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Originally Posted by RGA
Sir T
Does MPSE stand for Motion Picture Sound Engineer? What have you done? Or are you allowed to say? I suppose you can say since you'd be listed int he credits.
I do not like to talk about films I have worked on specifically because it keeps the legal department at my studio off this website. I got into too much trouble talking about specifics when on Bluray.com, and do not want to repeat that mistake again.
I now work on the home video side of things, I stop doing feature films awhile back because of the intensive work hours you have to put in on them. I have done the sound on all of the Disney Blu ray's(not Pixar stuff though), and made for hometheater mixes on DVD. On the feature film side, my work has primarily been to come in and fix stuff the hired re-recording engineer screwed up, or what the director didn't like, so sometimes I don't really get screen credits, I get the money!
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That sounds like a lot of fun. If a film you do wins an oscar do you get to go? I know they have an oscars for the technical side of it on another day.
I was part of a team that won a Oscar for best film sound. Hunt for Red October was one, but I also got 2 more for my work on a very popular late night talk show. I have always discouraged any nomination for awards, as I am not a in front of the camera type, I like to stay behind the scenes. I think the money I bring home is the best reward anyway!
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That's great Sir T. The Hunt for Red October was certainly technically impressive - and I enjoyed the movie to boot. Always liked Sean Connery. It's great to make money but it's nice to be a part of something that will live long after you as well. The Hunt for Red October was one of my dad's favorite movies - he always liked the war pictures.
Speaking on Late Night talk shows - have you watched Craig Ferguson? He's quite funny when he makes fun of the show's budget and his "lighting" people. He can't afford a side-kick so mythbusters made him a robot named Geoff Peterson who has the worst comic timing in the business. Craig seems to be quite friendly with his time slot competitor Jimmy Fallon.
Thanks for the info on the Blu-Ray thread. Up here stores are still taking DVDs on trade so I may dump them while I have the chance. Blockbuster video is taking them in as well - and Blockbuster is probably on its lasdt legs with net-flix coming and those vending machines that are in the U.S. but not up here in numbers yet - though they are up here. I live on Vancouver Island so it takes a bit longer for the tech to get here.
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didn't you sat you worked on the Arsenio Hall show? I remember Hall bragging once that he didn't allow lipsyncing on his show - true? That show upped the ante on sound quality and always had hipper guests.
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Hey RGA, do you hang with any of the other bottle heads up there? I know a couple up there, one of whom builds speakers.
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Originally Posted by 3LB
didn't you sat you worked on the Arsenio Hall show? I remember Hall bragging once that he didn't allow lipsyncing on his show - true? That show upped the ante on sound quality and always had hipper guests.
That's the show 3LB, and yes, no lipsyncing allowed. But I did have a crude version of auto tune available in the rack that could do real time tuning of the voice. It was an early version though, and could not always help a singer out when it was really needed. This is where I learned that Mary J. Blige was not ready for prime time, and that Patty Labelle was hard as hell on mixing desk. I had to use a limiter every time she came to the show!
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Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
If you have a chance, check this movie out. You won't be disappointed(at least I wasn't).
So on your rec, and against the hundreds of negative ones from the above link I posted, I watched this movie last night. It was hokey at best. Way too unbelievable from start to finish. I don't care how much training you have, 90lbs of girl will not beat 200lbs of man after man.
At one point I commented to my wife something like "all those guys getting their asses kicked by 90lbs" and she replied back "Yeah and 80lbs of her is lip"
I also read the list of screwups in the movie which showed a total lack of detail throughout. The best one was when she took off her shoes in the stairwell and placed them next to each other in the corner. 2 seconds later the camera view as she goes up the steps shows the shoes to be about a foot and a half apart. Come on! The other was the explosive device that blew out every window in the building but did no damage to the apartment or anything in it.
This movie is ONLY for those who drool over AJ since it has nothing else at all going on.
My say is don't waste even a redbox dollar on this one.
Sorry T, your lust for AJ has clouded your sense of what a good movie is. This one isn't one.
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Originally Posted by Hyfi
So on your rec, and against the hundreds of negative ones from the above link I posted, I watched this movie last night. It was hokey at best. Way too unbelievable from start to finish. I don't care how much training you have, 90lbs of girl will not beat 200lbs of man after man.
At one point I commented to my wife something like "all those guys getting their asses kicked by 90lbs" and she replied back "Yeah and 80lbs of her is lip"
I also read the list of screwups in the movie which showed a total lack of detail throughout. The best one was when she took off her shoes in the stairwell and placed them next to each other in the corner. 2 seconds later the camera view as she goes up the steps shows the shoes to be about a foot and a half apart. Come on! The other was the explosive device that blew out every window in the building but did no damage to the apartment or anything in it.
This movie is ONLY for those who drool over AJ since it has nothing else at all going on.
My say is don't waste even a redbox dollar on this one.
Sorry T, your lust for AJ has clouded your sense of what a good movie is. This one isn't one.
Sorry Hify, but you cannot speak for me. I liked the movie, I thought it was good. You didn't and I respect that. Different strokes for different folks, but your opinion does not negate mine.
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Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
That's the show 3LB, and yes, no lipsyncing allowed. But I did have a crude version of auto tune available in the rack that could do real time tuning of the voice. It was an early version though, and could not always help a singer out when it was really needed. This is where I learned that Mary J. Blige was not ready for prime time, and that Patty Labelle was hard as hell on mixing desk. I had to use a limiter every time she came to the show!
I remember being impressed by a young Mariah Carey's performance on that show.
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I don't see a problem with liking Salt. I thought it was quite entertaining. No it's not believable but it's an action movie and most of them are nto entirely believeable when you put logic in. Could a super trained 90lb woman beat up a 100lb guy? Yes. It's called martial arts and that is partly the point of it.
Uma Thruman with a Sword chopped through hundreds in the most ridiculous over the top sequences and I am thinking - doesn't anyone own a gun?
rottentomatoes has a 61% Fresh rating for salt on their tomatometer. 126 liked it 80 didn't. Salt is far better than Pirhana and yet Pirhana has a 75% fresh rating which is puzzling. Pirhana is said to be a funny over the top gore movie. But the characters were out acted by the CGI fish, the gore wasn't that great, and it was not nearly as funny as say Tremors or Arachnophobia.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1213717-salt/
The Last Exorcism was surprisingly good I have to say. Didn't love the ending but I have to say it had a good deal of suspense and a somewhat believable story. In this day and age it would have to be considered a success for the horror genre. Good lead performance helps.
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Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
That's the show 3LB, and yes, no lipsyncing allowed. But I did have a crude version of auto tune available in the rack that could do real time tuning of the voice. It was an early version though, and could not always help a singer out when it was really needed. This is where I learned that Mary J. Blige was not ready for prime time, and that Patty Labelle was hard as hell on mixing desk. I had to use a limiter every time she came to the show!
did you or the staff ever get corporate mandates to "make sure someone looks good".
Who was the worst musical act on that show?
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Originally Posted by 3LB
did you or the staff ever get corporate mandates to "make sure someone looks good".
Who was the worst musical act on that show?
Honestly, there were quite a bit of bad ones over the run of that show, but Mary J Blige is most memorable to me because in rehersal she blamed everything and everyone on site for that fact that she couldn't sing, and just plain sounded bad. I am sure there have been worse, but I just cannot remember who they are off the cuff.
The lighting and camera guys(and young woman) probably had the mandate to make sure the artists looked good, but you had to stand on your own when it came to singing and playing.
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Sir T
People like to focus on the negative but which acts sounded good or in general treated the average folks well? We all hear stories of musicians like Richard Marx who demanded the red M&Ms be removed and dimwit stories like that.
I remember meeting a person who said Per Gessle of the Swedish band Roxette helped wheel a guy down hallways in a wheelchair. Supposedly a really nice duo.
The bad reports I dismiss to a degree because these "stars" probably get frustrated with all the hounding they get and if they have a bad day it's on the news.
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Originally Posted by RGA
Sir T
People like to focus on the negative but which acts sounded good or in general treated the average folks well? We all hear stories of musicians like Richard Marx who demanded the red M&Ms be removed and dimwit stories like that.
I remember meeting a person who said Per Gessle of the Swedish band Roxette helped wheel a guy down hallways in a wheelchair. Supposedly a really nice duo.
The bad reports I dismiss to a degree because these "stars" probably get frustrated with all the hounding they get and if they have a bad day it's on the news.
Well, I am saying this not because I know her personally, but because it is true. Patty Labelle was probably the nicest person I have ever seen grace Arsenio's stage. Everytime she would come to the show, she would bring a ton of her home cooked food with her to feed the entire staff. It was just amazing, and man that woman could cook her butt off. During rehersals she was always extreme professional but extremely funny, which made for very relaxed rehearsals.
Mariah Carrey before she became this ***** deva was also extremely nice.
Jennifer Holiday was a total blast, and always completely professional.
These women stick out because of the lasting good impressions they made. I am sure there were a lot more cool people, I just cannot remember off the top of my head.
I am less gracious when it comes to dealing with the quirks and whims of the stars. A lot of time they do all of these crazy things just to show the power they wield, and sometimes it is so petty and ridiculous you just want to slap the hell out of them.
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