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[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There have been trailers that contain a lot of missing scenes because they're put together before the final cut off the film has been created.

I remember Josh Trank's version of Fantastic Four features a scene where the Thing jumps out of the back of a cargo plane and lands in a military base. Nothing close to that happens in the film.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Downsizing. What happened there? That looked really interesting from the trailer but turned out quite dull.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Well, I think we've seen highlights of every action sequence going. Thanks Marvel. I expect that Dishwasher joke would've been funnier if you hadn't shown it to us first in the trailer.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

I don't really understand this remake trend of cartoon to live action. At least Dragon has the same director for each. Surely it can't be completely the same, this would be an opportunity to improve things and play it out a little different.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's crazy. I can only assume this is a low budget set of films? Has there been a trilogy of films released in this way before? I.e. all completed before anyone has seen the first film?

The only ones that come to mind but don't really fit the criteria are Back to the Future: Parts 2 & 3. Also, Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

As others have already mentioned, IDKFA for Doom and didn't it work in Doom 2 as well?

I only ask because when ID Software released Heretic, a swords and sorcery style Doom game, I remember typing in IDKFA, expecting the same results. It was the Doom engine after all. Except typing in the classic code kills you instantly!

Another isn't strictly a cheat code. On the old 8bit computers the UK, you could enter some programming code to change the memory before loading in a game. (This is over simplified.)

Because of the altered memory, it would effect the game in some way. E.g. infinity health or lives.

I found a listing in a magazine which you could type in to help with the ZX Spectrum version of Batman: The Movie.

In this platform game, with the cheat, when a bad guy tried to climb a ladder, they would freeze.

This was very helpful and worked wonderfully all the way through the game. That was until you reached the very end whereupon the Joker was on a rope ladder attached to a helicopter.

The code interfered with the end of game boss in a way it wasn't expecting and the game would crash.

Thanks.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wondered where some of my favourite Reddits had gone. Luckily they returned, now I can get back to discussing and sharing serious topics with other people online in a civilised manner.

Looks around cautiously

unzips 🤣

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's it then. Must be true. Case closed. 😆

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There's too many issues with the image. For example, why does the brown coat have buttons when it looks like a poncho?

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 22 points 1 month ago

I was trying to be funny. There was no need for your language. Why can't we have a decent conversation?

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Calm down please, this isn't Reddit. Thank you.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

Nice teaser, gets me interested without spoiling any plot.

I wonder if that car is real or all CGI?

 

 

Luckily, this isn't for grain removal but to fix mistakes that still bugged Fincher.

Fincher got together with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff and told her how AI was used to achieve the restoration. Fincher mentions the scene in a bar where Detectives Somerset and Mills chat about the case. Turns out, the scene had a teeny tiny mistake in it, but Fincher is known as a bit of a perfectionist, so it probably bothered him.

“In this case, there was this unasked-for and unearned camera pan where a character moved, and then the camera panned over to follow them but followed them late and overshot them and ended up seeing more of the bar than was intended,” Fincher described. A character’s jacket proved to be a real problem in trying to fix the shot, but now, with the help of AI, Fincher was able to get the shot he wanted on the new version.

“So we took three or four different shots from earlier, which had a jacket in them that we liked, and then we input that, and then we had it spit back out AI, and then took the background from where the camera landed and just composited them together.”

Easy peasy! Fincher seems to have also found other uses for AI than just the one bar scene.

“There were shots that I didn’t even realize where I would consider today to be unusably out of focus, and some of those things we were able to go in, make mattes of the section that we wanted, and use AI to at least get the focus in the eyes to be on the soft side, but not completely useless,” the director told Collider.

 

From Dark Horizons:

After New Line Cinema’s anime feature “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” debuted to a disastrously low $4.5 million in its opening weekend in cinemas on December 13th, and then fell a steep 72% to just $1.25 million this past weekend, the title is being made available on digital at home on December 27th.

 

Shit back to back with 28 Years Later apparently.

 

I guess we shouldn't be surprised anymore but the film is over fifty years old. A new modern version could capture a whole new audience.

 

Daybreakers gets a 4K and Blu-ray collector's edition release from Umbrella

Umbrella Home Entertainment is giving the Spierig Brothers' vampire movie Daybreakers a 4K and Blu-ray collector's edition release

By Cody Hamman

December 11th 2024, 10:35am

Daybreakers Ethan Hawke

Back in 2009, the German-Australian sibling duo of Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig, a.k.a. The Spierig Brothers, brought us the sci-fi action horror vampire film Daybreakers -- and now, the Australia-based company Umbrella Home Entertainment is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the film by giving it a 4K and Blu-ray collector's edition release! Copies are available for purchase at THIS LINK.

The plot the Spierig Brothers crafted for Daybreakers has the following synopsis: Ten years after a plague turns most of the world's population into vampires, a critical blood shortage causes panic and gruesome mutations among the reanimated. Edward, a vampire hematologist, tries to develop a blood substitute when he meets Lionel and Audrey, two fugitive humans who claim to have a possible cure. Edward casts his lot with them in the hope of perfecting the cure before it's too late.

The film stars Ethan Hawke as Edward, Willem Dafoe as Lionel, and Claudia Karvan as Audrey. They're joined in the cast by Sam Neill, Michael Dorman, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Jay Laga'aia, and Renai Caruso.

Only available from the Umbrella webstore, the Daybreakers Collector's Edition includes: -- Dolby Vision & Dolby Atmos 4K feature

-- A 100+ page hardback book with never before seen behind-the-scenes, experiences and art provided by director's Michael and Peter Speirig

-- Original poster artwork rigid case and slipcase

-- 8 artcards

-- A3 reversible poster

-- Limited Edition Numbered release

-- Audio Commentary with Co-Directors Peter and Michael Spierig and Creature Designer Steve Boyle

-- "Making of Daybreakers" Feature-Length Documentary

-- NEW! Daybreakers Gag Reel

-- NEW! Animatics

-- NEW! On The Set of Daybreakers Featurette

-- NEW! Art Department and Lighting Tests

-- NEW! Makeup, Costume and Hair Tests

-- NEW! Makeup and Effects Tests

-- NEW! Daybreakers Stunt Department Featurette

-- Trailer

 

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller are in early talks to star in a new 'Meet the Parents' sequel movie from Universal.

Oh.

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