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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 17:14:04 -0700
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On 6/2/2024 7:02 PM, shawn wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 14:24:13 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> 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!
>>
> 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.
> 

I wish they had just gone hard "R" from the start.

>>>>
>>>> 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.
> 

The first episode and the third episodes are the weakest IMO.  But 2, 4 
and 5 were good.

>> 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.
>>
>>

It's my understanding this episode was filmed first.  And the reason the 
Doctor is barely in this one and the previous episode is the actor was 
also starring in a different TV show and that show had priority.  But 
that show is done now so going forward there shouldn't be any more 
issues.  And we've already seen in the other episodes filmed later he 
was fully in them.