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I’ve just bought a 65” LG C7 OLED and can highly recommend it. It’s a 2017 model (even thought mine was manufactured last month) and so has decreased in price in preparation for the new 2018 models, out soon.
Wow. I'm stunned they even make something that large. This is what happens when you ditch television before streaming has emerged as an option. Trying to figure where on earth I'd mount a 65" screen in this little place meant for a retired farming couple at best... and I'm coming up short, since the parlor and library are little rooms like 11x13, with windows or a pocket door in the middle except for behind the couch. Thanks for my new excuse to build an entertainment addition onto the place.
I'm watching Allied... I meant to watch Hurt Locker but realized I had ditched Allied at about the 35-minute mark for a phone call or whatever, and had forgot ever to go back.
Allied seems okay to me, I'm having a little trouble leaving an actor's private life out of the picture but I'll get over it. 'Nuf said about that except I guess that's a skill may get more practice in general these days, unfortunately.
Hurt Locker is next up for me.
We're actually looking at something in the 70-75" range. Anything 80 and above seems to start at around $15,000 USD for some reason. I assume the panel is simply too large and manufacturing it is difficult. There's almost a 10K price difference between a high end 75" 4K UHD HDR and those.
I think the biggest difference for us aside from quality will be just how light the new TVs are. Far cry from the mega sized tubes back in the day.
The Last Witchhunter (2015) - I did like the scenes that were set in the past, but the present day material just did not work.
Wow. I'm stunned they even make something that large. This is what happens when you ditch television before streaming has emerged as an option. Trying to figure where on earth I'd mount a 65" screen in this little place meant for a retired farming couple at best... and I'm coming up short, since the parlor and library are little rooms like 11x13, with windows or a pocket door in the middle except for behind the couch. Thanks for my new excuse to build an entertainment addition onto the place.
I'm watching Allied... I meant to watch Hurt Locker but realized I had ditched Allied at about the 35-minute mark for a phone call or whatever, and had forgot ever to go back.
Allied seems okay to me, I'm having a little trouble leaving an actor's private life out of the picture but I'll get over it. 'Nuf said about that except I guess that's a skill may get more practice in general these days, unfortunately.
Hurt Locker is next up for me.
It’s not that big....
Uh, it looks bloody gigantic....It’s not that big....
I'll be mounting a 70" on the wall in the very near future
(over-and-in-front of the mantle/fireplace).Come to think of it, a 75" would fit too ...
Streaming does have some serious drawbacks. Well, it and DVRs.
I can't wait to watch coral reef documentaries in 4K HDR.
Let me know what you get. I still can't make up my mind. I'd likely pair a Harmony control or something equally good to it. The new remotes are too simple for me. I like my buttons.I'll be mounting a 70" on the wall in the very near future
Come to think of it, a 75" would fit too ...
I can't wait to watch coral reef documentaries in 4K HDR.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) - Being a rather formative movie for me in so many ways, I can honestly say, I watch this for Lee Van Cleef now. I appreciate him so much more (and I've always been a fan); but the way he just commanded every scene he was in. Van Cleef made you believe how awful his character was, that's how to play a solid villain.
These days Tuco gets on my nerves, sd I'd much rather watch Blondie and Angel Eyes outwit each other than anything else. My feelings about this being a bit too long still linger though. Probably my least favorite of the Eastwood-Van Cleef-Leone films and they were all very good, if not, great.
Gracious, I am still dealing with 27" televisions. I think I'd weep with joy if I had a monster OLED to watch all my movies on.
These days Tuco gets on my nerves, sd I'd much rather watch Blondie and Angel Eyes outwit each other than anything else. My feelings about this being a bit too long still linger though. Probably my least favorite of the Eastwood-Van Cleef-Leone films and they were all very good, if not, great.
Gracious, I am still dealing with 27" televisions. I think I'd weep with joy if I had a monster OLED to watch all my movies on.
Just watched BladeRunner 2049. I thought it was a pretty good sequel and was very impressed with the FX, (as I was with the original, back in the day). Good story and good acting kept it going well, at almost 3 hrs. Wasn't thrilled with the ending, as it seemed they deliberately left things dangling for a sequel that may never happen.
Lee Van Cleef absolutely rules! That name alone is imperative
Had totally forgotten that he was in Escape From NY as well so had a pleasant surprise when watching it (albeit his role being a bit cheesy).
But good reminder to watch a Leone flic again some time as it has been a while. Probably Once Upon A Time - love that cast!
Lee Van Cleef absolutely rules! That name alone is imperative
Had totally forgotten that he was in Escape From NY as well so had a pleasant surprise when watching it (albeit his role being a bit cheesy).
But good reminder to watch a Leone flic again some time as it has been a while. Probably Once Upon A Time - love that cast!
1000% agree with the bolded.
Once Upon a Time is more of a slog for me. I find that film boring outside of Bronson and Fonda's relationship (btw, you have Dario Argento to thank for Harmonica's flashback reveal.
) If someone made an edit with those two, I'd happily watch (and also for Fabio Testi's stunt where he pretty much fell on head. )I don't think Hauke is cheesy. Besides Hawk > Snake and Colonel Mortimer and the Man with No Name... works for me.
I still wonder what Lee Van Cleef thought of Kurt purposely mimicking Clint (and, yet, making Snake entirely his own man.) Carpenter did reluctantly* admit that TGTBATU would be the Leone film he would have remade, if asked. *Reluctant in that he loves all of the Leone - Eastwood - Van Cleef movies.
Yep, Bronson (and for me especially) Fonda are the main reason for OUATITW - although I quite like Claudia. The pace is slow as with The Good etc but I don't mind it, but it's probably one of the main reasons I don't watch them often and will only do so when I'm 100% in the right mood.
And cheesy is probably the wrong word - he works very well within the movie - but I can't say that I don't have to chuckle a bit when I see him on screen (which is unthinkable in all the other movies I've seen him in, here Kurt rules the screen)..those leather arm thingys..dunno
The pace is slow as with The Good etc but I don't mind it, but it's probably one of the main reasons I don't watch them often and will only do so when I'm 100% in the right mood.And cheesy is probably the wrong word - he works very well within the movie - but I can't say that I don't have to chuckle a bit when I see him on screen (which is unthinkable in all the other movies I've seen him in, here Kurt rules the screen)..those leather arm thingys..dunno
Yep, Bronson (and for me especially) Fonda are the main reason for OUATITW - although I quite like Claudia.
And cheesy is probably the wrong word - he works very well within the movie - but I can't say that I don't have to chuckle a bit when I see him on screen (which is unthinkable in all the other movies I've seen him in, here Kurt rules the screen)..those leather arm thingys..dunno
^ OUATITW almost my exact thoughts (though I have to be particularly patient with this one and be in the mood.)
Interestingly, Carpenter said EFNY was the first time LVC had to move, hit his marks and deliver dialog. So it was a bit tricky for him (LVC sustained some kind of leg injury falling off a horse.) Hauke never gets to Angel Eyes levels of eep! intensity, but yeah, Escape from New York is Kurt's movie.
BTW, I dusted off The Good, The Bad and The Ugly due to a Marvel comic that takes place in an alternate spaghetti west style wasteland. One of the pivotal villains is drawn looking a lot like Lee Van Cleef with a cyborg eye. To top it off, the creative team more than nods to Angel Eyes dinner hit in next week's issue 2. I haven't seen TGTBATU in at least 18-24 months and I recognized what the writer and artist were doing immediately.
the comic in question is Old Man Hawkeye...I demand a movie. Preferably with Renner playing this version of Hawkeye too. BTW, here's a link to the OMH 2 preview
The Cloverfield Paradox 2018- A 15% Critics Like, 50% audience like, some parallel universe action, I did not like. Is this supposed to be the third of a Cloverfield trilogy, of which the first was good, the second ok? I guess there was a trend line involved. It never made it to the big screen and I guess it was dumped on Netflix instead.
It never made it to the big screen and I guess it was dumped on Netflix instead.
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I never thought I'd say this, but Captain America The Winter Soldier for university. As if you have to pull my robotic arm to watch that again.
Twofer deal, IMO. Netflix airs a production film made by a major studio and is exclusive to Netflix users, flavor it with dodgy expense writeoffs. Studios shy away from these types of film because the ROI is awful, even on a limited budget. Both parties walk away happy.
The Cloverfield Paradox Spoilers
Spoilers follow...
Like why would a severed arm have a life of it’s own and write a message? Why would a crew person from a parallel ship end up in the wall of your ship? Why would a crewman’s eye go wonky, and then make him eat a terrarium full of worms, then have a physical meltdown and grusome death? And why and how would the ship’s gyro go missing, not a small item, ending up in the guts of the worm eating crewman... that the arm with a message told you about?
If you’ve watched it, there were possibilities with this film that were blown, and they threw in creepy stuff just to raise the intrigue level without any real purpose or explanation, or was this supposed to be the general weird anomalies and crap when you travel to a parallel universe?
Spoilers follow...
Like why would a severed arm have a life of it’s own and write a message? Why would a crew person from a parallel ship end up in the wall of your ship? Why would a crewman’s eye go wonky, and then make him eat a terrarium full of worms, then have a physical meltdown and grusome death? And why and how would the ship’s gyro go missing, not a small item, ending up in the guts of the worm eating crewman... that the arm with a message told you about?
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I realize it’s a diagonal measurement, but the 75” screens don’t look that much bigger than the 60”. I’ve read that because of the higher resolution, the 75” 4K screen (for someday soon) can be watched from a closer distance, which is a good fit for my family room mounted above the fireplace, where our current 55” is located.
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Does there have to be a reason? Adam Sandler's acting and film quality took a huge dip into the outhouse a long time ago. Netflix says his movies are some of the highest watched on their platform. This isn't me bashing people who like dumb movies (I like some myself), but people want some entertainment at times and not a serious, to the point, art house film.