Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-01 (Saturday)

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.  :-/
 

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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.
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The Disney+ app doesn’t list it at all!
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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
 

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Thanks for the link. That’s the stupidest and most petty batch of
censorship I’ve ever seen.
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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

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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!
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.

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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!