The Avengers
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Read the same thing yesterday. Watching Serenity, the "cinematic quality" wasn't something that crossed my mind at any point through enjoying the film so much. The extended teaser trailer showed promise of the same thing, but then you have shot like where Iron Man is flying up through the explosion - that looks pretty cinematic to me!
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I think the aspect ratio, more than anything else, is making it look uncinematic. All the previous Marvel movies were shot at 2.35 : 1, but The Avengers was shot at 1.85 : 1. The "un-letterboxed" look, I think, is giving it a bit of that "television" look. The lighting and framing is fine... I'm just a little turned off by the "fullscreen" look.
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I still remember the days when all home video was 4:3 pan and scan. Eurgh.
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Thank God those days are gone Simon.
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Rumour has it a new trailer has landed.. it will be about 5 hours before it's buffered here though.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/marvel/avengers/
EDIT: Bit of a Transformers vibe there, but I liked it, fairly epic. -
Aaaaaaaaaand..... that's awesome. Gonna be brilliant. Lots of new fantastic stuff in this trailer. Nice to finally get a glimpse of some immense action involving teamwork between the Avengers. Looking forward to seeing more of that in the actual film. Plus, Black Widow does more than just stand there in this one! One thing you can count on from Whedon: he is going to take full advantage of any opportunity to have his female characters get into the action.
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The new trailer looks amazing. Hulk catching Ironman was awesome.
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It's a shame they have now changed the name of the film for us Brits. Apparently we would all get confused with the old 60's spy series so now its Avengers Assemble. It Just sounds stupid. Still love what I've seen except for the Transformers snake. I hope we get a decent alien race which still may or may not be skrulls.
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Damn, that was awesome! If I wasn't excited before, I sure am now. Any reservations I had about this not looking "cinematic" enough are totally gone now. Great, great, great, trailer.
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Other than not looking cinematic enough (as I already knew from the other trailers), I think this look awesome. The tone and content of the movie are fine, for me it's the cinematography that feels like nothing special. For example, put this with Transformers 3 (I'm comparing the 2 since they look alike) and you realize how much this looks like a TV show.
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I wonder what Andrew thinks now? :P
The same. Meh. Uninspired and boring, with a cringe-worthy 'overserious' silly-looking feel to it all.
I dunno, just don't at all care for this. Looks bad. -
For me it doesn't look like a TV show as much as it looks like a comedy. It definitely has a distinct lack of harsh contrast most of the time. Not that lack of contrast is necessarily a bad thing, but any of the shots that don't take place in a dark room or at night look like they could have been from Bridesmaids or Wedding Crashers or something. They just have that flat, even lighting that is so typical of comedies.
I would also argue that this looks nothing at all like Transformers 3, because the characters in this don't look like they've been dipped in orange dye, or soaked in tea or something.
Though, the trailer is definitely VERY Transformers, as far as the edit and sound go. I dunno, I'm sure I'll check it out at some point, but nothing about it has me very excited at the moment. -
I don't know why, and I have no good reason, but I am still not very interested in this.
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I don't think holding up Transformers' cinematography as the pinnacle is a great idea. It's technically very accomplished, obviously, but the whole thing looks like a car commercial. Which is part of why those films are very dull and uninvolving, even when amazing things are happening on screen.
It also saddens me a bit that people are calling the flying snake thing at the end 'Transformers snake', rather than 'Shadow of the Colossus snake'...but that's what happens when Transformers makes a bjillion dollars and only 2 people play SotC.
This film looks increasingly fantastic to me. Really hope it delivers. -
Well, at least no one is calling it a Dragon Wars snake!
I don't think holding up Transformers' cinematography as the pinnacle is a great idea. It's technically very accomplished, obviously, but the whole thing looks like a car commercial. Which is part of why those films are very dull and uninvolving, even when amazing things are happening on screen.
It also saddens me a bit that people are calling the flying snake thing at the end 'Transformers snake', rather than 'Shadow of the Colossus snake'...but that's what happens when Transformers makes a bjillion dollars and only 2 people play SotC.
This film looks increasingly fantastic to me. Really hope it delivers. -
I'm looking forward to the Avengers movie and I also find the "cringe-worthy 'overserious' silly-looking feel" to be a problem in every "serious" super hero movie ever made. I'm looking at you Batman. And I love superhero movies.
The same. Meh. Uninspired and boring, with a cringe-worthy 'overserious' silly-looking feel to it all.
I dunno, just don't at all care for this. Looks bad. -
Probably, imo, the greatest game to date.
It also saddens me a bit that people are calling the flying snake thing at the end 'Transformers snake', rather than 'Shadow of the Colossus snake'...but that's what happens when Transformers makes a bjillion dollars and only 2 people play SotC.
This film looks increasingly fantastic to me. Really hope it delivers.
I think they've nailed the trailer, I hope the film holds up. Us UK film goers getting it a week early is a nice novelty! -
definitely not fair :dry: but i guess its payback for all the other films we get first. :P
Us UK film goers getting it a week early is a nice novelty! -
It takes literally so little to make this massively better, it's not even funny. You can't change the fundamentals of generic, untalented lighting or lensing- or cheap-looking costuming and production value- but a little contrast and letterboxing can go a long way.
I had to:
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Looks like the same trailer with annoying letterbox bars on to me, but hey.
Do you have problems with all films made before Oh Brother Where Art Thou and digital colour tweaking? I'm slightly perplexed by the "high contrast and high saturation or nothing" attitude. Fair enough if you like that style - I quite like it, too, when done nicely - but at the exclusion of all else? Seems a bit odd, to me.
As for the 'overly serious' aspect - that's precisely why I like the Marvel superhero movies. Tonally I've always found them very entertaining, taking their own fiction seriously without taking themselves too seriously - much like JJ Abrams' Star Trek movie. -
while I dont really know anything about film making I wonder if the brighter cleaner colours are to give the look of the comic books of late 60s and early 70s when the Avengers were formed.
The costumes look ok for me but maybe its because when I was growing up the hulk was just a bloke who was painted green with ripped jeans. -
No different to me apart from a lot of detail has been lost through the high contrast, I could barely make out Thor in the Iron man fight. This contrast issue is really not a problem to me but, each to their own.
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Maybe if Atom takes some black electrical tape along when he goes to see this, he can letterboxed his 3D glasses and enjoy the film as much as the rest of us.
To be fair, I enjoyed the trailer just as much with letterboxing and more contrast. -
That trailer totally changed any doubts I had about this film, this is going to be a amazing movie.
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Well, the trailer looks darker now and its letter boxed, but I'm not sure how that makes it better? People have their personal preferences, but calling the production unprofessional is hyperbole, to say the least.
It takes literally so little to make this massively better, it's not even funny. You can't change the fundamentals of generic, untalented lighting or lensing- or cheap-looking costuming and production value- but a little contrast and letterboxing can go a long way.
I had to:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25asvVYHWyA -
Japanese Trailer with new footage
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I really like this spot:
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Took the kids to see this today. I really enjoyed it. Easily the best of these Mavel movies so far.
At least you get to see the heroes being heroes. Most the other movies seem to lack something for their final scenes. No problem like that here!
It is what it is... Good fun.
I didn't even notice the lack of contrast and letterboxing! -
I have tickets booked for tomorrow afternoon and I'm counting down the time. I don't think I've been this hyped about a film in a long time, plus the amazing reviews so far are very encouraging.
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Ah you lucky ducks! Does it open earlier overseas or something?
Doesn't open until May 4th here in the states.
I'm really surprised by how outstanding the reviews have been. It's still early, but right now the tomatometer is at 97%.
Looks like Whedon's knocked it out of the park.
