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Whatâs your folksâ feelings/thoughts on the show itself?
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So much this. Iâm a guy who had a massive library of VHS that I couldnât give away when DVD came along. Now I bought all that shit again on DVD or Blu-ray - and at the moment I donât even have a functioning Blu-ray player, and all my MacBooks with optical drives are dead. I donât subscribe to anything - so I pirate everything I want to see (itâs really quite easy). But even the âarchival qualityâ downloads are nowhere near the bandwidth of a HD Blu-ray. Thatâs why I preordered the Everything Everywhere All At Once HD Blu-ray the moment I could even though I donât currently have a player OR SCREEN that can play it.
Iâm a cinephile, Iâm just too poor to do it well.
If the companies have decided to ditch physical media completely for all subscription streaming then they will get no $ from me ever again fuck that shit
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Actually, that is one aspect that she leaves out of this argument about streaming v. physical media⌠not everyone can AFFORD to get better quality physical media! My family is very lucky that we can do that, but not everyone can, so itâs either having a couple of lower tier plans on some streamers, or sailing the high seas (and of course, not everyone has the technical know how to do that).
Other wise, sheâs spot on here!
And of course, lots of streams have figured out that not offering physical media doesnât help their bottom line. Disney has a primarily streaming centric model for their content, but theyâve started offering more on physical media (in some cases, itâs just empty boxes with a download code, but some stuff from Marvel is now on physical media).
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Squid Game season 2 LETâS GO!!!
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It really is an awesome FU letter.
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The condescending politeness and saying just enough for the former slave master to read between the lines itâs just chefâs kiss perfection
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Having just been to Colombia, I can attest that they love Gabriel Garcia Marquez (at least, there was evidence for that everywhere), and if they like this Netflix series, itâs probably pretty damn good.
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I tried watching that a few months ago. I made it about 3 or 4 episodes in and just got really bored with it.
Iâve been watching Quincy, M.E. lately because itâs on some channel I get with YouTube TV. I remember liking it as a kid, and I think itâs still watchable. It was basically the CSI of the late 70s, early 80s. The stories arenât that great, but Jack Klugman was just a fantastic actor.
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Have you seen the punk panic episode yet? OMG, that episode is peak punk panic⌠I forget which season, but the episode is called âNext Stop, NowhereââŚ
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I havenât, but Iâve missed several episodes. Itâs on late at night. I fall asleep to it. If I keep watching it, Iâm sure theyâll circle back to it. Although, since itâs YouTube TV, I might be able to just watch it whenever. I can set the series to record, and they donât have any limits on how much you can record, so you never have to delete anything.
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Some are really great. Others not so much. Sometimes he gets too friendly with the murderers â like the Johnny Cash episode for example.
The strength of the episode all depends on the last scene, and the villain of the weekâs reaction when the solution is presented to them.
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Yes. The plot is usually secondary to whatever Jack is doing.
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Investigative/procedural shows were a staple in my household, from âPerry Masonâ to âRumpole of the Baileyâ, and âDragnetâ to âHill Street Bluesâ, from âQuincy, MEâ to âDiagnosis: Murderâ. Mom especially, as she read lots of mystery and suspense stories. Oh, and âEllery Queenâ - see Tim Huttonâs dad, Jim, do his thing!
(well, except for âThe Mod Squadâ and âMiami Viceâ)
At least try one of the 2d season eppies. Most shows are still finding their feet in the 1st season (âMAS*Hâ prolly wouldnât have made it if it hadnât come on after âAll in The Familyâ).
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Saw the new Nosferatu yesterday. I thought it was well-made and had some interesting new takes on the familiar story (this vampire had a bushy mustache, which really worked) as well as some good use of some of the visuals from the original silent film that was made 102 years ago. Not exactly a happy or uplifting film, but I guess the best vampire movies arenât. Willem Dafoe played a fun character though.
And now for my rant:
This was the first film I watched at a major theater chain in a while (AMC) which was in a large, dying mall. (The very same Twin Pines / Lone Pine mall from Back to the Future fame but thatâs another story.) It had nice seats and projection quality but man, all the crap they made us sit through before the start of the film was really, really annoying. Iâm not even talking about the previews or concession ads, which weâve long come to expect. There were basically a bunch of pointless clips talking about how great AMC is, how great it is to watch movies, how their projection technology works, and then they even included a âand now weâd like to take the time to thank our investorsâ blurb. Some of those clips were played repeatedly, back-to-back, 25 minutes after the movie was scheduled to start. What possible reason could they have to do that? Having a longer runtime means fewer films can be shown in a day, and anyone watching it had already bought a damn ticket. Forcing them to watch repeats of ads for the theater chain seems like it would have the opposite effect desired.
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The Cinema Snob made that same rant. So basically they are doing this all over. Why they would want to, I cannot imagine.
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