I’ll write a review a little later, but I wanted to point out a problem so glaring it appears in a commonly disseminated production still.
Take a look at the photo below. See anything that maybe should have been fixed?
Look closely. Maybe my eye is just extra-trained, but it’s patently fucking obvious to me (and more so on the big screen) that a section of the road has been replaced by a crash mat painted the same color as the road, so that the cop can fall over dead without cracking his head on the pavement.
You can see the outline of the mat — looks sort of puddle-shaped.
Well if there’s visual give when he hits, then that’s pretty obvious. But just in general, parts of a street having mismatched asphalt isn’t that unusual. So it might not be that glaring unless you know what you’re looking for.
I still see the anti-piracy braille they put on certain frames these days, and they bug the crap out of me every time. But no one else I know seems to notice, probably because they don’t even know those things exist.
It’s not so much any visual give, but the fact that the scene continues with three other people falling forward onto similar patches.
That braille thing is annoying – just like the “cigarette burns” in the upper right-hand corner to indicate reel change, which I notice less and less these days.
Yeah, repetition might make it pretty obvious too.
The cigarette burns at least have a legitimate reason to exist, and they’re always in the far right corner. The CAP braille though, is right in the middle of the screen and intentionally contrasting the shot so they’ll be able to read it even on a crappy camera copy. Meanwhile most real bootlegs come from russia or canada, and they can edit out single frames anyway.
It’s like you’re being punished for paying to see the movie in the theaters by them defacing it. I really wish they’d find a method that wasn’t so intrusive.
I can only see it hwen you point it out. Otherwise it just looks like crappy road.