Be Excellent To Each Other

I'm not sure which is more amusing. Him watching it and updating the thread in real time, or you responding...

The Sexy Cuisine chef is a really very bad chef.

86 seconds in, it is brilliant.

A landmark film
10/10 | unsound-77111 | 3 Sep 2016
Not since Citizen Kane has a film pushed the boundaries of what true film making is and contributed so much to epic story making. It brings tears to the eyes to remember this work of art once more. Where to begin...
The scene of the girl detectives taking balls to the face was a technical achievement of the highest order. This was only rivaled by the symbolism of the dog that was a puppet but really a dog..or was it a puppet? Not to mention the daring choice of having Japanese actresses play Indian, Chinese and Japanese roles, makes the viewer truly question identity; the "mystery of the game (volleyball or life? sic.) as well as its illusory qualities in life.
While some viewers may criticize the movies final scene with a 4 foot high volleyball net and a volleyball that is two dimensional, true movie lovers will understand the director's intent to surmount the all too common cgi and blue screen special effects of today with stylistic choices that only add to the story.
An amazing film that should not be missed if you can breathe. It is not hyperbole to claim this film as a monumental work that will stand the test of time.

Here’s where it gets both interesting and maddening. In the mid-1980s, the advent of cheaper and cheaper computing technology allowed video post-production to grow more and more sophisticated. Now, a new post-production methodology, once existing only for shows originating on videotape, like soap operas and talk shows, could now be applied to shows shot originally on film. A program could be shot on 35mm film, but instead of editing on film and then cutting negative, the original 35mm material footage would instead be scanned to videotape — at NTSC resolution, and the rest of the post-production process, editing, mixing, etc., would then be completed on tape, at a reduced cost. However, NO FILM NEGATIVE WAS CUT, so the final product would only exist on videotape, at NTSC’s greatly reduced video resolution and color. True blacks, stable reds and rich blues simply didn’t exist on videotape. Those shows originally shot on 35mm, with a 20 megapixel resolution, were never to be seen again if finished on tape.

Unfortunately, this meant, unlike TOS and The Animated Series, there would be no 35mm finished negative of TNG… and the series would only ever exist on videotape at NTSC resolution. The same would hold true of DS9 and Voyager.

The TOS and TNG remasters are fantastic.

The show is great, but after rewatching TOS, TNG, and the associated movies, the dip in video quality for DS9 was a bit of a blow.

Even the redone VFX for TOS & TNG were done really well.

So a radical notion was proposed…why not go back to the original negative and REBUILD the entire show, from from the ground up, in High Definition? In the history of television, this had never been done before. Essentially, all 178 episodes of TNG (176 if you’re watching the original versions of “Encounter at Farpoint” and “All Good Things”) would have to go through the entire post-production process AGAIN. The original edits would be adhered to exactly, but all the original negative would have to be rescanned, the VFX re-composed, the footage re-color-timed, certain VFX, such as phaser blasts and energy fields, recreated in CG, and the entire soundtrack, originally only finished in 2 channel stereo, would be remastered into thunderous, 7.1 DTS.

Bobby draper is well cast. Happy Chris.

The wife and I started watching Vikings last week and got to the end of season one last night.

She likes it but I don't think I'm a fan. None of them are very likeable as characters and the fact that they make the English look stupid at every step of the way is really annoying me. Also, that snake pit that the king had? What was all that about?!?

I've no doubt that I shall carry on watching it but I'll be darned if I'm going to pretend to enjoy it.

they make the English look stupid at every step of the way is really annoying me.

Better than being the bad guys for a change.

In any case the English are stupid. They just voted for Brexit.

Is that the Martian marine?

Nope. Definitely the first season. It's only briefly been in one episode though so far.

I watched the first episode of Santa Clarita Diet last night and thought it was fantastic. Can't wait to watch the rest of the series.

Of possible interest only to me but in preparation for the new series of Samurai Jack, the Adult Swim website is streaming all the previous episodes back to back with no ads.

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/streams/samurai-jack

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia just keeps getting better and better, which at S12 is quite a feat. FIGHT MILK!!!!

We've started rewatching it from the beginning. It starts better than I thought it might have, although it's extremely noticeable that all of the characters are only half as awful as they are in the current episodes. First truly great ep is Hundred Dollar Baby, for my money.

I watched the first series and then got deeply suspicious of Danny DeVito joining and stopped watching. I should start again at some point.

DeVito is amazingly fearless in the role, too.

McElhenney: We didn’t want to [bring him on the show]. We were forced into it. We had a show without him the first season, and then nobody watched it, and so John Landgraf — who is the President of FX — he called me in for a meeting and was like, ‘Hey, no one’s watching the show, but we love it and we want to keep it on, but we don’t have any money for marketing. We need to add somebody with some panache that we can hopefully parlay into some public relations story just so we can get people talking.’

We were really reticent to add anything … that might destroy the chemistry of the show. They started knocking around different names and Danny’s name came up, and we said, ‘I guess that kind of makes sense.’ …

Howerton: We were reticent to adding a “name” to the show, because we kind of liked that we were no-names …

McElhenney: Our first reaction was like, ‘No. I don’t think we want to do that.” And they were like, ‘Well, OK. Then the show is over.’ And we were like, ‘Oh, well, DeVito, huh?’

For whatever reason, I just don't find It's Always Sunny funny.

I think I've said this before, but I just can't enjoy a show when I don't like any of the characters. I'm sure it's objectively very funny, but it's just not for me.

Heh: http://uproxx.com/tv/how-fx-forced-the- ... -the-cast/

I think I've said this before, but I just can't enjoy a show when I don't like any of the characters. I'm sure it's objectively very funny, but it's just not for me.

The waitress is likeable (from what I've seen).

The waitress is likeable (from what I've seen).

Keep watching.

FUN FACT The Waitress is married to Charlie in real life. (And Sweet Dee is married to Mac.)

Keep watching.

FUN FACT The Waitress is married to Charlie in real life. (And Sweet Dee is married to Mac.)

For whatever reason, I just don't find It's Always Sunny funny. Not sure why, it feels like the kind of thing I should like. Suspect there may be a Seinfeld-like tipping point where everything slots into place and it all makes sense. But I've not got there yet (have watched half a dozen episodes).

Search Party is really good:
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt5460226/

A group of self-absorbed Brooklyn millenials get drawn into investigating the disappearance of a college friend they haven't spoken to in years. It's true comedy drama, very funny at times but very dark and sad at others. Builds to a fantastic gut-punch of an ending. Alia Shawkat (Maebe from Arrested Development) is fantastic as the lead character.