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Re: “Pozaziemskie oceany” – konkurs książkowy

Craven1138 — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 06:18:54 -0000

Żeby nie przegapić końca konkursu wrzucam to co mam. Ale liczę że 4 i 6 jeszcze rozgryzę :)

01. K-Pax
02. Dagobah
03. Magrathea
04.
05. Qo'noS / Kronos
06.
07. LV-426
08. Arrakis
09. Terminus (albo Trantor ale raczej chodzi o siedzibę encyklopedystów)
10. Solaris

/Węglowy (bosz jak stary musi być Disquiss że mam tu oczko ze StarCrafta :)

Re: “Astrofizyka dla zabieganych” – konkurs!

Craven1138 — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 07:02:56 -0000

Pewnie za późno, ale co tam:

1. Krótka historia czasu
2. Ostatnie trzy minuty. O ostatecznym losie wszechświata
3. Nowy wspaniały świat
4. Marsjanin
5. Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie
6. Autostopem przez galaktykę
7. Czy androidy marzą o elektrycznych owcach?
8. Boska cząstka
9. Miliardy, miliardy: rozmyślania o życiu i śmierci u schyłku tysiąclecia
10. Pan raczy żartować, panie Feynman!

(Węglowy Szowinista)

Re: The Pervertgeist #010

Craven1138 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:56:37 -0000

DEAD BODY?! I my city!?

Re: ‚Gdy życie prawie wymarło’ – konkurs!

Craven1138 — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 15:21:32 -0000

1. E.T.
2. Atlas Chmur
3. Wojna Światów
4. Blade Runner
5. Independence Day
6. Autostopem przez galaktykę
7. Arrival?
8. Cube
9. Marsjanin
10. Kontakt
11. Matrix
12. Powrót do przyszłości
13. Dzień w którym zatrzymała się ziemia
14. Donnie Darko
15. Westworld

mateusz.wielgosz/gmail.com

Re: 4,5 tysiąca kwantowiczów i konkurs!

Craven1138 — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 04:11:44 -0000

HIGGS:
Świnka morska (pardon Kawia domowa) pod stoliczkiem po lewej.
Power Ranger w tle na balkonie.
Xenomorf na balkonie wyższym
Zołnierzyk na blacie po prawej.
Mam nadzieję, że pani baraszkująca panu pod stolikiem po lewej na dole to też fotoszop...

CZARNO BIAŁE:
Miś pod stołem
Koleś obok tablicy
"Kwantowo" na tablicy
Dr House (albo Mel Gibson, no ew. Spielberg, ale raczej House) daleko w tle po prawej
Pingwinek pod tablicą?

Re: Script To Screen – What Happened to Hot Spec Script “Transcendence?”

Craven1138 — Sun, 04 May 2014 11:06:00 -0000

I'll just add my 2 cents here. First off - Black List script DID have
that flash-forward scene and yes it was very unnecessary (a spoiler
even) at that point too. Second - hybrids never harmed human being in
script too. Action scenes were spectacular but even reading it I noticed
that hybrids did not hurt anyone.

Re: Kiedy kobieta wchodzi do wanny czyli zwierz jednak okazał się feministką

Craven1138 — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:01:48 -0000

Zacytuję samego siebie:
"Z pewnością są wyjątki (choć nie zarejestrowałem), ale druga strona nie dotrzymuje kroku."

Jedyne co chciałbym podkreślić, to że nie jest to tak jednostronne jak można by sądzić. Nie było moim cele urażenie Zwierza.

Re: Kiedy kobieta wchodzi do wanny czyli zwierz jednak okazał się feministką

Craven1138 — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:36:33 -0000

Ojej to nie była żadna strategia i wciąganie. Przepraszam jeśli nie dość jasno się wyraziłem. Zarzucam jedynie nieobiektywność w przedstawieniu stron konfliktu. Nie uważam, że jeździsz po autorach filmiku i uważam, że jasno, klarownie i uczciwie przedstawiasz swoje zdanie.

Mówię tylko, że z wpisu przebija wrażenie, że "obrońcy" filmiku trudnią się głównie obsmarowywaniem "przeciwników". Absolutnie nie mam nic do Twojej opinii o filmiku i nie uważam, żebyś Ty krytykowała organizatorów w jakiś niewłaściwy sposób. OK?

Re: Kiedy kobieta wchodzi do wanny czyli zwierz jednak okazał się feministką

Craven1138 — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:20:00 -0000

Zdanie można mieć różne. Mnie spot nie zachwyca, ale święte oburzenie uznaję za przesadne. Ale nie o tym miałem. Przykro mi troszkę Zwierzu, że udajesz ton obiektywny (acz bardzo uczciwie i jasno podajesz swoje stanowisko) a jednocześnie nieprawdziwie twierdzisz, że przeciwnicy filmiku mówią co jest nie tak, a jego zwolennicy atakują przeciwników i nazywają tak i owak. Niestety jest zgoła inaczej. Autorzy i zwolennicy filmiku zostali zwyzywani od ścierwa, hołoty, bezmózgich, śliniących się nieudaczników, szowinistów a na pewnym niejawnym forum żeńskim organizatorki (co ciekawe organizatorów już nie) nazwano popularnym słowem na "k". Tak się składa, że jednocześnie mam wgląd w analogiczne niejawne forum męskie, gdzie nikt nawet się nie zbliża do tego poziomu. Niestety ale w tej "dyskusji" nie ma za grosz równowagi i każdy komu filmik się podoba (a dla niektórych wrogów, nawet Ci których filmik nie oburza) został w ostatnich godzinach obrzucony pokaźną porcją pomyj. Z pewnością są wyjątki (choć nie zarejestrowałem), ale druga strona nie dotrzymuje kroku.

Re: Screenplay Review – Transcendence

Craven1138 — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:18:23 -0000

Well first thing I don't really like is that you spend half of your
review on summing up the story. I'm here for your thoughts not your
summation of the story :)

I totally agree that pacing here is
great, that author took time to establish Evelyn and Will, that he
didn't rush Wills transformation. I event think that you could say that
this movie is a story of woman who can't give up on her dead husband.
It's surely true up to certain point that she is the main character.

It's
also possibly the best representation of technological singularity in
movie. We get to see how once AI is made it can improve itself at
geometrical pace.

I'm surprised you gave it such a low score.
Yeah it's not perfect. There is some bad dialogue. I know it's to
explain to average viewer, but top MIT scientists don't talk like that.

I
don't agree on your reservations. It's well explained that Will made
big effort to cover up his tracks - using shell companies, hacking
satellite images. By the time army found out about it it was too late.
This is what I like about this script. "I know most of the army’s
equipment is run by computers
but you’d think they’d still TRY." - well they wouldn't. They would in
yet another Michael Bay movie. Just for some explosions. Instead you get
well prepared attack, with as you said, cool action sequences. Where
noone gets hurt thanks to Will. Sequences you can use in trailers.

I have only two main problems (SPOILERS):
1.
Why didn't Will reveal his plan when he must have expected attack? Yes
there would ba wolrd-wide panic, but knowing what nanomachines do would
get him large support. But we can always say, it would make movie
anti-climatic.
2. I didn't like future-flashback at the beginning.
It's cheap, it spoils ending, there is no need for that scene. Also
ending scene might be tad too ambigious (especially given how some
dialogues work before), unless camerawork will do the trick to make it
clear.

Re: The 10 Best Screenplays I Read This Year!

Craven1138 — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:06:14 -0000

Transcendence has a huge potential. A real SF with great depiction of how technological singularity might look. It can also be interpreted in few ways (too bad ending is somewhat fuzzy, while everything before is not ambigious, I'd like more moral grey and more definite ending, also no futurospection at beginning). You can see it as SF about technology, movie about woman who can't let go of her husband, movie about our fears... If done properly it could be huge. It's my most anticipated release for 2014.

The Story Of Your Life is sweet. I'm really impressed with this one. I had serious doubts for the whole way reading it. It's a great contact-esque riddle. Alien ships land all around Earth and humans and aliens try to communicate. Main protagonist is a linguistics expert. Narration is interlaced with her flashbacks of her former life. There is interesting process of teching aliens english, that could use one or two tweaks (there is a scientist accompanying her during "sessions", but his role is too small, it would be cool to use concepts from Evpatoria message for idea of inquiry).

But for whole time I was afraid that it'll end up as some pretentious or banale moral story, and it will mess up a nice SF movie.

And you know what? It ended up as a banale story, but I loved it and it's fantastic how some things along the movie just fell into place perfectly, making it a complete construction, where you feel there's this rare perfect combination of elements. There's nothing to add to the story/construction and nothing you can remove.

So I hope it gets made into movie with just slight improvements - alien design is just dorky and unimaginative, and I want just one scene where scientist contributes to contact like he should.

Re: Movie Review – Iron Man 3

Craven1138 — Sat, 11 May 2013 04:35:45 -0000

This is not a review it's a long summary with some thoughts from reviewer. You don't have to recap whole movie for reader to write about it's flaws and merits. Part of your readers saw the movie - so they don't need it. Part of your readers haven't seen the movie - soe they don't want it.

I've been reviewing movies for 10 years, so I know you don't need detailed synopsis to review anything.

Also Iron Man 3, while certainly not flawless rocks ;)

Re: Screenplay Review – Echo Station

Craven1138 — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:08:47 -0000

I loved it.

Some outraged comments featured whining about decompression chamber next to declarations "and, yes, I am a scientist". OK then, I'm an engineer going for PhD, and apart from being scientifically literate, we engineers know how to fix things. And that decompression chamber is an easy fix. Since this universe features artificial gravity (impossible, just like time travel), there is really no problem with creating gravistasis chamber or whatever-device that will serve same purpose.

OK so with this slight detail out of way - I LOVED IT. I couldn't stop reading this one, it's surprisingly fresh, given that it's Source Code on Event Horizon with a touch of grotesque comedy.

There are several moments that make this one stand out while typical "good" scenario has one or two such things. Here we have second person in the loop, reactor (bit underused), crazy-funny-evil villian, gradual unfolding how loop works and that it's not as random as it seems and more...

Still it could use some fixes. Obviously decompression needs a quick fix. While I like this thing that Stas has trained to level when he can take on whole team, it was a biit iffy. I'm not sure about leaving some questions unanswered, like what really led to Amaranth stranded in that point of time and space?

There is also a important plothole (IMO) - how come whenever ship jumps back it's fixed to -4 hours state DESPITE memory logs?

Finally I'm not really crazy about this forced "you gotta kill maniac twice". It could be over after fight on Amaranth. Clash on station seemed very forced and clishe.

Re: ScriptShadow: Screenwriting and Screenplay reviews: Screenplay Review - Hyde

Craven1138 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:51:27 -0000

Oh I enjoyed this one a lot. Sherlock Holmes meets Silence of the Lambs, and dr Jeckyll, and Jack the Ripper...

Very obvious story, but due to victorian setting and relationship between inspector Adye and Jeckyll, due to violence and great dialogue I enjoyed it a lot. It does not try to be more than good entertainment. I hoped for one little thing in finale, but it doesn't matter. It's a good read.

Re: ScriptShadow: Screenwriting and Screenplay reviews: Screenplay Review - Cloud Atlas

Craven1138 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:29:01 -0000

With this scope, and ambition, Cloud Atlas looks like something you can only love or hate. I don't expect middle ground in this one. Yet your grade is the middle one...

But review clearly states how it looks - good parts, not necessarly fitting together.

Re: Polacy wciąż nie potrafią

Craven1138 — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:26:17 -0000

A czego się spodziewać? Marketingowców mamy równie dobrych jak filmowców.

Re: Obama's words at medal ceremony cause trouble with Poland

Craven1138 — Thu, 31 May 2012 06:06:18 -0000

It's actions not intentions that have consequences.

Americans should really think this one over - do they want president
that's not man enough to stand and apologize for his mistake? He
shouldn't hide behind spokesmen, nor behind people who wrote speech for
him. Just be a man and say "I'm sorry".

Nothing more.

Re: Obama's words at medal ceremony cause trouble with Poland

Craven1138 — Thu, 31 May 2012 06:04:21 -0000

In life actions, not intentions have consequences.
Americans should ask themselves - should they elect a man, who is not man enough to stand up an apologize? He shouldn't hide behind his spokesmen, he shouldn't hide behind guys who wrote that speech for him. Just stand up and say "I'm sorry".
Nothing more.

Re: ScriptShadow: And here are your 2011 Academy Award Screenwriting Nominations!

Craven1138 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:43:51 -0000

Why should Drive get nom? It should get for cinematography and art direction, but not for screenplay.

Re: ScriptShadow: How It Ends

Craven1138 — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:19:07 -0000

Can someone send me this script? It's mateusz dot wielgosz at gmail dot com

Re: ScriptShadow: Killing On Carnival Row (Carson Review)

Craven1138 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:03:00 -0000

It was one of first scripts I've read thanks to Script Shadow. But it left me disappointed. I love mood and city, motherload of climatic ideas, but story is just too damn clishe.To some level it's a good idea - you have such a splendid world to show (kinda like Avatar) that there's not much space for innovative story. But they overdid it.Still I'd love to see this filmed with Neil Jordan or Del Toro at director's seat.

Re: Learn Screenwriting through professional screenplays

Craven1138 — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:57:43 -0000

You forgot one, VERY important change. But before that, some general thoughts:

IMO opening shots were device used for editing, especially bird taking off.

I was waiting for Source Code like for only few other movies, but I didn't follow much about it except cast and trailers. So I was shocked and angry that he knew Christina - it really seemed to ruin thing, but in movie it turns out they barley know each other and that makes much more sense for reasons you pointed out. It played out very well.

I also was alarmed by shortening of time but it played out relly well.

And finally the finale. I didn't feel "Spielberg effect", but just like in script this "overtaking" seems ambiguous. Freeze frame might've been best thing to end up with, but I guess typical american audience wouldn't like it. And it'd make Goodwin gettin' sms scene harder.

BIG CHANGE:

It's evaluation of Source Code! In script it was just another of Colter, here everyone is new to this situation Rutledge, Goodwin, Colter. And it's this situation, that will decide about projects fate. I think it really gave it and additional edge.

Re: Learn Screenwriting through professional screenplays

Craven1138 — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:40:09 -0000

Hell yeah! :) I just hope they rewritten last page. And 7 minutes? That's too short!

Re: Shadow 19

Craven1138 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:06:27 -0000

I can't agree - existence of duplicates is a great device, and script gives it a thought, when Vance realises what's going on, when he studies his own deaths, and in scene where S19 shows up on Erix. That and pretty much whole third act makes up for any lost sense of danger over shadows. And keep in mind we don't follow shadows too much, we care about learning what's secret about whole project.

Re: Shadow 19

Craven1138 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:01:59 -0000

If you mean starship troopers, then hold your horses. It's nothing like that. Not even close to "similar".