A few years ago, I accidentally turned on the subtitles on Netflix and, well, never turned them off. Now I watch everything, including shows in English, with subtitles on.Pen Pearson, a critic at Slashfilm (/Film), does...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/01/Why-Movie-Dialogue-Has-Become-So-Difficult-to-Understand/[https://youtu.be/y5NhHBjyJe4] (YouTube link)Darth Vader is at the top of many "greatest villain" lists, and near the top in the rest. Nerdwriter looks at the reasons why. You might think, duh, but there's a lot more to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/29/What-Made-Darth-Vader-Visually-Iconic/What makes a great special effects movie? Showing us things that aren't seen in real life, and making us believe them. Whether a movie is good at that depends on a lot of things, not the least of which is audience expect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/26/The-50-Greatest-Special-Effects-Movies-of-All-Time/We joke about "the formula" that makes movie trailers look so much alike, but those are mainly for big blockbuster action films, the ones with familiar characters and existing fan bases. Hollywood cranks out tons of movi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/24/Meet-the-People-Who-Grind-Out-the-Best-Movie-Trailers-in-the-World/We are so used to computer-generated imagery (CGI)... ...ead about the great strides in CGI technology and filmmaking
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/10/How-Jurassic-Park-Made-History-25-Years-Ago/Ernest Cline's first novel is a science fiction st... ...n, they paid for it. I respect that's part of the filmmaking culture. I paint, I draw, and I own that stuff. B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/27/The-Oral-History-of-Fanboys-a-Love-Letter-to-Star-Wars-Obliterated-By-the-Dark-Side-of-Hollywood/"Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club." -Winsor McCay Popular lore has it that the 1927 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/26/The-Early-Animated-Films/Here we have a look into the visual effects of the Guillermo del Toro film The Shape of Water. There's no voiceover explanation, just a peek at the layers of awesome digital art, including water, which is a real breakthr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/24/The-Making-of-The-Shape-of-Water/One of the many satisfying scenes in the movie Wonder Woman was watching an army of women warriors defending their homeland from intruders. The Amazons on Themyscira were played by a variety of athletes from all walks of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/08/Amazon-Workout/Jamie Price, the VFX supervisor on the new movie Downsizing, talks about how movies use tricks to make people look tiny, beginning in 1935 with the movie The Bride of Frankenstein. Back then, it wasn't a matter of puttin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/06/The-History-of-Shrinking-People-in-Movies/
