crt-colour.bsky.social
London Based Film & TV Colourist
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There’s only one good Friday the 13th movie, and bizarrely it’s the sixth one. It opens with an absurd James Bond pisstake and fully understands how stupid the franchise is.
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Best score by miles, insane that they didn’t keep it for the second one.
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Can’t be far off, there’s nobody buying them outside the US
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Were they ever the future?
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Wall to wall bangers
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“There are no policies, no ideas, no strategy and she has no charisma.” Well, it worked for Labour 🤷♂️
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Walter’s had an absolutely brutal run of films to review lately
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Fantastic Mr Fox was the tipping point; the control he had in stop motion changed something in him. Ever since he treats his live action casts like marionettes; almost every shot cobbled together out of thousands of micro edits.
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To be fair, this is basically what Plisken does say.
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Ignoring all the other replies which point out you’re talking bollocks, are we?
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I do love the green/yellow colour scheme to the cinematography of this one in particular, visually it’s one of the last of those Silver/Bruckheimer blockbusters which still feels like part of that classic 90s run.
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There’s so many things about the costumes, hairstyles and soundtrack that distinctly place this in the early 00s, but the most uniquely anachronistic about it is it’s a studio blockbuster about a Mossad agent doing terrorist attacks. I can’t think of a single premise less likely to be greenlit now.
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Asking the audience rank their fave characters from the next PTA like it’s a Marvel roster 🥲🔫
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Genuinely some of the worst boxart I’ve ever seen, hopefully that’s just the steelbook
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It really doesn’t. My admiration went up even further when someone pointed out it’s an almost perfectly symmetrical film; each of the scenes leading upto the drug bust are mirrored after his attempt to arrest Boddicker.
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What’s the best way of contributing to your work, Walter? I couldn’t see links for any of the above on your personal website. (Rest assured that I’m already an unofficial shill for your book).
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Inane gibberish
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Wait, isn’t that basically all of them? Again?
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There’s no such thing as a movie that’s ‘63% good’ though, it’s either worth watching or it isn’t, which is why the fresh/rotten recommend/don’t recommend system works.
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Nailed it
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Let me guess; the one from the latest Ghostbusters. Can’t even remember what the movie was called but the breakdown looked seamless to me
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Return to Oz as well.
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The first one is a thriller, whereas the sequels are martial arts films. They’re conduits that exist purely to see how far they can push the limits of their choreography. Quite far, it turns out.
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Hope not.
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He’s the nicest guy, and a real grafter whilst shooting. I was grading with him once and he asked me to take a break so we could watch the end of The Wild Bunch together, in return I played him the church finale from Woo’s The Killer. I’ve always been a fan and it was a proper pinch-yourself moment.
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He should have known from the contemporary classic known as Torque (2004)
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Was looking for this reply
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Nah not the West, this one’s uniquely American.
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Winter Soldier doesn’t have anything to say about anything. John Wick is a modern classic.
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You mean it’s not called BLACK PHONES?
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I did enjoy that the Netflix show touched on this, in various silly ways.
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Just wish more of the film had that haunting score from the intro, it’s so, so good.
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It’s not upto me to have a plan, I don’t even live in the US. I’m just furious that the rest of the world has to deal with the fallout of how utterly spineless and incompetent the Democrats are. It is exceedingly obvious from the outside looking in, and nigh-on everyone is going to suffer for it.
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Yeah, okay. Democrats lost the biggest open goal in history due to their own incompetence, and now it’s anyone’s fault but their own that this entirely predictable disaster is unfolding. Labour will be next. Useless from top to bottom.
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No they weren’t a psy-op, use your heads. Nobody expects the right to give a shit about Palestine, the ‘left’ (if you can even call the Democrats that) are supposed to be better than that. This travesty was actively enabled under their watch, that’s why they got protested.
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Genuinely just had to redeliver two shots because QC complained about ‘dirt on the lens’ - they were fully CG shots.
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I think it’s mostly the HDR colourspace as opposed to the 4k resolution you’re reacting to, though the two do come hand-in-hand on UHD discs. But I agree, it’s more of a technical requirement & marketing gimmick than a creatively led decision.
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Are Americans not familiar with the phrase ‘pissing into the wind’?
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I normally work colour-managed in either ACES or TCAM, so my workflow in that scenario has been:
48 Nit Theatrical Master > 1000 Nit HDR Pass > 100nit SDR Trim
…but still that SDR trim never looks quite as nice as the non-DoVi Theatrical. I tried the Dolby 48nit trim once and it looked horrible.
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And like you say, those trims often have a very flat, ‘clipped’ appearance, unless you’ve aggressively pre-softened your HDR master, at which point why bother with HDR at all? Ironically I do think HDR looks much better for gaming.
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I’ve noticed distributors have started asking for DoVi for films that haven’t even been sold yet (and as such don’t even have a actual deliverable list), which can be annoying because it can force your hand into using DoVi trims for the SDR/Theatrical versions for no valid reason.
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I think the profit margins on restoration don’t really work for any of the larger central London post houses because the rent is so astronomical, so all the UK restoration facilities are now based on the outskirts in warehouses. Which is a shame because it’s really fun work of you’re a film lover.
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I used to work for Pinewood Studios who at the time did work for Arrow, BFI, 88 Films & others. However Pinewood no longer offer post production, & various dedicated restoration houses cropped up (Silver Salt & FilmFinity being two that comes to mind) which seem to cover almost all of that work now.
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Netflix and nigh-on everyone else, at this point. I’ve always felt it was a more of marketing success more than a creative one; everyone seems to firmly believe that Dolby Vision is superior without really understanding that the underlying grade is otherwise identical to what it would be in HDR10.
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Those opening ~20 minutes are simply immense. It properly sticks the landing, too.