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Post by Bobeddy on Jan 25, 2023 20:43:10 GMT -5
This batch of nominations is the highest number ever for Irish filmmaking. I think there's 14 in all, so I'm hoping we can take 1 (maybe 2?) home.
Considering it's the first time a movie performed as Gaeilge is being represented, it's great to see An Cailín Ciúin get a nod for Best International Feature. It's a killer's row in that category though, so I'm not going to bank on it getting the win.
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Post by Bobeddy on Jan 13, 2023 7:26:54 GMT -5
This is ridiculous!
Surely it should be manslaughter of a pigeon! Pigeonslaughter?
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Post by Bobeddy on Jan 13, 2023 4:35:25 GMT -5
I've only done jury duty once about 5 years ago. I'd gladly do it again!
The court isn't far from where I live, the case I had was interesting not harrowing (it was an insurance fraud case where the guy was accused of burning down his business premises for the payout), free lunch in a decent restaurant and (what sounds like the big difference in Ireland) your job still has to pay you for the time you're on jury duty.
As far as I'm concerned, sign me up!
I actually ended up being the foreman by default of showing the slightest bit of initiative.
Court Aide: So I'll step outside and you can select a foreperson *leaves*
*A good 30 seconds of total silence and looking at each other*
Me: So like, anyone have an idea on how we should start?
Person A: Do you want to do it?
Person B: Yeah, you'd be good!
Me:...I guess??
Boom! Foreman.
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Post by Bobeddy on Dec 28, 2022 20:00:51 GMT -5
It looks like my final tally on new releases I saw in 2022 came to 54. Looking over the list I'd say my Top 10 would be (in order of when I saw them) You Are Not My Mother The Batman The Northman Red Rocket Everything, Everywhere, All At Once RRR Nope The Banshees of Inisherin Barbarian Violent Night I think this is the first year that I've had two Irish movies make my Top 10 with You Are Not My Mother and Banshees of Inisherin. I always find it interesting seeing the trends that pop up in the movies I see in a given year. For instance in 2022 there were two separate movies where the plot involved a woman posing as a child that had been missing, integrating herself into the family pretending to be the kid and then proceeding to try and seduce the father. That scenario happened TWICE this year in {Spoiler}Titane and Orphan: First Kill Almost as weird as in 2017 where there were two Channing Tatum movies where the song Take Me Home, Country Roads is sung by a supporting character in a pivotal scene.
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Post by Bobeddy on Dec 24, 2022 19:19:43 GMT -5
What better gift could there be than the gift of laughter?
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Post by Bobeddy on Dec 24, 2022 4:48:49 GMT -5
I think I might listen to this more than the actual song by Slade.
The fact that the title preview on the thumbnail makes it look like this is just the original song makes it even better!
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Post by Bobeddy on Dec 11, 2022 9:25:04 GMT -5
Having gone to see Violent Night in the cinema last week, I'm going to say Mr Scrooge was a proper Christmas heel.
By the way, I highly recommend people check out Violent Night! It's a great goofy action comedy.
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Post by Bobeddy on Dec 1, 2022 18:10:47 GMT -5
"Wardlow's World" is a pretty lame catchphrase. It's even worse when there's such a much better tagline staring them in the face. Why doesn't he just refer to his opponents as Casualties of Wardlow?
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Post by Bobeddy on Nov 19, 2022 13:24:41 GMT -5
Of course, there are no Maoris on Craggy Island
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Post by Bobeddy on Nov 10, 2022 17:30:02 GMT -5
I've not seen it but a few weeks ago my indie cinema had a screening which was just 3 hours of weird movie trailers from old VHS's.
Without Warning was one of the trailers in there. No-one knew what was coming so when the tweeting frisbees with teeth suddenly appeared it got one of the biggest laughs of the night!
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Post by Bobeddy on Nov 7, 2022 14:04:24 GMT -5
I also hated the Basketball Jones filter for Batista it almost made me leave here this took place during the build to Batista vs Trips at Wrestlemania and it made it impossible to discuss the man or the main angle of the year Wasn't Basketball Jones a reference to the whole 'Basketballs don't hold grudges' promo Batista did? Batista v HHH would've happened at Mania 21 in '05, but that promo didn't happen until Batista feuded with Khali in '07.
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Post by Bobeddy on Nov 3, 2022 11:26:14 GMT -5
For Supernatural, if you remove like the last 20 seconds of the Season 5 finale 'Swan Song', that could've made for an overall ending to the show that I say most people would've been happy with.
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Post by Bobeddy on Oct 28, 2022 4:28:41 GMT -5
I went to Orlando with a friend for Mania 33. We got one of those weekend packages but he had no interest in seeing Takeover the night before. He sold the ticket and I was sat next to a stranger for the show. It made no difference to my enjoyment of it.
The way I look at things, if there's something I want to see but none of my friends are interested in going, why should I miss out on doing the fun thing that I want to do? If I only went to things based on whether I could get someone to go along, I'd have missed out on so many fun things like shows, conventions and loads of great weird movies.
Go for it!
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Post by Bobeddy on Oct 27, 2022 16:29:42 GMT -5
If you want a movie costume from a character 'in the future' that is still unmistakably from the 80's and would be pretty recognisable to most people, go with Back to the Future 2.
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Post by Bobeddy on Oct 27, 2022 9:21:05 GMT -5
Like most supernatural beings, each culture/region tends to have their own version of how that being works. So when you start off with a foundation where the lore can vary wildly from place to place, already you're going to have massive variances.
Then when you look at it from a media standpoint, you have the creatives behind the scenes thinking "What spin can we put on this that'll make it feel unique to our story?". If everyone's used all of the same rules then there'd be no hook.
And then of course you have to consider the medium itself. Like you mentioned, live action versus animation, there are going to be things you can do in one that you can't do in the other that'll also impact the rules you set for your creature.
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Post by Bobeddy on Oct 25, 2022 5:02:27 GMT -5
Having worked with a bunch of VA's for commercial work and listened to a lot of podcasts with VA's in the entertainment industry, even a 'short' recording session can take a lot longer than you actually think. This is a simplistic approach, but let's say you've an hour's worth of speech to record and you break that hour down into 30 second segments, that's 120 segments to record. For each of those segments there'll be multiple takes recorded, some 'just to be safe' and some because maybe the voice director wants different reads and emphasis on the lines. Then of course you'll have some takes where lines get flubbed. So let's say each of those 120 segments takes an average of 5 minutes each. That's 600 minutes, which is 10 hours. 10 hours doesn't sound like a lot on paper but have you ever tried talking for 10 hours straight? Have you done that while modifying your voice to sound different? Or doing lines which require you to yell? Vocal chords are essentially muscles which if put under too much stress for prolonged periods can cause them to weaken. So depending on the intensity of the recording the session might be capped at a certain amount of hours per day to allow time for the muscles to recover. Otherwise you could have the character sounding very different throughout the project. Then when it comes to video games you have to factor in all the non-dialogue recording that's done such as grunts and hit responses. For video games you could probably get an entire session out of just like gasps and grunts. Exactly. I can't remember the guest but I remember an episode of Rob Paulsen's Talking Toons podcast where the guest was saying those incidental reaction noise recordings for video games are some of the toughest gigs. It's basically hours in a booth being told to yell and grunt with direction like "Okay, you're climbing over a wall. Okay, now you're climbing a ladder. Now you're climbing a ladder on a wall", and having to try to make them all sound distinct.
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Post by Bobeddy on Oct 24, 2022 18:34:25 GMT -5
Can't you knock out an entire voice acting job in a matter of hours? Having worked with a bunch of VA's for commercial work and listened to a lot of podcasts with VA's in the entertainment industry, even a 'short' recording session can take a lot longer than you actually think. This is a simplistic approach, but let's say you've an hour's worth of speech to record and you break that hour down into 30 second segments, that's 120 segments to record. For each of those segments there'll be multiple takes recorded, some 'just to be safe' and some because maybe the voice director wants different reads and emphasis on the lines. Then of course you'll have some takes where lines get flubbed. So let's say each of those 120 segments takes an average of 5 minutes each. That's 600 minutes, which is 10 hours. 10 hours doesn't sound like a lot on paper but have you ever tried talking for 10 hours straight? Have you done that while modifying your voice to sound different? Or doing lines which require you to yell? Vocal chords are essentially muscles which if put under too much stress for prolonged periods can cause them to weaken. So depending on the intensity of the recording the session might be capped at a certain amount of hours per day to allow time for the muscles to recover. Otherwise you could have the character sounding very different throughout the project. Then when it comes to video games you have to factor in all the non-dialogue recording that's done such as grunts and hit responses.
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Post by Bobeddy on Oct 4, 2022 3:26:06 GMT -5
Domestically, for sure. Internationally? Friends left Seinfeld in the dust. In the UK, Seinfeld never really caught on and trailed Friends, Frasier, and Mad About You in the ratings. Once the internet became more prevalent I was amazed to go online and discover how popular and esteemed Seinfeld was. Living in Ireland and having no-one else I know watch the show growing up led me to believe it was almost a cult show.
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Post by Bobeddy on Sept 24, 2022 3:33:35 GMT -5
I never watched New Girl but I HATED this when it happened on Brooklyn 99 Doesn't make sense either. There is an actor that appears in both shows.. Sorry don't have her name at hand... She plays Jake’s half sister in one episode, and had a recurring role in New Girl playing a completely different character. I've not watched either show, but maybe they're twins or just doppelgangers of the other? Reminds me of Lisa Kudrow being in Friends and Mad About You, but they then integrated that as a gag with Ursula being Phoebe's estranged twin.
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Post by Bobeddy on Sept 20, 2022 16:13:34 GMT -5
Whatever about Whammy's, it's Chunky you gotta watch out for! youtu.be/Bz7tTdwEL1s(Not embedded so as not to break the Swear filter rule) I mean who knows what he's gonna do?
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