Is "2001: A Space Odyssey" a comedy?

Blender Dumbass
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Stanley Kubrick is known for making... well... he is known primarily for making 2001: A Space Odyssey... but most of his other films are black-comedies that poke fun at some rather dark aspects of the society. Full Metal Jacket is undeniably a comedy that pokes fun at the Vietnam war. Dr. Strangelove is a comedy that pokes fun at the absurdity of nuclear weapons. Hell even Lolita is a comedy. And a very funny one at that. So in the middle of all this, Kubrick decides to make a movie about space and stuff. And makes 2001: A Space Odyssey. So is it a comedy as well?

#ASpaceOdyssey #StanleyKubrick #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Invasion of Astro-Monster teletransported to Brahe

Troler
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Instead of an action roller-coaster, the film provides a Sci-Fi political story with a 3 headed Ghidorah. As is the case with previous installments, the costumes were repurposed, just changed to fit the slightly different aesthetic.

#Godzilla #Gojira #InvasionofAstroMonster #IshiroHonda #NickAdams #AkiraTakarada #AkiraIfukube #film #movies #review #cinemastodon

Project Hail Mary is weirdly Von Tririan?

Blender Dumbass
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Project Hail Mary is one of those few movies, which I read in the book form before watching. The book by Andy Weir in an absolute banger of a read. The plotting is awesome. The detail the book goes into is insane. Basically Andy Weir is one of the best contemporary writers living today. And Hollywood wanting to adopt Weir is and always will be bound to happen.

#projecthailmary #andyweir #ryangosling #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Part X: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money | Example Scene

Blender Dumbass
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I don't really know if all articles in this series are equal. So it could be part 4, or part 6 or part who knows what. But today I want to dump my thoughts about this video I did recently:

#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking

2D Compositing for VFX explained

Blender Dumbass
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This is going to be a document that hopefully will explain 2D compositing to you, such that you will have an intuition for how it is done.

#compositing #vfx #cgi #greenscreen #chromakey #opticalprinter

Godzilla (1954) is a choir of destruction and loss

Troler
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What can be said about Godzilla? It is an icon to name icons. Looking at IMDb, it is unfortunate, although expected, to find 2014 release of Godzilla has 10 times as much ratings as the original 1954 version. Even though some scenes do look pretty goofy, a lot of love was undoubtedly put into it. That love is not always felt when viewing with modern sensibilities. I attempt to remedy the poignant feeling by calculated and logical reasoning and arguments... or more so my own acuity of the work.

#Godzilla #Gojira #IshiroHonda #EmikoYamane #SachioSakai #film #movies #review #cinemastodon

Wait, AI caused the October 7 attack?

Blender Dumbass
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Everybody inside of Israel was shocked on October 7 2023, because nobody... NOBODY expected something on this scale to happen. Mossad and Shin Bet ( Israeli Intelligence Agencies ) are some of the best in the world. And the military is some of the most advanced. And yet it still happened regardless of all these things. What the hell went wrong? Well the official reason sounds something like "There was an intelligence error". But if you dig a little deeper, you start to realize that it is not as simple as you think. And it might be the first true example of a lot of people losing their lives to skynet.

#israel #gaza #ai #netaniyahu #politics #war

Mission: Impossible 2 ( 2000 ) is the best Mission: Impossible

Blender Dumbass
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A lot of people are big fans of the Christopher McQuarrie movies in the Mission: Impossible series. A lot of more sophisticated movie goers prefer the more serious first picture directed by Brian De Palma. Some are the fans of the Brad Bird and J. J. Abrams installments. But almost everybody unanimously loves to hate on the John Woo second film Mission: Impossible 2. I frankly, don't get it.

#missionimpossible #MI2 #tomcruise #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Don't Look Up 2021 is Melancholia, but a comedy

Blender Dumbass
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A lot of people see the 2021 Adam McKay film Don't Look Up as something that fails to communicate the message of climate change well enough. McKay stated that the movie was written specifically to point people at the absurdity of the "climate crisis". And yet the film's allegorical comet / asteroid doomsday plot seems to fail at giving it justice. For once an asteroid that is about to destroy the planet is nobody's fault. While the climate change is somebody's fault. But if you look at the movie relatively to other disaster flicks of the same type ( like Armageddon and Melancholia ) you see something rather interesting.

#dontlookup #climatechange #adammckay #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Barbie

Blender Dumbass
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I was not sure if I wanted to see Barbie. I certainly didn't want to see it together with Oppenheimer. But the funny thing is, I still didn't review Oppenheimer, while here I am reviewing Barbie. I think I have the same reason here as with Nope as of why I avoided it. You know Nope was directed by a black man. And it was one of its main selling points. Barbie is directed by a woman. And everybody is talking about it. And it feels forced to watch a movie for that kind of reason. So I avoided Barbie until now. But since I had a Ryan Gosling marathon, I though that I might as well get into this film. And oh my god. I have thoughts!