What are you watching?

[Beber]

Greyhound (2020):

Just watched the Tom Hanks movie that got ditched on Apple TV+ when theaters closed. It's not that good. It's barely a movie, even! It's basically an extended scene of sea warfare that runs for 1 hour and 20 minutes, with no character development, no real screenplay structure and dialogues that you can sum up as orders being given followed by compliance :

- Heading 0-9-6.

- Aye, aye, sir!

There's just the final battle moment that elevates the thing a bit with action and tension, but that's very thin for an hour and a half, credits included.

[hlb4tx]

TENET (2020)

I saw it on my local IMAX.  If you watched Inception and thought "I wish it was a little more mind-bending" then Tenet is for you.  I loved it.

BTW, I can't remember the title, but Nolan made a short B&W film (while in film school, I think) with a theme of recursion, which was a clear indication of things to come from him.  Worth seeking out if you liked Memento, Inception, and Tenet

[Kreeper]

Ive just started watching Alleycat's version of Bad Lieutenant...
But last night i watched Vinegar Syndrome's release of Wacko!! Had me laughing so hard

[Bigrob]

Recently

At the cinema
Alien - 40th Anniversary - 4K DCP. never miss a chance to see this on the big screen. even got the premium recliner for the experience. probably my last cinema trip this year so it least it was a good one.

At Home
The Invisible Man - 4K UHD. Really enjoyed this. More psychological terror than a horror film IMHO. The sound mix was pretty good as well in 5.1

[bendermac]

Whiplash (2014)

HOLY SMOKES 

This movie fucking awesome     

I just watched it for the first time and boy was I hooked.

A solid 9/10 ... Not quite perfect, but a lot of fun. The music is a blast. Highly recommended 


The Witches (2020)

Meh... Might be enjoyable for kids.

4/10

Stick with the 1990 movie. It's so much better.

[pipefan413]

THE HUNGER (1983). Love this weird film with Bowie and Deneuve, with makeup by Dick Smith (y'know, as in The Exorcist... everything comes back to The Exorcist in the end). Watched the Blu-ray recently and the mono audio was so atrocious I almost had to turn it off: it was literally hurting my ears, because you had to turn it up to hear dialogue, but they'd completely wrecked it with noise reduction to the point that there was no bass/mids left and the treble was piercing as hell. My partner was miserable for about half of the runtime because of it being so unpleasant to listen to, I ended up hacking all the treble off in EQ settings of the AVR then it was at least not agonising. Probably the single worst sounding mono mix I've ever heard on a Blu-ray to date.

Busy today but this arrived so I couldn't wait to capture it. So I didn't. It's recording now.



I have another copy en route from Japan as well, but already this is sounding a million times better so I'm really excited to resync it.

[thet50]

I watched The Matrix 35mm last night. it was glorious. Can't believe how much blue is in the theatrical!

[thet50]

The Witches (2020)

Meh... Might be enjoyable for kids.

4/10

Stick with the 1990 movie. It's so much better.

Yeah I didn't think it did anything better than the 1990 movie. I don't even think the boy had a name in the new one!

[PDB]

In Theaters

Dunkirk- From the start to the end, I was riveted to this movie. It's all motion, all movement, all direction. There is no plot beyond the skeleton we are given and almost no character development. To me none of that hurt the film given its short run time (for a Nolan film). It was interesting to see Nolan bring back his fractured time structure that has been "missing" for the last few films. I rarely have a problem with that structure but here it robbed the film of a little of it's tension but that's a minor grip. Also of note the sound design was amazing. 4/5

Also since it's a Nolan film I paid a great amount of attention to the color. I saw this on DCP (Barco 4Ks) and am going to see it in 70mm/5-perf this Friday to compare. The movie was green. Very green. Very green and yellow with the occasional teal on the beach. I looked at the original trailer right after watching the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-eMt3SrfFU

and found it too be a way toned down version of what I saw. Pump up the greens and add a ton of saturation and you maybe have what I saw. A good example is that trailer still has reasonable human skin tone whereas with the DCP the skin tones where blown away by the color timing. Also of note, you can tell it was chemical color timed as the shots where sometimes inconsistent, something you don't see with computer grading nowadays.

Ok got back from another showing of Dunkirk. This time in 70mm/5perf and I got to say the movie looked totally different when compared to the DCP I saw. Where the DCP had strong greens and yellows, the 70mm had a ton of blues. Light power blue during the day shots with a desaturated feel and dark blues at night. The only time it pushed the greens a bit was inside the hull of the 1st ship and towards the end (no spoilers here) but not even a faction as much as the DCP. White tended to be close to white unlike in the DCP. It really looked like film with heavy contrast and occasional blown highlights in the skies. I quickly mocked up the looks while the information is fresh and my thoughts clear.

Original Trailer (Top)/DCP (Bot-Left)/70mm (Bot Right)


To be honest, the DCP might need to be pushed even more than that. Not sure why the giant color disparity exists but it was definitely there in the showings I saw.

One a side note, its always wonderful to watch film again, even with all it's fault. Even peaked into the projection booth to see that they plattered up the movie.

Finally, officially watched Tenet. Need a second watch before rendering a decision of its merits. On a lark, I asked a friend who saw a 70 showing and he confirmed the viewing was similar to my viewing of Dunkirk. That the movie on 70mm was missing the green/yellow mix and tended more towards a powder blue look. Using examples and my files from Dunkirk this is what I came up with but cropped down to a constant OAR.

Regrade/Original BD


Might have to render this out for a second viewing.

[zoidberg]

As has been mentioned here Nolan won't do a true DI grade, the timed IP is scanned and graded on the fly with a single printer 'light' used per reel. Supposedly it's 98% accurate to the answer print, I guess the extra 2% is the yellow/green. Film just does blues better.

Part of me thinks it's a strange homage to Michael Mann who also went green in the digital era lol