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Post by technoish on Jan 11, 2024 19:04:19 GMT
I think it's only OK if the screen also resizes to match, like it does at the cinema after the ads It's probably one of my absolute favourite things about going to cinema.
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Post by sport✅ on Jan 11, 2024 19:08:13 GMT
I think it's only OK if the screen also resizes to match, like it does at the cinema after the ads It's probably one of my absolute favourite things about going to cinema. lol, you mean your telly doesn't?
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 11, 2024 19:08:15 GMT
Unsane had a pretty unusual aspect ratio for 1.56:1 as it was all shot on an iPhone 7 Plus, it actually worked pretty well given the nature of the film.
Well worth a watch.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 11, 2024 19:21:16 GMT
You get the odd film that actually does it for narrative reasons like Boogie Nights or Grand Budapest Hotel, but yeah, the IMAX thing is annoying. I think the home versions of Nolan’s film have all been tweaked to remain consistent in ratio. No, all of his switch ratios. All of them from Dark Knight to Oppenheimer do it.
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Post by kal on Jan 11, 2024 19:28:01 GMT
You get the odd film that actually does it for narrative reasons like Boogie Nights or Grand Budapest Hotel, but yeah, the IMAX thing is annoying. I think the home versions of Nolan’s film have all been tweaked to remain consistent in ratio. No, all of his switch ratios. All of them from Dark Knight to Oppenheimer do it. Ok well I must have bought a special magic version of his films from Apple TV that doesn’t do it just for me.
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Post by 😎 on Jan 11, 2024 19:32:18 GMT
Doesn’t do it on AppleTV for me either, just scrubbed through the various IMAX filmed bits of Dark Knight
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Post by kal on Jan 11, 2024 19:33:04 GMT
Ok just me and Gremmi.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 11, 2024 19:36:46 GMT
Oh, the streaming/itunes ones don’t but blu rays do.
Edit: looks like they may have done the switching in the past as well but people complained.
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Post by mrpon on Jan 11, 2024 19:39:08 GMT
I'm sure most directors get the chills when they see how their masterpieces are visualised.
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Post by 😎 on Jan 11, 2024 19:41:05 GMT
So can I go back to watching Chopped now or does anyone else still live in 2012 and need verification on Blu-rays
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Post by Vandelay on Jan 11, 2024 19:41:49 GMT
Maybe true for the Apple TV version, but the Blu-ray (and 4K version) do change aspect for IMAX sequences. Just checked multiple reviews and they all mention it.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 11, 2024 19:46:08 GMT
Just zoom in a bit.
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Post by Lizard on Jan 11, 2024 20:01:04 GMT
I just stretch to fill 16:9.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 11, 2024 20:16:30 GMT
I don't really mind IMAX scenes, as long as they stick with it for an entire scene and don't keep flitting between it for different shots. Can't remember what film that happened in recently, I may have just imagined it in fairness...
It worked really well in my favourite 'kind of shit, but absolutely gorgeous' film. Tron Legacy.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 11, 2024 20:48:27 GMT
I just stretch to fill 16:9. /Unzips and "stretches"
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Post by harrypalmer on Jan 11, 2024 21:43:40 GMT
I think Apple shows them letterboxed throughout while other versions will go full-screen during the imax scenes.
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Post by bindipper3d on Jan 11, 2024 22:00:57 GMT
I don't really mind IMAX scenes, as long as they stick with it for an entire scene and don't keep flitting between it for different shots. Can't remember what film that happened in recently, I may have just imagined it in fairness... It worked really well in my favourite 'kind of shit, but absolutely gorgeous' film. Tron Legacy. Tron Legacy is indeed a bit shit, but my god it looks sublime on a decent OLED telly.
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Post by geefe on Jan 11, 2024 22:09:27 GMT
Tron 2 is absolutely yawn inducing. Crazy, as it had everything going for it. Looked great, Daft Punk, Michael Sheen and Olivia Wilde.
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Post by technoish on Jan 12, 2024 0:00:23 GMT
The opening shit is god tier.
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Post by Lizard on Jan 12, 2024 1:10:46 GMT
The opening shit is god tier. Are you talking films or morning routine?
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Post by technoish on Jan 12, 2024 1:22:25 GMT
The opening shot is god tier. Fixed
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jan 12, 2024 6:24:30 GMT
Lost in Translation
This movie is now a little more than 20 years old, and I feel old. But thought it was about time to put it on again after so many years.
No surprises, it's a masterpiece. Great visuals, great music. Great dialogue and performances that sell the central relationship, and manage to not make it feel icky or weird in any way.
The only real criticism I have is that the Japanese characters are often a bit much. I get that the movie is about how alienated Bob and Charlotte feel in this place, but I think you can get at the weirdness of Japan without needing to give Japanese people wacky accents and such. The scene with the prostitute is particularly cringe.
Anyway, 10/10. It's probably not my favourite Sofia Coppola (that's probably Marie Antoinette), but it's right up there.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Jan 12, 2024 6:45:36 GMT
I haven't watched it for years, so I don't remember any of the individual characters except the two main leads. But when I moved to Japan soon after watching it I found it pretty accurate in terms of how it felt to be in an alien place (Tokyo specifically).
I wonder if it would be the same nowadays though. Youtube, google translate, google maps, tripadvisor, and a huge number of foreign tourists nowadays, have probably made the experience a lot less confusing and jarring than it used to be.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jan 12, 2024 7:07:26 GMT
Having spent a lot of time in Japan myself, there are aspects that aren't really that far off reality (Japanese game/panel shows really are quite like that)
But in places it's just a bit too extra and insensitive. I get that the story isn't really about Japan, that the country and its people are more window dressing for the plot, but at times I think it gets a bit far into caricature.
Still a great movie though.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Jan 12, 2024 7:52:59 GMT
I loved it back in the day, and at the time I remember feeling like 'omg, I'm in Lost in Translation'.
I wonder how I'd feel about it now though.
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Post by skalpadda on Jan 12, 2024 8:02:17 GMT
Lost in Translation is the only movie I've gone to see alone and completely at random in the threatre. My roommate had a date over and I had nothing to do, so just went into town and bought a ticket to the first thing that was showing. Really loved it and it's still one of my favourite movie experiences. Not interesting, I know, just a nice memory.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Jan 12, 2024 8:16:55 GMT
If you're only going to watch one random movie alone it's a good pick, thematically as well. Until recently with kids, I basically always watch movies alone. Of course, I usually know what I'm going to watch before I go to the theatre, but there was a period back in uni and just after where I'd go 3+ days a week and just watch whatever was on. Weirdest one was being alone at a hotel in London for a training course, so deciding to walk to the nearest cinema to watch some drama or other. But somehow going into the wrong screen and ending up watching Wolf Creek. I can't remember what movie I was trying to watch, but it definitely wasn't a horror and I kept waiting for it to resemble the poster, and then people started dying.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2024 9:48:29 GMT
Killers of the Flower Moon is on Apple TV today. Time to take advantage of the free trials again.
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Post by geefe on Jan 12, 2024 9:57:54 GMT
I think the thing that makes Lost in Translation work is that they never really make it a "romance". I was absolutely dreading them having a kiss or something and it ended so well.
Also "more intensity" and the prostitute scene.
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Post by mrpon on Jan 12, 2024 9:58:35 GMT
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