only permissible if its a collab with todd howard…
Tonde, Saitama and sequel are some of the best for-tourists media I’ve ever consumed
Several other countries could do with fictionalising their regional rivalries/histories in this manner
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I saw Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu last night. YAWN. This guy is far too self-serious and mannered. His films are SO dry. How are you gonna make a dry Nosferatu? Seems like the entire premise of this project was to carefully strip anything campy or weird out of the original movie. No juice whatsoever! Watch the Herzog one instead.
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My copy of the new UHD + Bluray set for Macross: Do You Remember Love? arrived yesterday. I haven’t watched it all the way through yet (I’ve seen the movie a few times previously) but I put it in to check it out.
For some reason the UHD disc comes up super dull and muted on my PS5. I assume this is something to do with it being optimised for HDR, which doesn’t work if I am in 4K mode because my TV is crap. If I switch to 1080p and enable HDR, it looks fine.
So basically my options seem to be to either watch the 4K version in 1080p with HDR on (which kind of defeats the purpose), or watch the regular Blu ray (which just occurred to me that it worked on my PS5 despite being a region A disc). Otherwise buy a new TV I guess.
The only other 4K Blu ray I have watched is Lost Highway, which I don’t really have much frame of reference for to determine if it was darker than it should be.
As for the actual 4K restoration of the film, I’m not an expert but from what I can tell it seems mostly pretty good. The out-of-focus scenes are still like that, which I assume there’s not much you can do about. While I don’t think they have used any AI upscaling there seems to be a fair amount of noise reduction (which I’m not really a fan of, film grain is good), but details like tiny stars and computer displays all look sharp (which could be AI I guess, but I dunno).
They definitely used some kind of AI on the end credits music video and 2012 Flashback short though, and I kinda wish they just left it alone or used a basic sharpening filter because they’ve sort of gone all Super Eagle on it.
The english subtitles seem decent enough, although it’s completely different to the ones I’ve seen previously.
It’s got both the original 1984 version and the 2016 Complete Edition, but I don’t really know what is different besides the opening text scrawl missing on the original.
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I am kinda surprised people forgot about the time willem dafoe played max schreck as a vampire who played count orlok
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There is also another director who has adapted Hamlet and Dracula, and made more interesting movies both times: Michael Almereyda with walstreet Hamlet and Nadja.
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i feel like at least 20% of me saying this is purely nostalgia, but does anyone remember the Speed Racer movie? the one from 2008? why was that movie so fucking good? i rewatched it with my friend last night (well, the first time i ever saw it was when i was young enough to barely have any memories of that age) and oh my god dude, that was a damn good movie. well, if you arent completely turned off by half of the movie looking like spy kids 3d at least. (cuz its the same studio) (its well worth the other half though, like oh my god theres some VERY beautiful and insanely cool shots. the one in the finale with the zebra murals really stood out to me as a kid and it still does now.)
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love that movie except for the damn chimp
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That chimp playing air guitar to freebird was maybe the greatest moment in the history of cinema
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speed racer and bound are the best wachowski sisters movies
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honestly, the chimp was not nearly in the movie enough to be a bother to me, honestly every time he did anything major i was moreso impressed they could tame a chimpanzee to do all that, LOL. either way the kid who plays spritle (found out his name is paulie litt) was so good for a child actor that it distracted me from whatever chim chim was doing. really hope he’s doing well nowadays, he was a geniunely funny comedic relief. (at least for me.)
honestly, when that happened there was so much background noise in the scene that i thought it was a like, weird “loyalty free” version, like they couldnt reserve the rights and had to make a Legally Distince free bird lmao, but nah, it is the song.
and godbless them, my friend looked up some credits during the movie and saw that they were involved but then we got hit with “directed by the wachowski sisters” at the end and both went “holy SHIT okay that explains a lot!!!”
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You are in a safe space. Sb is an official Speed Racer Fan Zone
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seconded, anyone saying otherwise has to put up with 
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fuck the sonic police, the speed racer safe space is a self-governing body that does not need positions of power to deliver justice. the speed racer safe space is a society of the future /j
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and its not even CLOSE
i gotta get around to finally watching showgirls one of these days, frankly much more for gina gershon than for verhoeven
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I mean hes one of the best to balance the tightrope of catharsis and horror and eroticism (I’M PROBLEMATIC) when it comes to sexual violence
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Emily The Criminal is good.
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I remember being put off by it. Like it seems to be set up to show how our capitalist hellscape makes normal people desperate, but then in its moment to moment depictions of Emily she actually is a big piece of shit that did everything to herself, so ultimately the lesson is… if you feel crushed by capitalism it’s actually your own fault? Or something? Maybe: crime is just a shadow replication of capitalist hierarchies, it can’t save you? Maybe it was going for a “people are complicated and there’s no moral, man,” type thing, but it didn’t seem to know what it wanted to say.
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if you haven’t heard about it takeshi kitano’s latest is an hour long amazon thing that’s a 30 minute short film about an assassin who gets cornered by some cops and forced to work for them etc, then it resets and the next 30 minutes is a comedy version of the same thing. on it’s own I think I would of just thought the 2nd half was just some goofy dumb thing but seeing it after the first half I couldn’t stop laughing
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