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Pirating the Pirates

711 points · 405 comments · piotrgrabowski

  1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
    > Beyond Star Wars, an illicit cottage industry has sprung up to patch the holes in any given film’s digital representation.

    I've thought about making an Oppenheimer except all scenes are in chronological order and the cringe ones are gone Edition

    1. dd8601fn · · focus · HN ↗
      Saying “Nolan was wrong” is begging for a fight.

      But his weird sound mixing philosophy (experience over clear dialog / dialog as sound effects) makes me nuts. So fix those too, please.

      1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
        Nobody can fight me on that because I don't know who Nolan is. Guessing he's a director, but in that case, didn't know he directed Oppenheimer. I'm part of the popcorn reviews, not the tomato ones.

        The movie is bad cause nobody can tell what is going on, or they can but it's a chore without reward. "3 weeks earlier" kind of crap every 30 seconds in the movie. Even the big plot twist is, "this scene with Einstein that you thought happened early in the timeline actually happened at the end, wow." But maybe it can be fixed.

        1. dd8601fn · · focus · HN ↗
          Yeah. One of the more celebrated filmmakers out there. If you google him you’ll see familiar stuff.

          I personally liked Oppenheimer fine as it was (except the crappy explosion), but I can see why others might not.

          I also enjoyed that old Paul Newman, John Cusack, etc one that focused less on Oppenheimer. Fat Man and Little Boy.

          1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
            Hm, Dark Knight is a top one. Interstellar was amazing until the end with the black hole unraveling the plot, but I blocked that out and only remembered the rest until I rewatched recently. Dunkirk was good but kinda slow plot-wise. What I'm getting is his films are exceptional in a lot of ways like audio/visual but don't necessarily have good plots, which idk if that's even his fault. Those didn't have jumpy timelines, though.
            1. dd8601fn · · focus · HN ↗
              Messing with time is certainly a thing he does. Momento, Inception, Interstellar, Oppenheimer, Tenet... probably others I wouldn't remember.
              1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
                Hm yeah, sounds like the majority of his movies do jump around. I don't remember Inception, saw that on release.

                Interstellar's plot is about messing with universe time, but the movie isn't jumping around points in story time. There's just the astronaut and Earth storylines with a little crossover, and each mostly moves forwards only. I liked that part a lot actually.

              2. account42 · · focus · HN ↗
                Interestingly, Memento did have a linear time cut included as a bonus on some commercial home video releases.
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