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If you click through to the original indiewire article those quotes about Interstellar come from, he admits to him and Zimmer taking off the filters normally present to remove the really low-end frequencies during mixing. Like they aren't there for good reasons. And sure there are times when it might be useful to take them off which is presumably why you can, but... not all the damn time. We dunno if he did similar for Tenet but he obviously took a similar general philosophy. The quote about people accepting movies filmed in iphones not accepting his soundmixes particularly annoyed me because as far as I know, in Tangerine, you can still see what's happening. The visual equivalent of inaudible soundmixes is, like, shakycam or too-quick editing and films absolutely do get slammed for that. There obviously are films with bizarre soundmixes that get acclaimed - I saw a Muay-Thai prison movie called Prayer Before Dawn a few years ago that has a properly discomobulating soundmix but uses it correctly (cracking movie, worth a watch), and though I've not seen it I've heard great things about how Sound of Metal uses its sound. But they're not movies like Tenet, and they use it for specific dramatic purpose and with properly planned effect. Hey don't blame me they started it.

It's pretty funny that Nolan couldn't find a way to fit a time gimmick into the movie so he fit it into the trailer instead.

I can take or leave France but dropping Spa from the calendar should be a crime punishable by law.

Just coz he's the one who gets all the credit (or blame) for it but the initial work he was building off wasn't him.

Weirdly enough, not one he invented- the original bwa bwa bwa tune was Mind Heist, mainly the work of Zack Hemsey.

I mean, you follow me on twitter, you'll doubtless see me back to my old ways before then.

and there I was, being perfectly pleasant.

Looking forward to this one. Nolan might be the right guy to avoid a lot of the traps standard biopics fall into - and it'll be interesting either way to see how he takes on a genre completely new to him.

If I understood it right that Leclerc was dealing with the throttle problem by manually lifting it from underneath with his foot, that is madness. He's quite lucky the stewards didn't haul him in on safety grounds once that message went out. Also: insane amount of track infringement notices in this one.

The Meg did well enough to get a sequel. Which is being directed by Ben Wheatley. Which is hilarious.

And his best friend in 2019. Which is why he was so shaken up by Grosjean's fireball. In this instance it looks to me like the halo might be stopping the car flipping back over sooner, since it kinda bounces back and forth as it goes sideways over the gravel, though it'd need far better analysts than me to say that with any confidence- and in any case rolling over and over at that speed would probably have been worse. It might also have prevented the hoop from digging into the gravel though, and that would have been nasty if it had. So whatever the hypotheticals I'm glad it was there.

Given what happened in the F2 race earlier on, the halo's quite likely saved two lives in one day. How the fuck did we ever get by without it.

Not bad. That's two great nationalistic-but-awesome epically manly emotional action epics to hit in May 2022. Also was a better long sequel to Star Wars than The Force Awakens was.

Yeah, this lot are great. They're not slow to get at each other but it doesn't feel mean-spirited. And there's no dead task-contestants either- Chris is obviously the most competent but unlike some other consistently-getting-it-right contestants in the past he's not just doing the boring obvious thing every time. The latest episode had me creasing repeatedly

It's just sad that Ridley Scott, even if under studio pressure, couldn't even make a better Alien retread than the fucking Doom movie was.

I've not seen Tangerine but his follow-up Florida Project is outstandingly good so thanks for reminding me I need to try Tangerine. Also his latest film at some point.

I turned off Alien 3 straight away and still haven't seen it for that reason. It's not that killing of a main character from a previous film can't be well done and used to good effect, but doing it to open a film when the previous one had been all about saving that character is just cheap shockery and disrespect to the emotional investment the previous film built up in people. Glad I never saw Dark Fate.

H&S is the most technically competent as an action film, by some distance, which makes sense because it's a David Leitch joint. I don't like 4 pretty much because it's the least competent as an action film, 2 aside- the finale was just a visual mess.

Oh for sure, but that's what I think of Avatar too except with no charm and I didn't like the action. I actually enjoy Tokyo Drift, although it is also the origin of mine and my brother's list of 'single seconds of acting that vastly outclass the movie they're in' (when Sonny Chiba turns and looks at his son at the end). The driving scenes are cool, Han rocks, and while it's basically 'Karate Kid 4 da kidz' it's joyful with it. But I don't like 4, that was rubbish and mostly charmless, so I may give Avatar that one.

oh man. THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!

If you count Hobbes and Shaw there are ten of 'em and nine of them are better than Avatar. Of course, you will definitely not agree with this. But they are, for the most part, fun. (I like 2F2F more than Avatar as well, but it is objectively an absolute load of fucking shite so...)

Yeah I mean, like I say, I enjoy other similarly stupid movies, many of them involving Vin Diesel. I don't know exactly what it was about Avatar that made it harder to forgive the dumbness, but it did. Maybe it's Vin Diesel's evident superiority over Sam Worthington as an actor.

I suppose they never make clear how the previous riders did it, but the point I'm making ultimately is that the feat as shown is of almost no difficulty whatsoever and they should be able to do it all the time. The damn thing can't even look up! It didn't take balls, just cleverness... except it wasn't clever and not doing it made the Na'vi look dumb.

My favourite of his that I've read so far is Cage of Souls, a Dying Earth standalone. Absolutely rammed with ideas. The iron-age animal-shape-shifting trilogy starting with The Tiger and the Wolf is good fun too, and Dogs of War. Children of Time is very good, but I did find it covered some similar concepts - not just in the spidericity of it all but that was part of it- as Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge, and that was better. I do have the sequel on deck though. I dropped Shadows of the Apt after book 2 back in the day because I thought he was being too safe in a lot of choices he was making, but I've heard good things about how he played that long term so I should give it another try. There's so many still on my list though. His output is insane, and so varied. The one I really want to try is One Day All This Will Be Yours, but I'm struggling to justify spending full-novel price, as it is on Kobo, on something that short. Probably will eventually though. Shards of Earth may be next, though.