• ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️



    Film & Television

    Welcome Guest


    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
  • ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
    Forum Rules Film Chit-Chat
    Recently Watched Best Documentaries
    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
  • Film & TV Moderators: ghostfreak

Random Social Chit-Chat v. Illuminati Confirmed

I recently bought a 4k UHD Sony disc player with a region free bluray/dvd modification. Really enjoying finally watching my region B collection along with 4kuhd discs.

The difference from 1080p to 4k is astonishing. It truly is 4x more fidelity. Sound is better, the film grain is crisp. My first watch was the recent 25th anniversary release of Starship Troopers and I was absolutely blown away. Even my wife who had poo-pooed the need for 4k uhd discs to replace blurays couldn't deny the sheer beauty of it.

I've been spending hundreds on 4k uhd discs since then lol. Some are far more expensive than I'd like but fuck it, that's why I work so much overtime right?
 
Really loving the UHD disc collection. Watched The Godfather, my region B copy of Solaris (2002) on Blu-ray, the first two Bourne movies, and Blade Runner and I’m amazed at how much better these films are in high fidelity. I hear sounds I’ve never heard, see background stuff I’ve never seen. The film grain is so pleasant as if I’m watching it at a theater. When I can afford a bigger tv and a nice sound system it won’t be worth going to the theater ever again.
 
Watched Apocalypse Now Redux in 4K. Fantastic. Then watched Robocop followed by Platoon in 4K UHD. Fan-fuckin-tastic.

Just watched Battles Without Honor and Humanity which is the first of a five film Yakuza series and always loved it. Great having region free capabilities.

Now I’m watching a Blu-ray copy of Assault on Precinct 13, which John Carpenter himself scored and directed. My wife and I watched it on our first date together on a classic “Netflix and chill” date circa 2009 and I feel a bit melancholic ditching the dvd copy seeing as she gave it to me on our third dating anniversary. Now 15 years into our relationship I feel an attachment to this film but I sure do appreciate seeing it in HD.

Feeling emotional. Five nights off plus having the place to myself and lots of liquor and Psilacetin makes for one messy dude up in here.
 
While I was at Walmart shopping for general goods and viewing the local... people... I stopped by the electronics section. They have a fantastic array of 4k and HD blurays and dvd box sets. Picked up Hell or High Water in a 4k UHD Steelbook with sleeve, and got Neon Genesis Evangelion (plus End of Evangelion) for less than they're going for on amazon and got to ensure they had slipcovers intact which I fancy.
 
Criterion is having their Spring sale, 30% off all discs. I decided to pick up 4 new films on 4K disc plus two preorders for Barry Lyndon and Brazil in 4K. Very excited :)
 
no shit. it's not my favourite kubrick movie but i think it's his best and 4k will be great.

alasdair
The only one that hasn’t seen a 4K release now is Eyes Wide Shut which upon my last viewing felt… disjointed. I think it was heavily cut by WB prior to release and now I can see why people theorize some type of assassination of Kubrick.

They already did Spartacus long ago and that’s easily my least favorite of his films.

The blu-ray of Barry Lyndon already looks better than most half assed 4K releases so I’m very, very excited to see what Criterion will do with it in this release.
 
Boogie Nights is being released on 4K UHD December 9th. I’m so frickin’ psyched to see Heather Graham in the highest definition possible 🍑

Just about every favorite film of mine has a 4K release by the end of this year. Now if only Children of Men could get a proper release, I’d be just about done buying physical media 🤔
 
Alex Garland’s Civil War is very much alike Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously.

The same could be said for many scenes of One Battle After Another, with other films. Barry Lyndon comes to mind for one scene.

Derivative yet depicting of our times.
 
Movies have taken a nose dive. I think that movies should be entertaining and not trying to brainwash us with DEI, PC and all the virtue signaling nonsense of the far left.

I just want entertainment, and if there is some sort of universal message that is subtle, so be it.

As, someone born in the mid 70's, and loved movies; not so much anymore I know that so many hilarious and great films would not be produced these days.

The same type of people who were mad at all the censorship and Blacklisting Hollywood had during The Hayes code( 1934- 1968) and all the Cold war era shit; are basically doing the same thing, CENSORSHIP.

Hollyweird still bitches about a handful of people affected ( Blacklisted) by cold war panic, now have tried to force their radical and many times just bullshit on the viewing audience.

The tone def, extremists have effectively killed true creative expression and destroyed the industry.

Do I need to get into the Snow White disaster? How about those in charge of the Star Was( not a misprint) franchise.

I own 1-9. 4-6( aka the great ones is a perfect example) I thought 1-3 just sucked, but Wow is 7-9 bad. Then all the spin-off disasters.

Hollywas( Is dying just like the music industry basically did)

You don't abandon your core fans to find a group of fans that don't exist and make horrible movies that alienate( no pun intended) in the process.

Also that creative indie spirit of the 90's and 2000's seems to have been killed off.

The Motion picture guidelines that caused and stifled creativity is hard at work doing if from a PC, DEI, and far left perspective, now and ruining or already ruined Hollywas.

Yes cds and dvds were overpriced but they are almost effectively gone. Expensive box sets and 4k movies aren't worth it, unless you have the money to spend/ waste on them.

Also, the effective death of cds has crippled the music business. Check out the stats. Same with dvds and blu-rays.

4k reguires a rather noticeable sum of money for what? Better picture quality of a limited number of movies.

The hard copies of music, kept the music industry at least somewhat acceptable, but now where are the bands?

Even Tommy Lee, asked something like this.

Politics, Corporate Greed have decimated the entrainment industry and this one can't be blamed on the right.

dvds and cds effectively gone( vinyl outsells cds which are basically dead. look up the numbers).

Movies, should be great they are not. No widely available hard copies of both music and to a lesser but still huge extent have killed the entainment industry.

To much tech. I want cheap hard copies of movies. Cds are gone and so there is basically no hope of Rock and Roll and other forms of music, gaining any following. Aka, fans of bands, singers, groups, whatever.

I am reduced to listening to old cds, getting free listening to music on YouTube or other platforms, but no new bands.

Movies are being destroyed too, but in some similar and some different ways.

Too much Tech, Politics, and Greed have destroyed the industry. Any hope of the great modern era started in the late 60's and blossoming in the 70's, and great movies from the 80's-90's and even 2000's are few.

Now and there seems to be no hope of a return to having great movies come out all the time; that is gone.

Movies like so many from my generation and older, that we enjoyed when so many great movies were made and released: Those days are gone. They are not going to return IMO.

Rant over.
 
Amazon Prime now requires the "Ultra" plan if you want to stream in 4K UHD. Thanks y'all... really glad I pay for 1Gb internet speeds just so I can have my 4k streaming stolen from me.
 
Top