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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?

Huntn said:
Frankenstein (2025)- After featured prominently at the Oscars, I kind of paid attention to it as my wife watched it, and I remembered on the first watch, I really disliked the basic premise of this story that “the creature” unlike the original story, for this version was turned into a super creature that can’t die. Because of that, turned off, I turned it off. Ok, well, this time I watched and it was ok, I felt some empathy for the creature, but I was still like, what’s the point of this story, why is it unkillable, so what was it’s purpose, that’s never established. Ok, if no purpose, is there a point? I still can’t recommend this. The original story made more sense to me.
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I saw it on Netflix and have’t bothered, not interested. To me it is a story done so so so so many times with different takes, but the same premise. Once you've seen one version you've seen them all really. Although I have to say the Poor Things take was astounding but that is mainly due to Emma Stones stunning performance.
 
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mtbdudex said:
You have a Plex server

www.plex.tv

Personal Media Server | Plex

Don’t just store your movies and music—organize, beautify, and stream it with the Plex Media Server.
www.plex.tv www.plex.tv

or kaleidescape system

High-Fidelity Movies for Your Home Theater - Kaleidescape

Kaleidescape delivers the world’s only high-fidelity movie library with lossless audio and full reference video quality. Learn more now.
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Or
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Plex, was just a snapshot off one of the backup drives.

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Not so much a movie, but "The Fires of Kuwait" - the iMax film.

Just shocking. I've never seen any fires like that. Everything is burning, everything is total darkness and the sound is like 747s taking off. 😯

The people working on that were really brave.
 
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@C0ncreteBl0nde ... no love for it?

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I definitely prefer Interstellar to Inception.
 
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Always being interested in adventure and survival type movies, I found this one with Robert Redford pretty good. Kind of a Jeremiah Johnson at sea. Apparently, the experience of being constantly soaked with partial loss of hearing from the water caused him to retire from acting.

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Queen6 said:
Plex, was just a snapshot off one of the backup drives.

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I went kscape 4 weeks ago.
Since my 3 kids now all done with college have discretionary $$’s.

PQ and audio the top tier, easy 1 stop retrieval.

As I'm cataloging the 300+ discs I own, buying worthy ones on kscape (lots in $4-5$), won’t pay full price, they have sales.

Soon bye bye to these 4 sliding 21” deep shelf’s
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The others I don’t re-buy thru kscape I might go the Plex route for them - have a 4 bay Synology NAS, or just keep them as optical relics...

FWIW: I committed $$,$$$ to kscape, so of course I gotta say " I love it ", placebo effect..
 
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Fist of Fury (1972)

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.

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Just finishing up the Star Trek (Kelvin Timeline) trilogy; I really like the casting choices for the main crew characters...!
  1. Star Trek
  2. Star Trek Into Darkness
  3. Star Trek Beyond
It is a great loss to the Kelvin franchise that Anton Yelchin passed away though, he was an amazing Chekhov...!
 
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Threads (1985)

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

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The War Game (1966)
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A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. Banned for decades by those who should have known better...

The story is told in the style of a news magazine programme. It wavers between a pseudo-documentary and a drama film, with characters acknowledging the presence of the camera crew in some segments and others (in particular the nuclear attack) filmed as if the camera was not present. The combination of elements also qualifies it as a mondo film. It features several different strands that alternate throughout, including a documentary-style chronology of the main events featuring reportage-like images of the war, the nuclear strikes, and their effects on civilians.

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By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
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A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates. Soviet response is automatic as it's seen as a NATO missile. Can continued escalation be avoided? We follow the US president and a bomber crew. A lighter take than Treads & The War Game equally sends the message firmly. While a TVM By Dawns Early Light is a strong thriller wrapped around the cold war and the possibilities of the unthinkable……

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Space Above And Beyond (1995-1996)
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Not a film although the pilot is basically a TVM, equally has stood the test of time over 30 years. The Earth is embroiled in a desperate war against alien invaders; this series focuses on one squadron of Marine pilots involved in it. Still have the original disks that Fox begrudgingly released due pressure from the fans. Wasn't meant to be a realistic depiction of a future war or the military, it was about a group of people placed in situations of adversity and their bonding……
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Am tempted to rip the disks again to see if can improve on the image quality, last being 2019. Problem is SAAB was only ever released on DVD (Autumn 2005) and was a bare bones effort. Fox eventually capitulated under the sheer weight of the fans demand for a physical release. I might give it a shot and see, equally I don't expect too much if any improvement. Sadly the series was killed off all too early as per the norm by a studio executives incompetence.

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