We found that even when cranked up, the screen rendered
dark scenes in movies with too little detail, making certain parts tough to see.
This also decreased black brightness by half, however, which improved the image quality of
dark scenes in movies and games.
Good contrast and deep blacks make for attractive reproduction of
dark scenes in movies and games, but the off - target gamma can result in visual weirdness, like missing detail in those same dark scenes.
Not exact matches
In «The
Dark Knight Rises» he actually had a plane dropped from the sky to film the
movie's opening
scene.
There are many
scenes in this
movie that occur
in dark, drab rooms and yet there is still a lot of detail to be seen
in the
darker areas of the picture.
With the news a couple of weeks ago that the main X-men franchise would be bringing back the main First Class team (Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult) plus some of the younger mutants introduced
in Apocalypse, for X-Men:
Dark Phoenix, there's now word that another mutant, one only hinted at
in a deleted
scene from the latter
movie, will debut.
Director Corin Hardy and cinematographer Martijn Van Broekhuizen give the
movie a
dark, ominous look, particularly
in the
scenes set outdoors, where the woods seem to loom maliciously.
Note that it is not just a grim,
dark movie - but it has some
scenes that make you smile (mostly thanks to Vince Vaughn
in my opinion) and help to digest the gruesome bits.
Director Harold Daniels is no visual stylist and there's a slackness to many of the
scenes, but he comes to life
in a nighttime murder
scene that he transforms into a model of noir violence, an urban street fight
in the
dark of the empty city picked out
in shards of light (credit likely goes to cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, RKO's crime
movie vet), and the screenplay co-written by Steve Fisher has a bite of irony
in its twists.
I think for Chris Nolan, the interesting thing about Chris was that even though «The
Dark Knight» was as large a
movie as it was, I always felt like I was doing a chamber piece
in the sense that the
scenes were always involving a small group of people.
THE DVD As intensely likable as Reality Bites is (the impromptu dance to «My Sharona»
in a mini-mart is irresistably daffy), within the DVD's section of seven deleted
scenes (the commentary track and featurette indicate additional omissions still
in the vault) lurks a richer, if
darker,
movie with less of a studio glaze.
Dark Shadows is treated to Maximum
Movie Mode, which enhances playback of the film with picture -
in - picture interviews and behind - the -
scenes footage.
The action unfolds
in the cramped quarters of a dingy,
dark bedroom where they're shooting a steamy love
scene between Juliette (Josephine Decker) and Eric (Kent Osborne), the attractive stars of a low - budget
movie.
Even
in his newest film,
Darkest Hour, the camera has a sense of freedom
in a
movie that consists mostly of dialogue - heavy interior
scenes.
Behind - the -
scenes featuretts include: The Journey Begins (creative concepts, story development and casting), Shaping Mind and Body (Christian Bale's transformation into Batman), The Tumbler (reinvention of the Batmobile), Gotham City Rises (production design of Gotham City, the Batcave, Wayne Manor, and more), Saving Gotham City (the development of miniatures, CGI, and effects for the monorail chase
scene), Genesis of the Bat (a look at the
Dark Knight's incarnation and influences on the film), Path to Discovery (filming
in Iceland), and Confidential Files (go beyond the
movie and discover facts and story points not
in the film).
Instead, Alone
in the
Dark is a somber patchwork of
scenes and ideas borrowed from better
movies (Alien, Predator), rendered
in such laughably lifeless fashion that one can't help but wonder if it's intentional.
Darkest Hour: Behind The
Scenes / / Gary Oldman, director Joe Wright and
in the background Lily James on the War Rooms set at Ealing Studios - «Since a good portion of the
movie takes place down there, we wanted this claustrophobic atmosphere, the pressure on the people, but also the sense of perseverance» - Joe Wright / / #DarkestHour #GaryOldman #WinstonChurchill #JoeWright #LilyJames #behindthescenes #WT
Much of this
movie includes
dark scenes, so the accuracy
in the
dark images was a nice improvement over the DVD version.
You'll be amazed at how
dark things get (there are executions and
scenes of child abuse
in this
movie, literally).
Actor John Krasinski on securing the rights to use Bruce Springsteen's Dancing
in the
Dark for a karaoke
scene in his new
movie Promised Land.
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended
scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the
scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast
in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical traile
in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming,
Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive -
In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical traile
In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated
Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
The result,
in the case of The
Dark Knight Rises, is a
movie so rich
in lushly cinematic images — with lustrous colors and richly textured night
scenes — that it should be displayed side by side with the likes of The Avengers and The Amazing Spider - Man
in public forums devoted to educating the audience about what is being lost as the making and exhibiting of films on actual film becomes a museum art — the latest, but surely not the last, casualty of Hollywood's relentless focus on the bottom line.
«It's a very
dark thing to say, but Lily would hate me if I didn't slip this
in —
in some of the last
scenes of the
movie, I felt this huge surge that she had come into a place of intense power.
Plus, behind - the -
scenes on the Lego Ninjago
Movie, a new Star Trek: Discovery clip, and Nicholas Hoult on having a bigger Beast role
in X-Men:
Dark Phoenix.
Plus, behind - the -
scenes on the Lego Ninjago
Movie, a new Star Trek: Discovery clip, and Nicholas Hoult on having a bigger Beast role
in X-Men:
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In fact, while most of the supporting actors are consigned to only a few
scenes each, it's
in these moments where the film shines the brightest; and that's quite a feat considering just how dark this movie is, both visually (the colors are so washed out that it's like watching with sunglasses on at times) and thematicall
in these moments where the film shines the brightest; and that's quite a feat considering just how
dark this
movie is, both visually (the colors are so washed out that it's like watching with sunglasses on at times) and thematically.
Even though some of the
scenes in the third
movie have a
dark subject matter, morality-wise, it's played on a much more elementary level than the original trilogy.
Winston Churchill had some sympathy with this point of view, the absurd subway - train
scene in the
movie «The
Darkest Hour» notwithstanding.
For some, a cooler option might be better when watching
movies to save losing all the detail
in dark scenes.
That said, we found ourselves manually bumping the brightness up a little
in darker movies, just to bring a little more detail back
in dark scenes.
This allows much greater refinement
in the handling of light and
dark scenes within the same
movie.
This is especially important
in darker movie scenes in which you tend to lose too much of the picture to shadow.
Nevertheless, it's still best to see for yourself how a TV displays shadow detail by finding a
movie with
dark scenes and seeing how well it reveals detail
in the shadows of, say, a Harry Potter
movie.
This essentially means perfect blacks, no loss of detail
in darker movies scenes and no flare - out for lighter sections.