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Post by julesd68 on Jun 10, 2020 19:58:11 GMT
I've started watching the new Alex Rider series on Amazon Prime.
It's all good fun but what an awful use of Ultra HD / HDR. I know they want it to look 'gritty' but some scenes are so dark and contrasty you might as well be watching it on VHS for all the detail you are getting.
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Post by speedysteve on Jun 10, 2020 20:20:06 GMT
I've started watching the new Alex Rider series on Amazon Prime. It's all good fun but what an awful use of Ultra HD / HDR. I know they want it to look 'gritty' but some scenes are so dark and contrasty you might as well be watching it on VHS for all the detail you are getting. Does UHD put your TV in to cinema mode automatically? Ours does! Manually putting it to normal or even vivid, during bright daylight times fixes it for us. Just a thought.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 10, 2020 21:07:05 GMT
We started Halt and Catch Fire too. Both enjoying it - apart from 944 driving like a git and killing a Dillo. Strictly speaking, the driver is a git but the car certainly is a 944. His gittishness in the BIOS episode is breathtaking!
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 10, 2020 21:46:08 GMT
I've started watching the new Alex Rider series on Amazon Prime. It's all good fun but what an awful use of Ultra HD / HDR. I know they want it to look 'gritty' but some scenes are so dark and contrasty you might as well be watching it on VHS for all the detail you are getting. Does UHD put your TV in to cinema mode automatically? Ours does! Manually putting it to normal or even vivid, during bright daylight times fixes it for us. Just a thought. My TV stays in my chosen picture mode of Standard but it automatically adjusts some of the 'expert' settings when it recognises a UHD signal. With Alex Rider I think it's one of those classic cases where when they were grading the images everything looked amazing on their state of the art perfectly calibrated 8k broadcast monitors but they probably didn't bother to review on domestic TVs to see what it would look like in the real world.
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Post by TheMooN on Jun 12, 2020 15:50:32 GMT
Epic.
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 13, 2020 13:29:02 GMT
Interesting to see that the Point Blanc school interiors for Alex Rider were shot just down the road from us at Crouch End Town Hall. It's a labyrinth of Art Deco beauty and always in use for TV and film. The student common room looks like the concert hall where the likes of Queen once played. I was in there a couple of years ago and it had been severely neglected; it stank of rot and damp.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 13, 2020 15:01:14 GMT
Thanks Jules Real shame it has been neglected
BTW the film is called Stormbreaker, not Alex Rider One to avoid unless you are chasing fluff
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 13, 2020 16:54:02 GMT
Is anyone interested in the series Lambs of God?
I've not seen it but have read a little bit about it. Seems it's well done.
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Post by TheMooN on Jun 15, 2020 11:18:34 GMT
Penny Dreadful by Showtime available on Amazon Prime, truly exceptional.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 15, 2020 11:43:50 GMT
We're still enjoying Halt and Catch Fire. I love all the stuff at the Comdex show. So many memories!
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Post by Slinger on Jun 15, 2020 13:38:34 GMT
Penny Dreadful by Showtime available on Amazon Prime, truly exceptional. I bought the whole thing on Blu-ray, my late wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was cross between the subject matter of the original penny dreadfuls, and the Grand Guignol theatre of Paris with a decidedly modern twist in the characters who were introduced. Not exactly "high art" but then it never pretended to be.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 19, 2020 15:56:46 GMT
On Amazon Prime
Detective Anna (TV Series 2016–2017)
Trying to find things for the boss to watch I unfortunately tagged this
She likes it and will watch episode after episode
I suggest you all avoid it
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 19, 2020 16:08:01 GMT
LOL!! It doesn't look promising does it ...
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Post by speedysteve on Jun 19, 2020 17:05:43 GMT
Finished Halt and Catch Fire. Bit of a disappointing end but overall good. Perhaps there will be a series 2.
What next?
We're going to watch a film called 10 Cloverfield Lane this evening though. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is lead female. She was good in Fargo, 3rd series, it was. She said playing that character in Fargo helped her embrace her sexual side. Yes, indeed love! 😀
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Post by MartinT on Jun 19, 2020 20:21:48 GMT
Finished Halt and Catch Fire. Bit of a disappointing end but overall good. Perhaps there will be a series 2. There is!
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Post by speedysteve on Jun 20, 2020 6:30:22 GMT
Finished Halt and Catch Fire. Bit of a disappointing end but overall good. Perhaps there will be a series 2. There is! Oh, why isn't Amazon ramming it down by throat already? 🙂 I checked, series 2/3/4 are all there. Marie happy. We enjoyed 10 Cloverfield lane film. There's an unrelated first film called Cloverfield 2008 and a 2018 film Cloverfield Paradox to track down.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 20, 2020 14:53:35 GMT
One to watch out for (according to Mark Kermode) is "Lovecraft Country." It's written by Misha Green (Underground) and two names stand out from the list of EPs: Jordan Peele (Us, and Get Out) and JJ Abrams. It's being made by HBO, so expect "gritty realism," a.k.a. swearing and violence.
Basic premise: Lovecraft Country follows "Atticus Black as he joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback."
The monsters are both physical, and mental. "Real" monsters, and real racism. Historically interesting is that fact that H.P. Lovecraft, besides being a great author was a real-life racist. He thought that Hitler’s vision was "romantic and immature,” and he stated, after Hitler became chancellor of Germany, “I know he’s a clown but God, I like the boy!”
His 1912 poem entitled “On the Creation of Niggers,” (the gods, having just designed Man and Beast, create blacks in semi-human form to populate the space in between) was a bit of a giveaway too.
We live and learn.
The TV show is based on the book by Matt Ruff.
I, for one, am looking forward to it enormously.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2020 15:37:35 GMT
I'll certainly give that a go, if only to see how it's realised.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 20, 2020 16:02:12 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2020 16:15:28 GMT
Ok, looks good!
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