The language of cinema has really speeded up since 1978, you could tell the same story today in HALF the time.
Oh and last years ARRIVAL was all but a remake. With inky sign language in place of the “simon” musical notes.
No internet for abductee families or people with the alien ” implant” in them to share info with each other. You couldn’t just google “devils tower” or maps and coordinates.
And hey- I guess Roy Nearys family had to fend for themselves after he went with the aliens. And hey hey- those aliens were DICKS…. kidnapping all those people- planting haunting images in innocent peoples minds….
Its a 70s time capsule, the hair, the fashions, the payphones, looking up movie times in the newspaper….
Close Encounters reminded me a little bit of Martin Scorsese’s Silence. Another movie that could be cut in half
One of the cops early in the film, right after the cop car goes off the cliff, looks exactly like Paul Giamatti. imdb says he was born in 1967 so he would only ten years old in 1977.
The scene his doppelganger is in is right AFTER this clip stops:
I did a google search on “paul giamatti close encounters” and got:
Was actor Paul Giamatti in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
In the scene where a cop car runs off a cliff after chasing the small low flying
But how if he was only ten?
The mother ship model shots still hold up but most of the other model work looks dated. Even shots that aren’t science fiction-ey, ( houses/ railroad crossing) look like…. models.
The final scene has way too many repeated shots and close ups of people that AREN’T in the plot…. The mothership looks great but the smaller ships look fake.
The alien “attack” on Giliian and the baby boys farmhouse still holds up-
The whole film is Spielbergs most “spielbergey” movie ever. Every shot seems like a TV commercial, the very thing Michael Bay gets criticised for Spielberg was praised for. I’m glad Spielberg has outgrown this with ” Saving Private Ryan” “Schindlers List” and “Munich”.
Seeing this made me wonder if Stephen Spielbergs movies all happen in the same cinematic universe? The Marvel Superheroes all live in the same comic book universe and most of them can be assumed to be in the same world. DARK TOWER ties to The Shining, and I think CHRISTINE, CARRIE and THE SHINING could all happen in the same world.
“E.T.” looks and feels exactly the same as “Close Encounters” and I could sort of see those government alien experts in CE3K being the same ones who hide the Ark in the Area 51 warehouse in “Raiders,” and theres no reason JAWS couldn’t have happened in the same world. And movies that Spielberg did NOT direct but produced ( Gremlins, Explorers, Back to the Future, etc..) all seem to happen in “Spielberg-land”
There is some really awesome miniatures work in this documentary. This is way better than most “behind the scenes” videos that are really just commercials for the movie.
Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill of Brandywine Productions, who produced the first film and its later sequels, served as executive producers on Aliens. They were interested in a follow-up to Alien as soon as its 1979 release, but the new management at 20th Century Fox postponed those plans until 1983. Brandywine picked Cameron to write after reading his script for The Terminator; when that film became a hit in 1984, Fox greenlit Aliens with Cameron as director and a budget of approximately $18 million. It was filmed in England at Pinewood Studios and at a decommissioned power plant in Acton, London.
A sequel, Alien 3, was released in May 22, 1992, with Weaver’s reprising her role as Ellen Ripley and Henriksen as Bishop in the film.
Visual effects
Brothers Robert and Dennis Skotak were hired to supervise the visual effects, having previously worked with Cameron on several Roger Corman movies. Two stages were used to construct the colony on LV-426, using miniature models that were on average six feet tall and three feet wide.[31] Filming the miniatures was difficult because of the weather; the wind would blow over the props; however, it proved helpful to give the effect of weather on the planet. Cameron used these miniatures and several effects to make scenes look larger than they really were, including rear projection, mirrors, beam splitters, camera splits and foreground miniatures. Due to budget limits, Cameron said he had to pay for the robotic arm used to cut into Ripley’s shuttle in the opening scene.[31][32]Practical effects supervisor John Richardson (who won a special effects Oscar for his part in the film) declared his biggest challenge was creating the forklift power loader exoskeletons, which required only three months of work and had Cameron complaining about visual details during construction. The model could not stand on its own, requiring either wires dangling from the shoulders or a pole through the back attached to a crane. While Sigourney Weaver was inside the power loader model, a stunt man standing behind it would move the arms and legs.[29]
The alien suits were made more flexible and durable than the ones used in Alien to expand on the creatures’ movements and allow them to crawl and jump. Dancers, gymnasts, and stunt men were hired to portray the aliens. Various 8 feet (2.4 m) tall mannequins also were created to make aliens that stood in inhuman poses, and could have their bodies exploded to simulate gunshot wounds. Stan Winston’s team created fully articulated facehuggers that could move their fingers; these were moved by wires hidden on the scenery or the actors’ clothing. The one that walked towards Ripley had a mechanism akin to a pull toy, with pulleys that moved the fingers, and its jump combined three models shot separately: the walking facehugger, a stationary model dangling on a table leg, and another model being pulled towards the camera.[30]
According to production staff, scenes involving the alien queen were the most difficult to film. A life-sized mock-up was created by Stan Winston‘s company in the United States to see how it would operate. Once the testing was complete, the crew working on the queen flew to England and began work creating the final version. Standing at 14 feet (4.3 m) tall, it was operated using a mixture of puppeteers, control rods, hydraulics, cables, and a crane above to support it. Two puppeteers were inside the suit operating its arms, and 16 were required to move it. All sequences involving the full size queen were filmed in-camera with no post-production manipulation.[31] Additionally, a miniature alien queen was used for certain shots.
After Bill Paxton‘s unexpected death, the cause of his passing has been revealed.
While a representative of Paxton’s family confirmed that the Big Love star died on Feb. 25 following “complications from surgery,” according to the 61-year-old’s death certificate obtained by E! News, he suffered a stroke stemming from surgery a week earlier.
On Feb. 14, Paxton underwent a valve replacement and aortic aneurysm repair. According to the certificate, the actor later experienced an aortic aneurysm that lead to his deadly stroke. The husband and father died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
What can Blade Runner teach us about the art of filmmaking? 1982 was a big year for movies—an existential cyberpunk noir film had a tough time competing with Spielberg’s lovable E.T. and yet, Blade Runner has not only stood the test of time, but it is arguably more popular now than it has ever been. Join me as I take an in-depth look at the construction of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and how its cinematography techniques created such a fascinatingly detailed world. This video is on The Final Cut version of the film.
I’m gonna say Photoshop, the texture on the “leather” the scale, the bright lighting on the tip of the shoe doesnt match the foggy day the background has.
An animated music video produced in Austin in 1987 by Pigtail Productions. This was before computers so I just LOVE the old school hand drawn backgrounds and characters!
Animation by
Mical Priest , Shawn Siegel, Michael Park, Cyndy Allard, Sam Yeates, Gretchen Reed, Danny Garret, Marvin King
Music by Shawn Siegel and the Originals.
I had nothing to do with this project. I was still in High School in 1987. I’m posting this as a tribute to old school hand drawn cartoons.
The story of the “Austin yogurt shop murders” is a real life murder story about the sad deaths of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas, on December 6, 1991, after which the shop was set on fire .
2 young men confessed to the murders and convicted, but they were released in 2009 due to lack of evidence.
Photobucket disabled the third-party hosting of images functionality of the site recently which had been a part of it for years.Internet users who used Photobucket for that, that is store their images so that they can embed them on other sites, were asked to pay $399 per year, or $39.99 per month, to reactivate the functionality.This was done with barely any advanced warning that this would happen, and the replacing of all images on third-party sites with a dummy image asking users to become a Plus 500 subscriber to restore the hotlinking functionality.
I’m going to list several Photobucket alternatives in this article that users affected by the move, and Internet users who are looking for reliable image hosting with hotlinking functionality have.
Photobucket Alternatives
You have plenty of options when it comes to services that provide you with options to hotlink your images.
There are a couple of things you need to be aware of before you select the next best offer though:
Some services may allow hotlinking of images, but they Terms of Service gives them the right to terminate your account at any time if they find that you use this excessively (read: you cost them too much).
Other services may be owned by a larger service. This is for instance the case for TinyPic which is owned by Photobucket.
Some image hosting sites are quite catastrophic when it comes to advertisement. A user clicking on your image may be directed to a page filled with advertisement. These are often low quality ads, or worse.
As far as alternatives are concerned, there are three groups that you may pick one from:
Image hosting sites — These sites are designed for image hosting on the Internet. They work similar to Photobucket.
Services that allow you to upload files, and link to them — These services may not be designed specifically for the embedding of images, but they support it.
Web space — Your own private website or server that you use for hosting and embedding of images.
The first two groups may allow you to hotlink to images right now, but they may have a change of heart (or policy) at any time in the future. The advantage of the third group is that you are in control, but that you have to pay for that.
Photobucket Image Hosting site alternatives
Cubeupload — A free image hosting service that does not require an account for use. It uses a donation-based system for keeping the service up and running.
Flickr — While Flickr’s future is not clear right now, with the purchase of Yahoo by Verizon, it allows you to host your uploaded images elsewhere provided that you link back to Flickr. Also, may not be used as a content distribution network for websites or applications.
Flickr makes it possible to post content hosted on Flickr to other web sites. Pages on other web sites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr. This provides a way to get more information about the content and the photographer.
Imgur (but only with the Embed option) — Imgur is named as an alternative whenever it comes to image hosting services on the Internet. While you may hotlink to images uploaded to Imgur, the service’s Terms of Service forbid you explicitly from doing so. What it allows is to use the embed feature, but this may not work in many cases. Also this which does not bode well.
Don’t hotlink to adult content or to file-sharing, gambling, torrent, warez, or Imgur rip-off sites. Don’t impersonate someone else. Also, don’t use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network
VGY — A free image hosting service that requires no account. You can upload the image directly to the service, and get some embed codes and the direct URL to the image displayed on the next screen automatically.
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Other services that you may use
While it would go too far to list dozens of services that provide you with image hosting and linking functionality, I’d like to highlight some of the options to you.
These are all free at the time of writing:
Blogger — Google’s blog platform is just a quick sign up away. You can set up a new blog there using your Google account, and may upload the photos that you plan to display elsewhere on the Internet to it. It may not be the most straightforward way of doing this, but it has worked reliably for users for years. Other blogging platforms may allow this as well. Google Photos works as well, but it is not super intuitive and requires that you copy the direct link to the photo.
GitHub — GitHub is designed for project hosting. Anyone can create an account, and you may upload files to the service. GitHub may suspend accounts or throttle them if they find that it requires excessive bandwidth.
If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other GitHub customers, we reserve the right to suspend your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
Your own web space
If you want full control, you may have to pay a couple of bucks for that. If you have a website or server already, you may use it to host your images, and hotlink to them.
The core benefit here is that you control the storage. You may delete images, modify them, prevent certain sites from linking to them, and so on.
The disadvantage is that you have to pay for that, and that there is a setup period involved usually.
Here are a few options:
Amazon S3 — Amazon AWS has a free tier that is good for 5 Gigabytes of storage, 15 Gigabytes of data transfer each month, and 20000 get requests. It gets quite expensive though when you leave the free tier, as you pay $0.090 per Gigabyte. The offer is free for the first 12 months only.
VPS Servers — A VPS is a virtual server that starts at a couple of bucks per month. You can grab a 10 GB Storage VPS with unlimited traffic from OVH for $2.99 per month for instance.
Now You: Do you use another alternative? Feel free to share it in the comments below.
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Photobucket alternatives for third-party hosted images
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The guide lists alternatives to the image hosting service Photobucket which recently began to block hotlinked images on the Internet.
Just saw the re release of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS……
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