it and I hadn’t seen it in years
people apparently complained about this digital transfer because James Cameron hates the past and loves the future and where 4K releases normally show a lot of typical 35mm grain, this movie has been denoised to hell and back to the point where there are unnatural halos on a lot of background details
the definitive release!!
funny stuff
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you think t2 is a dnr atrocity? take a look at this. (this was fixed for the 4k release, but it’s still the funniest shit)
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yeah the predator 4k release looked great (it’s funny how the best outcome of sequel production for half of these is getting them to put in the work on a good 4k transfer to try to make some more money from the hype) but like
why doesn’t everyone think film grain looks beautiful
speaking of which if you haven’t seen the casino 4k yet and you have the means it’s very sumptuous
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def. a missed profit opportunity not releasing noisy and smeary releases as separate SKUs
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Film grain resolves differently on a projector and looks a lot nicer there, as it bleeds to white, than it does on an LCD display. Emissive displays (CRT, plasma, OLED) handle it a lot better but I still went with 4k77 DNR over the full-fat grain, it felt like an appropriate amount on my screen.
once again I am a snob in ways I hadn’t even been aware of
also, revisiting John Connor’s 90s tude is one thing, but realizing that they just dynamite a regular ass California office park for the skynet incursion is quite another
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For context, the full-noise 4k77 was the first thing I’ve seen that made me think, this is a bit too much grain
and Shredded Wheat 'N Bran is my favorite cereal
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it’s so gorgeous
grain IS detail
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yep #wholegrainmovies
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Grain, you may remain
De-noisin’, what is this poison
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hair in the gate? you’re my mate
crushed blacks? catching flak
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Good rhymes to remember which are the good movies when you encounter a movie in the wild
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digitial transfers also eliminate the audible silence that comes on real film and it was only seeing Akira 35mm that I went “oh this is what movies are supposed to sound like.”
The completely silent nuke scenes with that grain and dirt + the silence of a theater is a dream I hope you can all have.
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yeah a 4k projector gets you a lot closer to the 35mm experience than I could’ve hoped but audio is another thing
I watched Ford v. Ferrari yesterday and it is a dad movie as all heck but that is pretty OK.
I did notice while watching it that the only movies I don’t get too repulsed by CGI in are car movies, because CGI can do a decent car, and it lets them do some fun angles that would otherwise be really difficult.
Not a lot of deep thoughts about the movie otherwise. It was enjoyable, but in the exact way you know you will or won’t enjoy beforehand. Very few surprises. Matt Damon hitting Christian Bale in the head with a loaf of Wonder Bread is kinda great (as is the small detail of him initially reaching for a can to hit him with before thinking better of it).
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I love that Indicator includes Super8 reduction prints as special features on some of their releases.
I was really hoping some of those would pop up in the Criterion Godzilla set.