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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-01 (Saturday)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 08:24:09 -0700
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On 6/2/2024 6:52 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 6/2/2024 2:24 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> 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