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Post by simpleman68 on Jul 24, 2023 17:06:58 GMT -5
After watching them back to back... it got me thinking... who would win in a battle? Mr. McCall or Mr. Wick...  Neither, it would be like Saturday morning Kung Fu where the 2 masters punch each other and create a "plasma ball" that sends them backwards (sliding on their feet of course) giving them a mutual appreciation for each other's skills.  Scott
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Post by simpleman68 on Jul 24, 2023 17:10:02 GMT -5
Finished the 2nd half 2 nights ago. Very enjoyable and excellent sound track. Scott
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Post by simpleman68 on Jul 24, 2023 17:11:26 GMT -5
This was last nights feature. Fun and mildly enjoyable but not up to Ritchie's usual awesomeness. Scott
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Post by squirrel010 on Jul 26, 2023 8:17:28 GMT -5
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Post by LuisV on Jul 26, 2023 9:03:38 GMT -5
This was last nights feature. Fun and mildly enjoyable but not up to Ritchie's usual awesomeness. Scott Agreed... wasn't a fan of Operation Fortune, but The Covenant... certainly one of his better ones!!.  |
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Post by rbk123 on Jul 26, 2023 10:29:38 GMT -5
After watching them back to back... it got me thinking... who would win in a battle? Mr. McCall or Mr. Wick... There's a discussion on this very topic in an old John Wick thread from years ago, somewhere on this board. |
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Post by simpleman68 on Jul 28, 2023 11:28:19 GMT -5
This was last nights feature. Fun and mildly enjoyable but not up to Ritchie's usual awesomeness. Scott Agreed... wasn't a fan of Operation Fortune, but The Covenant... certainly one of his better ones!!. Watched Covenant last night. Very well done storyline, acting etc. The only thing that threw me was the early 70s music that popped up in the first 1/3 of the movie. Like are we theming a Vietnam era flick or what?
Scott
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Post by LuisV on Aug 7, 2023 18:17:24 GMT -5
Agreed... wasn't a fan of Operation Fortune, but The Covenant... certainly one of his better ones!!. Watched Covenant last night. Very well done storyline, acting etc. The only thing that threw me was the early 70s music that popped up in the first 1/3 of the movie. Like are we theming a Vietnam era flick or what?
Scott
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Post by Boomzilla on Aug 26, 2023 21:37:22 GMT -5
Interesting factoids that I read about (before watching this movie): 1. It was Teamsters' Union pension fund money that allowed the Chicago mafia to get their first toehold in Las Vegas 2. Most of the characters in this movie were based on real life people 3. Most of the situations in this movie actually happened 4. Since the late 1980s the FBI & the Las Vegas Gaming Commission have (mostly) erased mob influence 5. The mafia has taken up the slack by dominating State and Indian casinos |
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Post by Boomzilla on Sept 28, 2023 14:03:14 GMT -5
Further thoughts on the movie "Sicario" -
I didn't much like this movie (too violent & gritty), but I can't seem to get it out of my mind. After further consideration, I think that what "confuses" me about this movie is the deliberate ambiguity. Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys? Why?
The movie hides the motives of many of the main characters (particularly those of "Alexandro," the cartel lawyer turned revenge seeker), and doles them out sparingly throughout the course of the movie.
But even once you understand the hidden motives of the characters, there are no purely good or purely evil people - only those with more or less willingness to do what's necessary to achieve their goals. Whether they're "good" or "bad" is left to the viewer to assess after understanding their rationale for what the characters do (or don't do).
Even the most "evil" characters have some stripes of humanity in them, and even the most stirling characters have their own flaws. The only purely innocent in the movie are the children, but even they get frequently sacrificed to the motives of the adults and the tides of the wider world.
I can say, however, that the actors all gave GREAT performances, and the viewer is left with the bizarre collage of cowboys, rule-followers, and innocent bystanders mixed into the confusing plot. I may even have to watch this one again sometime after the original impressions get fully-baked.
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Post by Sayer on Sept 30, 2023 14:56:20 GMT -5
Dolby official Atmos demo discs from 2014 and 2015. The 2015 disc has some especially good content, music videos, movie scenes, Dolby demo videos, etc.
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Post by marcl on Oct 13, 2023 8:16:56 GMT -5
I hear physical media is dead ... long live physical media! So I'm doing the best I can.
The Atmos sound track on this series is one of the best I've ever heard. Very well-used spatial effects and excellent dynamic range.
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Post by marcl on Oct 15, 2023 11:05:23 GMT -5
I hear physical media is dead ... long live physical media! So I'm doing the best I can. The Atmos sound track on this series is one of the best I've ever heard. Very well-used spatial effects and excellent dynamic range. Follow up .... We binged it in three nights, 3-2-3. Definitely one of the best series I've watched ... ever. Definitely one of the top 3-4 Atmos mixes I've ever heard ... maybe THE best, and that includes anything on the Dolby Demo Disk. Many sound engineers are still mixing Atmos as though it was channel-based surround with top speakers. They don't think 3D space, they think "what speaker should this sound come from", or "I can put thunder and helicopters up there". Not just my opinion ... many pros have commented on this. And many distribution channels require Atmos, while many production channels refuse to allow adequate budget, often relegating the Atmos mix to whatever time is left after they do a 5.1. And yeah, they sell a lot of soundbars and most people are probably satisfied that if it SAYS Atmos it IS Atmos. But not most of us, right  But this series brings the sounds out from the wall and down from the ceiling. There are very quiet subtle sounds that move around the room. And there are big scary impacts - tastefully placed - that don't just happen front and center but actually make sense in the space ... when something lands on the floor in front of you, it's on the floor in front of you. It's also a great series to subjectively evaluate your speaker balance. I meticulously try to balance them to less than a decibel using the tracks from Spatial Audio Toolkit. But my ears and the room can alter the perceived balance too. Overall I have dinked the rears and surrounds up 2db, but listening to this series I brought the rears back down 1. Subtle, but effective. |
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Post by 405x5 on Oct 15, 2023 15:59:26 GMT -5
….. well tonight, lol…… Long awaited  |
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Post by 405x5 on Oct 15, 2023 22:06:08 GMT -5
…. And just finished watching In 2018 “ The Predator” came out and after that I thought it was all over the movie was so pitifully bad. thank God for this one. it rescued the franchise for sure. |
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Post by LCSeminole on Sept 6, 2024 21:30:09 GMT -5
Just got this 4K UHD-bluray and will be watching Saturday night.  |
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Post by cwmcobra on Sept 6, 2024 21:37:49 GMT -5
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Post by cwmcobra on Sept 6, 2024 21:46:58 GMT -5
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