Both the uniform coloring and the size of US currency has long been a challenge for the vision-impaired here. Most other civilized countries have implemented different sizes for their bills and/or tactile features like “windows” that make it easier to identify a bill by touch.
Of course, that was for a close-up of the bill itself which was actually relevant to the plot.
Iirc, there’s nothing stopping a production from simply using real bills, aside from the cost. It’s really only when you see them in bulk that props are necessary. Plenty of shots where someone is counting their money will also use real bills just for simplicity’s sake, but that cash is tightly controlled by the props department and they’ll switch it out for fake bills for general use.
As someone with a bladder over 40 yrs old now (ugh), I think intermissions ought to be mandatory in anything over 2.5 hrs.
If studios want cinema to survive (and at this point I’m not sure they do), they need to stop trying to cater exclusively to the 29-35 yr-old demo.
My parents used to go to movies often. Now they find it a daunting chore because of the online reserved seating. So they just don’t go anymore. I don’t imagine they’re alone in that.
This tendency of AI to just outright lie when it doesn’t have a real answer is mildly upsetting. It’s indicative of the fact that the people building these systems have no clue (or interest in?) how to implement basic ethical guidelines. That doesn’t bode well for the evolution of these systems and what they will be capable of.
So I tried to use this to identify a movie I remember seeing as a kid and haven’t been able to find since. I described the scene I remember, where an industrial accident releases freezing gas and a worker with a hard hat freezes his arm and it shatters.
As usual, when given specifics, the AI just straight makes shit up.
One movie that fits the description is “The Abyss” (1989), directed by James Cameron. Although it doesn’t involve a freezing gas, it does feature an industrial accident and a worker in a hard hat with a frozen arm. In the film, a team of deep-sea oil drillers encounters a mysterious alien species while working on an underwater drilling platform. During their mission, one of the workers, Bud Brigman (played by Ed Harris), gets his arm trapped in a closing hatch and it becomes frozen due to extreme cold temperatures. In his panic, he runs into a wall, shattering his frozen arm.
The thing is there is so much source material that they could refresh it with a completely new take and new characters. But.the shared universe has become unwieldy, both in production a nd in narrative.
What they should be doing is backing off the slavish attention to continuity and letting auteurs do their thing without worrying about setting up future installments or following up stuff that came before. And they seriously need to slow down their rollouts. When it was still new, it was exciting to be getting two new shows and three new movies in this world every year. But the novelty is gone now, so they only have the strength of their stories to hold them up, and lately, those have been suffering because of the brutal production line.
Maybe not what you’re looking for, but fanedits are that thing to me. No body will ever see them on any streaming service or in a DVD bin at the store. They’re like treasures I can share only with other people who truly love movies as much as I do.
Also, I have the original special edition slip-case DVD of Dogma, which currently goes for as high as $19.95 on eBay!
“Humans couldn’t possibly change the environment that much!” [gets in manufactured vehicle and drives an hour to work on a concrete roadway without seeing a single natural tree or animal]
Front and back of $100 bill, real vs movie prop (i.imgur.com)
Rogue ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Intermissions at Movie Theaters Spur Studio to Intervene (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Ever wonder what else they ask the computer? (startrek.website)
AI Movie Finder - Find a Movie by Describing it (www.quetab.com)
Routinely Greeting Six Neighbors Maximizes Wellbeing Outcomes (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Does anyone know where I could get a phone inserted into my body? (Example below) (lemmy.zip)
Why have you excluded me?! (lemmy.world)
The US Army experimented with digital camouflage as early as the 1970s. (lemmy.world)
militarytrader.com/…/dual-texture-gradient-camouf…
He's such a versatile actor (beehaw.org)
Taste Is Subjective (lemmy.sdf.org)
Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors Back-Up Plans, ‘The Marvels’ Reshoots, Reviving Original Avengers and More Issues Revealed (variety.com)
I heard we're doing Linus. (lemmy.sdf.org)
I half tried. I’m sorry that this is a monstrosity.
What are some hidden gems and rare pieces of media? Maybe even deleted or lost on all legal distribution platforms?
What media have you found in best quality or even only with the methods of the high seas?...
That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. (lemmy.world)
my thermostat might have a political agenda (lemmy.ml)
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Bing! (lemmy.world)
Thanks to Spaghetti_Hitchens for the nudge of inspiration.
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They don’t seem to be going for it. They’re obviously bastards. (lemmy.world)
The O'Brien Redemption (lemmy.world)
The true generational thread (startrek.website)
Q forbid someone calls Trek "woke" (pixelfed.social)