Archive for January, 2009


The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Published on Jan 30th, 2009 in Movies, Reviews | 1 Comment »

I was really looking forward to this movie, even though it received somewhat disappointing reviews, it still got an Academy Award nomination for Best Movie. It’s also the first Fincher/Pitt movie since Fight Club, one of my all-time favorite films. However, I quickly became bored with Benjamin Button and his weird, very non-interesting life experiences. [...]

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Tropic Thunder: Special Features

Published on Jan 29th, 2009 in Movies, Reviews | No Comments »

I got to watch the Special Features on the Tropic Thunder: Director’s Cut DVD tonight, and it is filled with amazing stuff. There’s cast commentaries from the three main actors, three great featurettes, one focusing on the cast members, deleted and extended scenes, an alternate ending, long videos of the actors improvising, a make-up test [...]

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Smallville introduces Doomsday, hints at flying

Published on Jan 17th, 2009 in TV shows | 2 Comments »

I watched Smallville one and off in the earlier seasons, now the 8th season is airing and Clark Kent is still not flying. Apparently this is because of a rule made by the creators of the show, Miles Millar and Al Gough, stating “no flights, no tights”. However, these guys have been sacked (well, they’re [...]

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Left 4 Dead Versus Gameplay Tips

Published on Jan 12th, 2009 in Feature: Left 4 Dead, Gaming | 4 Comments »

I’m highly addicted to Valve’s latest hit, Left 4 Dead, but instead of writing what I think about the game, I thought about describing some things me and my friends have found to work out very nice when playing Versus. This is directed towards the No Mercy campaign, since I haven’t played Blood Harvest much.
Infected
Hunter

Don’t [...]

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Old School Editing

Published on Jan 8th, 2009 in Hardware, Movies | 2 Comments »

Michael Kahn, editor on most Spielberg movies still edits movies using a Flatbed editor:

And a Moviola:

He edited Munich with this equipment, and won an Oscar for it. Pretty bad ass.

Tags: editing, flatbed editor, michael kahn, moviola, old school, steven spielberg

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