jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.one
Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?
- Comment on London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council 7 months ago:
Obligatory:
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 7 months ago:
2 people + snacks, I’m lucky if it’s ONLY $50.
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 7 months ago:
Now, when it comes to “Marvel regurgitation”, yeah, they could, and should, be doing better. They essentially re-use the same basic plot over and over again and will keep doing it until they hit one that doesn’t make a billion dollars.
I’m a lifelong comic book fan and I love that nerd culture is finally taking over, but I swear to god, I don’t need another superhero movie where the hero and villain have a joined origin story and the villain is just a bigger, badder version of the hero.
Seriously.
Iron Man - Iron Monger
Incredible Hulk - Abomination
Iron Man 2 - Whiplash
Thor - Loki (both sons of Odin)
Captain America - Red Skull
Avengers - Loki + Alien InvasionIron Man 3 - Extremis
Thor: Dark World - Dark Elf invasion
Captain America: Winter Soldier - Bucky
Guardians of the Galaxy - Ronan - First one to break formula.
Avengers: Age of Ultron - Ultron joined origin with Vision.
Ant-Man - Yellow JacketCaptain America: Civil War - Avengers vs. Avengers
Doctor Strange - Kaecilius
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 - Pete’s Dad
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Vulture, Pete’s girlfriend’s dad.
Thor: Ragnarok - Hela, evil firstborn sister.
Black Panther - Killmonger
Avengers: Infinity War - Tying it all together.
Ant-Man and the Wasp - Ghost, a victim of Pym tech.
Captain Marvel - Yon-Rogg
Avengers: Endgame - Tying it all together.
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Mysterio (Stark Tech villain vs. Stark Tech hero) - Comment on ‘A Haunting In Venice’ Review: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Supernatural Dimension to His Hercule Poirot Series 7 months ago:
I recognize that Christie isn’t exactly Shakespeare, but why adapt a book and change literally everything about it?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallowe'en_Party
It’s not in Venice, the house is not haunted, there’s no seance… I guess some of the names are the same?
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 7 months ago:
He’s forgetting movie history…
Back when television got big, cinema had to evolve to survive. The aspect ratio went wide.
This Is Cinerama was more of a tech demo than anything else in 1952, but it was followed by widescreen movie, movies in 1953 with “The Robe” being shot and shown in Cinemascope.
Technicolor too gave a more vibrant color scheme even than previous color film processing that actually came a generation prior, in 1932.
But the widescreen/Technicolor combination provided a must see experience that were the event films of the era and they couldn’t be duplicated at home.
Roll forward 50 years… home theater technology has evolved to a point where theater has to compete with 65" 4K television displays and 7.1 Dolby Atmos surround sound. People need a reason to leave their homes and deal with noisy, disease infected, crowds, high concession prices, expensive tickets, and annoyances like having to pre-pick your own seats instead of just walking in and sitting down.
Streaming is keeping people at home, being able to binge long form content, pausing when necessary. Cinema can’t provide that experirnce.
So it’s going the other way, the “theme park ride experience”. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the first Pirates of the Carribean movie hit in 2003, pre-dating the wave of comic book movies by, what? 5 or 6 years? 50 years after the first Cinerama movies?
But even that has roots going back to Jurassic Park (1993), Star Wars (1977), and Jaws (1975).
Now, don’t get me wrong, I dearly love “small” films like Scorsese’s After Hours, or even modern stuff like Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, but there is ZERO compelling reason to see them in a theater. I can get the same experience viewing them on my home theater setup without, you know, blowing $50 to sit in a noisy, uncomfortable theater.
To do THAT, I NEED a spectacle. I need to see something that demands I see it right away, in a theatrical environment. It needs to be a theme park ride.
If your end goal is to make a tight knit drama full of people in rooms talking to each other, well, Downton Abbey and Bridgerton are over there ->
- Comment on Rick and Morty | Season 7 Official Trailer | adult swim 7 months ago:
Calm Rick sounds spot on, angry Rick not so much.
Morty sounds pretty good generally but there was one line that sounded off…
Still, given the circumstances, I don’t know what else they were supposed to do…
“Hey, it’s us, Rick and Morty! From a dimension where our voice actor wasn’t caught grooming children!”
- Comment on watched Hustle last night, Moneyball tonight, what's the perfect third? 7 months ago:
How To Beat The High Cost of Living:
youtu.be/9-77VpXSygs - Comment on How I imagine people who say their TV is just the same as a 70 foot high theatre screen. 7 months ago:
It would be interesting measuring field of view.
I have a 65" 8K television in my living room with 7.1 Dolby Atmos/DTS:X and in general, I prefer that to the movie going experience.
- Comment on [spoilers] A Quiet Place (Rant) 7 months ago:
If you knew the waterfall was safe, why not deliver the baby behind the waterfall?
Really easy questions that the script fails to answer.
- Comment on [spoilers] A Quiet Place (Rant) 7 months ago:
I blame the dumbass little kid for getting himself killed, but you’re right, she set it up.
But here’s the thing… she’s REALLY hateable in the sequel. Not sure what they were going for there.
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 7 months ago:
Microsoft required 10% of system resources be reserved for Kinect support, even in games that didn’t support Kinect features.
eurogamer.net/how-the-xbox-one-gpu-reserve-unlock…
That reduction in horsepower for the actual games showed up in reduced resolution and framerate.
Lifting that restriction allowed the Xbox One to reach parity with the PS4.
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 7 months ago:
Because the 360 refresh was functionally the same, both the One S and One X added new functionality (4K Blu Ray, 4K Gaming).
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 7 months ago:
One evolution went like this:
At launch, it came with Kinect and 10% of system resources were reserved for Kinect processing, even on games that didn’t support Kinect. That resulted in lower framerates and resolution than equivalent PS4 games.
Then Microsoft, wisely, removed the Kinect requirement and released a Kinect-free version of the one. With that extra performance boost, the One gained parity with the PS4.
Sony announced the PS4 Pro for 2016, but while it had more power than the stock PS4, it lacked a 4K Blu Ray drive.
Seeing the opportunity, Microsoft added a 4K drive to the Xbox One and launched the Xbox One S one month ahead of the PS4 Pro.
They also pre-emptively announced the Xbox One X which would be the powerhouse machine of the generation with 4K gaming and 4K physical media.
The idea being that hopefully people would choose the One S over the Pro due to the 4K drive, or would at least wait on buying anything until the One X dropped a year later.
Last generation was really weird as to one company having both the weakest and strongest hardware in the same generation.
Xbox One W/ Kinect
PS4 / Xbox One No Kinect
Xbox One S (same hardware + 4K Blu Ray)
PS4 Pro (stronger hardware, no 4K Blu Ray)
Xbox One X (strongest hardware + 4K Blu Ray) - Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 7 months ago:
Historic generations were about 5 years…
The big problem with the Xbox One was that it was underpowered because of the Kinect requirement, so they ditched Kinect then rebranded as the Xbox One S, throwing in a 4K Blu Ray player.
Still wasn’t enough, so the One X had full 4K capabilities.
If they had launched with the One X things would have looked a lot different.
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 7 months ago:
Makes sense:
Xbox - 2001
Xbox 360 - 2005
Xbox One - 2013
Xbox One S - 2016
Xbox One X - 2017
Xbox Series S|X - 20204 years, 8 years, 3 years, 1 year, 3 years.
2028 would be on the long side but not unheard of. The reason for the big gap between 2005 and 2013 was the 2008 economic crisis.
2020 was the covid/supply chain crisis.
- Comment on Drew Barrymore’s Co-Head Writer Says Drew ‘Will Prolong the Strike’ by Resuming Show: ‘It’s Not Too Late’ to ‘Stand in Solidarity’ With the WGA 7 months ago:
Saying her actions will extend the strike attributes to her more power than she actually has.
I don’t see this having much of an impact at all.
- Comment on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | Trailer 7 months ago:
Looks like a decent flick.
Bonus - referencing the blue camoflage suit is cool, always liked that:
But, man, shooting dry for wet still looks like crap.
- Comment on Dismal ratings show nobody needs Big Ten expansion more than NBC 7 months ago:
How does this jive with the PAC-12 basically dissolving and joining the Big 10 though?
- Comment on Disney Legacy Animated Film Collection | Available November 14 8 months ago:
Would be nice if they had included Song of the South with all the appropriate cultural sensitivity warnings.
People forget that was the source of the classic song Zip A Dee Doo Dah.
- Comment on September 8 - 10, 2023 - Weekend Box Office (Estimates) 8 months ago:
Well, Blue Beetle has beaten it’s production budget, not that that matters given marketing and Hollywood accounting.
- Comment on Moopsy - Star Trek Lower Decks introduces a frighteningly cute-but-lethal new species 8 months ago:
Been done:
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 9 September 8 months ago:
I actually laughed out loud at the Babies in Danger^tm scene. I’m not sure it was supposed to be THAT funny, but the CGI was so awful you couldn’t NOT laugh at it.
I think they blew the budget on making the two Ezra’s look decent.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 9 September 8 months ago:
Only watched one and it was the Flash, so, um… yeah…
- Comment on **MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3 Discussion Megapost** 2023-09-08 🇬🇷💕 8 months ago:
I did enjoy 1, didn’t even remember there was a 2…
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/My_Big_Fat_Greek_Wedding_2
Huh, 2016… Never saw it.
Oh… opened against Batman V. Superman.
1 - Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice $81,558,505
2 1 Zootopia $9,543,178
3 - My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 $7,324,780
4 2 Allegiant $3,647,099
5 3 Miracles from Heaven $3,327,863
6 4 10 Cloverfield Lane $2,070,393
7 5 Deadpool $1,710,989
8 6 London Has Fallen
9 12 Hello, My Name Is Doris
10 8 Risen $312,493
+ - Comment on IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered 8 months ago:
How many $50 reviewers did they have to buy though?
Looking at Ophelia… huh, it’s not on Rotten Tomatoes anymore…
Well, looking at ANOTHER crappy Daisy Ridley movie, Chaos Walking:
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chaos_walking
21% rating on 154 reviews.
So 32 positive reviews and 122 negative reviews.
To hit 60% they would need to add 151 positive reviews. 183/305 total reviews.
At $50 a pop, those 151 positive reviews would run $7,550. Chump change.
- Comment on September 1 - 3, 2023 - Weekend Box Office (Estimates) 8 months ago:
Unlike the Flash or the 2nd Shazam movie, it’s actually a good movie.
- Comment on September 1 - 3, 2023 - Weekend Box Office (Estimates) 8 months ago:
Blue Beetle deserves better…
- Comment on Opinions wanted: defederating with bot spam instances 8 months ago:
I would really appreciate if people who actually enjoy content from those instances could share their thoughts here!
Well that’s the trick, isn’t it? They don’t engage with the bot posts, if they were enjoying them then wouldn’t they engage?
- Comment on Opinions wanted: defederating with bot spam instances 8 months ago:
Huh, I went looking for it just now and can’t find it, so either I already blocked it or maybe lemmy.one already defederated from it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But yeah… bad administration needs defederation. Bad users need blocking/reporting.
lemmy.world got a bunch of heat from defederating from hexbear pre-emptively, but it seems like that was the right call. Then they got ddossed after defederating from pirate communities. Not saying that’s CAUSATIVE, just “interesting”. ;)
- Comment on Opinions wanted: defederating with bot spam instances 8 months ago:
Blocking them on Voyager on Android works for me. :)
But I think it’s reasonable to tell people to use the search to find communities that interest them, curate your home feed, and be aware that diving into the “All Federated Content” feed will show you stuff that’s a) not particularly useful or b) potentially offensive to your sensibilities.
It took me way longer to get fed up with bot@lemmit.online than I’d really like to admit, and I only blocked them when it became clear they weren’t going to stop. I could see other people enjoying the feed… but then why don’t they comment? 🤔
