04.20.09 THIS SHORT FILM IS NEAT, WATCHMEN-Y
This is a cool short film by Adam Berg called Carousel. Very similar to the Watchmen opening credit sequence, the whole thing plays out as one long tracking shot that moves through a frozen three-dimensional space. The film was actually created as a commercial for Phillips‘ new 21:9 TV.
Until now this Cinematic Viewing Experience has been extremely difficult to replicate at home. Cinema 21:9 boasts a 56″ screen that is shaped in the 21:9 aspect ratio, so movies in the 2.39:1 format completely fill the screen exactly as you experience at the cinema. The TV delivers impeccable high definition picture quality in a native 2560×1080p resolution.
So yeah, it’s a commercial, but a pretty cool commercial, at least. It’s certainly better than their other ad, where Howie Long walks in on some guys watching the other leading brand of TV. “Yo, how’s it hangin’, pussies? Oh hey look, a new TV - your boyfriend buy that for you? My wife has Steel Magnolias on DVD if you wanna borrow it sometime. I bet it’d look real nice on here. (*cough*) Fag! (*cough, cough*). Whoa, pardon me. Sore throat.”
[Thanks to The Luchador for the tip]
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THIS SHORT FILM IS NEAT, WATCHMEN-Y
Finally, a television screen worthy of the awesome cinema being pumped out of Hollywood into the DVD market. How can you expect to get the full impact of Tyler Perry’s fat suit on a non-widescreen monitor?
Won’t you please think of all the hard working people who spend long hours formatting films to fit our screens?
A screen that’s perfect for displaying still pictures? I can get a picture frame for a buck down at the Dollar Tree.
21:9 is the same chest-to-hips ratio I demand from my mail-order thai ladyboys.
Chest-to-waist too…
Fuck me.
exactly as you experience at the cinema
So this TV comes packaged with dumb fuck parents that bring their 2 year old that cries constantly to every god damned movie I go to?
J - it might help if you didn’t always go to the animated flick du jour on Sunday afternoon.
I wouldn’t complain Al, but who the hell brings a kid to a midnight showing of Balls Deep 15? I mean really, have they no tact?
21:9 are the odds that the Blues will win a game in the playoffs this year.
That was a very cool ad, but everyone knows clown masks are better suited for either committing rape or playing in a metal band.
Short films are growers, not showers.
Kurg, based on the metal bands that wear clown masks, either way you’re committing some form of rape.
Wait, wait, I’m pretty good at these SAT questions. Okay, 21 is to 9 as . . . um, Pauly is to Pauly’s girlfriend?
Dink, that seems like pretty liberal odds you’re giving the Blues, doesn’t it?
I used to be one long tracking shot that moves through a frozen three-dimensional space but then I thought fuck it and stopped.
Good point, Erswi. Problem is that I can’t remember the alt-code for infinity.
Howie Long should play Joe Swanson if they do make any live action scenes for the Family Guy movie.
Just to be on the safe side, somebody should cripple him.
C&P that shit nigga! I would help a bruva out but the iPhone can’t fuckin do that shit until that update comes out.
In conclusion: I hate my job.
What a bunch of clowns.
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