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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2350 on: Wed, 20 March 2024, 06:46:51 »
going to see The End of Evangelion today with my mother. not sure how I'm going to explain that scene to her.
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« Reply #2351 on: Wed, 20 March 2024, 18:42:30 »
The Zone of Interest

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Its one of my favourite subjects (WWII). Well made, they used very fragile way to show the situation from different perspective. It was disturbing, but I like this way of showing a brutal truth.
I've been in Oswiecim many times, always incredibly moved by that place, this movie brought all the memories.
Like one of best songs of Metallica - sad but true.

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« Reply #2352 on: Wed, 20 March 2024, 22:44:34 »
going to see The End of Evangelion today with my mother. not sure how I'm going to explain that scene to her.

I don't think I would take my mum to see that lol

Amazing film though, wish their were airings in victoria but don't think there are which is a bit of a shame.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2353 on: Thu, 21 March 2024, 06:38:04 »
going to see The End of Evangelion today with my mother. not sure how I'm going to explain that scene to her.


I don't think I would take my mum to see that lol

Amazing film though, wish their were airings in victoria but don't think there are which is a bit of a shame.

she said it was terrible after the second half because it got too philosophical. i suppose i expected that reaction. when that scene happened she looked at me and whispered what the ****

still my favorite movie ever tho, and now I'm gonna be thinking about it for another month. could write a novel of Harry Potter thickness about my thoughts on this film. so many little details and endless rabbit holes with the symbolism
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2354 on: Thu, 21 March 2024, 06:39:51 »
going to see The End of Evangelion today with my mother. not sure how I'm going to explain that scene to her.

I don't think I would take my mum to see that lol

Amazing film though, wish their were airings in victoria but don't think there are which is a bit of a shame.
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2355 on: Thu, 21 March 2024, 07:23:58 »
3 Body Problem (2024), Netflix

This needs to stop.  It's ridiculous that they seemly only cast unaesthetic asian females in Hollywood. Seriously, they couldn't find just 3 attractive women for a TV series that ran 20 $Million dollars an episode.

One must reason that the CGI was just too expensive and they could only afford to hire aunties with what's left.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2356 on: Sat, 23 March 2024, 05:14:08 »
DogMan (2023).

Oof. It's unconventional. Delivery was good. Odd and absurd.

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« Reply #2357 on: Sat, 23 March 2024, 05:33:00 »
Anyone else watch that Korean Chicken Nugget show? I feel like chugging soju is a requirement while watching it.

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« Reply #2358 on: Sat, 23 March 2024, 12:33:05 »
Anyone else watch that Korean Chicken Nugget show? I feel like chugging soju is a requirement while watching it.

Tp4 tried to get into it, but the chicken nugget didn't get any action, it was mostly about the humans.

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« Reply #2359 on: Sat, 23 March 2024, 20:04:32 »
No problem with image quality, but wish it was the widescreen of the original frame.

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« Reply #2360 on: Sat, 23 March 2024, 21:11:03 »
The Minbari aliens are such an elegant design. The headdress is so cool.

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« Reply #2361 on: Sat, 23 March 2024, 21:24:53 »
what is the function? you think they would cover the cold bald part of head

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« Reply #2362 on: Sun, 24 March 2024, 07:08:57 »
what is the function? you think they would cover the cold bald part of head

LOL, don't know NT, if they had to, they can explain it a billion different ways. For example, the Minbari brain might be so calorically charged, they require extra cooling to dissipate the processor heat.

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« Reply #2363 on: Sun, 24 March 2024, 11:47:17 »
Only a smidge auntie, but the situation was clearly much better in 1994 vs 2024.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2364 on: Sun, 24 March 2024, 14:45:24 »
Only a smidge auntie, but the situation was clearly much better in 1994 vs 2024.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2367 on: Mon, 25 March 2024, 09:55:19 »
New Ghostbusterz.

It's gud...


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IMO it wasnt super remarkable but i don't regret seeing it. def better than the last one
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2368 on: Mon, 25 March 2024, 23:56:06 »
Anyone else watch Colin from Accounts? That was a fun one, looking forward to the second season.

We also saw Poor Things, which was—well, it was something. Definitely understand why it won awards, but damn was it a weird film.

"Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie", on the other hand, gets full thumbs up without hesitation. What an uplifting doc.

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« Reply #2369 on: Tue, 26 March 2024, 01:27:06 »
Tp4 did not like poor things. It's a lazy shock-trope directors with superficial imagination like to vomit every couple of years. It really resembles nothing more than costly splatter art.

The entirety of what humans have or can say in 2 hours has been said. So, we're left with this.

We understand the plot, we understand societal allegories, it's not that deep, and the acting was ****.



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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2372 on: Tue, 26 March 2024, 21:26:44 »
It's color graded very dark.. is it very dark in Australia.

was pretty dark this morning so I guess you're right.

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« Reply #2373 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 08:18:08 »
It is dark about half the time in Tennessee these days.
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« Reply #2374 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 09:55:32 »
anyone watching Shōgun?
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« Reply #2375 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 10:04:29 »
anyone watching Shōgun?

Actually, I just re-watched the original in preparation for the new one. It was as good as I remember, but also felt very dated (like me).

One thing that really struck me was how similar some of the background music was to the music in the original series of Star Trek.

A huge pet peeve of mine is how loud, and how relentless and constant, the music is in movies and TV shows today.
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« Reply #2376 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 10:30:24 »
A huge pet peeve of mine is how loud, and how relentless and constant, the music is in movies and TV shows today.

Improper speaker setup.

Fohat needs to use DSP room correction and set stereo matrix downmix manually.

DSP is honestly non-negotiable now that it's actually affordable, or even <sort of> free if you buy the measurement microphone.

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« Reply #2377 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 10:49:55 »
A huge pet peeve of mine is how loud, and how relentless and constant, the music is in movies and TV shows today.


Improper speaker setup.


Absolutely not, it is built in. Music in movies and TV shows today is no longer "background" and they even love to run it right over people speaking.

Not to mention that nowadays actors (and, to a lesser extent actresses) seem to delight in poor enunciation, and, in particular, letting their voices fall off when they get to the essence or "punch lines" of important and significant sentences.
 
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« Reply #2378 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 15:40:44 »
A huge pet peeve of mine is how loud, and how relentless and constant, the music is in movies and TV shows today.


Improper speaker setup.


Absolutely not, it is built in. Music in movies and TV shows today is no longer "background" and they even love to run it right over people speaking.

Not to mention that nowadays actors (and, to a lesser extent actresses) seem to delight in poor enunciation, and, in particular, letting their voices fall off when they get to the essence or "punch lines" of important and significant sentences.
 


I agree directors have zero inkling how to sound balance these days. Look at any Chris Nolan movie - quiet, almost whisper dialogue, punctuated by BWAAOOOOOOOMMMMMM BWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Sorry what was that Mr. Nolan? I caught everything up until the foghorn.

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« Reply #2379 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 15:48:30 »
A calibrated sound system is a happy sound system.

Dialogue clarity is critically diminished if the frequency response is not neutral.

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« Reply #2380 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 19:19:08 »
X-Men 97' reboot.  The music gets you right in the feels.

Upgraded with HDR colors and highlights.

Magneto is also way more muscular than back in the day.


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« Reply #2381 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 19:50:32 »
Finished Constellation. It was... silly. Nothing spectacular, at least for me personally. There were moments when I thought it might be interesting, but then it all went down to some well known subject and did not bring anything new.

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« Reply #2382 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 19:57:16 »
Finished Constellation. It was... silly. Nothing spectacular, at least for me personally. There were moments when I thought it might be interesting, but then it all went down to some well known subject and did not bring anything new.

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Tp was already disappointed in constellation,  it just turned bland half way through.

Watch Xmen 97, only 3 episodes, but it takes us back to the golden age of animated batman.

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« Reply #2383 on: Wed, 27 March 2024, 20:02:36 »
anyone watching Shōgun?
The new Shogun is just OK. It is dark, rainy, muddy, with more sex and blood.
Shot in British Columbia, so it does not look quite like Japan, and then lots of CGI on top of that, and then filter/colour grading on top of that to make it look like a gloomy day, which makes it look even more fake.

The new Blackthorne is mostly a bumbling idiot, and the new Mariko just looks smug all the time. The worst of the whole cast IMHO. Some good performances by Japanese actors in smaller roles.
The actual star of the show is Hiroyuki Sanada as the titular Shogun-to-be. (and he is also a producer)
There is more Japanese politics, characters and intrigue than in the old show (that supposedly had been left out then, but are in the book. I can't quite remember)

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« Reply #2384 on: Thu, 28 March 2024, 01:11:30 »
Argylle is like the Paul Blart Mall Cop of spy movies. Probably the worst thing I've seen all year.