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Post by NightBlade on Jan 3, 2017 22:37:14 GMT
Rogue One was one of the best movies I've ever seen. I thought it redeemed Ep 7, which I despised for Dmitri's reasons and more.
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Jan 5, 2017 22:30:53 GMT
Speaking of grammar ( Dmitri Pendragon ), is anyone else offended by Reepicheep's grammatical infringement in the Dawn Treader when he says "Period, exclamation mark!"? The way those scriptwriters treated him really diminishes his honor.
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Jan 6, 2017 20:14:16 GMT
I thought the line was funny. Only my grammatical senses were offended. I can take a joke.
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Jan 7, 2017 0:26:31 GMT
Yeah. I was saying that tongue-in-cheek, though I assume you could guess that.
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Jan 7, 2017 1:49:30 GMT
I think "diminishes his honour" persuaded me you weren't being serious. It's too melodramatic for anything else. XD
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Jan 7, 2017 2:36:00 GMT
Yep. XD
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Jan 20, 2017 16:22:10 GMT
Has anyone else been watching the A Series of Unfortunate Events show on Netflix? It's pretty good.
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Post by arrabow on Jan 24, 2017 5:28:15 GMT
Warrior of Aror I have not because I haven't read the books and I don't have Netflix :/. Is it a good rendition of the books?
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Jan 24, 2017 16:09:08 GMT
Um... not exactly. I haven't read the books in a while, but the show did not seem to be really glued to it. Not to say it was wildly different than the books. Overall I think their changes made sense for a TV format. And the atmosphere was spot on. That said it was pretty uneven, and it seemed like it actually intended to break the viewer's suspension of disbelief. It didn't seem like the director wanted you to really believe any of the characters were real people for much time at all.
However, I do recommend you read the books first. While the TV show is good, the books are their original form.
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Feb 1, 2017 7:17:28 GMT
Dad is watching and rewatching the new Beauty and the Beast trailer over and over again. For the music.
Me, I plan to watch it as soon as I can. Me and my little sister have this thing going. I'm Beast, she's Belle. The story holds a special place in my heart because of that.
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Feb 3, 2017 21:01:09 GMT
Read what I've written below before you click play.
Yesterday I was watching the trailers for Star Wars: The Old Republic, and this one stuck with me because of particularly well done storytelling aspectsāand particularly not well done storytelling aspects.
I recommend watching it with the sound off, at least the first time. The visuals alone can present the story by the acclaimed technique of "showing". There's a voiceover if you have the sound on which, I believe, detracts from the storyāit tells rather than shows. There's a repeated motif which, because it's foreshadowed the first time around, is really powerful the last time. And the twist at the end made me go, "What?!"
That and it's Star Wars. And a story I haven't seen before. I thoroughly recommend you watch this at least a couple of times.
(For the rating at the start, I assume that's for the video game, because several of the warnings in the rating don't appear in the video. It has nothing worse than the canon Star Wars films.)
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Feb 4, 2017 0:49:07 GMT
I watched it twice, first with the sound off, second with the sound on. I didn't try to analyze it's story elements, I just wanted to see what kind of emotional impact it had on me. It was good. The first time was stronger, though naturally the first time is often more poignant as it is unexpected. However, I can say that the narration certainly was not helpful emotionally. It did help clarify the point (and also the plot), of course. But it deadened the emotional effect.
As you suggested, I will rewatch it in a bit and examine more closely the elements of the story to see how it worked.
What I take away (or find reinforced) is this...
Showing is the most emotional way of communicating story.
Telling is the best way for clarification, when necessary, and commentary, when relevant.
I think they might have still been able to use narration effectively if they had not set up the message so blatantly. If the narrator merely urged the viewer on to think about the topic more deeply, I think that would work. At least for a certain style of story (I think of the Series of Unfortunate Events TV show with this - the narrator is very present. He is a character within the story, though he only comments on it. Yet his comments do not explain the story, they only make you think about it.) Some stories certainly would suffer from any kind of narrator.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Feb 4, 2017 2:29:17 GMT
I agree that it's very good storytelling. I also agree that the narration does take away some from the emotion, though it did help explain the ending a bit.
Mostly, though, I thought it was depressing both times around . . .
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Feb 12, 2017 20:33:08 GMT
XD
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Mar 1, 2017 15:29:20 GMT
Is anyone else excited for the Silver Chair movie (hopefully) going into pre-production right now?
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Post by Aviar Goldeneagle on Mar 1, 2017 23:46:38 GMT
Yup!
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Mar 2, 2017 1:55:45 GMT
I haven't been keeping up with the news much, but from what I've heard . . . I get excited when I see actual news, but for the most part, I'm not edge-of-my-seat excited like I would be for a new book; I'm too wary of it never actually happening.
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Mar 2, 2017 2:03:15 GMT
Well, since they do have the financial backing, I think it's fairly likely that it will happen. The question that I'm more concerned about is when it will happen. What do you guys especially want to see in the movie?
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Mar 2, 2017 12:52:27 GMT
Um. Top two things are Puddleglum's speech and Puddleglum being as generally awesome as he was in the book (he's one of my favorite characters). But as long as they make it accurate to the book, I'll be happy.
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Mar 2, 2017 20:29:36 GMT
I would like to see an improved version of the witch turning into a snake. The movie version of The Silver Chair I've seen had a hilarious transition. The snake was made out of fabric and hissed like a punctured balloon when Rilian stabbed it. The witch was overly melodramatic and we all laughed at it.
That said, it's a fond memory, and it's the scene I remember best about the movie. The soundtrack of which I loved, as well. The theme song, that is, that used to play in the intermissions.
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Mar 3, 2017 14:56:36 GMT
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Mar 3, 2017 21:07:56 GMT
"Which one of you three has DARED destroy the Silver Chair?"
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Post by NightBlade on Mar 6, 2017 0:50:25 GMT
I wanna see an awesome and hellish underworld with cool structures and minions and whatnot
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Mar 7, 2017 4:56:52 GMT
NightBlade Ah, yes, the minions and the underworld will be awesome to see. And perhaps we'll be so fortunate as to get a glimpse of Bism. Well, I just saw Hacksaw Ridge. Wow. I am exhausted from it. A good exhausted.
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Post by NightBlade on Mar 7, 2017 17:06:03 GMT
NightBlade Ah, yes, the minions and the underworld will be awesome to see. And perhaps we'll be so fortunate as to get a glimpse of Bism. Well, I just saw Hacksaw Ridge. Wow. I am exhausted from it. A good exhausted. I want to see it! And Dunkirk when it comes out. You reccomend? Hacksaw that is? I saw Logan last night. While I thought the movie was a much better style than previous X-Men movies, the ending bothered me, as well as the overall premise that the ending leaves us with. Logan's little girl is replacing him as the Wolverine.
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Mar 8, 2017 14:19:27 GMT
Yes, I definitely recommend Hacksaw. It's superbly well made, gritty, heroic, and dramatic. It's the best "Christian" movie released this year that I've seen. Also the goriest. It's extremely gory. What else can you expect from Mel Gibson? But of course the extreme violence is there for a reason. The film couldn't work without it. What? Man, what are they doing to X-men.
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Post by Ellron Silvertree on Mar 8, 2017 18:59:06 GMT
Oh Hacksaw was fantastic, but really, really intense. And gory, like Warrior said. But the goriest part is around the middle and everything after that isn't quite so bad.
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Post by jliessa44 on Mar 9, 2017 3:41:29 GMT
I really liked Hacksaw. I honestly didn't think the gore was that bad. The worst part was knowing that it actually happened. But yeah. It was good and I liked it, but I could only watch it once.
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Post by NightBlade on Mar 9, 2017 3:58:04 GMT
Gore doesn't bother me as much as other things. I've seen a lot of blood irl. Especially my own x) So that's up there on my watch list.
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Post by Kirenyth Fireblade on Mar 11, 2017 3:55:43 GMT
Our homeschool group showed Moana for a fundraiser. To be honest, I wasn't that impressed.
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