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UKFilmNerd

@UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk

A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Storiesor my blog.

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UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in When did a movie or a show misrepresent the country or city you live in?
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That's lovely. You've reminded me, I live near Tilbury Docks which they passed off as Venice for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Just along the road from there is the Tilbury Fort which was turned into the Tibetan prison for Batman Begins.

Stuffs everywhere!

UKFilmNerd , to RetroGaming in Retro games you wish were harder to beat?
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I remember games being really hard (or I'm just crap) back in the home micro 8bit days. Then I watch play throughs on YouTube and discover if you figured out what to do, the game could be completed in under an hour!

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in When did a movie or a show misrepresent the country or city you live in?
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1940s New York for a chemically enhanced all American soldier, get yourself down to Liverpool docks. 😁

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in When did a movie or a show misrepresent the country or city you live in?
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Jesus Emp! I'm gonna have to start my own server, give me some room man! 🤣

UKFilmNerd , to Feddit UK in Happy birthday, feddit.uk!
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OK, but basically, from the start. Not the takeover.

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in When did a movie or a show misrepresent the country or city you live in?
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The only one that comes to mind is a film called The 51st State starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle.

There was a group of us at a job many, many years ago performing a survey of Liverpool. One night in the hotel, Channel 4 broadcast the film, which is set in the city. The following morning, two of the guys who had been surveying all the backstreets and alleyways commented that the chase in the film made no sense to them. This was because they could see the cars were jumping to different spots in the city, and it wasn't coherent.

But I guess you could make that comment about a lot of car chases in the movies.

UKFilmNerd , to Feddit UK in Happy birthday, feddit.uk!
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Happy Birthday Feddit.UK. No present, sorry, as I give you a little every month. :-) Is it a year from when Tom started the server?

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in ‘It's like a constantly evolving three-dimensional puzzle’: The visual effects of ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’
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Thanks for this. I'll save it until after I've seen the film.

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in 'WALL-E' Director Andrew Stanton to Direct 'Toy Story 5' - Daily Disney News
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Three seemed to be the magic number. Four was ok, but it wasn't really needed.

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in Why The Tron: Legacy Score Is One Of Daft Punk's Best Albums
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You might find this post interesting?

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now
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Sorry, I wasn't clear. The worse one, the bottom, is from the trailer.

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now
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The phenomenon is now so ubiquitous that flaws are apparent even in trailers for unreleased movies, such as the forthcoming remake of The Crow.

This is a little unfair. It's well known that the marketing department will take and use the best shots as long as it looks good enough.

I found out recently that a poor guy on Speed (1994) had to rush through a CGI shot of the gap in the bridge for the bus jump.

You can see the difference between the trailer and the final film below.

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/e5b3e4cc-4ed8-4efa-8001-c285c94054cd.jpeg

UKFilmNerd OP Mod , to movies in Alien: Romulus | Official Trailer | In Cinemas Aug 16th
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The backstory was shocking and insane and Killian's artwork was amazing, I loved his style. I'll never forget that one scene where the hero tells the doctor to go to hell, and he simply replies something like, “nope, already been there.”

I also remember the brilliant artwork of Dennis Beauvis for Aliens: Book Two, which was the first comic I saw when it was serialised in a magazine here in the UK. Another story of a mad military commander who thinks he has the aliens under control, which he can control like an army.

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in [Meta] !movies@lemmy.world mod removing comment suggesting consolidation of that community with this one as their moderation community is spread too thin, thankfully modlog is public
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It some kind of bizarre mod chase across the Fediverse!

UKFilmNerd Mod , to movies in [Meta] !movies@lemmy.world mod removing comment suggesting consolidation of that community with this one as their moderation community is spread too thin, thankfully modlog is public
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You're a mod here too!? Are you stalking me? 🤣

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