Le Mans 1966 a.k.a. Ford vs Fiat 
sports the 20th century fox logo - maybe for the last time? Only time/the mouse will tell. Anyway, itâs a good movie for normal people, and a great one for car people.
Great sound design, worth it.
I admit I laughed a lot during the fight scene when the daughter leaves and runs for the fridge to unload a bag of peaches on the former maid
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I watched terminator dark fate and it was pretty good. Not great but good. Which is good for it because if it sucked I would have called it terminator dork fart and no one deserves a burn that spicy
No idea why it flopped other than the fact that the last two were horrible. I still like t3 though, maybe even better than this one. It manages to be weirdly reminiscent of all the post t2 sequels even though it ignores them plot wise. Like it borrows certain elements, including a weird cameo of a vaguely familiar looking aussie (?) dude as a badass future soldier
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I havenâtâ seen it but I wish hollywood would get away from fighting on aircraft.
Yea that entire sequence felt like it should have been cool but was just OK. The car chase in the beginning is much better
do you ever just stop and think about how incredible an undertaking the highway chase in terminator 2 was?
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Yes! I watched it this weekend prior to seeing dark fate. T2 is ridiculously good
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I was gonna watch T2 a couple of days ago, but I couldnât find my Skynet edition Blu-ray. So I watched Die Hard 3.
I didnât like Die Hard 3 as much as the last time I watched it, probably 6 years ago.
on the commentary for one or more of the 3 trillion home media releases of T2 Cameron explicitly calls out my favorite stunt of the picture (Arnoldâs stuntman getting into the bed of the pickup and then walking its length to climb up on the hood of the big rig and empty his rifle into the t1000) as the sort of thing you just wouldnât do anymore, itâs too dangerous, youâd fake most or all of it with computers
it was just made at the perfect time
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that stunt is the peak of human achievement imo
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Iâm glad we can all independently agree on the greatest stunt of all time
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I heard next week, Netflix will now have The Movies That Made Us.
Yeah, when we did the truck transfer where Terminator crawls out of the little pickup truck onto the hood of the big rig⌠the run across the back bed of the pickup. It was all free-handed at 60 miles an hour, no safety line on or anything, so if I fell I wouldâve been smeared. I remember looking up at the stars saying to my mother âI love you momâ and wondering over the last time I was ever going to look up at that sky or see her. Having said that- you can imagine I was somewhat relieved to get the first take and get the sequence in the can after 5 takes! I also smashed my nose on the side of the truck when we did the flip over onto its side. Busted and bloody.
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Watching a lot of Neil Breen lately so I decided to construct this bingo card, which covers some (but definitely not all) of his filmsâ eccentricities
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Scrolling down after this post I see âscorsesee doubles downâ and now I am imagining what it would be like to see Scorseseeâs âDouble Downâ
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got hold of the 4K terminator 2 because you all were talking about it and I hadnât seen it in years
people apparently complained about this digital transfer because James Cameron hates the past and loves the future and where 4K releases normally show a lot of typical 35mm grain, this movie has been denoised to hell and back to the point where there are unnatural halos on a lot of background details
the definitive release!!
funny stuff
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you think t2 is a dnr atrocity? take a look at this. (this was fixed for the 4k release, but itâs still the funniest shit)
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yeah the predator 4k release looked great (itâs funny how the best outcome of sequel production for half of these is getting them to put in the work on a good 4k transfer to try to make some more money from the hype) but like
why doesnât everyone think film grain looks beautiful
speaking of which if you havenât seen the casino 4k yet and you have the means itâs very sumptuous
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def. a missed profit opportunity not releasing noisy and smeary releases as separate SKUs
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Film grain resolves differently on a projector and looks a lot nicer there, as it bleeds to white, than it does on an LCD display. Emissive displays (CRT, plasma, OLED) handle it a lot better but I still went with 4k77 DNR over the full-fat grain, it felt like an appropriate amount on my screen.