Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-01 (Saturday) Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:02:58 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 101 Message-ID: <9b8q5jt9cbrc5iv98col61ehe42hka32ds@4ax.com> References: <2125407681.739055016.817606.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:03:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="adf3473d583d6566cd7ac22f578b8f3e"; logging-data="3913895"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fXbJQlkS45n8in5dEwNHTQXs2b+LpKVc=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0BQWa1wrB1F8y4WpgKpb7KVorXQ= Bytes: 5161 On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 14:24:13 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 6/2/2024 9:28 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> On 6/2/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >>> >>>> I watched: >>>> >>> >>> Blumhouse's Fantasy Island (Hulu) - In glorious 4k! >> >> Hulu has it in 4K?!? The movie was released on disc only on blu-ray. :-/ >> > >OK, here’s the thing. The freestanding Hulu app has it, but doesn’t list 4K >or any choice of resolution on the iPhone, which should support 4K. > >The Disney+ app doesn’t list it at all! > Hmm, I see a 2160p (4K) version showing up on the gray. Doesn't say it is remastered as they usually do if someone is upscaling it so presumably this came 4K from the source. >>>    I think I liked this 2020 flick quite a bit more than Anim did. >>> Yeah, the ending was a little too all over the place, and "too cute". >>> And this was unfortunately "PG-13 horror" when I was expecting(/hoping >>> for) "hard R horror" out of this, >> >> Well...if you watched it on disc you could have watched the unrated >> version. :-) >> >> Here is a comparison of theatrical vs unrated cut: >> https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=246728 >> > >Thanks for the link. That’s the stupidest and most petty batch of >censorship I’ve ever seen. > Yeah, many of those changes are completely unnecessary. Especially for the theater. >>> >>> Blacklight (Hulu) - Also in glorious 4k! >>>    Honestly, it kind of blows me away that even relatively "low-budget" >>> flicks like this one (though, I guess USD$43 mil isn't exactly >>> "low-budget"...) are now getting 4k presentations on the streamers. >>>    Anyway, this was just OK - it's kind of like "The Parallax View" but > >Am I the only one that can’t tell Liam Neeson movies apart? I have no idea >if I’ve seen this or not. LOL. He found his niche and keeps remaking the same movie under a new name every year or two. >However, one of my streamers has been pushing me to watch the parallax >view! > > > >> I watched: >> >> >> Doctor Who (Disney+) - "Dot and Bubble" - The Doctor and Ruby land on a >> planet with a small colony of spoiled rich kids who are so self-absorbed >> they can't be bothered to leave their social bubble, both literally and >> figuratively. Their refusal to see the world as it really is will lead >> to their deaths unless they listen to the Doctor. Unfortunately for >> them the Doctor isn't in their social bubble. At some point I'll actually watch this season of DOCTOR WHO. Not sure when, but I know it will happen eventually. First time I've ever put off watching episodes in ... forever. >Here’s the thing. The point where they decided not to believe the doctor >was when he said the tardis had technology that let it be bigger on the >inside. They think he’s just talking nonsense and everybody dies because >they don’t believe him. > >But… He’s standing right in front of the tardis! He’s pointing at the >bloody tardis! Why the hell doesn’t he just open the door and show them? > >Two episodes in a row that were pretty good and didn’t have a lot of Dr in >them, but we’re ruined completely by the stupid endings. > > > >> Confess, Fletch (Showtime) 2022 movie (which has been sitting on my DVR >> since 2022) starring John Hamm as "Fletch," who gets caught up in a >> convoluted plot involving a stolen painting and a murder. Beyond that I >> really didn't follow the plot of this movie at all. I've been working >> my way through this for the past few days and finally finished it. The >> movie was just sort of on as I watched Fletch make wise cracks and annoy >> the police. Maybe fans of the character will like it more, but I was >> just waiting for it to be over. > >Fletch movies just aren’t very good unfortunately. I saw the first one with >Chevy Chase as my first viewing experience in the Cinerama dome in >Hollywood - any movie seems wonderful there!