TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

I wouldn't call it dogshit.  It kept my attention.

[Ed Anger]

After Porn Ends

My Review:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[CountDeMoney]

OK, I think I've zeroed in on a decision:  a Samsung 43" Plasma at 720p.  $399.

No, it's not 1080p, but I was in the store watching The Dark Knight Rises on a 1080p LED, and it looked like an episode of Ice Road Truckers.  It didn't look like a film.  And that truly annoys me to no end.

But I'm still deciding.

[katmai]

No, it's not 1080p,

Ewwwww

[Ideologue]

OK, I think I've zeroed in on a decision:  a Samsung 43" Plasma at 720p.  $399.

No, it's not 1080p, but I was in the store watching The Dark Knight Rises on a 1080p LED, and it looked like an episode of Ice Road Truckers.  It didn't look like a film.  And that truly annoys me to no end.

But I'm still deciding.

Hold up there: do you really think the minwage bachelor's degree fucktards at the ___-Mart deploy their televisions correctly?  Can even understand the concepts underlying them?

I've noticed it too, but it's not 1080p per se.  I dunno what they've done, but it's bad.  I thought it was just a combination of DKR (which does look like a Youtube video at times, especially the climax, and there's no way around it) and something inherent to the TV myself at first, but I looked closer as the movie restarted, noting the weird jaggedness of the wing of the plane Bane hijacked: I think the real issue is that they were playing a DVD on a 55" screen, probably the with "sports" preset brightness setting.

My point is, ask to futz around with the settings and see a Blu-Ray before going with something fucking lame like a 720p television.

[CountDeMoney]

No, it's not 1080p,

Ewwwww

Your cable provider that screws you out of 1080p with video compression rates but promises it anyway thanks you for your support.

[Ed Anger]

I like full screen movies.

[CountDeMoney]

I've noticed it too, but it's not 1080p per se.  I dunno what they've done, but it's bad.  I thought it was just a combination of DKR (which does look like a Youtube video at times, especially the climax, and there's no way around it) and something inherent to the TV myself at first, but I looked closer as the movie restarted, noting the weird jaggedness of the wing of the plane Bane hijacked: I think the real issue is that they were playing a DVD on a 55" screen, probably the with "sports" preset brightness setting.

My parents bought an LED a couple weeks ago, and they were watching Contraband when I stopped by;  I messed with the settings as much as I could, but from the various presets to tinkering with the levels, and I simply couldn't stop it from looking like a Hi-Def documentary.  A shitty Mark Wahlberg action flick shouldn't look like Hardcore Pawn.
 
It was very disturbing and put me in Old Man Mood, where I just wanted to go home as quickly as possible and nestle myself in the comfort of rotary phones and typewriter ribbons.

[Ideologue]

Could just be that Contraband was shot on the same medium as your prawn show or whatever.  I dunno.  IMDB sez:

35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383)
D-Cinema

I think this means shot on film with a digital transfer to a digital master, from which they'd have printed the BDs and DVDs, but though I'd love to pretend to know, I don't.

Anyway, I've had two 1080p TVs, and movies looked like movies on both.  Even for all the new, crappier one's problems, Ten Commandments (for example) still looked like you'd expect.  So did the hundred or so other movies that I know were shot on film-film that I've watched on it.

[Ideologue]

Oh, except War of the Worlds.  Spielberg requires MOAR GRANE.

[CountDeMoney]

I find this newfangled approach to shooting films with HD cameras very annoying.

[mongers]

I find this newfangled approach to shooting films with HD cameras very annoying.

Katmia, will now stalk you from thread to thread, glaring. 

[Ideologue]

I find this newfangled approach to shooting films with HD cameras very annoying.

I'm 100% behind film preservation efforts, but am not terribly attached to film qua film.  My religion of carbon neutrality demands it.

[CountDeMoney]

Here's a movie review for ya, Ide:

New version of Total Recall sucks Total Balls.

[CountDeMoney]

Although, I will admit that it's a tough call between a 1990 Sharon Stone and a 2012 Kate Beckinsdale.  They're both so, so naughty.