Gemini Man (2019)

spronk said:

lol in this clip from the studio, the car changes from green for 90% of the scene to suddenly white in the last 10 seconds. maybe this movie will be a masterpiece in continuity error OR maybe this movie is actually secretly a Transformers movie and thats Optimus Prime

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Going above 24 FPS is a mistake for films. The bump adds so much more clarity to shots that it makes it almost impossible to cover up special effects and make them look right. The lower quality from 24 FPS makes it far easier to suspend belief, because the movie doesn't look like 'real life'. Once movies wade too far into something from a home video camera, bullshit special effects just look weird. (Also, make up and everything ends up looking terrible.)

j00t said:

the car doesn't turn from green to white... there's some real weird editing. when he's up against the white car, you can see the green car he was just against ahead of him. basically while young will was showboating on the bike, old will tried to get away and moved against a different car. but that whole last chunk looks like it's taken from a completely different scene in the first place. it's really hard to get any kind of spatial understanding

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The green Honda has moved significantly in position relative to where the scene started and now a white Kia or Hyundai is where it was and he’s had just enough time to stand up. Complete continuity failure.

Leadsalad said:

The green Honda has moved significantly in position relative to where the scene started and now a white Kia or Hyundai is where it was and he’s had just enough time to stand up. Complete continuity failure.

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my guess is that some stuff was edited out for the trailer. i mean, because if it's not...

he also does that weird pushoff thing where he literally floats like a hovercraft from a flat on the ground position, i'm not a muscle guy is such a thing even possible?

spronk said:

he also does that weird pushoff thing where he literally floats like a hovercraft from a flat on the ground position, i'm not a muscle guy is such a thing even possible?

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Not by any stretch of the imagination. Even if you could apply that much force with just your arms, you wouldn't plank yourself into the air because your arms aren't underneath your center of mass.

Him flipping up off his back was too overdone. Instead they went with the ...flop jump?

Either way it's strange how some reviews are praising the CGI and young Smith but I dont see it. I dont understand how 100 plus FPS automatically makes whatever action sequence a masterclass in cinematography.

there's zero doubt this movie is gonna suck but if you have A-List, these are the 14 AMC theaters that will show this movie in 120 fps 3D on the Dolby screens. even if the movie sucks at least I can gawk at the latest tech deployment

Dolby Cinema only supports 2K/120 so if you opt for the 120 option know it won't be in 4K

good god the cgi in that bike when it spins around to hit him looks so bad, or if it isn't cgi it's the high framerate looking janky

I am numb from disbelief.

Fadaar said:

good god the cgi in that bike when it spins around to hit him looks so bad, or if it isn't cgi it's the high framerate looking janky

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it's definitely cgi and it's definitely bad

120 FPS 3D HFR was amazing as fuck, like watching Planet Earth II on an OLED for the first time. Mind blown by how good the visuals were. There were a few amazing action shots (guns shooting and man on fire scenes in 120 were CRAZY) but also a lot of action scenes that looked TERRIBLE too.

Movie sucked ass, story made little to no sense and Will Smith is horribly miscast. Its supposed to be a John Wick or Jason Bourne like character but its played by Will Smith like a usual Will Smith character. Made no sense. CGI was very uneven, sometimes the face was good and sometimes it was really bad.

That "green car turns into white" was fine, that trailer cut like 20 seconds out which shows him moving from A to B.

If you have access to the 120 fps HFR+ Dolby screens (only 12 screens, linked up above somewhere) and have A-List to see it free its worth it as a "technical demo of 120 fps", but definitely not worth paying for.

You know of this was a movie about time travel and Will time traveling back and encountering his younger self hell yeah I'd be down for that, the Fresh Prince all over again.

Haus said:

So was it that they got Ludacris and told him about the trope involving all Will Smith characters essentially just being Will Smith Being Will Smith.

Then he came back and pitched "How about a movie with Will Smith being Will Smith hunting Will Smith being Will Smith"?

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That's Xzibit.