What film did you watch last night?

eldergeek · 2024-12-24T12:21:24+0000

actually in a weird way i almost think it adds to the charm. You'd almost think that was VHS quality. :cry:

barmyllama · 2024-12-24T12:41:45+0000

darkgen said:
Megalopolis. 3 / 10.
Coppola certainly lost the plot with this one. I've no meaningful idea what the film was about or the message it was trying to convey aside from some convoluted nonsense about living for today and not in the tomorrow.
Only saving grace was Aubrey Plaza being highly suggestive.

Apparently he also lost a shed load ($120m) of his own money as well.

eldergeek · 2024-12-24T12:45:43+0000

barmyllama said:
Apparently he also lost a shed load ($120m) of his own money as well.

What's weirder, is that I could have sworn he said this was his final film - and yet he's just announced another

eldergeek · 2024-12-24T13:13:23+0000

you know i'm looking at this film, and I'm now completely terrified that they're going to stick 28 days later through topaz and call it a good un.

Stelly · 2024-12-24T13:20:45+0000

Watched Die Hard, proper Christmas film

Stelly

Freakbro · 2024-12-24T13:30:16+0000

eldergeek said:
Didn't they release it on bluray in 1080p? what did that look like?

steve5424 said:
Ouch. Does the Blu Ray look bad then? I've only got the dvd.

The BR looks the same afaik. I checked the Amazon stream the other night, same as well.

I'd imagine the 4k release being spoke about is going to use some upscaling shenanigans (AI?) to try and improve the quality....not that i have any knowledge about these sort of things!

bainbridge · 2024-12-24T13:33:41+0000

Watched Gremlins, good film and not seen it for ages.

eldergeek · 2024-12-24T13:34:03+0000

Freakbro said:
The BR looks the same afaik. I checked the Amazon stream the other night, same as well.

I'd imagine the 4k release being spoke about is going to use some upscaling shenanigans (AI?) to try and improve the quality....not that i have any knowledge about these sort of things!

I really think this is something that's worth getting onto them about to seek clarification

Maximum Triceratops · 2024-12-24T14:48:33+0000

Yep the version I watched was 1080p 12 gig file, the picture was bad, part of the charm though?

eldergeek · 2024-12-24T20:01:47+0000

Maximum Triceratops said:
Yep the version I watched was 1080p 12 gig file, the picture was bad, part of the charm though?

I thought so in a weird was as I scanned through the remux I grabbed - but an AI upscale is going to remove a bunch of the noise, sharpen it and fill in frames that simply aren't there

Mesai · 2024-12-24T20:18:36+0000

Gladiator 2 - 5/10

Waste of a sequel. The cast selection really let it down.

Tykey · 2024-12-24T20:56:50+0000

65 - Sci-fi set on earth when the big asteroid hit. Not bad, quite cheesy etc, 6/10.

My Old Ass - Aubrey Plaza is in it I think she's great, coming of age sentimental time travel drama, not bad, 6/10.

Maximum Triceratops · 2024-12-24T21:18:08+0000

eldergeek said:
I thought so in a weird was as I scanned through the remux I grabbed - but an AI upscale is going to remove a bunch of the noise, sharpen it and fill in frames that simply aren't there

Hope they do a good job but I think it will remove something that made it good, it was quite a bad picture though!

BUDFORCE · 2024-12-24T22:03:21+0000

Die Hard - 1988

About as festive as I get.

Awesome movie though, you basically can't fault it really.

8/10

Kyo · 2024-12-24T22:15:17+0000

BUDFORCE said:
Die Hard - 1988

About as festive as I get.

Awesome movie though, you basically can't fault it really.

8/10

Watching it now

Pete Tong · 2024-12-25T00:02:06+0000

I've binned all my physical media and just use usb and a 14tb external hdd for tv viewing

eldergeek · 2024-12-25T00:50:44+0000

Pete Tong said:
I've binned all my physical media and just use usb and a 14tb external hdd for tv viewing

I wouldn't have done that personally. I enjoy having things on shelves.

Anyway, just finished watching bill & ted's bogus journey and face the music.

Stelly · 2024-12-25T00:52:58+0000

Watched Dune 2 - Good film, deviates from the books a bit but recommend

Stelly

arc@css · 2024-12-25T03:49:08+0000

I really liked both 28 days/weeks films, though I prefer the first overall.

Good to see those soldiers get their comeuppance!

Rroff · 2024-12-25T05:43:58+0000

eldergeek said:
No it was shot on the canon X-1 which is the problem as it was the first digital camera. Apparently they can't really upscale it to any beneficial degree.

Only way would be a content aware AI much more advanced than anything we have now - though nVidia is progressing there with an AI which can identify a large number of objects in a scene and recreate a scene from a video in 3D.