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01-12-2017, 08:36 AM | #83 |
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I've witnessed worse than this. On my university course hardly anyone ever showed up to the weekly film screening. You'd be lucky if someone showed up to put the VHS tape in. As hardly anyone watched the weekly film it was always left to me to explain the plot. In fairness the films were available in the library to be watched in people's own time but still a lot of times that didn't even happen with the students.
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I say if you're going to be a teacher you should be able to display you have knowledge in what you're teaching. Not sure what I expected. My "school" was sued several times for illegal practices so yeah. . .there's that. |
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01-15-2017, 03:56 PM | #86 | |
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The 1990 movie is an indie movie itself, Maybe you should mention it to them. |
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01-15-2017, 06:14 PM | #87 | |
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I had one teacher who couldn't really articulate or communicate his lessons very well, which was very frustrating because you really want to learn stuff and then you go on to the advance classes where some students were lucky enough to get a more effective instructor, while some of us needed brushing up. One of my last coarses, the instructor didn't teach us. She put on You Tube videos, which taught us. We paid for a professional grade coarse and got You Tube videos. |
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01-19-2017, 08:12 AM | #88 |
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We watched all types of films but people's part time jobs or a lack of interest prevented them from making any effort. Their education came second. Kind of makes you wonder why do the degree in the first place apart from the whole "oh it's Film Studies, easy degree, all I have to do is watch films!"
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01-20-2017, 01:53 PM | #90 | |
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I recall having a Tintin cassette-tape about Tintin and his friends travelling by spacecraft to Moon, and Tintin claiming he was the first human on the Moon. I always thought that was stupid when in reality, Neil Armstrong was first in July 1969 and the story should be based on that. The ride was depicted as not too unlike the real Apollo Project (except no Lunar Module and no water splashdown when returning to Earth). While I knew the year of Neil Armstrong's landing, I hat no idea that Tintin story was dated 1953 or something. |
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01-22-2017, 02:01 PM | #91 | |
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01-22-2017, 08:07 PM | #92 | |
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A lot of movies that are quoted as being timeless are still very much of their time. The original, classic Die Hard is an example. It has a Run DMC song. It's clearly set in the yuppie/Reagan era. Women have that puffy, big, curly hairstyle. The villain mentions John Waye and John McClain gets his catchphrase from Roy Rogers. (Note: I don't use these examples as criticisms, but as fact.) The same will be said of movies of today. The question is, is it wrong for a movie to be of its time or is an audience wrong for being closed minded towards movies being dated? Personally, I lean towards the latter. Then again, movies are my main passion and my focus in life, a craft I am studying. I take films seriously. The first film isn't for me just a part of a franchise I love but my very link to it. It's the main reason why I am here, whereas for others it may be the comics or the animated series. |
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01-22-2017, 08:36 PM | #93 | |
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01-22-2017, 08:49 PM | #94 | |
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Now it wasn't a very good joke, but who cares? It's what it was trying to say that was more important. It's about how outlandish it is that people expect April to dream of some who is "dreamy" now, not in 1990. Now if anyone should be nitpicking something, it should be that logic. It's weird that people watch a 90's movie and nitpick that it makes 90's references, as if that's more important than the story, characters, etc. |
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01-22-2017, 09:50 PM | #95 |
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Exactly. A decade from now people can watch OOTS and be like 'oh, that's back when Megan Fox was relevant' or making fun of how outdated the technology is.
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It's really how the CG is used. The first Independence Day used a combination of miniatures and CG. The new film uses a lot more CG and has sequences that, in theory, are bigger in scope. Yet you feel the scope better in the first film. That's because when the ships first appear, they appear in the real world and we are often on ground level watching with the pedestrians. The new film didn't do that as much. Most will probably blame the CG, but it is really what is done to ground us into the story that makes or breaks a film experience. With TMNT '90, it's not just the fact that they used Jim Henson's suits. There is so much more to it that makes these characters feel real. The moment between Donnie and Mikey as they wait for pizza, talking about what Splinter said. The scene where they find their lair destroyed and, essentially, their father gone. The campfire sequence. The moments between Danny and Splinter. The later scene when Casey and Danny rescue Splinter. It's the emotional integrity that sells the characters. Without that genuine quality, they'd just be guys in suits, like the kangaroo-like guys in Warriors of Virtue or the aliens from Spaced Invaders. (By the way, I wonder if this is the first time in a long, long time anyone has mentioned or remembered Warriors of Virtue and Spaced Invaders ) That's why the 1990 film has yet to be topped. It's the one that has done the best job at treating the characters like real people with real emotions. |
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01-23-2017, 09:19 PM | #97 | |
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Some of the references may be a little dated for them to understand, but everything else should be fine.
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01-24-2017, 01:25 AM | #98 |
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I watched reruns of Batman, Green Acres, Leave it to Beaver, etc., and I was never confused by anything in those series. I just liked them. I don't think kids would be all that confused by the stuff in the 1990 film.
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01-24-2017, 07:31 AM | #99 |
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Exactly. They may not 100% know what they are, but they'll have a vague idea that's it's like 'what they used in the old days'. You forget that most kids have parents that are still using outdated technology. It's usually the kids nowadays showing us old folks how the latest iPhone works.
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