TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Shame. Typical Languishite's routine of watching porn, jerking off in the office restroom, and creeping on women in the subway gets interrupted by his sister moving in unexpectedly. Not bad, if a bit artsy sometimes. Lots of skin and the chicks are hot. If you're a Michael Fassbender fan you'll enjoy watching him parade around with his schlong out.

[Sheilbh]

Shame. Typical Languishite's routine of watching porn, jerking off in the office restroom, and creeping on women in the subway gets interrupted by his sister moving in unexpectedly. Not bad, if a bit artsy sometimes. Lots of skin and the chicks are hot. If you're a Michael Fassbender fan you'll enjoy watching him parade around with his schlong out.

I once took a date to see that

[Malthus]

Shame. Typical Languishite's routine of watching porn, jerking off in the office restroom, and creeping on women in the subway gets interrupted by his sister moving in unexpectedly. Not bad, if a bit artsy sometimes. Lots of skin and the chicks are hot. If you're a Michael Fassbender fan you'll enjoy watching him parade around with his schlong out.

I once took a date to see that

Most embarrassing movie date: when I was a teen, I took a date out to see a movie called "Bliss", an Australian alternative film ... it's about a guy who suffers a near-death experience and wonders if he actually died and is in hell. Because bad shit keeps happening to him.

One of those bad things is that he finds out his son is having sex with his daughter - she sucks him off for cocaine. Pretty shocking.

While we were watching the movie, there was a gross looking older couple sitting near us (the theatre was basically empty)who get so excited by this incest scene that they enact it - she lays down with her head in his lap. While we could not see what was happening it was pretty obvious.

This was just horribly embarrassing. We both pretended that we didn't notice anything going on, but this definitely killed any sort of mood.

[The Brain]

Shame. Typical Languishite's routine of watching porn, jerking off in the office restroom, and creeping on women in the subway gets interrupted by his sister moving in unexpectedly. Not bad, if a bit artsy sometimes. Lots of skin and the chicks are hot. If you're a Michael Fassbender fan you'll enjoy watching him parade around with his schlong out.

I once took a date to see that

Did you get lucky?

[Sheilbh]

Did you get lucky?

No

[crazy canuck]

Did you get lucky?

No

What a shame

[Josquius]

Attack on Titan. Fuck that's a good series. Onto its final few episodes now.
I know, anime is an instant turn off for many. But this is just great. Starts off as a very good example of what you might expect to be a typical anime plot line, really gets you all up from the theme tune with the rambo style jingoist feelings.... But it quickly subverts that within a few episodes. Again and again in ways that make sense and don't feel contrived.
In this last series now it's seeming to be giving a completely contrary message to the simple war is great, black and white goodies and baddies, one it started with. Its like it intentionally indoctrinated nationalistic feelings and then broke down the bollocks of it all.
Any Sci fi / fantasy fan should watch it. And don't spoil it for yourself.

[viper37]

Not all of it is blu-ray quality, with some early CGI being just upscaled. It's a problem plaguing many series of that time cf. Babylon V, which only got a DVD release itself.

yeah I know.  I'm watching closely the various upscale projects that has crept up since the last 2 years.  Whenever it becomes affordable (time wise), I might try my hand at upscaling it myself.  The DS9 project is not so bad:
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/314653-remastering-deep-space-nine

[Duque de Bragança]

Shame. Typical Languishite's routine of watching porn, jerking off in the office restroom, and creeping on women in the subway gets interrupted by his sister moving in unexpectedly. Not bad, if a bit artsy sometimes. Lots of skin and the chicks are hot. If you're a Michael Fassbender fan you'll enjoy watching him parade around with his schlong out.

Watched it at the Goethe Frankfurt University cine-club (Pupille). Ladies were not so enthusiastic about the movie, for some reason.

[Sheilbh]

RIP Cloris Leachman

One of my favourite performances in one of my favourite films

[Josephus]

Frau Blucher 

[grumbler]

Not all of it is blu-ray quality, with some early CGI being just upscaled. It's a problem plaguing many series of that time cf. Babylon V, which only got a DVD release itself.

The irony of B5 never getting an HD release is that it was primed to do so, when most shows were still being scaled for SD.  The filming was done in widescreen HD format, and the  CGI was designed for HD and only processing in SD because WB wouldn't budget them for HD processing.

Then when the show was over and WB collected all the CGI and film, it lost the CGI.  Maybe erased, maybe just mis-filed.  In any case, gone.  So it never could be redone as an HD release because WB was incompetent.

[grumbler]

Frau Blucher 

It's not rotten! It's a good brain!

[Duque de Bragança]

Not all of it is blu-ray quality, with some early CGI being just upscaled. It's a problem plaguing many series of that time cf. Babylon V, which only got a DVD release itself.

The irony of B5 never getting an HD release is that it was primed to do so, when most shows were still being scaled for SD.  The filming was done in widescreen HD format, and the  CGI was designed for HD and only processing in SD because WB wouldn't budget them for HD processing.

Then when the show was over and WB collected all the CGI and film, it lost the CGI.  Maybe erased, maybe just mis-filed.  In any case, gone.  So it never could be redone as an HD release because WB was incompetent.

This is indeed even worse than I thought with WB bungling linked to cutting corners and incompetence. 4/3 to widescreen failed transition

Live footage shot in Super 35 mm is good enough for UHD as a matter of fact.

According to Wiki

Mastering problems[edit]
While the series was in pre-production, studios were looking at ways for their existing shows to make the transition from the then-standard 4:3 aspect ratio to the widescreen formats that would accompany the next generation of televisions. After visiting Warner Bros., who were stretching the horizontal interval for an episode of Lois & Clark, producer John Copeland convinced them to allow Babylon 5 to be shot on Super 35mm film stock. "The idea being that we would telecine to 4:3 for the original broadcast of the series. But what it also gave us was a negative that had been shot for the new 16×9 widescreen-format televisions that we knew were on the horizon."[146]

The widescreen conversion thing was executive short sightedness at its finest!!! We offered to do ALL of Babylon 5 in widescreen mode if Warner Bros would buy us a reference monitor so we could check our output. (only $5000 at the time) Ken Parkes (the "Business affairs" guy) and Netter (penny wise, but pound foolish) said no! So we did everything so it could be CROPPED to be widescreen! Each blamed the other by the way. Doug Netter said, "Ken Parkes said no". Ken Parkes said, "Doug Netter said no". SHEESH!!! So for $75 an episode they could have had AWESOME near Hi-Def.
— Ron Thornton, 2008[147]

Though the CG scenes, and those containing live action combined with digital elements, could have been created in a suitable widescreen format, a cost-saving decision was taken to produce them in the 4:3 aspect ratio. When those images were prepared for widescreen release, the top and bottom of the images were simply cropped, and the remaining image 'blown up' to match the dimensions of the live action footage, noticeably reducing the image quality.[146][138] The scenes containing live action ready to be composited with matte paintings, CG animation, etc., were delivered on tape already telecined to the 4:3 aspect-ratio, and contained a high level of grain, which resulted in further image noise being present when enlarged and stretched for widescreen.[148]

For the purely live-action scenes, rather than using the film negatives, according to Copeland, "Warners had even forgotten that they had those. They used PAL versions and converted them to NTSC for the US market. They actually didn't go back and retransfer the shows."[149] With the resulting aliasing, and the progressive scan transfer of the video to D

The widescreen conversion thing was executive short sightedness at its finest!!! We offered to do ALL of Babylon 5 in widescreen mode if Warner Bros would buy us a reference monitor so we could check our output. (only $5000 at the time) Ken Parkes (the "Business affairs" guy) and Netter (penny wise, but pound foolish) said no! So we did everything so it could be CROPPED to be widescreen! Each blamed the other by the way. Doug Netter said, "Ken Parkes said no". Ken Parkes said, "Doug Netter said no". SHEESH!!! So for $75 an episode they could have had AWESOME near Hi-Def.
— Ron Thornton, 2008[147]

LULZ at using PAL versions for the NTSC market. PAL releases on DVD are even worse, CGI-wise.
I recently tried to watch the show on DVD again and it's awful. Worse than Deep Space Nine or Voyager (only SD CGI). TNG being the glorious and costly exception with the CGI redone for HD.

Then there are the awful conversions of SD material to HD, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A disaster

[Josephus]

Frau Blucher 

It's not rotten! It's a good brain!

Best Mel Brooks movie.