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bwood
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"Gemini Man (Ang Lee, 2019)"


          

Reportedly shot in 120 fps HD 3D. Wish Ang would stop that shit.

Looks cool: https://twitter.com/ParamountPics/status/1120673677362622465?s=19

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cgi needs some work
Apr 23rd 2019
1
Yeah, I really got some uncanny valley vibes from that trailer.
Apr 24th 2019
3
      i didn't even get uncanny valley, just video game
Apr 24th 2019
4
It's Ang Lee so I'm not gonna doubt this until I hear otherwise.
Apr 23rd 2019
2
Ang Lee has so much range as a filmmaker
Oct 11th 2019
12
      RE: Ang Lee has so much range as a filmmaker
Oct 11th 2019
13
i have zero faith in any will smith movie at this point.
Apr 24th 2019
5
New trailer sold me
Sep 15th 2019
6
RE: New trailer sold me
Sep 16th 2019
7
gonna buy OPENING NIGHT 120 FPS, because hell yeah
Sep 16th 2019
8
Well looks like you're going to be happy.
Sep 19th 2019
9
Will Smith needs his own Mission Impossible, John Wick, type franchise
Sep 26th 2019
10
Saw it in 3D+ HHR
Oct 11th 2019
11
Movie itself is fine. The HFR action FUCKING RIPS.
Oct 12th 2019
14
Too bad the closest HFR from me is 120 miles
Oct 14th 2019
17
in the midwest it's Chicago or nowhere
Oct 15th 2019
19
I watched on Hulu - no HFR
Sep 19th 2020
20
      I watched in 60FSH 4K HDR
Sep 20th 2020
21
wow, the visuals
Oct 13th 2019
15
Damn, a movie like this would have killed 15 years ago
Oct 14th 2019
16
it probably wouldn't have tho? Looper is the same movie
Oct 15th 2019
18

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1. "cgi needs some work"
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cuz young cgi will looks like.....well, CGI will.

they gotta clean that up if they can cuz it looks really obvious.

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3. "Yeah, I really got some uncanny valley vibes from that trailer. "
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The CGI doesn't even look right in the poster:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjI5OTNkMzUtZDYzYy00NWQ5LTg4YzYtZmZjZDI0MGQzNGY2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjg2NjQwMDQ@._V1_.jpg

  

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4. "i didn't even get uncanny valley, just video game"
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obsidianchrysalis
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Tue Apr-23-19 10:07 PM

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2. "It's Ang Lee so I'm not gonna doubt this until I hear otherwise."
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But I'm not sold on Will's performance yet. But maybe the trailer doesn't do the movie justice.

  

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howisya
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Fri Oct-11-19 09:09 AM

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12. "Ang Lee has so much range as a filmmaker"
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that alone is commendable, but so much of his work is high quality to classic as well. i don't always think of him personally in terms of my favorite directors, but then i think of how many of his movies are among my favorites. i'm not sure why that is except maybe he's not all up in the videos, dancing...

  

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obsidianchrysalis
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13. "RE: Ang Lee has so much range as a filmmaker"
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>i'm not sure
>why that is except maybe he's not all up in the videos,
>dancing...

LOL

I too don't think much of Lee or his movies for whatever reason. His movies are consistently good to great, which would normally bring a lot of attention to a director and their films. But he doesn't have a myth about his personality or his method. He's really low key in that sense which is refreshing. He's 'about the movies' but not in a curmudgeonly way that comes off as a bit pretentious like Nolan's or Tarantino's gripings at changes in film culture.

He's really in a class of his own with his impulse to seamlessly use innovative filmmaking technology and incorporate it into films with great storytelling. The directors who are in the same balgame - Cameron, Spielburg, Nolan, I guess Lucas when he made films - made larger films mostly but didn't have Lee's knack to get great performances from their actors. Lee uses cutting edge techniques but his stories always are in the forefront and not the dazzle the technology offers.

I think in a better world, movie journalists are talking about Lee and his craft more than about DC movies sucking.

  

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Reeq
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5. "i have zero faith in any will smith movie at this point."
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the speaking parts of the trailer pretty much confirm that.

  

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bwood
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6. "New trailer sold me"
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Nigga shoots the grenade back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orc_lHvJKY

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7. "RE: New trailer sold me"
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>Nigga shoots the grenade back!
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orc_lHvJKY

OK yeah, looks dope, but that cgi still looks bad.

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Frank Longo
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Mon Sep-16-19 01:34 PM

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8. "gonna buy OPENING NIGHT 120 FPS, because hell yeah"
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I'll be the guy who goes to my grave defending high frame rate, which I think is fucking cool as shit.

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bwood
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9. "Well looks like you're going to be happy."
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Social embargo broke yesterday, and most were PRAISING the 120 fps 3D presentation.

Also helps that the movie is (apparently) dope.

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10. "Will Smith needs his own Mission Impossible, John Wick, type franchise"
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here for it.

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11. "Saw it in 3D+ HHR"
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Shit was nice visually - liked the movie as well. Fake Will looked good up until the very last scene.

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Frank Longo
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14. "Movie itself is fine. The HFR action FUCKING RIPS."
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17. "Too bad the closest HFR from me is 120 miles"
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I live in SAN DIEGO FFS.


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19. "in the midwest it's Chicago or nowhere"
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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

  

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20. "I watched on Hulu - no HFR"
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Talking about the look of the film only:
A lot of it looks like the most incredible HDTV demo porn I've ever scene. They shot the FUCK out of this film - it has a lot of interesting colors and photography.

I'm grabbing a 60FPS UHD rip to watch it in more of a HFR - but this thing looked INCREBILE on Hulu.

Now the animation on Junior looked very video game-ish.

The film itself is okay - I thought it would be a lot worse.

Clive Owen in this AND in Valerian The City of a Thousand Planets is turning into a great B-movie villan.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is always good.

Benedict Wong was great fun.

And unless I'm wrong Will is a virgin.

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21. "I watched in 60FSH 4K HDR"
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First, as a demo piece for a video camera system it looked INCREDIBLE.

But as a movie it looked AWFUL. It's video - everyone looks too "normal" and not like a film at all.

I think you could take screen grabs and get ever actor's fingerprints from the film - it was that detailed and realistic looking.

I don't think this is the future of film making - I think that Ang Lee just thinks it's so neat he's chasing an ideal that is in his head.

Maybe seeing it in 120FPS and 3D (which literally could not be shown in any theater in the U.S (without loaning them the equipment and installing it for them) would make it better? I doubt it.

I think the non-HFR version was better looking- and the film itself is okay.

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Crash Bandacoot
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15. "wow, the visuals"
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good movie, this takes filmmaking to the next level.

  

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16. "Damn, a movie like this would have killed 15 years ago"
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/10/14/will-smith-gemini-man-joker-box-office-bomb-flop-disaster-ang-lee-james-cameron-aladdin-suicide-squad-addams-family-3-d-hobbit-avatar/#37269534180a

Looks like its gonna bomb tho. At least he hit with Aladdin I guess but this is more the type of movie I enjoy him in and was hoping would get him back on top.

  

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18. "it probably wouldn't have tho? Looper is the same movie"
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it made about the same amount, it was decently promoted and had a big name star in it (bruce willis + JGL)

it might just cost too much to make what it's capable of making no matter who you put in it.

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