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What are you watching & why? (splain)
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Pity JC never got the change in FPS (frames per second) he was hoping for.
IIRC, in an interview for Avatar, he mentioned that 3D would be much better at higher frame rates, and he was hoping that the industry would be at 48fps to 60fps before Avatar II.
The Thanator scene in the first Avatar was a blurry mess, due to sticking with an archaic, century old 24fps standard based on antique equipment and processes
*** Hmmm... just looked it up; Apparently some theaters that advertise HFR are indeed showing TWOW at 48fps, but for some reason, despite being shot at 48fps, the movie doesn't use 48fps throughout, instead, switching back and forth between 24fps and 48fps, and according to a reviewer, for no discernible reason at times (eg. It's NOT simply 24fps when there's no fast movements, 48fps for action. They mentioned that there's a scene where Neytiri hugs one child in 48fps, then it switches to 24fps when she hugs 2 other children)
That's all way TOO technical for me.
All that I can say is that I didn't notice any problems in the video while watching the movie thru 3D glasses.
I assume that the DVD copy that I get from Netflix will be stripped of any 3D components.
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I keep seeing the preview for this show and figure it’s not too long before I start watching it
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I keep seeing the preview for this show and figure it’s not too long before I start watching it
My wife and I binge-watched this ten episode series last weekend. We really enjoyed it. Fast paced with a lot of twist and turns. It sort of reminded us of the old 24 series pace wise with all the political drama and dirty players. Coincidentally, a couple of the actors in Night Agent were also on 24.
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I keep seeing the preview for this show and figure it’s not too long before I start watching it
It's a couple of shows like this that almost make me subscribe to Netflix again. Almost.
But speaking of 24 . . . I watched the first two episodes of Kiefer Sutherland's new show, "Rabbit Hole" on Paramount+. I liked it pretty well . . . enough to watch the next episode when it's released, anyway. It has **some** elements of 24 (which I used to like), but reminded me a bit more of a show that my sister really liked, but of which I only watched a couple of episodes . . . "Leverage" - with Sutherland playing something analagous to Tim Hutton's character on that show.
I also watched the first couple of episodes of a somewhat similar show . . . "The Company You Keep." But I already bailed on that one. Not the worst show I've ever seen, but I didn't really care for the emphasis on the romantic / sexual relationship between the two leads.
But what I have mostly been watchiing in 2023 have been a ton documentaries. A lot of them have been focused on history. Ancient man and the development of civilization, Neanderthals. ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient India, the Dark Ages, etc.
But my favorites have been about science. I think my very favorite is "The Secrets of Quantum Physics." Now I actually took a course in Quantum Physics at university (I love the pretentious way that Brits talk like that
) more than 40 years ago (speaking of The Dark Ages), but I can't really say I remember much about it except that I got an A - LOL. This two-part documentary glosses over hard details too much to really provide much of an education about Quantum Physics, but it is quite entertaining nonetheless and does provide a lot of history about legendary figures such as Max Planck, Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bell, . . . . And there's a companion documentary "Quark Science" which brings in characters like William Herschel, Carl Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble, Torricelli, Pascal, Michelson, and the largely unknown towering genius: Paul Dirac.Anyway . . . if you are the least curious about physics, time, the origin and nature of the universe, etc., I recommend both documentaries for further peaking your curiousity.
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So outta sheer boredom after icing my Netflix subscription for a while, I started watching Daisy Jones and the Six on Prime based on some decent reviews and curiosity about the post hippie era of the early 70's when music was segueing into disco and all that. So I'm watching this, being dumb as a rock and as a self admitted tone deaf person, thinking to myself, "why the fark haven't I heard any of these songs and this band before?!" and how the heck did these cheesy songs ever make it to number 1 on the charts and so forth before it all clicked (for the sake of not giving away spoilers, stop reading but if you do, then you ought to know that it is all fictional, LOL).
Anyway, some nice T&A visuals there but quite honestly about 6-7 episodes into a 10 episode series, I got quite bored and the resubscribed to HBOMax at $99.99 annually with ads. I still think that HBO has superior contents and worth the price of admission although adding MAX to it didn't make the product any better, maybe somewhat worse!
Anyway, some nice T&A visuals there but quite honestly about 6-7 episodes into a 10 episode series, I got quite bored and the resubscribed to HBOMax at $99.99 annually with ads. I still think that HBO has superior contents and worth the price of admission although adding MAX to it didn't make the product any better, maybe somewhat worse!
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LOVED me some Cocaine Bear. If you look at the audience rating, it is an almost perfect inverse Bell curve. on a 1-5 scale, almost all 5s and 1s. This did not surprise me in the least. LOL.
Really liked "In Bruges."
Really hated, hatred, HATED "The Banshees of Insherin," which made absolutely NO sense to me whatsoever.
Pretty sure that was from "Unforgiven." At the end, right before the Eastwood character, William Munny, kills Gene Hackman's character, Little Bill, when Little Bill complains that he didn't deserve to die.
But I really did like "Open Range." I think the gunfight scenes were maybe among the most realistic ever filmed. Duvall was terrific (per usual), as noted. And Costner was fine, too. Just a real solid Western.
Other way around for me. Really liked the original with Van Heflin (?) and the legendary Western actor, Glenn Ford. I wanted to like the remake even more, because I think Bale and Crowe are such terrific actors. But the revised ending ruined it for me. The ending in the original, and in the great Elmore Leaonard's short story upon which the movies were based, was far superior to me.
These streaming services pricing is crazy. Soooooooooo many ways to manipulate them. I have HBOMax and I'm currently paying $4..99/month on a monthly plan after I was paying $5.99/month. When they jacked it to $9.99/month I tried to cancel, but then they told me I could keep it for $4.99.month . . . so I did. LOL. I believe I was paying $7.99/month for Disney+ with no ads, but then they increased their prices around the end of last year, so you could either keep paying $7.99/month but you would now get ads (boo!), or you could pay the new price of $10.99 with no ads. So I canceled that subscription, and got a new subscription where my price is fixed for one year and I pay $4.98/month for Disney+ (no ads
) AND I get Hulu, too. That makes no damn sense. LOL.
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It seems to be a movie people either really love, or really hate. Not much middle ground that I've heard on this one.
Agreed. Even my wife, who's not much of a Western fan, thought it was really good.
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Yes, I, (and probably most all of us), know that the line was from "Unforgiven". I included it in my post as a quip as to whether "Open Range" 'deserved' to be added to the list of westerns worthy of watching.
But thank you for the "correction". (You're slipping, counselor. Do try to keep up.
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Lads, you're going to get my motor humming real good if we're talking westerns...
Godless was excellent. Jeff Daniels in a villain role was a real treat to watch. Old Henry is an underrated gem of a movie - one of those rare diamonds in the rough where no one ever hears of the movie but when they see it, it's unforgettable (especially if one likes westerns).
Most folks that I talk to about that movie either didn't understand it, loved it, or are pretty "meh" about the whole thing.
The way I perceived it is that it's an interesting expose on the mental health of a small, isolated community - the dull and mediocre clashing with those that require far more mental stimulation. Granted, I am very Irish and am also a fiddler, so some of those surface elements really spoke to me as well.
I won a movie contest with my entry being the end shootout in Open Range - I think the category was "Best shootout scene". Bunch of us lads pick a theme, select a scene and then we all vote (very informal but my buddies were impressed). Hard to pick a more realistic and tense shootout in a Western - it was immaculately done.
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Your "quip" was the slip.Yes, I, (and probably most all of us), know that the line was from "Unforgiven". I included it in my post as a quip as to whether "Open Range" 'deserved' to be added to the list of westerns worthy of watching.
But thank you for the "correction". (You're slipping, counselor. Do try to keep up.
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I finally watched "38 at the Garden" the HBO doc about Jeremy Lin's rise to fame as an Asian American NBA basketball player despite the racism that kept him from playing until that day the Knicks finally let him on the court.
The fame was short lived because of continued racism but also because he had the unfortunate habit of often getting hurt too often because he played an all-or-nothing style of basketball that he felt he needed to do to "prove" himself on the court.
After 9 years, the racism ultimately forced him out of the NBA, despite outplaying younger players in the D League trying to make anouther come back, to go & play in China where he now gets the $ and respect he deserves.
But for "15 mins" Jeremy excited the WORLD and gave hope and impiration to Asian Americans across the country.
Thank-you, Jeremy!
I still have your Knick's jersey and I f*cking hate the Knicks!!! LOL!
The fame was short lived because of continued racism but also because he had the unfortunate habit of often getting hurt too often because he played an all-or-nothing style of basketball that he felt he needed to do to "prove" himself on the court.
After 9 years, the racism ultimately forced him out of the NBA, despite outplaying younger players in the D League trying to make anouther come back, to go & play in China where he now gets the $ and respect he deserves.
But for "15 mins" Jeremy excited the WORLD and gave hope and impiration to Asian Americans across the country.
Thank-you, Jeremy!
I still have your Knick's jersey and I f*cking hate the Knicks!!! LOL!
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There was a lot more to Jeremy Lin's rise and fall than racism, which is simplistic in the extreme. We watched his career with the Knicks and how he tried to market himself and make himself bigger than the team and make unrealistic demands. He went from a guy that we wholeheartedly appreciated and rooted for to a guy we couldn't wait to see the back of.
Racists? Maybe some folks, sure, but he was embraced until he brought on his own downfall with his antics.
So easy to play that friggin' race card. Doesn't make it the whole truth...or even the bulk of it.
(And we do follow the Knicks, especially my wife, who was often mentioned on the broadcasts due to the relationships she maintained with the MSG staff.)
Racists? Maybe some folks, sure, but he was embraced until he brought on his own downfall with his antics.
So easy to play that friggin' race card. Doesn't make it the whole truth...or even the bulk of it.
(And we do follow the Knicks, especially my wife, who was often mentioned on the broadcasts due to the relationships she maintained with the MSG staff.)
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We'll just have to agree to disagree about this.
No point debating it here because it doesn't sound like you're open to a contrary opinion anyway.
I'll just say that Jeremy was never one to make "demands" and/or to put himself before the team.
There also is no doubt that he always had to overcome bias against him because of his race starting all the way back when he was All State at the HS level in CA and then at Harvard in Division 1 play (where he was riddled with racist taunts while on the Ivy League courts) and still didn't get picked by an NBA team despite making All Ivy 3x's.
And, the way I heard it, Melo ran him off of the Knicks because he didn't like the attn Lin was getting and Harden didn't like him in Houston nor did Kobe in LA for basically the same reasons because they were "the" PGs and wanted to control the ball and were afraid Lin could show them up if they let him have it.
So, I obviously have a different perspetive than you do.
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So you're going to make assumptions about my willingness to evaluate evidence and facts. I'm the one who is not open minded.
I come from a family that has known a great deal of hardship from discrimination. I know a little bit about it. I also investigated hate and supremacist groups as part of my former occupation.
Sports has always, (unfortunately), been riddled with players and fans who are prejudiced. And that flows from Whites to Blacks to Native Americans to Asians to Africans, and in both directions. I see it and study it regularly.
But you are right about one thing. There is no reason for us to discuss it further.
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You edited your post but I am not going to edit mine...so I will finish this conversation by saying that Carmelo Anthony is, was and always has been an asshole in my estimation. I hated having him on the team and he was no better toward Amar'e Stoudemire than he was to Lin. He's a cancer. The fact that any Knicks fans appreciate him is a black mark on the team, imho. (Yet the Knicks will probably be asinine enough to bring him back for a day and let him retire as a Knick. Sickening.)
That's all I have to say on the matter. I'll take my narrow minded views and call it a day. Good evening to you.
That's all I have to say on the matter. I'll take my narrow minded views and call it a day. Good evening to you.
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The Boys is so good. Fun to watch, but all allegorical too. Kind of like reading Homer, (not Simpson)
I started watching Resident Evil coupla nights ago. It's pretty entertaining, but some parts are so graphically gory that even I wince a bit...
I started watching Resident Evil coupla nights ago. It's pretty entertaining, but some parts are so graphically gory that even I wince a bit...
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