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Message: [QUOTE="Deleted member 3864, post: 25640, member: 3864"] [USER=963]@Yousef[/USER] Your best friend has great taste, and I didn't want to presume I'd get approved before but I'd like to reply to your original comment. -Shoot 'em Up had a hilarious vibe, and Clive Owen's performance would fit right into an older FPS, with that muted expression paired with growling one-liners betwixt each new corpse he makes. -Uncharted definitely had problems, though Strategist summed up it's core issue pretty well below I think. -I love how weird Mario Bros was, but the hanging snot fungus always makes my stomach turn. I'm weak! -That last paragraph, there's a bigger conversation to be had for sure. There's a lot of reasons 90's "period pieces" (That fucking hurts to write) can feel off; a complaint I see online a lot is the lighting. Take TMNT, for example. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1735790726381.png"]7929[/ATTACH] I love everything about how this looks. It's clearly the middle of the night, but you can make out the old brickwork walls, the scattered trash, the grit and grime. If I had a 4K copy, you could probably make out all the signage without trouble either. It's dark and seemingly lit by street lamps, but there's definitely a lot more going on to illuminate the shot. All manner of tricks were employed to emphasize shadows and contrast while keeping everything visible. It's not "natural", it's "more than real", for artistic effect. Nowadays you see a lot of concern over how dark TV and movies are, and I think digital film-making has changed the craft around lighting scenes a fair bit. It's not always for the worse, but I've heard more than once that there aren't many folks who still know *how* to make a scene like the above photo. (Maybe when I'm 70 I'll find the time to actually take a film class and learn the words, but I hope that came off interesting.) I'm really glad you think so! I can't remember the post, but you mentioned I should just write an article, and well, here it is. This, this is *your fault.* (I hope everyone watches the movie sometime, it's so good.) Thanks! MK Annihilation holds a special place in my heart for being the first time I saw a movie as a thing *someone* made. That might be an interesting topic for a post someday, but I think everyone has a moment where they watch a movie or show and think, for the first time, "Why did they choose to do this?" Up until then, the art around you just exists, like a natural earth formation following continental drift. Specifically, I noticed that when Liu Kang had the upper hand in the final fight, the theme song would play. Then, Shao Khan would wallop him and the track cut out like a needle skipping on a record. I turned to my older cousin, asking "Is this dumb?" He replied, "Buckle up, there's more." Bless him. Appreciate it, and that I've got like three cool pieces of yours to read in the time it took me to make this. I love that first paragraph, I say that shit all the time. For instance, I don't think I actually want a Metal Gear Solid movie, Hideo Kojima was already borrowing heavily from films he adores in the first place. Solid Snake *is* Snake Plissken, acting out a version of Escape from New York. Anything can be good, of course, but the appeal of games like Uncharted and Tomb Raider was letting you [I]play [/I]Indiana Jones. Translating them back to movies is like twice-warmed leftovers, without the interactive elements filmmakers are left trying to improve on the beloved movies that inspired these games to begin with. No small feat, that. I'd agree that Final Fantasy could be good, the airships of the 2D games (and Ivalice) just reek of untapped adventure. It's free to watch my copies at home too? I don't really...are you asking if I'm some kind of advertisement? Though you reminded me, Edgar Wright and his movies deserved a whole section here, but he's been exploring other genres like musicals and horror (sort of) for the last decade, so it didn't spring to mind. I'm already running super long on this one post, good lord, but maybe I'll write something about him. Thank you kindly! Almost everything about The Legend of Chun-Li was uniquely terrible, it's amazing! Charlie Nash shouting his own name when he shows up to a crime scene, like some kind of Interpol Pokemon! Balrog, master of the Whispering Lymphoma Fist, punches terminal cancer into Chun-Li's mom! [/QUOTE]

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