- July 8th, 2017, 12:17 am#4895360
Sav C wrote:That's a good point about the association of red and heavy metal. Perhaps if they had turned the lights down just a tad it eould've been better.Agreed. I gotta be honest. I think this debate of old and new is a fifty-fifty thing. Yeah, we bring up the older films and older techniques. To a degree, the films of the past from silent era to up to the 90s would go nuts if they had their hands on the technology of today. Why? It'd make life easier. The issue to me then is that, like you said with Harry Potter's first two movies being filmed in a style that was more in tune to the magic ... that's why I complain about when making comparisons. Not that oh yes, back then we made it great, but its about whether a film's execution is done in a way that feels good, just right, on the money. I mean, older stuff will seem like that because, well duh, they didn't have the technology to make things that weren't there while making the movie, but there is a charm in seeing old methods that worked once to make you believe. It's like a magician. You might know the tricks, but you'll always be charmed that once upon a time you believed it.
There was really something special about the world created in the first couple of movies. I remember the feeling of excitement reading the Philosopher's Stone for the first time, in the part where Harry goes to diagonon alley for the first time. Great stuff. I haven't read the newest book, Fantastic Beasts I think, and probably won't see the movie until I've read it.
I really enjoyed the Tobey Mcguire Spidermans, the new one looks good too. Still haven't seen the Amazing Spiderman series.
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