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No. There is a reason everything is cgi atm. Theres a million Atom Bomb plug ins.
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Christopher Nolan recreated the Trinity nuclear bomb test without CG for Oppenheimer
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GeekyDad
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Wanton egotistical display of power and waste. Blowing up a massive passenger jet for a scene. Can you imagine if they didn't capture the take. Just the whole idea of it is insane to me. I'm not suggesting you or anyone else should feel the same way, but it broke my heart in a dark way watching that scene.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
FWIW I tend to read 90%+ non-fiction. I tend to prefer movies that are grounded in reality. It's partly why I can't enjoy superhero movies. Batman is about as exciting as I get when it comes to this stuff. If I am going to watch something, it's typically a documentary or some high-art style film. Most of Nolan's work applies here. He does flirt heavily with science fiction, but it's usually done in a way that is at least believable. I also have aphantasia, so my inability to really conjure up worlds in my mind is probably why those subjects rarely interest me.
The new Dune is a big exception here. I believe that world is fleshed out enough and is far enough in the future technologically that it is still believable. This one I absolutely loved but I also love the compositions Dennis Villeneuve conjure up. Hell, Arrival might be my favorite movie of all time. Interstellar is up there, even though the black hole thing is too far. Quasi-realistic space stuff gets some slack from if what I'm saying.
The plot point that a magician came up with a way to successfully clone another human in the 1800s is just too far.
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Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Seriously underrated movie.
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Cheap CGI yes. Didn’t Nolan said that it cost less buying that plain in Tenet and crashing it than actually doing it CGI?
DKehoe
Member
That's fair. If it's not your thing then I get get it not clicking for you.
Although it's maybe worth pointing out that
it wasn't one of the magicians who came up with that technology, it was Tesla. It's still incredibly advanced technology, especially for that time, but at least it was created by someone who was a technological genius, And the idea was that the magician was willing to mess with forces beyond his understanding for the sake of the show.
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Maiden Voyage
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Deus Ex Machina
DKehoe
Member
Which is kinda fitting.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Wow holy shit lol. That's interesting. Didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
Just seen a few clips on youtube on how they shot Titanic and it's amazing that they sometimes still use practical effects instead of going full on CG. Must take these guys ages to build these elaborate models and sets to just destroy them for a scene.
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INC
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As much as prestige is simply amazing, interstellar is just god tier, and its soundtrack is the best in modern cinema.
Gp1
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Gadget's detonation was a paltry 24 kT, does that even count as a proper nuke these days?
24,000 tons of TNT still is a LOT of TNT.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
There’s something so amazing that that movie pulls off. You go in thinking one is good and the other is bad.
newtypepilot
Member
nolan hates CG but his films sure has plenty of VFX. The irony is delicious.
Yes, there are times when shooting it practically makes sense but the reality is that often times logistic issues makes doing so highly expensive and impractical. Furthermore, things usually get replaced digitally or painted out afterwards because they decide to make changes during post. For example, in Avengers End Game during the big final battle they had a practical set of the ground but in the end it was replaced with a digital one anyway (feel for those who had to roto those plates).
Yes, there are times when shooting it practically makes sense but the reality is that often times logistic issues makes doing so highly expensive and impractical. Furthermore, things usually get replaced digitally or painted out afterwards because they decide to make changes during post. For example, in Avengers End Game during the big final battle they had a practical set of the ground but in the end it was replaced with a digital one anyway (feel for those who had to roto those plates).
Sidney Prescott
Member
Pretty excited for this one. Especially with Cillian Murphy in the leading role as well, easily one of my favourite actors right now. Love Nolan's films, and Tenet grew on me more with another viewing.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
My biggest problem with his reluctance to use CG is when it hurts the movie. Dunkirk felt like an empty beach with maybe 500 soldiers instead of the 350k people they kept reminding us were there.
The Dunkirk scene in Atonetment is a one shot take and despite that it had enough CG in the background to make it feel like a beach crowded with tens of thousands of people. Dunkirk just ended up feeling cheap.
West Texas CEO
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I refuse to believe it.
Agreed. They should have let slip a rumor that Taylor Swift, Adele, Yeezy, or some other celeb with a rabid following was in the area and he could have had a hundred thousand folks show up for reals for a long distance shot
AlteredForms
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EverydayBeast
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They let directors do crazy things like sky diving, and launch test nukes.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I love seeing the tricks to practical effects, same goes with the sound people and the crazy shit they get into.
maybe instead of saying something is trash you should say you didn't like it?
I love sci-fi and time travel movies so I fucking loved TENET and Interstellar, maybe you like other generes and that's it.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Hmm maybe I love Sci Fi and Time Travel movies but found TENET and Intersteller pretentious trash?
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Hmm maybe I love Sci Fi and Time Travel movies but found TENET and Intersteller pretentious trash?
sure, but that's YOUR opinion, not fact, I found them to be excellent. Art is a very ambiguous and subjective topic, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that.
Radical Dreamer
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Interstellar pretentious trash lmao the fuck are you smoking. Something like "Men" could be pretentious (although i really liked it) or Mother! but Interstellar? XDHmm maybe I love Sci Fi and Time Travel movies but found TENET and Intersteller pretentious trash?
Azurro
Banned
Huh, I didn't even know there were that many soldiers in Dunkirk. The movie really made me feel like there were only a few thousands of them on the beach.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
In the trailer, and the opening scene in the movie they say there were nearly 400,000 people on the beach. 350k british. 50k french.
SJRB
Gold Member
Please explain what Nolan was trying to do that went over everyone's head.
El Pistolero
Banned
I have always liked his attachment to practical effects...
Billbofet
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I second this request. I understood Tenet but still consider it a major whiff.
Azurro
Banned
Man, I don't remember the trailer. I just remember the beach scenes, there weren't that many people there.
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Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
So much this.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Strictly speaking, you don't need a nuke to generate a mushroom cloud. Any sufficiently powerful explosion will do. Since the purchase of certain explosives is legal and hollywood budgets are large, that's an easy way to generate a real, bonafide mushroom cloud.
Of course that would be preposterous and I'm guessing they found a special effects-style way to simulate it.
Kraz
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Trying to make sense of those inverted scenes in Tenet on first viewing was really hard. The scene where he catches the bullet with the gun for the first time helped a little on the first watch. The longer scenes were very difficult to accept, even with suspended disbelief, from being new to my imagination.
Tenet would be a good flick without it but introducing that way of viewing things with scenes makes Tenet a great film.
Tenet would be a good flick without it but introducing that way of viewing things with scenes makes Tenet a great film.
Hawking Radiation
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Tenet hurt my brain. I was lost from start to finish. Never even attempted to rewatch it again.
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Azurro
Banned
A nuclear explosion for a film is actually multiple step backs for Nolan, given he actually used CERN to generate a black hole in order to film Interstellar's most iconic scenes.
Toons
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Build a sator square in film form
March Climber
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
brian0057
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You don't need a nuke to get a mushroom cloud.
There's a minimum size a bomb needs to be in order to get one. And you don't need to blow up Hiroshima again to do so.
Jsisto
Member
Cool? Just make a good movie. As a big fan of nearly all of his movies(Inception and The Dark Knight are two of my all time favorite movies), to say I was disappointed in Tenet was an understatement. It was basically him sucking himself off for 2 and a half hours. Barely coherent plot and lifeless, uninteresting characters.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I wish he did that too
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Saw the trailer in IMAX. Certainly sells it well.
-Minsc-
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Always cool stuff. I remember watching a Corridor Crew video where they explained how they got the skew effects on the ghosts in Ghostbusters II. GB bit is at 52s.