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One of the biggest technical failure of our times


Forget the story awhile, let me just focus on the technical side of this film: wow, this is amazingly bad.

The crew had no idea how to use the Red One camera, did they. No one bothered to read the manuals.

Color tones all over the place, worse than most webcams. Resolution less than most cameras found in mobile phones, what 4K magic? To top it all, the movie seems to have been graded and edited on uncalibrated monitors, nothing else can explain the mess you see on screen.

And to think they -somehow!- achieved this with Red One, one of the best digital cameras in the business. In fact, until the recently released Red Epic, Red One was the premiere digital camera. But you wouldn't believe this movie was shot with Red One when you see the "quality" of the product.

I bow my head to the incompetent crew. This movie's footage should be archieved alongside all the great movies shot with Red One, so that people can truly marvel at the scale of this crew's incompetence.

Most of the times when people say they could shoot a better movie than what they have just seen, they are wrong. A lot goes into producing a film and amateurs cannot hack it.

However, this is one of those rare movies where anyone who reads the manuals (available for free at Red.com) can shoot much better than Werner and his troupe of half-witted crew.

As I watched this movie, I found its title a very apt reaction to the technical failures I saw unfolding in front of my own eyes. Werner Herzog what have you done?!

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Agreed, the cinematography and post-production was really awful and destroyed the atmosphere of the movie. Incredible that Herzog and Lynch couldn't attract better crew.

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And I placed the blame on my television.

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The display of utter arrogance and gullibility in this thread are so staggering someone should archive it and preserve it for historical reasons.

I'm sure the all veteran professionals who worked in this film are most thankful for your thorough input.

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LOL that was a good one!

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Seems the purpose of this thread is to provide a venue for the OP to brag about how much he knows about cameras and cinematography and stuff.



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I know nothing about the Red, but maybe the OP is right. Something went very wrong technically in the making of this movie. I'm a longtime admirer of Herzog's work but I couldn't stand this and walked out after an hour or so in theater. I made an effort to stay until the end, but with about 20 minutes left I had to leave and salvage my evening.

Absolutely no disrespect whatsoever to anyone who appreciated it. There was certainly great potential in the story and it was well cast.




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lopez,

I think you don't know that part of the footage was shot with a simple HD consumer camera (all scenes in China & Mexico, I think).

Herzog did this without a crew and without a shooting permit, because they had a very low budget.

The rest of the film looks fine. It's true, they didn't care much for lightning, but it looks good most of the time.

The RED One was simply not a very good camera and it shows sometimes, but it didn't take me out of the film.

The cinematography itself is good and inventive.

The film itself is mediocre.

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