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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 12, 2024 5:40:27 GMT
Ye I spoke a bit too soon lol. It got weird but still felt like there was something nasty underlying it all.
It has amazed me how much knowing the source material (or not) effects my viewing of a show. I never played Fallout before so am experiencing this world for the first time.
If anyone would ever care to just unplug their brain and dip into a nasty little atmosphere that works very well for 3/4 of a movie based on a game (and skip the opening scene with the children) then Resident Evil: Welcome To Racoon City is a treat with a few nice little surprises.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 12, 2024 2:39:51 GMT
Ahhh shit. I've started Fallout.
Ive been thinking a lot lately about tone in a film/series.
Fallout has more serious and oppressive tone in 5 minutes than I've seen in 3 episodes of 3 Body Problem.
The tone is all wrong in 3BP imo. It's too jokey. What the hell is there to joke about in 3BP? How would season 1 of True Detective have faired had Cohle been hamming it up all the time?
The ship slicing scene will be the real test for me because in the Chinese 3BP it was handled very well, was drawn out perfectly and had a serious tone to it.
Will continue with Fallout for now.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 6, 2024 1:31:23 GMT
Boiling Point
A one uninterrupted take 90 minute film starring Stephen Graham about a night at a restaurant he is running. I found it difficult to look away the entire time. I've worked in 5 restaurants. It's a terrible situation for everybody involved most of all for the owner because he is at the mercy of his revolving door of employees. I saw a million things and constant patterns while working at restaurants but what speaks to me the most is that not one restaurant I worked at is in business 10 years later, ages before covid, and nobody that I know is still working in that profession.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 4, 2024 15:20:53 GMT
Ever since reading the last couple of comments in this thread I get a chuckle. A buddy of mine is out travelling and has moved to Thailand but is visiting France and Italy. And he's a DJ with a whole gloomy performative look (his music is good though. He looks like Trent Reznor).
So there's the Eiffel tower and the leaning tower of Pisa. And hey look. There's one of Jim Henson's Muppets blocking the bottom view of the photo with his ridiculous cartoon-like bespectacled self alongside his emo phase aura.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 3, 2024 20:51:37 GMT
I can't believe that they keep ruining old classics (actually I can believe it).
Watching Jake Gyllennhaal is literally only one step removed from watching Toby Maguire which is the same as watching a being trapped inside of a human body that it is QUITE unfamiliar with the controls of.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 2, 2024 1:57:41 GMT
While this sounds very cool and exciting, the controlled madness on the album 'Meta' from this guy's band Car Bomb is incredible. The kind of effects used are unlike others I've heard.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 2, 2024 0:57:47 GMT
I had a rough go with this. Lisa Gerrard was not what I thought, on this record I mean. I did find some type of footing at Amnesia, Opium, Return Of The She-King.
One thing that excites me these days is knowing that as much of a music fiend as Ive been all of my life streaming has only accelerated it significantly. I've learned that I do best when finding a spot on an album to branch out from and see if I can find something for myself that way. Like with all album choices I'll give it a shot.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 1, 2024 23:18:46 GMT
The first track of that album is a bit interesting, Mike, though not sure if there's enough to jump out a grab an ear there.
But I had a vision to it, driving late at night after work. There's a ominous sounding bassline in that one that occurs every so often that sounded like I was in a house and I could hear it crossing the floor upstairs to come down to get me. Just an odd creation they have there.
Could you hang with 21:15 here?
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 1, 2024 17:20:55 GMT
I had no idea that Lisa Gerrard is in Dead Can Dance. Her voice was tattooed onto my brain when the film The Insider hit theaters. There's a scene in there in which Russel Crowe's character has a vision of his children playing and the music in that scene called 'Meltdown' and her vocals are just devastating.
Will take a gander peak after work.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 17:37:48 GMT
Martin I could be wrong because I don't know know enough about performance and handling, but this guy reviewing this truck talks about "Steer-by-wire" in the Cybertruck and he has it as a remarkable ability to steer which changes from street to highway on its own using sensors but in both cases it involves the back tires turning slightly as well. He says because of this feature you can drive it like a smaller car. Though I don't know about how it would handle constant twisting in a road.
Could you watch 3:46 to 6:20 here? He explain it perfectly here and says it was difficult returning to a Ford F150 style of steering afterwards.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 17:23:21 GMT
I may be pretentious Paul but I've earned that right if I'm driving a Porsche 911.
Though, let's be honest, the Porsche 918 Spyder wouldn't only turn heads it would get them nodding in approval.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 16:56:42 GMT
Oh for sure the Porsche 911 (lower to the ground + looks funner to drive and sounds better.)
I thought of it today also that for sure I would not be able to turn into my own driveway in the Cybertruck.
I learned few things yesterday but here's one that stood out to me:
There were only ever 2000 Lamborghini Countaches ever made. There were less than 500 Bugatti Veyrons ever made. There are already 2 million pre-orders for this Cybertruck.
I guess what's interesting about that is that each of the 3 cars mentioned is an iconic niche vehicle only for very wealthy consumers not really looking for a daily driver vehicle but something to add to a collection yet Cybertruck apparently will be mass produced.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 14:34:16 GMT
Ok will do. Wow I've got to get back to see Late Night again next week. In the meantime though will rent Talk To Me hopefully today.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 14:32:42 GMT
I wish I knew the answer. For some reason I spent half the day yesterday watching Cybertruck videos. Weird looking finger print magnet. The doors look dirty at all times.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 4:39:02 GMT
Late Night With The Devil
Holy shit. This was nuts. Something quite different. Will have to see 'Talk To Me' ASAP.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 0:47:13 GMT
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 0:19:22 GMT
Lol Tesla's Cybertruck won a race against a Porsche 911, while it was a towing a Porsche 911. Wow and Cybertruck weighs 7,000 pounds (3175 Kilograms) while towing another 3,000 pounds.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 0:17:04 GMT
Sounds like another fear based move based on what the studio thinks the audience wants. Though not sure if it's possible to know why the studio does that?
Regarding AI handling ads, I wouldn't want to see actors lose out on a paycheck if they became obsolete for filming TV ads, but I think since so many ads are just one offs and you never see that actor again, technically AI might be able to just spit out ads that are completely computer generated and just be done with it with no reason to be offended since a machine created it with no reason to try to offend anyone.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 30, 2024 21:48:26 GMT
What about TV commercials? Here in the US every commercial must include more than 1 race because of the fear of what not doing so would be perceived as. So, every white guy in the SUV commercial must be married to a black or asian woman. Every group of friends watching a football game must be of mixed race to the point where it's actually distracting. A woman who worked for an ad agency was on the Adam Carolla show mentioned how when they were putting together an ad it felt a bit wrong being tasked with going out specifically to find a black person to appear on the screen. We are so scared of the possible wrong perception that we operate more on what something looks like than what it is.
Could AI be a solution when it comes to cheap ads for products like Domino's Pizza? Domino's is a massive chain here. The quality of the product is rock bottom it's difficult to even call it pizza but they advertise the most.
In this AI ad the people look wrong still but I wonder if they fixed that could we once and for all drop our struggle to not appear racist and just chalk it up to entering the right prompts and say "hey this is what it gave us, ye there are only 2 Asians in there and only 1 black person but there're also only two whites". There would be nobody to be falsely outraged at if you can prove you added the prompt to include 'assortment of races within a group of 5 people'.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 29, 2024 18:20:05 GMT
You always got us Paul. Hope things turn around in time for days of better weather.
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