Hacker Cinema
Chronicle
2012 · Film · 84 min
Directed by Josh Trank
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.
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I do like superhero movies—i.e. films about characters with supernatural powers—just not the MCU flavor of them.
I enjoyed Unbreakable, Chronicle, Birdman, Fast Color, Freaks, etc.
We can discuss that, but first let me recommend the movie Chronicle (2012) which really is as realistic as I imagine it would get.
Conerecing The Boys, it's not about humanity as much as it's about American stuff. It's being very very specific with its criticism. Homelander is not just a psychopath, he's a product, literally, of American culture (represented by conglomerate Vaught).
Also, while The Boys has criticism and some characters might not survive, it's also very tongue in cheek and tries to entertain rather than lecture. Personally I have fun watching it. If nothing else, it manages to surprise me, which is not something I could say about superhero movies in the last ten years.
Piggybacking on this comment I think it’s a difference between western and eastern media. The western movies often have way less complexity and have less depth and fuck ups, perfect execution is the norm. I remember zombieland as an example of perfect execution, which I rarely see in eastern media it’s a comedy but in serious movies it’s happened too. 3.0+1.0 suffers from this as well, it’s tiring and boring except as a spectacle of effects like the opening and the dive, I did not at all find it entertaining after first watch, whereas EoE features plans constantly going wrong from Shinji, Gendo, Asuka, Misato and Ritsuko keeping the idea of perfect excecution away.
Formulas don’t have to be boring, Chronicle was excellent despite following the classic Greek tragedy.
I find the high frame-rate stuff to be "hyper-real", and to spoil the magical surreality you want in a LotR-style movie. I think 48/60fps will make its big break with a heavily grounded films in the style of End of Watch or Chronicle, where that non-theatrical realism can be leveraged instead of fought against.
High frame rates also raise the bar for the actors every bit as much talkies did; micro-expressions become much more obvious at 60fps.