Category: Piffle
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When Can The Ewoks Dance?
Seriously, let’s just let the Ewoks dance already. Soon. Soon.
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Keep Calm And Steadicam
I have this running in a loop in my head today. You know, for reasons. When he ramps up into that sprint, Stallone runs nearly as elegantly as Tom Cruise. Rocky was the first film to really use the steadicam, and even used shots made for the rig’s initial showreel.
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Saint David
I watched The Saint last night. The 1997 movie one, starring Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue, which was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick. And if you believe the comments under my tweet about having watched it, it’s both appalling AND the worst movie ever made. But it’s a…
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Epic Steadicam Shot … In Grange Hill
I want to draw your attention to this Steadicam shot … It’s nearly a minute long. That’s like half a Goodfellas. And it’s from Grange Hill in 1982. Who said TV is more cinematic these days?
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It’s The Simpsons All The Way Down
This is hardly the most original thought, nor the most timely, but it’s been festering in my head for years now, and more so since I started a slow and steady re-watch from the start of The Simpsons. It bothers me that The Simpsons are rushing home to watch The Simpsons. Or at least a…
