movies

[Freed Roger]

Re:Trainwreck. Ok at best. The crude humor from the female perspective, Not my thing, but can't really [expletive] about the role reversal. It tries too damn hard being funny, switch to dark, then the serious, a one nighter with a 16 year old, then shift to sappy RoCo ending.

It gets the ok at best for a few funny skits within this

[Maclowery]

Trainwreck was disappointing. My female counterpart and I both love everything about Amy Schumer. She's just great. And I really, really enjoy pretty much anything Bill Nader does. Throw in a basketball angle? Hell yeah.

I really enjoyed a lot of that movie. The last half hour was so damn stupid. Ruined. It could have been one of the only Rom-com whatever dramedy label you want, that I actually enjoyed. We agreed that it would have been better to stop it an hour in and make our own ending. I feel like the stars agreed, they only seemed invested in the early vibing parts, and came off awkward and lame for the stupid ass finale.

[The Third Man]

Film has pretty much always been HD, has it not?

35mm is roughly 4K.

[Vidor]

Film has pretty much always been HD, has it not?

35mm is roughly 4K.

Indeed. So when you see "The Wizard of Oz" or an old Western on HDTV, that's how it's supposed to look.

[go birds]

Watched Everest--it was pretty good. Sad, but worth the rental.

Watched The Martian again--man that's probably my favorite movie of 2015.

[cardsfansince82]

'71 was a pretty good war/action movie.

[Freed Roger]

Film has pretty much always been HD, has it not?

35mm is roughly 4K.

Indeed. So when you see "The Wizard of Oz" or an old Western on HDTV, that's how it's supposed to look.

The Soap Opera Effect is actually a popular nickname for the motion smoothing function found in many modern HDTVs. Some of the more official-sounding names for this function are motion interpolation, frame interpolation, or motion estimation/motion compensation (MEMC). They all describe the same thing: that super-smooth effect that makes film sources look like video on your TV

I haven't had a chance to read this for understanding - but it kind of confirms it is a thing. my initial question -would renting non-HD version for an HDTV - I don't think that will help matters to get rid of the effect.
http://hometheaterreview.com/what-is-so ... t-go-away/

[The Third Man]

Motion smoothing/interpolation is great for live sports and terrible for anything else.

[The Third Man]

Film has pretty much always been HD, has it not?

35mm is roughly 4K.

Indeed. So when you see "The Wizard of Oz" or an old Western on HDTV, that's how it's supposed to look.

Roughly, anyway. 1080p still lacks the full resolution and dynamic range to reproduce film with total fidelity, but it's a fine enough approximation for most people. 4K is an even bigger step up. Beyond that you're well into tech geek territory.

[Tambourine Man]

Ouch. All plasmas available cost many thousands of dollars.