Last movie you watched?

[MumblesBadly]

When I made the below video for Bluff,



one of my friends asked me "is that green screened?"

I said "Yeah, how could you tell?"

He said "I don't know. There's just something off about it."

I couldn't figure out what it was either. In hindsight, I think the main issue is that the background needed to be blurred more realistically. Of course, my friend didn't know anything about depth of field in cameras.

But his brain did.

The nature of the background blurring is probably part of it, but what jumped out at me after about a minute is that the background image irregularly jiggles left and right, which was more noticable in the parts where Trickett's GF was closer in the shot. And I confirmed that the background image was jiggling by watching the image in the upper right corner, and seeing a light fixture on the wall flick back and forth. Take another look and confirm whether you see this.

[SrslySirius]

You're right, the camera shake is much more distracting. That one is a bad example, and I don't think it's actually the one my friend saw. There's a lot of videos from that summer with locked down stable footage, but its still obvious green screen.

[gut]

Watched Edge of Tomorrow on HBO and was surprised how much I liked it. Much better than most summertime action slop.

I was even more surprised to look on Rotten Tomatoes afterwards and saw it has a 90 from the critics.

[simply1]

The wife took our 13 yr old son to see Vacation last night. They both said it was a piece of shit and not one person in the theater lol even once.

Be warned.

I, of course, sat in the neighbors backyard drinking bourbon and watched his hot milf wife strut around in her bikini.

[thesparten]

Watched Edge of Tomorrow on HBO and was surprised how much I liked it. Much better than most summertime action slop.

I was even more surprised to look on Rotten Tomatoes afterwards and saw it has a 90 from the critics.

That was such an underrated movie..

Tom cruise at his best in a long time. Did well in mixing comic relief with the serious sci fi drama.

[MumblesBadly]

You're right, the camera shake is much more distracting. That one is a bad example, and I don't think it's actually the one my friend saw. There's a lot of videos from that summer with locked down stable footage, but its still obvious green screen.

Have you tried making the background also greyscale to avoid the uncanny valley affect? Or is there a "depth of field" affect you can use on the background versus blurring?

Also, what do you edit in? I use a Mac and fiddle a little with a consumer version of Final Cut.

[SrslySirius]

You're right, the camera shake is much more distracting. That one is a bad example, and I don't think it's actually the one my friend saw. There's a lot of videos from that summer with locked down stable footage, but its still obvious green screen.

Have you tried making the background also greyscale to avoid the uncanny valley affect? Or is there a "depth of field" affect you can use on the background versus blurring?

Also, what do you edit in? I use a Mac and fiddle a little with a consumer version of Final Cut.

I don't interview poker players for a living anymore.

Uncanny valley shouldn't apply as those weren't CGI backgrounds. It was real footage taken from the halls and stages of the Rio. I wasn't actually allowed to film in those locations, but it was easy to sneak a few minutes of background footage to use later. Grayscale would look odd, unless you mean tinting it slightly. Maybe these could have been color corrected better to match the foreground.

Depth of field creates a particular sort of blur, one that's difficult to apply to existing footage. Suppose the camera's focal point is 20 feet. Any object at that distance will be sharp and in focus. An object 15 or 25 feet away will be slightly fuzzy. An object 5 feet away or 200 feet away will be very blurry. As far as my computer is concerned, the footage is 2-dimensional and it has no way of knowing how distant any objects are. When you add any sort of blur, it gets applied evenly to the whole thing.

What I should have done is compensated for this by getting someone to stand in front of the camera first, focus on them, then have them walk away, and use a shallow depth of field (exaggerating the blur and sensitivity to distance). Instead, I think the DoF was deep, making the overall image focused, which is why I had to blur it later.

In my defense, I had never operated a camera at the time and didn't have much time to learn all this stuff.

I mostly use Adobe products, namely Premiere and After Effects.

[4Dragons]

Have you tried making the background also greyscale to avoid the uncanny valley affect? Or is there a "depth of field" affect you can use on the background versus blurring?

Also, what do you edit in? I use a Mac and fiddle a little with a consumer version of Final Cut.

I don't interview poker players for a living anymore.

Uncanny valley shouldn't apply as those weren't CGI backgrounds. It was real footage taken from the halls and stages of the Rio. I wasn't actually allowed to film in those locations, but it was easy to sneak a few minutes of background footage to use later. Grayscale would look odd, unless you mean tinting it slightly. Maybe these could have been color corrected better to match the foreground.

Depth of field creates a particular sort of blur, one that's difficult to apply to existing footage. Suppose the camera's focal point is 20 feet. Any object at that distance will be sharp and in focus. An object 15 or 25 feet away will be slightly fuzzy. An object 5 feet away or 200 feet away will be very blurry. As far as my computer is concerned, the footage is 2-dimensional and it has no way of knowing how distant any objects are. When you add any sort of blur, it gets applied evenly to the whole thing.

What I should have done is compensated for this by getting someone to stand in front of the camera first, focus on them, then have them walk away, and use a shallow depth of field (exaggerating the blur and sensitivity to distance). Instead, I think the DoF was deep, making the overall image focused, which is why I had to blur it later.

In my defense, I had never operated a camera at the time and didn't have much time to learn all this stuff.

I mostly use Adobe products, namely Premiere and After Effects.

Shot would have looked better if it was tripoded. The reason it looks odd is because of the background movement opposed to the subject movement in the frame.

[SrslySirius]

Shot would have looked better if it was tripoded. The reason it looks odd is because of the background movement opposed to the subject movement in the frame.

Yeah, we talked about that a few posts up. They usually were, this one was a poor example.

[limitles]

Went retro tonight just because someone mentioned John Candy. Laughed out loud.

[limitles]

The Grand Budapest Hotel

You've heard of it, you may have seen it. I suggest you watch it again as memories are pretty weak.

It's quirky, like Lemony Snicket, and that's my style. Seeing it again was almost new. (I have fallen lately however)

The cast. A star studded cast doesn't guarantee a winner but when you see the list of notables in this film, something

OBV attracted several HOF'ers.

• Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H.^[25][26]
• Tony Revolori as Young Zero Moustafa^[26]
• Adrien Brody as Dmitri Desgoffe und Taxis^[26][27][28]
• Willem Dafoe as J.G. Jopling^[26][27]
• Jeff Goldblum as Deputy Vilmos Kovacs^[26][27]
• Saoirse Ronan as Agatha^[26][29]
• Edward Norton as Inspector Henckels^[26][27]
• F. Murray Abraham as Old Zero Moustafa^[26][27]
• Mathieu Amalric as Serge X.^[26]
• Jude Law as The Author as a Young Man^[26][27]
• Harvey Keitel as Ludwig^[26][27]
• Bill Murray as Monsieur Ivan^[26][27]
• Léa Seydoux as Clotilde^[26][30]
• Jason Schwartzman as Monsieur Jean^[26][27]
• Tilda Swinton as Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis (Madame D.)^[26][27][28]
• Tom Wilkinson as The Author as an Old Man^[26][31]
• Owen Wilson as Monsieur Chuck^[26][27]

Deputy Kovacs: Did he just throw my cat out of the window?

[nightmarefish]

Watched Edge of Tomorrow on HBO and was surprised how much I liked it. Much better than most summertime action slop.

I was even more surprised to look on Rotten Tomatoes afterwards and saw it has a 90 from the critics.

That was such an underrated movie..

Tom cruise at his best in a long time. Did well in mixing comic relief with the serious sci fi drama.

90% on RT is unrated? Get off the sauce.

[Crowe Diddly]

Mirage Men.

www.imdb.com/title/tt2254010/
http://www.miragemen.com/
free on Amazon Prime.

Fun doc about the US Govt's dis-info campaign with regard to UFOs, with some focus on Richard C Doty. In short, Doty was the guy the US (Air Force, I think) sent out to ppl who saw weird shit around US Airforce bases and thought they might be aliens. Doty would essentially say "Yes,aliens exist, and if you tell us what you know, we'll tell you what we know."

[4Dragons]

"King Arthur" 2004

Old news right?

As someone who loved "Excalibur", I wasn't sure of what Bruckheimer was going to pull with King Arthur, other than what he would have normally done if Don Simpson were alive and that would be to do King Arthur as 'black'. But with no Will Smith on the Marquee, I tried and failed to watch this movie back when it came out because it was boring out of the gate. 10 years hence and i've done a ton of research on the period in which this version of Arthur takes place, which is at the time of the Roman retreat from England, somewhere around 500AD.

The sets, landscape and wardrobe were more or less spot on, with a bit of artistic play with the hero's main costuming, which resembled something more of a superhero's armor than anything some back water anglo would have been able to afford or import from Julius Armani. The big contrast was that the dialog was so awful, I was tempted to shut the sound off and just look at it. I mean the Roman forts and Hadrian's Wall to the villages and the Saxons.. all as it should be. Then the viking opened his mouth.. an American accent came out. I wanted to take a Viking axe to the TV. And everybody else had different accents that had nothing to do with where they were from. The Roman priest sure as hell didn't sound like wop from Florence and the Pagan Guinevere didn't sound like an old school Scot. Totally disjointed.

Merlin shows up not to do any magic, or create any potions or even turn lead into gold, but to deliver a 2 sentence plot line and fucks off for the rest of the movie.

To be honest, Excalibur, if it was made in 500AD would look just like any other Roman Gladius, not like an English Longsword that had yet to be invented, by like another 500 years.

I still can't figure out why the final battle scene was 45 minutes long. Bow usage was way over used for warfare of the time. Still trying to figure out who went to China to get that re-curve short bow. Seems it would be a hell of a walk.

The Romans didn't fight like Romans. Those battle scenes were single combat chaos, not regimented machines like the Romans were.

Was there a plot? Oh yeah, they kept talking about 'freedom' and then made a guy King. Oxymoron of the century.

2 stars.

[Daly]

Just got out of Stright out of Compton. I was expecting a lol storyline set to NWA music. They way out kicked their coverage. The story was 4 out of 5 stars. First hour or so was the real life events that was the insperation of the songs and how they made the album and went on tour. The next hour was all the business end bullshit that tore them apart and all the individual albums.

The basic story is eazy got screwed by Druff.

Ice cube saw though the bullshit early, almost got fucked again by his next label but had learned his lesson once and now is a huge comercial hit.

Dre went along for the ride and got fucked. Then he got fucked again by Death row and walked away. Then he hit it larger then the rest of them combined.

Go have some beers and see this movie of you are a white kid from the burbs.

[4Dragons]

Just got out of Stright out of Compton. I was expecting a lol storyline set to NWA music. They way out kicked their coverage. The story was 4 out of 5 stars. First hour or so was the real life events that was the insperation of the songs and how they made the album and went on tour. The next hour was all the business end bullshit that tore them apart and all the individual albums.

The basic story is eazy got screwed by Druff.

Ice cube saw though the bullshit early, almost got fucked again by his next label but had learned his lesson once and now is a huge comercial hit.

Dre went along for the ride and got fucked. Then he got fucked again by Death row and walked away. Then he hit it larger then the rest of them combined.

Go have some beers and see this movie of you are a white kid from the burbs.

Haven't seen it yet but Paul Giamatti is GOD.

[RegGaymer]

This film was gangster, and I enjoyed all 2hr 45 mins of it.



I need to start watching more of these classic westerns.

[Brittney Griner's Clit]

Yer mom likes western...

dressing on my ass.

[Brittney Griner's Clit]

Love love LOVES

the horns

Couldnt give less fucks about the halo

[Brittney Griner's Clit]

The halo makes lakes dry up.

The horns make a cactus Katrina.