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Re: Criterion Facebook and Twitter

#1501 Post by The Elegant Dandy Fop » Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:46 pm

So why is LQ's not in the finalists? Jeez... I can think of at least three or four of those finalists than don't deserve it.

Is this a good time to use this?
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#1502 Post by Professor Wagstaff » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:00 pm

Seriously, LQ was robbed by being excluded.
LQ wrote:Congrats to Hail_Cesar and Brianruns10 (if that is indeed his Videodrome entry), hope one of you take home the prize.
Echoing the sentiments. Congrats! I hope we see a board member win this contest!

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#1503 Post by swo17 » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:02 pm

The Videodrome one currently has a pretty healthy lead.

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#1504 Post by Hail_Cesar » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:05 pm

I can't wait to see what we win as finalists

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#1505 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:26 pm

Wishing our forumites the best of luck, but that F for Fake one is incredible.

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#1506 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:32 pm

Jesus, that poor Wages of Fear guy- I didn't realize he'd stuck his discs in there, too.

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#1507 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:33 pm

Why was the Wages of Fear one removed from contention? And if there was some kind of disqualification, wouldn't one of the honorable mentions take its place, as they're the ones directly on the outside of the top 10?

Also, did anyone notice that the packaging for the Videodrome one is wrong? It's pretty obviously a bootleg copy - the front cover design should be a slipcover, and the inside design is the videotape thing.

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#1508 Post by LQ » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:35 pm

Jesus, that poor Wages of Fear guy- I didn't realize he'd stuck his discs in there, too.
If I remember correctly from the comments, he simply printed out the disc art as a label and applied it to a blank disc. Which is in keeping with the genius displayed in the photo.

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#1509 Post by swo17 » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:37 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:Did anyone notice that the packaging for the Videodrome one is wrong? It's pretty obviously a bootleg copy - the front cover design should be a slipcover, and the inside design is the videotape thing.
He may be one of those anti-digipak extremists that prints out their own covers to replace the original packaging.

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#1510 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:38 pm

If the Wages of Fear one was disqualified for that though, then the Videodrome one should be too.

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#1511 Post by domino harvey » Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:09 pm

Those finalists suck so much-- Jesus Christ, Criterion, no wonder you keep approving all that lame cover art lately!

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#1512 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:12 pm

The Repulsion guy is being a pretty epic sore loser, so I take back my comment about him being robbed.

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#1513 Post by domino harvey » Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:15 pm

He wuz robbed, tho

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#1514 Post by manicsounds » Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:21 pm

Lots of people were re-taking their photos or cropping them to 16:9 out of paranoia of 'contest rules' but obviously it didn't matter, as some winners were not in that frame.

By the way, with a lot of those pictures, some people took a lot of time and effort doing them. Pretty amazing. For me, the apple peeling took 1 try (and getting it to curl into a "C" shape at the edge was just pure coincidence), placing eggs around the DVD? Simple. Ikiru also took 30 seconds. But still, had a lot of fun.

And really a good laugh that The Vanishing was mentioned.

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#1515 Post by Compañero » Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:31 pm

Hey all, new forum member here, first post. I'm the guy who shot the "F for Fake" photo that's a finalist and the "Wages of Fear" photo posted above. I'm speculating that maybe the judges decided not to put two photos by one person in the final ten, and so removed one of them. That's my theory anyway. (Or maybe they decided at the last minute that they didn't like the "Wages" one after all!)

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#1516 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:22 pm

Haha, that is a pretty fair reason to have dropped the Wages of Fear one. If you win, can I buy some of your winnings off of you?

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#1517 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:42 pm

Welcome to the forum! Those were two excellent submissions.

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#1518 Post by Professor Wagstaff » Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:11 pm

Yes, great job, Compañero. Had to make that Wages of Fear picture my desktop background!

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#1519 Post by Feego » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:17 am

If they had to keep only one, I kind of wish they'd gone with the Wages of Fear. It's stunning. But that F for Fake photo is awesome as well. Terrific work!

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#1520 Post by HistoryProf » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:24 am

mfunk9786 wrote:Some questionable choices there. Not only was LQ robbed, the Repulsion one was too.
not including that Repulsion shot is an absolute crime. that was great.

Also thought there as a Wages of Fear one w/ the oil that was amazing too. both were surely better than the White dog, Hamlet, Silence of the Lambs, and Women under the Influence - by a mile.
matrixschmatrix wrote:Jesus, that poor Wages of Fear guy- I didn't realize he'd stuck his discs in there, too.
he said in the original entry they were just CD-Rs he put labels on he scanned from the discs....so he wasn't THAT committed to authenticity.

it's an amazing composition though, and seems to clearly be among the best. no idea how it missed the top 20, let alone the finalists.

ETA: and it appears I should read through to the end before posting - sounds like the two images by one guy is a good enough reason to exclude one. I think the Wages one was better though. F for Fake looks like the sole competition w/ Videodrome. I am curious to know if that's a bootleg in the latter...that would be so not cool.
mfunk9786 wrote:The Repulsion guy is being a pretty epic sore loser, so I take back my comment about him being robbed.
meh...he had every right to expect to be in the final group - it's a great shot and had tons of likes or whatever. i only see one post w/ a short vent noting it didn't make the cut. it IS rather hard to believe it didn't, but i'll never understand whacky C's prudishness. so bizarre.
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#1521 Post by Tom Hagen » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:41 am

That Wages of Fear one was incredible.

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#1522 Post by swo17 » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:50 am

HistoryProf wrote:
mfunk9786 wrote:The Repulsion guy is being a pretty epic sore loser, so I take back my comment about him being robbed.
meh...he had every right to expect to be in the final group - it's a great shot and had tons of likes or whatever. i only see one post w/ a short vent noting it didn't make the cut. it IS rather hard to believe it didn't, but i'll never understand whacky C's prudishness. so bizarre.
There were something like 1300 submissions, and maybe 50-100 that might have deserved to win something. Just because one that didn't make the cut involves partial nudity, the folks at Criterion are suddenly prudes? Who put out the movies that inspired the risqué shots in the first place?

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#1523 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:09 am

He didn't have any right to act like a spoiled child all over Criterion's FB page and the finalists' page when he found out he wasn't chosen, though.

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#1524 Post by matrixschmatrix » Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:19 am

Has he been deleting posts? The only one of his I see on the finalists' page is just a 'I think mine should have won but I respect the judges' decision' kind of thing

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#1525 Post by Saturnome » Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:34 am

Maybe I should use my 10$ certificate to buy The Vanishing?

(Here's something fun : I got my photo camera for my birthday a month ago, but it was an early gift, as my birthday is ... Edit : whoops my birthday is tomorrow. I got confused because it's past midnight and that I need sleep, wow)

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