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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Mar 12, 2024 14:46:37 GMT
Yes. Shogun. Episode 3 gave me goosebumps. It was that good. Energizer Bunny 211 I also watched the miniseries back in 80's when it came out from the national television of Finland. I was too young though - all the bedding but I really liked the story and setting. Glad to see it modernized and done from the Japanese point of view instead of British.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Mar 13, 2024 3:01:58 GMT
Being on a total Samurai kick for a while....I decided to watch what I still believe is Tom Cruise's best (dramatic) role to date....The LAST SAMURAI. I've seen that movie dozens of times since its release, even saw it in the theater when it first came out...and every time I watch it, I come away with the same thought: Regardless of genre, that is just one beautiful movie. The action, the acting, the script, the locations (I am aware that it was mostly filmed on location in New Zealand to sub in for Japan), but still...the locations are gorgeous, the Cinematography...Everything.
I have the two-disk wide-screen edition on DVD which has really held up surprisingly well in terms of picture quality even when shown on modern OLEDs like my Sony that is a 2022 model, the X80J. However, being DVD is only 480 or 720 at very best there is some artifcating, grain and other imperfections inherent to DVDs that didn't show up on older tvs but can now be seen because of the advancements in OLED technology, and so I have decided to re-purchase the blu-ray of The Last Samurai. Hopefully it has all the same amazing Special Features that my 2-Disk DVD set had.
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Post by OdanUrr on Mar 16, 2024 21:40:05 GMT
Being on a total Samurai kick for a while....I decided to watch what I still believe is Tom Cruise's best (dramatic) role to date....The LAST SAMURAI. I've seen that movie dozens of times since its release, even saw it in the theater when it first came out...and every time I watch it, I come away with the same thought: Regardless of genre, that is just one beautiful movie. The action, the acting, the script, the locations (I am aware that it was mostly filmed on location in New Zealand to sub in for Japan), but still...the locations are gorgeous, the Cinematography...Everything. I have the two-disk wide-screen edition on DVD which has really held up surprisingly well in terms of picture quality even when shown on modern OLEDs like my Sony that is a 2022 model, the X80J. However, being DVD is only 480 or 720 at very best there is some artifcating, grain and other imperfections inherent to DVDs that didn't show up on older tvs but can now be seen because of the advancements in OLED technology, and so I have decided to re-purchase the blu-ray of The Last Samurai. Hopefully it has all the same amazing Special Features that my 2-Disk DVD set had. One of the best scores Hans Zimmer has done too, if not the outright best.
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Post by Noxluxe on Mar 18, 2024 22:11:20 GMT
Am on a weird retro high school drama binge. Watched Mean Girls on Netflix and the Off-Broadway performance of Heathers on youtube. Heathers easily takes the win, but they're both pretty great. Both have something to say about how easy and dangerous it is to get lost in causes and crusades and forget to just be a consistent and half-decent human being to the people in your life and around you. Seriously enamored with Heathers, now. The alleged suicides being used as martyrs and vehicles for other people's need for catharsis, and getting to continue haunting the stage becoming almost mythological despite just being dead assholes, is really evocative. Wonderful deconstructions and character development all around. The 2014 Off-Broadway production was the only one I could find on youtube that didn't have either sucky audio or a weird body positivity thing going on among the cast, which rather undermines the cutthroat high school atmosphere.
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Post by Noxluxe on Mar 21, 2024 18:11:10 GMT
Nerdy Prudes Must Die Pretty funny. It's not Heathers, but the jock guy is a few orders of magnitude cooler than Ram and Kurt, and the amoral mayor dad character is a much-needed competent authority figure in these kinds of dramas. Might be my least favorite Starkid musical so far, but it's by no means bad. Favorite moments are: When the nerds, prudes and outcasts have the big bad jock who's afraid of ghosts and monsters cornered in a haunted house with a pretend ghost show... only to realize that he has real courage and is actually more than willing to just down a beer and face his fears head-on. Both unexpected and inspiring.
The oh-so-relatable incredulity on Stephanie's dad's face when she jumps to put her own body between his hammer and her phone.
And the prudish Christian girl giving in to her lust for the evil zombie jock... only to smugly reveal while fixing her tussled her and enjoying a post-coital smoke how it was actually a gambit that fixes the situation and spares the good guys from making a much more painful sacrifice. A really nice example of a woman using her feminine wiles to utterly turn the tables on a guy who deserves it, while getting what she wants.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Mar 22, 2024 1:33:23 GMT
We've been watching Animal Kingdom. I'd never heard of it, but it got 6 seasons.
It reminds me of a New Zealand show, called Outrageous Fortune...if that show had taken itself way too seriously. It's not bad, Ellen Barkin is creepy as fuck as Sexy Grandma, though.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Mar 29, 2024 22:23:49 GMT
This is really cool....I came across this by chance, after I looked up current 2024 reviews for the Logitech G935 7.1 Gaming Headset that I pre-ordered when it arrived in April of 2019 when ANTHEM was new and hot. I was curious to know now how they would stack up to anything 'newer' out in 2024 and found this video on Bestbuy.ca www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/logitech-g935-rf-wireless-gaming-headset-with-microphone-black/13369093The science behind these ear cans in pretty impressive. Even with my substantial hearing loss, I still feel these are a great buy and some of the best sounding gaming headphones out there even now. Yes, they are heavy...that is really the only downside, but they are still comfortable in spite of the weight.
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Post by GhostofFuckIt on Apr 1, 2024 4:46:13 GMT
Poor Things was weird. Good, but weird. Was looking at this but decided against. Would I be correct in guessing that it's, what I think of as an, "actor flex?" Ie. A film with small and/or lower budget sets (but not necessarily low budget) wherein the actors face is usually prominent and their acting is what sells the entire movie. And they know it, possibly helped produce it. It's not necessarily a bad thing, I absolutely love 'The Sunset Limited' which is basically Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson showing what a live play at a theatre looks like when two great actors are doing it. That and the subject matter is heavy in that case. I got the sense that this movie was that, for Emma Stone. (With more nudity but not as heavy.)
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 1, 2024 9:22:41 GMT
Poor Things was weird. Good, but weird. Was looking at this but decided against. Would I be correct in guessing that it's, what I think of as an, "actor flex?" Ie. A film with small and/or lower budget sets (but not necessarily low budget) wherein the actors face is usually prominent and their acting is what sells the entire movie. And they know it, possibly helped produce it. It's not necessarily a bad thing, I absolutely love 'The Sunset Limited' which is basically Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson showing what a live play at a theatre looks like when two great actors are doing it. That and the subject matter is heavy in that case. I got the sense that this movie was that, for Emma Stone. (With more nudity but not as heavy.) Yeah, fair description. Actor Flex, Oscar Bait - all the same thing, really. And I knew nothing about the movie prior to watching it, other than she'd just won the Oscar for it. The nudity was a little surprising, to be fair.
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Post by GhostofFuckIt on Apr 3, 2024 3:40:27 GMT
Light spoiler ep 7 of Shogun I was calling "bullshit" when they said a 12yr old boy took a man's head in one stroke. Loved that they revisited that and made it clear the guy was a dumbass for wanting a child as his second. Good stuff.
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Post by Ravenfeeder on Apr 8, 2024 21:45:22 GMT
Went to see Dune 2 for a second time, this time in IMAX.
I just love looking at this film, the cinematography is just amazing. The rest is excellent too, but I'm utterly blown away with how it looks.
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Post by dazk on Apr 8, 2024 23:09:45 GMT
Went to see Dune 2 for a second time, this time in IMAX. I just love looking at this film, the cinematography is just amazing. The rest is excellent too, but I'm utterly blown away with how it looks. I saw it in Imax and it was great but the SOUND WAS WAY TOO LOUD and I am not sound intolerant. I survived but was glad from a noise perspective when it finished but the woman next to me said she had a headache before the beginning advertisements finished. I am glad we sat back quite aways from the screen it was massive and I had to make myself stay focused on the centre. The landscapes almost stole the show from the actors. As an avid book fan I was unhappy with some of the changes, I thought they left stuff out that was really necessary to the story especially if it is to be continued otherwise more chopping of the books will be required.
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Post by SwobyJ on Apr 8, 2024 23:15:31 GMT
Loved Season 2 of Invincible, even though the split season sucks and it was even more of a set-up season than I predicted it to be.
And its sounding like S3 may come as soon as late 2024 or early 2025, and it'll be a big-un... I read the comics.
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Post by SwobyJ on Apr 8, 2024 23:19:00 GMT
Went to see Dune 2 for a second time, this time in IMAX. I just love looking at this film, the cinematography is just amazing. The rest is excellent too, but I'm utterly blown away with how it looks. I saw it in Imax and it was great but the SOUND WAS WAY TOO LOUD and I am not sound intolerant. I survived but was glad from a noise perspective when it finished but the woman next to me said she had a headache before the beginning advertisements finished. I am glad we sat back quite aways from the screen it was massive and I had to make myself stay focused on the centre. The landscapes almost stole the show from the actors. As an avid book fan I was unhappy with some of the changes, I thought they left stuff out that was really necessary to the story especially if it is to be continued otherwise more chopping of the books will be required. They may view it as: 1) A lot of what's in the books is not *strictly* necessary for an *enjoyable* movie 2) If it becomes necessary later, a future movie can often cover it as new material or retcons 3) If all this Dune stuff continues to be successful, material can be covered in at least some way in spinoff media, like the upcoming Dune: Prophecy this year; for example we see next to nothing of Navigators, but its not like they can't become visible in a more relevant time 4) If all else fails, whatever, this is primarily a new thing for a new audience that isn't even going to have OG Dune fans around to blab to them things, so just make something that's fun to watch
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Post by Ravenfeeder on Apr 8, 2024 23:22:39 GMT
I saw it in Imax and it was great but the SOUND WAS WAY TOO LOUD and I am not sound intolerant Sound is indeed very loud. My seat was vibrating from it at times. I'm not sure the sound/music in this is quite as good as the first film, but that might just be familiarity. As an avid book fan I was unhappy with some of the changes, I thought they left stuff out that was really necessary to the story especially if it is to be continued otherwise more chopping of the books will be required. A friend of mine is so upset at the lack of the Spacers Guild and their Navigators that it's all he can talk about when the film is mentioned. Personally I love the books but I've become a lot more accepting of adaptations from book to screen. I accept the results as long as they are well done (and this is really, really well done) and keep to the core of what the book was about. And I think Villeneuve manages that. He chose to concentrate on the Bene Gesserit and Paul's unwilling march to become the Mahdi. Explanations of how shields work or Mentats were just too many details for an adaptation to film. There are still adaptations I find problematic. Foundation is the obvious example. Really misses to point of the books, at least the original trilogy which is all I've read. And the quality is very variable, ironically only being good for the bits they invented wholesale.
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Post by dazk on Apr 8, 2024 23:45:41 GMT
I saw it in Imax and it was great but the SOUND WAS WAY TOO LOUD and I am not sound intolerant Sound is indeed very loud. My seat was vibrating from it at times. I'm not sure the sound/music in this is quite as good as the first film, but that might just be familiarity. As an avid book fan I was unhappy with some of the changes, I thought they left stuff out that was really necessary to the story especially if it is to be continued otherwise more chopping of the books will be required. A friend of mine is so upset at the lack of the Spacers Guild and their Navigators that it's all he can talk about when the film is mentioned. Personally I love the books but I've become a lot more accepting of adaptations from book to screen. I accept the results as long as they are well done (and this is really, really well done) and keep to the core of what the book was about. And I think Villeneuve manages that. He chose to concentrate on the Bene Gesserit and Paul's unwilling march to become the Mahdi. Explanations of how shields work or Mentats were just too many details for an adaptation to film. There are still adaptations I find problematic. Foundation is the obvious example. Really misses to point of the books, at least the original trilogy which is all I've read. And the quality is very variable, ironically only being good for the bits they invented wholesale. For me the Space Guild was disappointing but not that big a deal, the thing I was most disappointed about was that Alia was not born and didn't appear but I honestly cannot 100% remember if that is in the first book, second half. I think they didn't do a very good job of showing/explaining Paul's abilities and it's consequences after drinking the Spice Juice of Life. I went with my adult son who has not read the books and he didn't understand (from the movie) at all how significant Paul's abilities were or how much it affected the Bene Gesserit's plans let alone the Navigators Guild.
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Post by AnDromedary on Apr 10, 2024 16:39:03 GMT
Watched Halo Season 2.
First I should say, that I actually kinda liked season 1. Other than many game fans, I didn't mind that told a little different background story and that Master Chief was a little different in character (let's face it, his barely manifesting personality was good for a shooter game but probably not for a multi season series). I didn't think s1 was an absolute highlight but I thought it was a decent SciFi Show, I had definitely seen worse.
So, when I heard that some critics called season 2 an improvement, I went in with quite a bit of hope.
I am sad to say, that I can't share their positive stance on s2. The first couple of episodes are ok, if a little long winded. The real problem starts in and after episode 3, when the story really catches up with the (shooter) games, which I played. I guess I was kinda hoping, that when it comes to that point, they would actually try to get a little closer to what we know from the games. This was supposed to be an adaptation after all. However, they continue to tell a completely different story and the bad news is that (at least IMO) the story in the shooters is better then here. This is really disappointing, especially since I never thought the story of the Halo games was particularly great in the first place. But at least it had some cool characters, some epic moments and in general it told a stringent (if sometimes simplistic) story.
Spoiler alert, as I am comparing events from the game and the series a little in broad strokes:
Where the Fall of Reach was an entire game in the series, full of drama, heroism and sacrifice, here it is set up in a rather long winded way as a conspiracy story over 3 episodes, and then it all happens in just one episode and is done. And that episode is not even particularly spectacular, there aren't even any badass spartans in their suits because those were stolen from them. Then a bunch of main characters (including one major one, who was actually rather important in a later game) die, so that other, much more minor characters or even just extras can live. Oh, and I really expected Noble Team to at elast get a little easter egg mention in a background voice line or something. Come on guys, this was such an easy nod to the gaming community and you didn't even want to do that?
Then, we get a massively different storyline as to how both the Covenant and the UNSC reach the Halo but it's very contrived and full of holes and frankly just allover worse than the simple but very effective way the games dealt with it. In this time, the show tries to cram in quite a few side stories which are frankly pretty irrelevant, like pirate with family issues and the possessed rebel girl. They jsut detract from the actual plotline and don't fit. Like, they are cutting away from the moment where the humans and the Covenant are about to face of in a massive battle, to a scene where a guy has an argument with his wife while they are searching for their missing son, who I always found more annoying than anything else in the first place. It's never a good sign if they cut to a different plotline and I say "Oh man, not this again" to my TV.
And now to the character of the Master Chief. Again, I didn't mind him having a bit more depth and personality in season 1 but now in s2, he is either emotionally or physically impaired for most of it. In fact, I think for 90% of the time, it's not him but pretty much everyone else, who gets to do all the cool action scenes. For example, when it comes to boarding a Covenant corvette by making a cool space jump from an assault craft, it's a bunch of throwaway characters who do it while Master Chief literally sits next to the battle in a cockpit and has a crisis of faith or something. There is a difference between giving a character a little different setup and just not being true to the spirit of the adapted material.
It's a shame because visually the series is very faithful to the games. Costumes, setpieces and visuals overall are pretty well made and really get the vibe across. It's a shame the actual content can't hold up.
So anyway, in my opinion, season 2 of the series was a step down from s1, both as a series in its own right and especially when seen as an adaptation of the games. Can only give it 3.5/10 ancient typewriters that need to be properly stored in the middle of an apocalypse.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Apr 11, 2024 8:57:58 GMT
I see your point but I still enjoyed season 2 (never having play3d the games) and Im looking forward to Season 3. I really hope at some point they cover ODST.
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Post by rewindbutton on Apr 11, 2024 11:05:43 GMT
Foundation is the obvious example. Really misses to point of the books,
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Post by DoctorDAM on Apr 11, 2024 11:10:47 GMT
Watched Halo Season 2. [...] So anyway, in my opinion, season 2 of the series was a step down from s1, both as a series in its own right and especially when seen as an adaptation of the games. Can only give it 3.5/10 ancient typewriters that need to be properly stored in the middle of an apocalypse. I agree for the most part. Well, I found it actually similar to S1: Start reasonably strong Quickly wander into uninteresting, disconnected stories and characters (one exceedingly annoying) Get it together for a big "That's Halo, finally!" ending so you at least have hope for the next season.
I don't mind diverging from the games (which I last played 10+ years ago, and only the first three). I'm okay with the conspiracy/corruption themes, MC's crisis in faith (though overwrought), Makee character.
I don't give a damn that Master Chief takes off his helmet. IMO, those changes are necessary for a good transition to TV/movies (as you wrote).
What I have a problem is with the execution: Kwan Ha is a terrible and totally unnecessary character Soren could be decent, though a walking talking cliche. And I agree the whole family subplot was a tragic fail. The Spartans-in-training stuff (and final mission) were nonsensical. As in S1, pacing is terrible. You can eject the middle episodes. Little of it makes sense, nor cohesively works up to the finale. Rather, as in S1, that one comes in a rush with a big Halo-like finish that leaves you with just a bit of a hope that S3 won't suck as much.
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Post by GhostofFuckIt on Apr 12, 2024 12:11:54 GMT
Andromedary/DoctorDAM, I pretty much agree with all your major points. My two cents on Halo 2 without reiterating too much... Kwan Ha was almost a different character in terms of how she was acted. I consider this a huge plus, because I literally skipped over her scenes in my rewatch before S2. (Can't stand her.) By no means was her character great, or even good, but I saw marked improvement there so, FWIW, that happened. Contractual obligations for actors to appear in a set amount of episodes, while meeting a strict time-frame, while also upending the entire creative department, felt like it twisted the script more than it needed to. Few round pegs in square holes to get by. I'm curious to see what they can do with some time to think about what they're doing instead of trying to grab whatever they can before someone else does, and I think they at least set themselves up for a potentially good third season. But this season? Meh. *** Loved Season 2 of Invincible, even though the split season sucks and it was even more of a set-up season than I predicted it to be. And its sounding like S3 may come as soon as late 2024 or early 2025, and it'll be a big-un... I read the comics. I haven't read the comics, I liked the show before. This season kept that going and then some. There wasn't much quantity to this season but there was a fuck-tonne of quality. The main antagonist's reasoning, just, fucking brilliant. "I won't build my utopia with blood!" OMG what an ending to the first episode. Greek tragedy kind of stuff there, I felt it. And, to then have that circled 'round again in the last episode, and even further to have Invincible's mom realize her son is the hero in this 'verse and he's the villain? Wonderful symmetry.
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Dune 2
Finally saw it. Have not read the books.
This was good, bit disjointed in terms of plot/pacing IMHO, but good. Liked the first better, but such is the fate of most sequels.
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Post by SwobyJ on Apr 12, 2024 21:12:47 GMT
@ghost
Yes this was the season to show that they can still do impactful events and scenes after the latest 'shocker', but also still be a set-up season in the end. Some people got bored, apparently, but I don't think most did. I'm a little surprised at where S2 ended but I'm certain that what I expect to occur will be in the first 2 or 4 episodes of S3 instead. Its also easier to speculate that certain events will be rearranged in the timeline, which is fine, as this is a show with wise hindsight on the comics, instead of comics that ultimately have to meander around some.
If you loved S2, S3 may end up your favorite yet. If you were just okay with S2, S3 may still end up at least better than the dip.
It also depends on where one balances their interest in Viltrumites vs everything else (Guardians, etc).
I don't love the comic (its cool but any comic isn't that interesting to me) but Invincible has been a mostly ideal paper-to-screen animated adaptation that I wish for any beloved media. We do good stuff, sometimes. Its not always a Madame Web.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Apr 15, 2024 0:36:40 GMT
The Testament Of Moses on Netflix (it's a Docu-Drama partly acted out like a movie, intermixed with interviews from various people of Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith) to give their insights on each sequence as the story unfolds. I find things like this often have too much creative license taken with them and the interviews conducted are often of people in positions like "professor of World Religions", so I don't give too much weight to the opinions expressed as I already know the material quite well and know what I believe.
Never the less, the format itself is entertaining and it's something to watch...because right now there isn't a whole lot.
Oh, I also finished SHOGUN last night. I thought it was quite well done.
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Post by GhostofFuckIt on Apr 15, 2024 5:00:58 GMT
Binged Fallout. I quite enjoyed it.
Few parts had poor conceptualization, just some weird stuff that happens that was rather illogical that didn't need to be. A director/direction SNAFU.
Other than that, it was well acted, reasonably well paced, and had a few twists that were either amusing or genuine. (Or both.)
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X-men '97.
Loved the 90's show even if the only thing I can really remember about it is the intro song. Regardless, decided to give this a go. Up to episode 5 it had been pretty good, bit bland. Wasn't expecting much. I thought they were doing alright trying to straddle the divide between their intended audience being twenty years older, and that kind of shows actual intended age. I can kind of see them going for the "watch this with your kids" demographic.
Then episode 5 hit, which is the most recent.
Damn. Show just grew up and hard. Magnitude of order better than what came before. If you're at all interested but on the fence, then I suggest powering through to episode 5. (Without having seen the rest yet mind you.)
It's like how life was blissfully great and wonderful and then you see "The Land Before Time" as a kid, then for the rest of your life you know you're going to be fighting not to cry yourself to sleep. It's their Land before Time episode.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 15, 2024 5:21:56 GMT
I haven't had a chance yet, but I am keen. Things keep popping up on various social media, though, so I think I'm running out of time before I get fully spoiled on something. It's their Land before Time episode. Well...that doesn't sound good at all.
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