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To: discostu
"Only if you’ve got a really big screen. The overwhelming vehicular carnage will stop being overwhelming on a small screen"

While I do have a home theater with a projector and 120 inch screen, I pretty much quite watching movies for the special effects a while back. I just got bored with it because most of the big movies have been based on nothing but special effects and CGI these days. Granted, that's just my personal preference and I certainly understand why some people get into the big screen special effects experience. Personally, I think the best cinema over the last 10 years or so has been some of the television series on HBO and AMC. I've enjoyed Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Walking Dead over just about everything released by Hollywood over the last 10 years. There have been some exceptions like "American Sniper" or "The Dark Knight" but they are very few and far between.

23 posted on 05/21/2015 10:05:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Miller stayed old school with this. CGI is only used to enhance not to replace. So you get real car crashes with some CG car parts thrown in to make it a bit more visceral. This is a stunt work extravaganza. This is a movie where the bad guys have a car with a bunch of Kodo Drummers, a wall of speakers that would make The Who drool, and a guy with a guitar that shoot flames out of the top because... well do an image search “mad max 4 guitar” and you’ll see why. It’s certainly not great cinema as it just barely has enough plot to provide an excuse for the next leg of the chase. But it is great action and a lot of fun.


24 posted on 05/21/2015 10:13:55 AM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: circlecity

No mention of “Justified”? I actually got hooked on that one like I have not been hooked on TV in a long time. Timothy Olyphant and Walton Coggins did a hell of a job of acting in my opinion even though I suspect I would not want to spend five minutes with either one out of character.


25 posted on 05/21/2015 10:31:31 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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