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1:48 AM

Q: Is lens flare shot organically, or added in post-production?

The Star Trek series and movies really love their lens flare. Does the organic picture actually taken by the camera have this lens flare in it? Or is it added to the image in post-production? Are there rolls of film/RAW files that don't have it, that would allow a "Director's (well not JJ ...

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A J

3:51 AM

@AnkitSharma Nah. Just questions from a neighbor

Movie Reel

4:14 AM

Q: Who / what exactly is the mysterious voice that Elsa hears?

In Frozen 2 , Elsa hears the voice like in the "Into the Unknown" song, maybe I missed or just didn't really understand it, but who/what really is the source of that voice?

frozen-2

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Movie Reel

5:57 AM

Q: Is it all meta in Twin Peaks?

Recently a video in Youtube is circulating around about Twin Peaks. I mean this, the general idea behind it is something like this. Lynch made the series as a reaction to rapid growth of "consumable tv violence" and he goes on and test his theory on some plot lines of the original tv series, the...

plot-explanation twin-peaks

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ankii

7:13 AM

@AnkitSharma part 2 ?

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Movie Reel

10:04 AM

Q: Why did Fran say "You did this" in knives out?

[SPOILER ALERT]. [SPOILER ALERT]. [SPOILER ALERT]. In knives out, when dying, why did Fran say "you did this" to Marta when she knew who the killer was? I understand that she did not say "you", but I just didn't get what did she say and how was she pointing towards the real killer with tha...

plot-explanation knives-out

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Ankit Sharma

12:56 PM

@ankii yes

WONDER WOMAN 1984 Trailer Teaser (2020) Gal Gadot Superhero Movie

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Ankit Sharma

1:13 PM

If we are (or only me) still talking about comic book stuff trailer then The Boys Season 2 trailer out

The Boys Season 2 - Official Teaser | Prime Video

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ankii

1:26 PM

drop the WW teaser tomorrow too!

I am yet to watch The boys 1

Currently playing Halo Combat Evolved.
Trivia: released 2001.

Ankit Sharma

2:15 PM

Hmm

Napoleon Wilson

2:37 PM

That was a nice game indeed. The level design was a bit repetetive, but the story and atmosphere were neat.

It suffers from the bullshit release policy since Microsoft wanted to make it the X-Box flagship. Had they properly released it for PC at the time it was originally planned, it would have been a lot more ground-breaking, because vehicles in FPS would have been da next big thing.

Also the only Halo I ever played...because console.

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ankii

5:04 PM

@NapoleonWilson you're back! ... and gone.

did you also read its wikipedia, I read the same thing about level design there.

Why the "was".. ? I am playing it now, properly. Though played on an XP in 2011, but then it got virus.

I don't know much about why the fuss over console, X-Box and PC.

Also the only Halo I'd ever play...because Mac.

Napoleon Wilson

5:39 PM

@ankii No. But it was a general impression I had.

I think it was also a common criticism I read in the magazines back then.

I still remember the whole library thing, which was an immense drag.

It might all have been better had they released it 2 years earlier as planned.

A nice comparison was Unreal 2 at the time. The story was largely meh and it didn't have vehicles either, but the levels were a lot more beautiful and varied, at least as I remember it.

@ankii Because I played it ages ago. ;-)

Also, I recently watched a let's play of some kind of re-released beautified new version, so it can look quite nice still. But the original really didn't age well.

ankii

yes, the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection

go on..

Napoleon Wilson

I'm done for now. ;-)

ankii

@NapoleonWilson that's where wikipedia picks it up

> I played it ages ago

meh, Casino Royale.

wait no.. the other one,

~1984 movie

Napoleon Wilson

@ankii It was a really big hyped thing back then, especially for having vehicles in an FPS. Then Microsoft baught the developer and made it X-Box only, with the PC coming 2 years later, at which point noone really cared that much anymore.

ankii

it is better on PC, than on console. Even though I've never touched console ever.

that's what I read, on steam.

Napoleon Wilson

5:49 PM

@ankii Well, duh! ;-)

It's a shooter. You don't play FPS without a friggin' mouse, even in the 21st century.

ankii

Ah, I meant pulp fiction above. And 1994.

to make a case for gold olds.

Napoleon Wilson

I still don't get the conneection. ;-)

ankii

@NapoleonWilson are you being sarcastic here ?

Napoleon Wilson

@ankii No, not at all.

(At least not in a "meaning the opposite" sense.)

ankii

@NapoleonWilson you can see a movie even if it is from a diff generation, if it's good.

Napoleon Wilson

5:53 PM

@ankii Oh, of course.

ankii

thus the game,

Napoleon Wilson

I wasn't implying it was any less worth because it was old (not that 2003 is old anyway).

ankii

I am not an avid player to compare controller, and mouse/keyboards.

Just that I loved it back then, and recently got success in installing it on my Mac.

I'd love if I can find Road Rash too.

vacations right on time.

Movie Reel

6:20 PM

Q: 1940s movie, about a vagrant (?)

Movie I saw on tv as a kid in 1968; wasn't paying much attention, just recall 2 bits of it. It seemed very old, maybe 1940s. 1. This old guy, a vagrant called "Mr Smith" gets a job as a soda jerk. On his 1st try at making a drink, he sprays himself with soda, and calls it a "[something] Surpr...

comedy

Ankit Sharma

Just started Far from home as my interest level fall form 20% to 0%

I am not sure if I want to finish it or not

Bleh

Boring

So snap/blip made Peter so horny that he is after MJ so desperately who he used to ignore

Uff they are doing all 80s joke badly

Ok we have Betty Brant as blond and parody of wannabe 80s actress

Wow Betty is with potentially hob goblin ok whatever

Hence proved blip make you horny

Ankit Sharma

6:44 PM

So Aunt May is more hot then MJ and now eve happy hitting on him.

And Nicky Fury acting like a crazy ex

Napoleon Wilson

7:19 PM

o_O

Ankit Sharma

I hope this one qualifies for a rant

Napoleon Wilson

7:49 PM

Probably.

Movie Reel

8:03 PM

Q: Can someone explain to me why in 'Trainspotting' does Renton steal the money from his group of friends and how come he started to think this way?

Trainspotting is a classic film and i rewatched it recently but i didnt really watch the end properly and got confused as to why Renton steals the money from his group of friends. I can understand why he did because of having friends like Begbie (who he realized that he just coduldnt excuse him f...

plot-explanation trainspotting

M.A.R.

8:32 PM

@AnkitSharma I can't help but feel your urge to draw arguments from conclusions

I haven't been able to watch the last few good movies yet.

"uffff", as @Ankit would point out

Haven't seen Once Upon a Tarantino Dreamland, MorallyVagueFellas and Jester

Something about those names doesn't feel right

And Knives are not even out here yet, but definitely will watch it.

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Movie Reel

11:09 PM

Q: Why did Lantos help Roy?

Per wiki, Lantos reveals that Clifford's crew had mutinied and tried to return to Earth, causing him to turn off their life-support systems, her parents included. She then decides to help Roy sneak into the ship with the crew that brought him to Mars. What is her motivation? Why does she r...