Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Adam Peters (36%) A documentary with its sights clearly focused more on film aficionados than the typical causal movie goer, which is both the films strength and weakness. Its strength lie in that it knows most people out there will care very little if a film is shot digitally or using film so long as it looks good and is entertaining/well made/both, so it does not really go after that type of film fan at all. This really is much more of a technical and opinion based affair that you really need a genuine interest in the inner workings of film industry to really get anything out of, and if you don't then I'd advise you to watch something else.

eatfirst This feature length documentary tackling the subject of the move from film to digital in the movie world has been made with supremely auspicious timing, arriving at what may well prove to have been the pivotal moment in cinema history when the momentum of change tipped the balance away from essentially a century old format and into a digital world new and uncharted. Made even a year earlier or a year later, this may have been a very different beast.Presented largely as a talking heads style debate with some of cinema's leading directors and cinematographers, Side By Side gathers the thoughts and feelings of those, old and new to the industry, who are living and working inside the guts of the machine and seeing their world changing irrevocably with every passing day. It's a dry and somewhat specialised topic to be sure, but for anyone interested in the history, future, technology and aesthetics of cinema, I highly recommend it.

yagian Johnny Rotten shouted, "I wanna be anarchy," and he broke down the values of music.When I was a high school student, some of my friends formed a band and played punk rock in the school festival. The reason that they chose punk rock was because they could only play punk rock.Before the Sex Pistols, music played better technically was better, but Sex Pistols showed that music didn't have to be played technically well. They democratized rock music.I watched the documentary "Side by Side" about the transition from film cameras to digital cameras in the movie industry. In this movie, Keanu Reeves interviewed many people: directors, cinematographers, producers, actors, editors, colorists, and so on. Some of them welcomed digital cameras, while others stuck to film cameras.Digitalization changed movie making in two ways.Firstly, movie making by a digital camera is far cheaper than by a film camera. Videotapes, which don't have to be developed, are much cheaper than films, and it is much easier to use a digital camera than a film camera, so they don't need trained professionals. But the picture quality of digital cameras used to be lesser than film cameras.Secondary, digital cameras got rid of the technical limitation of film cameras. A film camera can shoot only ten minutes, and a director has to wait for a day to watch the pictures that they take, because films need to be developed. On the contrary, a digital camera can shoot much longer than a film camera, and director can check the pictures that they take simultaneously. The picture quality of digital cameras is getting better and is now comparable to film cameras.The first way was represented by Danny Boyle and Anthony Dod Mantle, who made "Slumdog Millionaire," and the second way was represented by George Lucas and James Cameron, and "Star Wars" and "Avatar".Dod Mantle worked for Dogme 95 project, in which they used digital cameras earliest to make movies.Danny Boyle was deeply impressed by his avant-garde pictures and decided to make a movie with him using a digital camera. They used a handy digital camera and expressed the dynamism of Mumbai in "Slumdog Millionaire."George Lucas and James Cameron have been developing the new digital technology to make images that they want, and their movies, in which they used these technologies, were quite successful commercially. They are entrepreneurs in the movie industry.Danny Boyle and Dod Mantel democratized movies by digital camera like the Sex Pistols, and George Lucas and James Cameron industrialized movies like Thomas Edison. I want to watch a movie made by punk rockers more than by Thomas Edison.

gavin6942 The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.Keanu Reeves says that digital "could" replace traditional film. However, by 2012, I am fairly confident that there was no "could" -- digital had become the more common way to shoot a film. (Although, this may be more on the low budget end -- they offer plenty of big name films from the last five years that are still on film.) I appreciated learning that digital cameras not only affect the finished product, but actually the process, too -- even the actors. The natural breaks of switching rolls every ten or so minutes are removed, which results in Robert Downey's mason jars of urine.The rise of CGI is covered, which is both a good and bad thing. Bad CGI is far too common and a weak replacement for practical effects. But good CGI is a major boon, and as the industry progresses, this could result in some impressive things.Digital as a whole is growing and evolving -- we learn of David Fincher's role of making cameras lighter during "Social Network". We learn that "Slumdog Millionaire" was the first digital film to earn an Oscar for cinematography (but certainly not the last). George Lucas seems overly enthusiastic about the rise of the digital movie, and we all know how he has abused computer technology. But his overall point is right -- we are at the beginning of a new technology, and only by jumping aboard ship will it get better.I do love that everyone thinks 3-D will burn out, as it is a joke or a gimmick for money. Could not agree more.