Best Films of 2015
Best Films of 2015
Straight Outta Compton
The Revenant
Love & Mercy
Macbeth
Chi-Raq
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Spotlight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Furious 7
Beasts of No Nation
Bone Tomahawk
I feel like I'm forgetting something......
The Revenant
Love & Mercy
Macbeth
Chi-Raq
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Spotlight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Furious 7
Beasts of No Nation
Bone Tomahawk
I feel like I'm forgetting something......
The agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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I have seen four of those.
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Inside Outfeel like I'm forgetting something......
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I've seen one of those.
I do plan on seeing Straight Outta Compton, and probably Ex Machina. Maybe The Revenant.
I do plan on seeing Straight Outta Compton, and probably Ex Machina. Maybe The Revenant.
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Which ones have you guys seen?
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The Revenant, Ex Machina, The Hateful Eight, and Fury Road. And Inside Out if you had included it.
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Mad Max
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That's what I've seen.sikax wrote:
The Revenant
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Spotlight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Furious 7
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I think it was him who said he didn't like animated movies hence my when I posted itDerived Absurdity wrote:The Revenant, Ex Machina, The Hateful Eight, and Fury Road. And Inside Out if you had included it.
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Why doesn't sikax like animated movies? He should like animated movies.
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Sikax never said he didn't like animated movies. He does like animated movies.
But I still haven't seen Inside Out.
But I still haven't seen Inside Out.
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Okay, at least one of you is lying.
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Or misremembering. I know someone on this board said they didn't go for them.Derived Absurdity wrote:Okay, at least one of you is lying.
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Sikax loves Rango, so he just likes really bad animated movies.
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Har har har
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The only one I've seen is Inside Out.
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I can't help but feel that's a bit too on the nose for a trans....Anakin McFly wrote:The only one I've seen is Inside Out.
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Rango was awesome.
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It was ok.Derived Absurdity wrote:Rango was awesome.
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Nope.
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You misspelled yep.Derived Absurdity wrote:Nope.
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Nope.
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All I remember about Rango was that it wasn't funny, like not at all, and I didn't give a shit about any of the characters. I think it was a pretty stupid plot too, but I don't remember the plot.
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The animation was good. I don't remember the plot.
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Here's your problem.Derived Absurdity wrote:The animation was good. I don't remember the plot.
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I don't care about plot very much, though.
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I'd rather have decent animation and a good plot than good animation and a poor plot (Ex: Strange Magic, The Good Dinosaur to a lesser extent).Derived Absurdity wrote:I don't care about plot very much, though.
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Rango's animation was actually more than good; it was amazing. I think plot in movies is lesser to a lot of things (pacing, tone, story, choreography, etc.), all of which Rango IIRC was good-to-great at.
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I rolled pacing, tone, story, etc. into plot, all of which I found forgettable.Derived Absurdity wrote:Rango's animation was actually more than good; it was amazing. I think plot in movies is lesser to a lot of things (pacing, tone, story, choreography, etc.), all of which Rango IIRC was good-to-great at.
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Unvoiced_Apollo wrote:I rolled pacing, tone, story, etc. into plot
Unvoiced_Apollo wrote:all of which I found forgettable.
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Yeah, you can't roll pacing, tone, and story into plot.
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Did I say "choreography"? Lol, I'm dumb.
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I sent it, and it's done, so I did do thatDerived Absurdity wrote:Yeah, you can't roll pacing, tone, and story into plot.
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I didn't notice anything special about Rango's animation. I guess I don't care about that sort of thing though. I'd rather be entertained.
What's the difference between story and plot?
What's the difference between story and plot?
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There's a universe of difference between story and plot. The plot in a movie is just all the physical events that happen, and the story is what those events are actually about. The plot is how the story of the movie is told.
A good illustration is the difference between a plot-heavy movie where a lot of events happen but they don't thread together to tell a meaningful story (the best example I can think of is the Transformers movies) and a story-heavy movie where there's a lot of meaningful themes and story beats but not a lot of actual events (the archetypal example IMO is Fury Road). Not a lot happens in that movie plot-wise, but every single thing that does happen serves the story the movie is telling a hundred times better than anything in Transformers.
Another great recent example of amazing storytelling while keeping light on plot is Two Days, One Night.
A good illustration is the difference between a plot-heavy movie where a lot of events happen but they don't thread together to tell a meaningful story (the best example I can think of is the Transformers movies) and a story-heavy movie where there's a lot of meaningful themes and story beats but not a lot of actual events (the archetypal example IMO is Fury Road). Not a lot happens in that movie plot-wise, but every single thing that does happen serves the story the movie is telling a hundred times better than anything in Transformers.
Another great recent example of amazing storytelling while keeping light on plot is Two Days, One Night.
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A good difference is that the plot is what happens (the sequence of causal events), and the story is why they happen. If those two don't line up well enough, you got yourself a bad movie (where a bunch of stuff happens but none of it means anything).
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What you guys are calling story is what I've always called theme. Is that another accurate term for it?
I would also describe it in terms of movies that are just about the characters. Movies like Children of Men. I would call the plot the stuff about a woman who is pregnant in a world where no one can get pregnant. But the movie is about the main character, and how he changes from the beginning to the end. The world it's in is just a world for that change to take place in; it's not the focus of the movie.
I would also describe it in terms of movies that are just about the characters. Movies like Children of Men. I would call the plot the stuff about a woman who is pregnant in a world where no one can get pregnant. But the movie is about the main character, and how he changes from the beginning to the end. The world it's in is just a world for that change to take place in; it's not the focus of the movie.
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Yeah, what DA is calling "story" is what I was taught is the theme in high school literature classes.
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Not really. The theme is the ideas the story presents. The story is the narrative. The plot is the backbone of the narrative, how it's told.
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Well, I'm lost then, and still don't think I get the difference between story and plot. Or I don't get the difference between theme and story. That's probably why I never liked high school literature classes. I wanted to read just to get lost and escape from the real world, not to dissect shit and think about symbolism (which usually went right over my head even if I tried to figure it out).
That's also how I judge movies. If it sucks me in and makes me forget the real world, or makes me believe the movie is the real world for a while, or something like that, then it's good. Rango didn't do that for me, so it sucked. Not a very high brow analysis, but I think high brow is overrated sometimes.
That's also how I judge movies. If it sucks me in and makes me forget the real world, or makes me believe the movie is the real world for a while, or something like that, then it's good. Rango didn't do that for me, so it sucked. Not a very high brow analysis, but I think high brow is overrated sometimes.
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Another plot-heavy, story-light movie: Boyhood. Did a lot happen in that movie? Yes, a lot of events happen. If you wrote a summary of the movie, it could be long. Did any of them actually mean anything? Nope, not a single fucking thing. Which is why it was such agony to sit through. On a deeper level, that's why everyone keeps saying "nothing happened" during that movie.
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DA's right, despite his taste in movies.
EDIT: Save Rango
EDIT: Save Rango
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Yes, I agree Rango needs saving.sikax wrote: EDIT: Save Rango
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That video helped explain plot and story. Now if I could remember what Rango's story was. Some dumb lizard nobody cared about learned something, I guess.
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This is making me want to watch Rango again.