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Well bollocks, we've got a telly thread so I thought I'd create one for films too.

I'm currently working my way through Movies With A Twist Collection 3 which I downloaded years ago from TPB. All of those torrents are now dead which is a shame because I didn't get around to downloading Collection 4. I'm downloading all of those separately which is a hassle but will be worth it in the end going by 1-3 so far.

Am in the middle of watching Law Abiding Citizen, I think I've seen it before but i was so long ago I've forgotten what happens.

The problem with watching these films knowing that there's a twist makes it easy to work out what the twist in question is so probably better if you watch them without that knowledge lol

Here's a list of some of my all-time favourite films of all-time in no particular order:

Brazil
The Life Of Brian
The Holy Grail
The Meaning Of Life
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Lifeforce (a terrible film but the female lead vampire spends most of it naked lol)
All Lethal Weapons
All Die Hards
Every Dirty Harry Film
The Jungle Book (the Disney original)
Pi
Falling Down (just for the McDonalds scene lmfao)
Silent Running
Logan's Run
All 60s-70s Planet Of The Apes
Soylent Green

Am going to stop there otherwise this post is going to be HUGE lol

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RuneSR2

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Btw, can't have people thinking I only watch Kong movies - also just ordered this movie:

I'm not that fond of paying the full price for old movies, but this one is special - 8.0 on IMDB, 8 Oscars - and the 4K version should be perfection:

"For its 2160p/HDR UHD release of Gandhi, Sony has split the film across two discs. Disc one runs 1:32:00 while disc two runs 1:39:14. One might rightly describe both Gandhi the man and Gandhi the UHD with the same adjectives: wondrous, impeccable, flawless. Sony's 2160p/HDR UHD presentation of the Oscar-winning classic looks better than most movies made in the past few years. The picture is perfectly filmic. Grain is fine and ever-present, a consistent companion and necessary component in the image that allows it to maintain a picture-perfect cinematic texturing that only enhances the remarkable clarity and fine-point attention to detail evident in essentially every shot. The picture is jaw-dropping gorgeous in all areas, but particularly in its total sharpness. Textures appear effortlessly complex and in-depth. It goes well beyond the Blu-ray which does not look at all poor but the UHD manages to bring out a sizable increase in both intimate and intricate details and also allow the broader elements to come alive with newfound definition and vitality. Whether basics like facial details or attire or natural landscapes or city elements, every shot dazzles with both the clarity of core components and the supportive details around. Everything is breathtakingly true to the source. This is a prestigious presentation."

Source: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gandhi-4K-Blu-ray/266982/

It's probably 30 years since I saw the movie the last time, not sure I remember it well, lol - might not be a bad idea with a memory update... 😎

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Zenbane

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The new Matrix trailer is out, and it is glorious.

kojack

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I just watched Kate.

Imagine Crank (without the humor) meets John Wick.

An assassin has 14 hours to find and kill the person who had her poisoned.

The fight scenes are pretty cool. Lots of stabbing and headshots. Mary Elizabeth Winstead kicks a heap of ass.

The Matrix 4 does look cool. It's going to be odd having a Matrix movie without Hugo Weaving's distinct Agent Smith voice.

This is also the first Matrix movie that was made by Lana Wachowski without Lilly Wachowski. They co-directed all of their previous movies.

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Arko66

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....I am going to watch this tonight. The review on IMDB was so-so but the trailer looked great. Who needs user reviews?...hahaha!.......

RuneSR2

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Saw these two movies this weekend - they were a lot better than I remember them, but 4K does make quite a difference:

Especially Game of Shadows was awesome, could see tons of details in Moriarty's skin. Audio was great too.

The movies have high IMDB ratings - 7.6 and 7.5 respectively. The third movie is expected in December 2021:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2094116/

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RuneSR2

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Just arrived, probably $45 down the drain, but I'm sure Disney needs the dough 😇 - and she does look like a cutie on the Steelbook 😍

- also saw it was a $200 mill movie - better see it then 🤓 Even if only 6.8 on IMDB 😬

Would much rather have Shang-Chi... but it'll probably arrive soon too...

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RuneSR2

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Wasn't expecting much for Black Widow, but was positively surprised. There're several awesome scenes which may justify the $200 mill budget. But most of all I don't remember any Disney 4K movie looking this sharp. Black Widow may be an example of a close to perfect 4K movie. While many other movies use upscaling from 2K to 4K, Black Widow is full 4K all the way. Even the larger special effects scenes, which often get reduced to 2K to save costs, looked totally sharp and 4K to me. Movie immersion never really has been better - ok, maybe if I could get 4K 3D, sigh.

I can see other movie enthusiasts noticing the glory of the Black Widow 4K version too:

"The native 4K resolution further allows for a brilliant bit of textural gain as well. The picture is obviously crisper and cleaner. There's something of a glossier sheen to it at this resolution but the increase in overall clarity is obvious even without a direct comparison; simply watching the movie a second time reveals the jump. Still, A-B comparisons do demonstrate the exceedingly good uptick in textural gain, particularly obvious in close-ups where skin details, for example, leap off the screen with newfound depth and precision. Look at a Romanoff close-up at the 1:34:22 mark for a terrific example of the UHD bringing out a fairly substantial increase in clarity and fine detail. This extends to practical and digital elements, clothes, and various environments as well. Add in the absence of distracting noise and the picture's freedom from compression and encode issues and there's nothing to dislike here. This is a first-rate UHD presentation from Disney."

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Black-Widow-4K-Blu-ray/258631/#Review

Being able to see small windows in building miles hundreds of meters away means that the depth of the 2D image was incredible. You can see all finer skin details like never before, lol - really felt close to Scarlett Johansson 😁 Florence Pugh playing as Johansson's younger sister wasn't a bad move too - I greatly enjoyed Pugh in stunningly high 4K res too 😃

The Dolby Atmos sound was awesome too. Only using the UHD disc version you get lossless Atmos - when streaming the movie, Atmos sound is compressed, and the 4K movie is also much more compressed than the disc version. Thus streaming the 4K version is not at all the same as experiencing the 4K disc version (disc may contain up to 100GB data).

My son did complain that this was a "chick flick" - and that there were few men in the movie. But as I tried to explain above, for married men this may not be all that bad 😎 I do think Black Widow was a way for Disney to try to expand their female audience, not sure if that worked. My wife did like the movie a lot.

7.5/10 on my scale. But that's only for the 4K disc version - you may subtract up to 2 for other verisons (4 for the DVD version, lol).

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RuneSR2

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My 4K movie-pusher-shop knows my weaknesses 😬 Of course they know that the new Dune movie launched in the cinemas yesterday - and they probably know the movie has this year's highest IMDB rating so far. And they just offered me the movie for $45 - limited Steelbook Edition and free shipping.

That's an offer I cannot refuse - already bought it. The deal is so fresh you cannot even find images of the 4K movie anywhere - but some Germans made their own preliminary version:

Most popular user review on IMDB:

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kojack

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I'm curious to see how Dune turns out.

I love the 1984 Dune. Or more specifically I love the first half. Just visually amazing. The last half gets a bit dull, just sand everywhere. Although every scene with Sting is great, he has some of the best maniacal grins I've ever seen in a movie.

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kojack

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Oh yeah, Kill Bill. I should have thought of that influence. 🙂

Also part of the plot is similar to Hard Revenge Milly : Bloody Battle, another awesome "woman seeking revenge goes on a gruesome martial arts killing spree". Specifically the plot of the female side character that tags along.

I'd recommend the Hard Revenge Milly series (2 movies) if you like japanese action/gore films like The Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police, Robogeisha, etc.

I'd post trailers for some of the Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl, RoboGeisha, Mutant Girls Squad, Zombie Ass : Toilet of the Dead, Dead Sushi) and Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl, Helldriver) movies I've seen, but I'd probably get banned from the forum. Just the Tokyo Gore Police trailer alone is pretty messed up. (The two of them work together on some of those, Yoshihiro is a gore makeup artist on many movies and directs some too)

The most disappointing was RoboGeisha, they replaced the blood effects with CGI, which looked so crap. All the others use so much actual liquid fake blood that Evil Dead 2 would feel jealous.

But it does have this scene, making it all worth while. (No blood or violence)

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RuneSR2

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Got bored and bought some stuff 😇

I don't even really like Tenet - but steelbooks are my soft spot 😃 (and Tenet isn't exactly a walk in the park, might not be a bad idea wacthing it twice)

- and bought a girlie movie for the wife... the movie's budget was $200 mill, it can't be a bad movie! 🤔 (By a complete pure coincidence I got the steelbook again 😁 )

Last and maybe least, I bought some existential intellectual educational movie about hunting ... stuff ... I can already feel my neurons sprouting 😎

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RuneSR2

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Seems I've been rather lucky with the latest movies - ok, maybe not WW84, I think I dozed off for a few minutes there (but the wife liked it) - fortunately Tenet and especially Monster Hunter were great.

I expected nothing from Monster Hunter, IMDB rating was close to 5 - but I was really blown away. The movie really felt like some video game - and what's not to like about that 🙂 Furthermore the 4K version was simply perfect. Just had to check, and Bly-ray.com did indeed rate the 4K version a perfect 5/5 - and 5/5 for the Atmos sound:

"Monster Hunter's 2160p/HDR UHD presentation amplifies an already terrific Blu-ray and becomes, quite easily, the definitive home video presentation of the film. The resolution increase allows for stricter clarity and improved details, beyond even the excellence the Blu-ray demonstrates. The picture is notably more firm, obviously more crisp, clearly more tactile and lifelike. Fine point definition is greatly improved for sharpness; facial textures, military uniforms, roughhewn edges around the monster hunting world all offer more plainly expressive, tangible, obviously sharp details that, on direct comparison, almost render the Blu-ray flat and soft (though rest assured the 1080p picture looks terrific in isolation; this one is just that much better). While the UHD is not a leap, per say, the aggregate refinements certainly boost it quite a bit over high definition.

Also in evidence is the fine-tuning of the film's color palette. The feel for enhanced brightness and vibrancy is obvious, as are the adds to color depth and density. Even the light beige/teetering-on-creamy white sands in the early scenes when the soldiers are transported to another dimension enjoy a solid uptick in color output brilliance. Blue skies similarly benefit: the color is deeper but the output is more intense, more lifelike. Beige, brown, and green pieces in military uniforms are further proof of the HDR spectrum's improved output. The colors are more nuanced, more vivid (even as they're rather plain on the larger spectrum scale), more capable of authentic tonal output and diversity. It's a very fine example of HDR color improvements over the Blu-ray where there are no color transformations at work, just solidifications. Bright red monster eyes, fiery explosions, and other bold tonal excursions from the earthy colors find more expressive depth and brilliance as well. Skin tones are perfect and black levels are spot-on. Noise is hardly an issue here and there are no obvious source or encode maladies of note. This is a stunning UHD presentation from Sony."

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Monster-Hunter-4K-Blu-ray/283114/

I'd easily rate the 4K version with Atmos sound 8.5/10 - really amazing. I do not expect any deep intellectual stuff from such movies - but pure escapism and entertainment, and the movie totally delivered - best dragon I've ever seen!

Now, let's have a VR game based on that movie made by Valve or Ready at Dawn 😀

Tenet is another reference for 4K - also rated 5/5 for both sound and video quality:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Tenet-4K-Blu-ray/269861/

I'll probably never be a great fan of Tenet, too much is left to the viewers' imagination and I can't help thinking the plot may contain quite a lot of holes. And might be an overly confusing movie for many due to few explanations given. Some thing are covered here:

https://screenrant.com/things-plot-story-characters-about-tenet-made-no-sense-confusing-plot-holes/

Then Moster Hunter is way more simple and easy to follow (also after a few drinks), even if it's just a realistic as Tenet, lol.

Might have to see WW84 some other day... maybe... The 4k quality was great in that movie too - but I did not like the extremely boring story.

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RuneSR2 wrote:
Seems I've been rather lucky with the latest movies - ok, maybe not WW84, I think I dozed off for a few minutes there (but the wife liked it) - fortunately Tenet and especially Monster Hunter were great.

I expected nothing from Monster Hunter, IMDB rating was close to 5 - but I was really blown away. The movie really felt like some video game - and what's not to like about that 🙂 Furthermore the 4K version was simply perfect. Just had to check, and Bly-ray.com did indeed rate the 4K version a perfect 5/5 - and 5/5 for the Atmos sound:

"Monster Hunter's 2160p/HDR UHD presentation amplifies an already terrific Blu-ray and becomes, quite easily, the definitive home video presentation of the film. The resolution increase allows for stricter clarity and improved details, beyond even the excellence the Blu-ray demonstrates. The picture is notably more firm, obviously more crisp, clearly more tactile and lifelike. Fine point definition is greatly improved for sharpness; facial textures, military uniforms, roughhewn edges around the monster hunting world all offer more plainly expressive, tangible, obviously sharp details that, on direct comparison, almost render the Blu-ray flat and soft (though rest assured the 1080p picture looks terrific in isolation; this one is just that much better). While the UHD is not a leap, per say, the aggregate refinements certainly boost it quite a bit over high definition.

Also in evidence is the fine-tuning of the film's color palette. The feel for enhanced brightness and vibrancy is obvious, as are the adds to color depth and density. Even the light beige/teetering-on-creamy white sands in the early scenes when the soldiers are transported to another dimension enjoy a solid uptick in color output brilliance. Blue skies similarly benefit: the color is deeper but the output is more intense, more lifelike. Beige, brown, and green pieces in military uniforms are further proof of the HDR spectrum's improved output. The colors are more nuanced, more vivid (even as they're rather plain on the larger spectrum scale), more capable of authentic tonal output and diversity. It's a very fine example of HDR color improvements over the Blu-ray where there are no color transformations at work, just solidifications. Bright red monster eyes, fiery explosions, and other bold tonal excursions from the earthy colors find more expressive depth and brilliance as well. Skin tones are perfect and black levels are spot-on. Noise is hardly an issue here and there are no obvious source or encode maladies of note. This is a stunning UHD presentation from Sony."
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I'd easily rate the 4K version with Atmos sound 8.5/10 - really amazing. I do not expect any deep intellectual stuff from such movies - but pure escapism and entertainment, and the movie totally delivered - best dragon I've ever seen!

Now, let's have a VR game based on that movie made by Valve or Ready at Dawn 😀

Tenet is another reference for 4K - also rated 5/5 for both sound and video quality:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Tenet-4K-Blu-ray/269861/

I'll probably never be a great fan of Tenet, too much is left to the viewers' imagination and I can't help thinking the plot may contain quite a lot of holes. And might be an overly confusing movie for many due to few explanations given. Some thing are covered here:

https://screenrant.com/things-plot-story-characters-about-tenet-made-no-sense-confusing-plot-holes/

Then Moster Hunter is way more simple and easy to follow (also after a few drinks), even if it's just a realistic as Tenet, lol.

Might have to see WW84 some other day... maybe... The 4k quality was great in that movie too - but I did not like the extremely boring story.

I was disappointed by Monster Hunter. It really felt more like a game than a movie, I expected more character from it. But I get your points, it looks awesome!

kojack

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I watched Nobody today.

It's been on Amazon TV for a while, but as a rent/buy. Yesterday (for australia) it went to general streaming.

The bus scene from the trailer goes on WAY longer than the trailer makes it seem, and gets way more violent. It's over 3min of a 1 vs 5 brawl.

Christopher Lloyd was great in it.

As people have said, it's basically John Wick if his wife didn't die, but he still got pissed off at someone.

It's directed by the director of Hardcore Henry (which was great) and written by the writer of John Wick.

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