TV/Movies Megathread

[grumbler]

You are past hope

Ah, the ad hom when you've run out of intellectual arguments.  How surprising and out of character.   

[grumbler]

The Expanse is doing an OK job of tracking.

Just started the books.  Well-written, but depressing.  Kinda like another series I can think of.

[Sophie Scholl]

For anyone interested who doesn't own hard copies, Babylon 5 and the attached movies are available via Amazon Prime.

[garbon]

pFor anyone interested who doesn't own hard copies, Babylon 5 and the attached movies are available via Amazon Prime.

Those people exist?

[Eddie Teach]

With a rather broad definition of "interested", sure.

[celedhring]

pFor anyone interested who doesn't own hard copies, Babylon 5 and the attached movies are available via Amazon Prime.

Those people exist?

For whatever reason, only the first season has ever been released in DVD in Spain. I keep wanting to buy it from the UK, but never got around to do it.

[Duque de Bragança]

pFor anyone interested who doesn't own hard copies, Babylon 5 and the attached movies are available via Amazon Prime.

Those people exist?

For whatever reason, only the first season has ever been released in DVD in Spain. I keep wanting to buy it from the UK, but never got around to do it.

Given that the NTSC-PAL conversion messed up even more the FX, you might want to check if there are cheap NTSC DVDs on sale somewhere on the interwebs.

Because the Babylon 5 visual-effects shots were archived as 4:3 NTSC and the purely live-action shots were archived as High-Definition, there is a noticeable drop in quality whenever a shot containing CGI occurs (since the 4:3 NTSC image had to be blown up to fill and cropped to fill the 1.78:1 DVD). This drop in quality is much worse on PAL DVDs (were the shots had to be then transformed to PAL).

http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=2240

Must look great on those 4K UHD TV sets. 
Unless, a FX remastering à la Star Trek Next Generation happens later on.

[crazy canuck]

You are past hope

Ah, the ad hom when you've run out of intellectual arguments.  How surprising and out of character.   

You are past hope because of the way you have expressed your meandering logic regarding why Martin would have written a script not because of who you are. 

[crazy canuck]

For anyone interested who doesn't own hard copies, Babylon 5 and the attached movies are available via Amazon Prime.

Not in Canada, nor apparently in the UK.

[Berkut]

For anyone interested who doesn't own hard copies, Babylon 5 and the attached movies are available via Amazon Prime.

Not in Canada, nor apparently in the UK.

Trade war!

[Savonarola]

East of Eden (1955)

The novel has the same issue when brought to screen as "Wuthering Heights;" it's a multi-generational novel, so one generation usually gets cut.  In "Wuthering Heights" it's almost always the first half of the novel that gets brought to screen (the story of Katherine and Heathcliff (it's no my-y-yth)).  In this case its the last part of the novel.

If Elia Kazan hadn't been a friend of John Steinbeck; this probably wouldn't have been brought to the screen at all. Steinbeck was notoriously touchy, but he was willing to trust Kazan's interpretation.  The does feature a lot of Kazan's weird diagonal angle shots, but it also has James Dean, so it does balance out.  This was Dean's first movie, and the only one he released in his lifetime (and Dean almost managed to torpedo his Hollywood career by refusing to attend the premiere.)

Dean was reportedly a difficult actor to work with; but Kazan's other big discovery was Marlon Brando, so he knew how to work with difficult.  James Dean's performance is electric; reined in just enough not to be annoying.

[11B4V]

Goliath starting on the 15th.

[grumbler]

You are past hope because of the way you have expressed your meandering logic regarding why Martin would have written a script not because of who you are.

I see Weasel Mode is fully engaged now.

First Rule of Holes.

[11B4V]

The Expanse is doing an OK job of tracking.

Just started the books.  Well-written, but depressing.  Kinda like another series I can think of.

True. My favorite character is Chrisjen Avasarala so far. Her and Drapper's interactions are hilarious in the books.

[celedhring]

I wish they kept Avarasala's language from the books. She swears like a sailor and it works for her character very well. But you know, parental ratings.