Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-01 (Saturday) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 08:24:09 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 114 Message-ID: References: <2125407681.739055016.817606.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <483910369.739071713.541468.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:24:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1854dfa404190c50cceb18ac6bd81d3f"; logging-data="4143081"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19mFhmhcgClzm6GHkLI3wZ6ZzYN+XSjPPA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:CIuSvPD5WYRv2iQscU2wfDnIK3w= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <483910369.739071713.541468.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 5556 On 6/2/2024 6:52 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 6/2/2024 2:24 PM, 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! >>> >>> >>>>>    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. >>> >> >> Listen to some movie commentary tracks. The pettiness of the MPA knows >> no bounds! >> >>> >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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. >> >> No. That was not the point. It wouldn't have mattered. The episode >> was an allegory on racism. > > I agree completely with you that that was their intention. But I disagree > that they stuck the landing. > > > There were lots of subtle and not so subtle >> indications of this throughout the episode. But it was easy not to >> notice if you didn't realize what was happening. Here are some of the >> clues going from memory in no particular order: >> >> Everyone on the planet was White. When the Doctor (or Ruby) made a >> comment about the planet being for young people they said it was more >> exclusive than that. When the Doctor first appeared they immediately >> blocked him. They did not block Ruby. > > I’m not going to go back and look, but I distinctly remember that when the > doctor first appeared in the bubble, there was a huge flashing warning I > think in red that he was uninvited or something. It was like getting “Scam > Likely“ on your cell phone, I don’t recall. (although I could be wrong) Any > such warning on Ruby. > It said unsolicited call. > It was like the computers were racist, but not necessarily the people. > > I also completely did not understand why everybody thought the mother > looked familiar. > Wow, that went right over your head. To be fair it went right over my head too. LOL. But watch it again and it will make perfect sense *why* they recognized her. "We'll save that for later." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwNpsGIlFQM