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Re: Non-Indian Films discussion thread...

Post by Schmidt » Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:16 am

Isn't Blade Runner 2049 being released in India ?

It seems to be doing poorly in collections in US whilst getting some good reviews

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Post by Sicanta » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:01 pm

It has alreaady been released. Complan is that the plot is too complex

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Post by Primus » Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:25 pm

Javee wrote:
Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:04 am
Primus wrote:
Mon Oct 09, 2017 2:03 pm
shiv wrote:
Mon Oct 09, 2017 12:12 pm
OK - that's a good list - should keep me going for a few weeks.
The one I mentioned earlier - The Man From Earth, is a true sleeper, the entire movie is nothing but a long conversation between a group of University Professors, but boy, you need to pay attention, it grabs you and holds you, the ending is truly very interesting. I quite liked it. Hard to find easily though, Netflix had it for a while.
I second this, this is a good late evng/night movie.

Shiv, if you have netflix and like violence of all shades, will share my watched list as a screenshot, will get you going for months if not a year easily :lol:
I love action movies of all genres, but not gratuitous violence - that puts me off. I am finding of late that watching a movie or show (eg. GoT) late at night makes it difficult to fall asleep, the brain won't turn off.

I also love period films/television, if well done. I am told 'Black Sails' (Amazon) is terrific. Have put it on my watchlist. Hope to catch up with it soon.

There is just too much fare on the silver screen these days.

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Post by Zynda » Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:33 pm

One of the things DCEU got right before Marvel was to release WW movie. Many women I've spoken to describe the kind of virtual empowerment WW brought to females...finally one of them to cheer on screen. I saw the latest JL trailer with a bunch of women and many of them did not know who Clark Kent was but were howling each time WW (rather Gal Gadot) was shown on screen. Same is mirrored to many JL reaction videos on Youtube. Marvel missed a huge bus there. In fact I think many female audiences will watch JL movie just to see WW in action again!

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Post by Primus » Wed Oct 18, 2017 4:00 pm

I saw WW with SHQ two days ago, she slept off towards the end :-(, thought it was a bit boring.

I liked it, for its slow pace, good story line (for a super hero movie) and good period sets. Most of these movies are nothing but non-stop maniacal action which in the end makes no sense at all. DC's Superman releases have all been awful although the Director's Cut of Batman vs Superman was quite good, IMHO.

I always liked the DC comics so much more than Marvel, the characters and themes were better. In the movie world, Marvel did better, until now I believe.

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Post by Zynda » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:34 pm

Seems like Thor Ragnarok is a comedy riot...MCU was so confident that they had early critics screening and most of them are giving a huge thumbs up. Taika (one should see his horror comedy movie What We Do in the Shadows) has apparently done an excellent job in balancing comedy along with dramatic scenes. The use of vivid colors is better than GOGT2. Apparently Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie and Cate Blanchett as Hela steal the show.

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Post by Sicanta » Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:39 pm

Watched blade runner 2049. Bit slow in the beginning, but very good nonetheless.

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Post by shiv » Mon Oct 23, 2017 4:50 am

I complained that there were too many movies that I had not watched and over the last few days I was made to understand why that was not such a bad thing. I first watched "English Patient" which held my interest. Based on this choice I saw recommendations for 2 more romance movies. One was "Lady Chatterley's Lover". That sure is a lousy movie. Forget keeping up my interest - the long boring full nude sex scenes failed to get my <ahem> up and I had to fast forward. A definite "Don't ever watch". Then I embarked upon 'Breakfast at Tiffanys" - a so so movie so far. I might just make it to the end of the movie.

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Post by Primus » Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:57 pm

^

Heh heh, LCL was once popular as soft-porn. Tiffany's is now considered a very racist movie by today's standards, Mickey Rooney's Japanese character is so abominable.

Lighthearted romantic movies are so much more fun, I believe. "Across the Universe' was quite enjoyable but it is of course the music that does it. 'Romantics Anonymous' is an excellent French Romcom. 'Love, Actually', and the similar 'Chocolat' were pretty good. The current big name Martin Freeman was one of the ensemble cast in 'Love, Actually' and plays a porn actor in it. Not a bad movie overall.

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Post by Vayutuvan » Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:06 am

Under the tuscan sun, roman holiday (replace that breakfast at tiffaby's) and my fair lady,

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Post by Mahakala » Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:44 am

French movies are pretty good at the romcom genre - Populaire, romantics anonymous etc.
You might enjoy Das leben der anderen. German movie about a guy spying on a family in East germany. Soul kitchen, again another comedy, in german.

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Post by Mahakala » Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:46 am

Bye bye lenin, starring daniel bruehl, the guy who played lauda in Rush & the baddie in captain america: civil war.

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Post by Zynda » Mon Oct 30, 2017 6:32 pm

So far WB has shown 30 minutes clip of JL in China & 10 minutes of clip (Sewer sequence) at Paris Comicon. Most reactions have been largely positive however some of the more matured reactions do point out at bad CGI & editing issues. Apparently, Cyborg looks like a mess and Steppenwolf in many scenes looks like a sloppy work. Also the scene transitions i.e. editing seems choppy. The scenes jump from serious ones (probably Synder shots) to humorous ones (Wheadon's ones) abruptly and lack flow. But WB seems confident enough about this movie to do a press screening sometime this week or next. WB needs another huge hit. Based on the current cut, the opinions are that if JL gets a RT rating around Man of Steel, it would be a feat. WB has two weeks before theatrical release. It would be funny if JL under-performs Thor Ragnarok at Box Office. Imagine a MCU 'B' Superhero beating DC's most 'A' list group superhero movie!!!

Amber Heard looks hot as Mera :)

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Post by Mahakala » Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:55 am

JL won't get anywhere close to Ragnarok guaranteed.

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Post by Zynda » Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:14 pm

I think it all depends on the critical reaction before opening week. Also BvS had a rotten RT but still had a huge BO opening ($166 Mil) & decent world-wide collection ($750 Mil). Perhaps disappointing considering the movie featured two of the most known superheroes Supes & Batman...may be WB expected total collection to be around $1B+ like some of the MCU movies. Also, the run time of JL was chopped down by Wheadon to just shy of 2hrs from earlier 150-160 minutes. Hoping the Bluray release will be an extended version like BvS which allows for greater character development. For ex: Barry's family is shown in greater detail i.e. he meets his dad in prison (a quick shot is shown in one of the earlier trailers), IRIS. I am hoping for a greater character arc for Steppenwolf.

Anyways, current BO projection for JL is around $130-140 Mil. Thor was looking at $100 Mil plus...probably the expectations are now higher considering the insane RT rating it has.

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Post by Zynda » Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:53 pm

OK...this is an exclusive 2 min clip of tunnel/sewer fight JL fight broadcast at Telemundo or some Spanish TV. Not a leak...but if you want to hold on till the movie release, don't click the link.

I hope the CGI quality on Steppenwolf's face has been improved by Nov 17th. Think in US today, JL supposed to be screened to critics/press folks.


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Post by shiv » Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:39 am

My brain is as great as the movies I select. I wanted to watch D-Day but typed Normandy. Normandy is turning out to be a B-Grade movie..

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Post by jamwal » Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:16 pm

Netflix India and Amazon Prime have a good selection of movies and TV shows, even for India. It is worth a look with their free trial. You'll need 10 Mbps or faster connection for good experience . Not too many military themed movies available there though. I barely use cable these days. Even TV is used to for online streaming or from media server at home.

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Post by Zynda » Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:30 am

Just saw a JL TV spot on HBO. Apparently, JL is being released in theatres on Fri Nov 17th in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu along with English on screens in India. BTW, early SM reactions of JL have been positive. Not great but good, FUN entertainment. It has its flaws but delivers mostly on the characters & the camaraderie between them. Villain (SW) is weak...over plot is OK and some of the reshoot mess is evident but apparently it brings in an excitement for the characters going forwards. Also the movie in certain parts feels rushed. I think the movie originally was written for around 2.5 hrs run time which is what WB should have allowed to. Hopefully, we will get an extended edition cut on BR release later.

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Post by Primus » Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:55 pm

jamwal wrote:
Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:16 pm
Netflix India and Amazon Prime have a good selection of movies and TV shows, even for India. It is worth a look with their free trial. You'll need 10 Mbps or faster connection for good experience . Not too many military themed movies available there though. I barely use cable these days. Even TV is used to for online streaming or from media server at home.
We finally decided to 'cut the cord' and move completely to streaming for our television watching. After twenty years of satellite TV and Optimum for internet and Verizon for home phone we felt we needed to 'trim' our expenses - it was getting out of hand.

I am completely shocked and thrilled at the quality of simple off-the-air reception using an HD antenna. It easily beats Dish Network. Also switched to Verizon FIOS from Optimum. Now getting 950Mbps downloads and around 975 Mbps upload speeds even on my wireless laptop connection through the router. Very few websites are able to push that much bandwidth, but it is there if I need it and if several people in the house are streaming content at the same time it is absolutely painless.

Netflix is now full of Indian shows and movies, they even have it categorized in multiple genres (Hindi Romantic, Hindi Action etc).

If you use a Roku (essential IMHO for a great experience), there are plenty of free channels featuring Indian content, including a very cute cooking show called 'Bhavna's Kitchen'. The newer Roku (we have one that is 8 yrs old) actually delivers a super sharp 4K picture that is unbelievable.

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Post by jamwal » Sun Nov 12, 2017 3:07 pm

950 mbps ? Maximum write speed of HDDs is less than 150 and even those of SSDs is around 600 mbps even in optimum conditions. :oops:

If this is true, ethernet cable or wifi at home is the major chokepoint. Actual speed on 802.2n is < 100 mbps.
Can you share a screenshot of 975 mbps speed ?

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Post by Primus » Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:47 am

jamwal wrote:
Sun Nov 12, 2017 3:07 pm
950 mbps ? Maximum write speed of HDDs is less than 150 and even those of SSDs is around 600 mbps even in optimum conditions. :oops:

If this is true, ethernet cable or wifi at home is the major chokepoint. Actual speed on 802.2n is < 100 mbps.
Can you share a screenshot of 975 mbps speed ?
So I got it wrong a bit. Not quite 975 Mbps, but not bad. On some days I have gotten 980 Mbps on this same test. Of course this doesn't mean anything unless the server at the other end is capable of dealing with such high bandwidth.

Ethernet cable at home is variable, I get over 500 Mbps on my wireless network and if it is my laptop and desktop connected on the wired circuit I can get 800 Mbps. However, I agree that it can become the choke point since the rest of the system is much faster.

My laptop (Macbook Pro) SSD writes at over 1500 MB/sec i.e. 12,000 MBPS or more. I think it is a 'blade drive' i.e. just storage chips mounted directly on the motherboard. Even my old Mac Pro from 2013 writes at around 1000 MB/s i.e. 8000 Mbps.

I have standard HDs which give me over 250 MB/s, i.e. 2000 Mbps on my system. I have a RAID-1 set up for my photography which gives me twice that bandwidth. I store my RAW image files on that.

Hard drive speeds are way faster today than they used to be even a few years ago, especially SSDs, which have become phenomenally fast if mounted directly on the motherboard. With Gigabit ethernet cables and switches, even home networks are quite fast these days. Enough to stream 4K video all over the house.


Here are a couple of screen grabs. First from the Verizon servers in New York which is the standard speedtest for Verizon routers through their FIOS network. The second is the standard BlackMagic Diskspeed test on my SSD drive. Both done on my laptop. I get slightly higher figures through my Mac Pro which is wired directly to the router.


PS. Just realized you probably have Mbps (megabits per second) confused with MB/sec (megabytes per second). Traditionally, ethernet home network and internet bandwidth is measured in Mbps while Hard disk read/write is measured and described as MB/sec. 1 MB/sec is roughly 8 Mbps

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Post by Primus » Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:19 pm

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Oops, I meant RAID-0. Very risky but I have a backup for it so it helps to just have a very fast reading, high capacity drive.

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Post by jamwal » Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:54 am

You're probably right with MB and Mb thing and these are extremely fast speeds. I have worked in pretty fast (for that time) server rooms not too long back with much slower speeds than this :lol:

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Post by Vrish » Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:43 pm

Thor Ragnarok, 4/5
Wish they had amped up Thors powers more with the Odin force and allowed him to really smack around Hela for killing the Warriors 3.

Justice whatever, 2/5 snooze fest. Only bright side was Steppenwolfs initial attack and Supes dishing out damage and showing how really powerful he is. Boring CGI of a villain and boring script.

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