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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jun 19, 2019 4:55:21 GMT -5
What would you say has become a lost art in Hollywood, especially in the production side of things?
For me it is location shooting. It seems everything is filmed on a stage set or the backlot these days. Especially on television.
And it seems to me movies are no longer made with the tender loving care they used to be.
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Post by Paul on Jun 19, 2019 4:59:37 GMT -5
Good practical effects.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Jun 19, 2019 5:00:10 GMT -5
Voiceovers for trailers.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Jun 19, 2019 5:17:13 GMT -5
Soundtracks.
Movies that have soundtracks with a couple original songs, and then a few that you hear in the movie. Dope ass soundtracks that become big sellers. The 90s lived for that stuff.
Twister, Waiting to Exhale, Armageddon, Phenomenon, Batman Forever, hell...Batman & Robin, and a ton of others.
It seems like actual songs don't mean shit anymore. There are some incredible scores in movies, and music is still important, but I can't remember the last time people got excited about a movie's soundtrack. 8 Mile, maybe?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 7:28:56 GMT -5
but I can't remember the last time people got excited about a movie's soundtrack. 8 Mile, maybe? The Guardians of the Galaxy movies (especially the 1st).
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jun 19, 2019 7:48:31 GMT -5
Good posters. Most today are so bland, boring and lazy. In comparison, old posters are awesome.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 19, 2019 8:23:34 GMT -5
A well crafted matte painting. Its totally outdated in an era of greenscreen and CGI, but there's a certain effectiveness to matte backgrounds that's faded away in time.
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Post by Paul on Jun 19, 2019 10:13:03 GMT -5
A well crafted matte painting. Its totally outdated in an era of greenscreen and CGI, but there's a certain effectiveness to matte backgrounds that's faded away in time. Agreed! The ones in The Wizard of Oz are really beautiful.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 10:21:18 GMT -5
but I can't remember the last time people got excited about a movie's soundtrack. 8 Mile, maybe? The Guardians of the Galaxy movies (especially the 1st). Captain Marvel had a pretty good soundtrack too if you like 90's music.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 19, 2019 10:33:17 GMT -5
Editing sometimes seems to be a casualty. I wonder how many forgettable comedies nowadays might be received better if the studios had the restraint to say "No, let's actually script scenes and not let them drag. Also, maybe no one NEEDS an over 2 hour comedy about 40-somethings drinking and doing a swear."
Similarly, if you have one looooong, drawn-out look at a CGI monster, it looks like a PS3 game or something. Know when to cut those scenes down, too, in monster movies. You might pull it off, like Legendary with Godzilla, but you probably will instead get "that embarrassingly shitty scene of a dinosaur falling down a mountain" from Peter Jackson's King Kong, which totally needed to be like 4 goddamn hours or whatever.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Jun 19, 2019 12:10:53 GMT -5
The Guardians of the Galaxy movies (especially the 1st). Captain Marvel had a pretty good soundtrack too if you like 90's music. But they were just greatest hits of the 70s and 90s. They didn't have any original songs.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 19, 2019 12:13:17 GMT -5
A well crafted matte painting. Its totally outdated in an era of greenscreen and CGI, but there's a certain effectiveness to matte backgrounds that's faded away in time. Agreed! The ones in The Wizard of Oz are really beautiful. I had seen Wizard of Oz at least 20 times and never noticed they used matte paintings. Then saw that theatrical re-release,when they cleaned the print up,in what the late 90s... could tell easily that they were matte paintings. I wish more trailers would not give away most of the film.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jun 19, 2019 14:39:08 GMT -5
Agreed on practical effects. I find CGI blood spatter terrible. And it sticks in the back of my mind when I see an actor talking to a CGI creature that he's reacting to a tennis ball on a stick. And don't get me started on the Star Wars Death Star battle...
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Post by prettynami on Jun 19, 2019 14:42:39 GMT -5
Good posters. Most today are so bland, boring and lazy. In comparison, old posters are awesome. Maybe tangentially related, but this reminded me of the horrible box art for Rogue One. Where you have lazily photo shopped in pictures of various characters standing on the beach... Some of them standing in water where the artist doing the shoppin' apparently doesn't know how things in water effect light, so they just slightly lower the opacity of the water layer... Haha. Then, off to the side there is a completely out of scale X-Wing... Which wouldn't seem so bad on a normal poster or whatever with the various elements of the image just being there but the Rogue One cover commits one of my least favorite design choices. Having the people on the beach with a background and everything makes it seem like its supposed to be a thing that happened, or could happen... So why are they just chilling there with these blah expressions with stormtroopers and everything under the sun happening behind them like they couldn't have a care in the world?
So much cover art for the home video releases these days are a thousand times worse than even the lackadaisical posters. Hell, I wonder why they don't just use the posters for half these things.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jun 19, 2019 14:44:13 GMT -5
Agreed! The ones in The Wizard of Oz are really beautiful. I had seen Wizard of Oz at least 20 times and never noticed they used matte paintings. Then saw that theatrical re-release,when they cleaned the print up,in what the late 90s... could tell easily that they were matte paintings. I wish more trailers would not give away most of the film. Matte paintings blend a LOT more on old TVs in standard definition.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Jun 19, 2019 14:49:11 GMT -5
Sound mixing maybe?
So many times I feel like I gotta ride the volume controls like a bucking bronco to watch a movie at home. That or alternate between struggling to hear the dialogue and wincing at the music/sound effects.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jun 19, 2019 14:52:47 GMT -5
Captain Marvel had a pretty good soundtrack too if you like 90's music. But they were just greatest hits of the 70s and 90s. They didn't have any original songs. I get what you're saying, like I Don't Want to Miss a Thing for Armageddon or Kiss From a Rose for Batman Forever. I'm sure I had a few movie soundtrack CDs for just one or two of the songs included, original or not. Most recent big ones I can think of are Despicable Me 2 with Happy by Pharell Williams, or maybe Trolls with Can't Stop the Feeling by Justin Timberlake (I never saw the movie so I don't know if it is actually performed in the movie like a musical). I doubt many people sought out the soundtrack as opposed to just the song though considering the way music consumption has changed. Most of the big movie songs will either be from musicals (Disney or otherwise) or will be theme songs like with the Bond movies.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jun 19, 2019 19:48:51 GMT -5
I feel like most trailers spoil major plot points of too many movies these days
Also too many trailers seem to have the best jokes in the movie
Basically Hollywood has lost the art of making a trailer
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Post by Hypnosis on Jun 19, 2019 19:54:33 GMT -5
So Hollywood and WWE are pretty much the same on laziness from the examples I've seen in this thread.
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Post by nickcave on Jun 19, 2019 19:55:01 GMT -5
Soundtracks. Movies that have soundtracks with a couple original songs, and then a few that you hear in the movie. Dope ass soundtracks that become big sellers. The 90s lived for that stuff. Twister, Waiting to Exhale, Armageddon, Phenomenon, Batman Forever, hell...Batman & Robin, and a ton of others. It seems like actual songs don't mean shit anymore. There are some incredible scores in movies, and music is still important, but I can't remember the last time people got excited about a movie's soundtrack. 8 Mile, maybe? Baby Driver had a fantastic soundtrack
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