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Hi there, welcome to the non-floating asylum (obscure Jaws reference). 😛 I hope you enjoy your stay here. Happy future birthday wishes by the way! 🙂
Yes, it’s really great to have an active forum again. I hope you and your friend, Anne, will have a good time here.
Ego te absolvo. 🙂
“Rosebud…”
“What nationality are you?” “I’m a drunkard.”
“I wish you would die.” “That’ll be the day.”
“Mrs. Robinson, I think you’re trying to seduce me.”
“You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.”
“We all go a little mad sometimes.”
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here… this is the War Room!”
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
“We have all the time in the world…”
“Hey, sh*thead… you ever picked your feet? You ever been to Poughkeepsie, huh?”
“It’s not the years, dear. It’s the mileage.”
“Listen, you f*ckers. You screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore… who would not… let…” (starting over) “Listen, you f*ckers. You screwheads…”
“Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch.” “Oh, I agree…”
“I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven…”
“I’ll be back…”
“Get away from her, you bitch!”
“But I’m telling you and I’m telling everyone at this table that that’s a shark, and I know what a shark looks like because I’ve seen one up close! And you better do something about this one because I don’t intend to go through that hell again!!!”
“But he’ll find out. Sooner or later.” “Probably later.” 🙂
Don’t fret, Hatter. Just make sure that your backups work after you burn them. As an editor myself, I totally understand how frustrating it can be when things don’t fall into place at all and when it seems like the elements are against you. So just perservere. Keep an EDL list of your work and write down all the referenced files that your clips in your timeline are coming from. That way you’ll be extra safe in case stringing and sourcing gets mixed up. Also, save another untouched backup project file of your work that you save to from your original project every once in a while in case your main project file that you’re working on gets corrupted. There’s a chance your database stuff might be getting mixed up after working on something for so long. So you can save your project file to another drive and work on that one every now and then if your computer performance is getting sluggish.
By the way, what editing interface are you using? Final Cut, Avid, Adobe Premiere, Vegas, or even Ulead?
That is really interesting. I’ve never heard of this before. This is very similar to the occurrences following the success and overwhelming controversy around Robert Louis Stevenson’s infamous novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The book came out causing people to be genuinely afraid of society in general and going out at night. And then shortly after, the Jack the Ripper murders started to occur only a couple of years after the book was published while the very first play version emerged where many people believed the man playing Hyde was indeed Jack the Ripper or even the devil because of his very effective and genuinely real performance. If some info can be found about it somewhere, I’m sure one can find the parallels.
Ellen Burstyn without a doubt is an amazing actress. She is my all time favorite actress mainly because of her uncanny ability to make things so absolutely real and honest in her performances. When she has to give an extremely emotional moment, she plays it out still very honestly. It helps too that she is a beautiful woman. Although she wears practically no dress-up makeup except for a few scenes, she still looks great. Check her out in The Last Picture Show and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
Hi Hatter,
I was wondering what kind of video card are you using? Does it give the video really good quality? It would be shame to do all that work and the DVD picture not only looking close to as good as it does on the actual Dominion DVD, especially after saying it might be sacrificed due to the lack of disk space on your drive. 🙁
It’s all good, Cap’n. I wasn’t being impatient. It was just one way to point out certain things while showing that the forum still had a tiny bit of traffic in terms of visits as opposed to none. 🙂
Hi Cap’n, nice improvements with the easy to find Javascript tag buttons. By the way, are the threads themselves going to have a different look or is that for something else? I’m not asking for one though I do think the topic listings were better with the font and table itself bigger like before. 🙂
What? Have you been having a lot of errors lately when you go on the internet/or this site or just for technology in general? 😛
I particularly love the film, Hardcore. Great 70’s film about the porn industry. Love George C. Scott in it. Similar in some respects to Wood’s expose on what he feared the underground smut industry would become in The Sinister Urge from ’61 (one of the first films about rapists, porn, and first appearance of frontal female nudity). So Hardcore has the same type of controversial, in your face, truth. Been very curious to see Mishima and Blue Collar, but haven’t been able to really find them at the Hollywood Video.
Hi Orca75, welcome to the place “between science and superstitution– a world of darkness.” 🙂
As for this continuing thread, I think this remake craze is becoming tiresome. Practically every film out there now (almost 90%) comes from an older story that was done far better then than it can be now. The best remakes were made under the philosophy that they can offer new/alternate ideas and material that WERE NOT POSSIBLE at the time their originals were made due to the current social climate or technological limits of the time. The best example ironically is John Carpenter’s The Thing remaking Howard Hawks’ production of The Thing from 1951. Carpenter obviously LOVED the original considering he gives the film a cameo in Halloween, but his remake was able to go after Campbell’s original story about an immitator that Hawks’ film could not do because of the limits in makeup effects at the time, but they were able to pull off a good paranoia ‘afraid of Soviets’ theme like Invasion of the Body Snatchers did, so both films are good because they tackle the same story differently.
Don’t know what Zombie is going to do because this story is so simplistic, but one of the best points I’ve heard from the Jaws forum is that you can’t ever outdo Donald Pleasence’s Sam Loomis. He was such a great actor: Blofeld in You Only Live Twice, he was great in The Great Escape, and quite fascinating in George Lucas’ THX 1138. They don’t make them with talent like that anymore.
I do think you guys, Ratboy (Chum from Jaws forum), Fletcher, and Merrin make valid points, but to some extent aren’t these just gripes about surface style? I mean the real meat of any film is not the CGI, the look of anything, or any single image– it’s what they all represent when put together as a single element of the big picture, which is really all about the content and substance. I’ve been under the belief that you can’t duplicate the fears that the original Exorcist created and explored in 1973. Too much time has past, bad sequels have destroyed the possibility of continuing the impact the original had on any audience, and we’ve been desensitized by more violent and gory pictures attempting to top The Exorcist ever since.
So I do agree with what Paul Schrader said about Dominion. It’s not a true horror film because the concept of a ‘reverse possession’ where the demon is curing someone as opposed to doing harm is not fear inducing. The closest it will do to scare you is the miraculous nature of it, but in a sense that maybe is why Blatty and supposedly Friedkin liked this film: because it was SO DIFFERENT from The Exorcist. Friedkin has constantly denounced many films for blantantly ripping off and duplicating The Exorcist– even the sequels like The Exorcist III which is not the best adapted work by Blatty when compared to The Exorcist and The Ninth Configuration. So in a sense, Dominion is more of a lead-up to The Exorcist in what would come for the character of Fr. Merrin. It would probably be quite apocryphal if the film decided to make itself more like The Exorcist, which would probably cause more of a repeat of the same ‘scary’ stuff that was already done far better in the original. The problem of ETB (which attempts to scare us with the same old stuff) from what I’ve seen is that it doesn’t treat the material with as much psychological seriousness as Dominion attempts to. ETB corelates more with the styles and supposed epic showcases of The Heretic since they are virtually identical in story subplots and surface details. So to be fair, I see what you guys are getting at, but perhaps the point is to see the general picture and not nit-pick at things that may not be that important. If picking at those details were that necessary, then every sequel and following episode to any story in existence would fall pray to it not being exactly “like” its predecessor, which would mean every sequel would have to be more like a remake than the ever difficult balancing act of designing a story with new elements to progress the series along and the old for nostalgic purposes (which are somewhat pointless in prequels since the story takes place prior to the original installment), which generally decreases as the films chase other ideas as the years progress.
Jaws is the best of the bunch OF COURSE, but Jaws 2 is no Heretic. J2 was the first sequel that wasn’t part of episodic serials or a conclusion to a cliffhanger ending to get it right and most of the people who worked on the 1st did J2 as well. Besides, Jaws 2 was made in the 70’s, so was the Heretic but I’ll assume that wasn’t the point you were making.
