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Post by marysara1 on Dec 14, 2022 17:19:06 GMT
There's now blue-rays and 4k discs.
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Post by BingFan on Dec 14, 2022 22:26:51 GMT
If we’re modeling the scope of discussion on the old TCM Message Board, it should be fine to include all kinds of discs — DVD, blu-Ray, and 4K, as well as any successor technologies.
(Not that we can only do what we did on the TCM Message Board ...)
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Post by Unwatchable on Jan 29, 2023 1:41:35 GMT
I picked up a DVD of "Tar" (a new-ish Oscar nominated movie with Cate Blanchett) at my library today. When the young lady at the circulation desk handed it to me, she sort of shook her head and muttered "A DVD, huh" as if she were surprised that people still watched them. I felt like an old fart.
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Post by Unwatchable on Jan 30, 2023 2:01:04 GMT
I watched Tar (2022) last night. Cate Blanchett stars as a world famous conductor, composer named Lydia Tar. She's the first female conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. She's extremely busy not only with conducting but teaching,mentoring, giving interviews, helping to run the foundation she founded. She and her partner, her concertmaster, are raising a young daughter. She's at the top of her game, hyper-articulate and arrogant. After an hour or so into the movie, chinks in the armour start to appear. Did she abuse her authority to get close to young women? A doctored viral video comes out seeming to show her belittling her students.
Cate Blanchett is in every scene, inhabiting the role and earning her 7th Oscar nomination. Tar is not a particularly likeable character, the 2 hour 38 minute movie is talky, slow, and a little hard to follow. One problem is that they rely on showing text messages to advance story. That might be fine on the big screen but nearly impossible to read at home. Overall it kept my attention but a little long.
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Post by BingFan on Feb 1, 2023 21:51:24 GMT
I picked up a DVD of "Tar" (a new-ish Oscar nominated movie with Cate Blanchett) at my library today. When the young lady at the circulation desk handed it to me, she sort of shook her head and muttered "A DVD, huh" as if she were surprised that people still watched them. I felt like an old fart.
While it may be true that many/most DVD viewers or purchasers are a bit older, I think it’s easy for folks who are caught up in streaming to forget that there are other reasons besides “it’s what I’m used to” that people still watch DVDs.
For me, the first and foremost reason I still collect and watch DVDs is that streaming isn’t really possible with my satellite internet service — the only internet service available in the semi-rural area where I live. We’ve tried streaming, but it quickly devolves into constant and lengthy buffering, which gets much worse at times when the internet service is busier. The internet service is just too slow, with a lot of lag, to provide seamless streaming. (I’ve seen what good streaming looks like, so the difference is very obvious.)
Beyond that, I like having my own DVDs so that I can watch what I want, when I want. (We also get DVDs from the public library.) Relatives who rely on streaming have complained about movies and TV shows not being available when they want to watch them, and having to subscribe to several streaming services to get a decent selection of programming.
I noticed that a couple of interesting movies from the past year (Rick Linklater’s latest and the Agatha Christie-related mystery See How They Run) don’t seem to be coming out on DVD at all (at least, not so far). The producers seem to believe that they only need to put the movies out for streaming — overlooking the fact that there are millions of potential audience members who are forced to rely on DVDs because we don’t have adequate internet service for streaming. (I used to work for a government agency that studied such things, so I’m familiar with the background here.) |
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Post by Unwatchable on Feb 1, 2023 23:29:36 GMT
I picked up a DVD of "Tar" (a new-ish Oscar nominated movie with Cate Blanchett) at my library today. When the young lady at the circulation desk handed it to me, she sort of shook her head and muttered "A DVD, huh" as if she were surprised that people still watched them. I felt like an old fart.
While it may be true that many/most DVD viewers or purchasers are a bit older, I think it’s easy for folks who are caught up in streaming to forget that there are other reasons besides “it’s what I’m used to” that people still watch DVDs.
For me, the first and foremost reason I still collect and watch DVDs is that streaming isn’t really possible with my satellite internet service — the only internet service available in the semi-rural area where I live. We’ve tried streaming, but it quickly devolves into constant and lengthy buffering, which gets much worse at times when the internet service is busier. The internet service is just too slow, with a lot of lag, to provide seamless streaming. (I’ve seen what good streaming looks like, so the difference is very obvious.)
Beyond that, I like having my own DVDs so that I can watch what I want, when I want. (We also get DVDs from the public library.) Relatives who rely on streaming have complained about movies and TV shows not being available when they want to watch them, and having to subscribe to several streaming services to get a decent selection of programming.
I noticed that a couple of interesting movies from the past year (Rick Linklater’s latest and the Agatha Christie-related mystery See How They Run) don’t seem to be coming out on DVD at all (at least, not so far). The producers seem to believe that they only need to put the movies out for streaming — overlooking the fact that there are millions of potential audience members who are forced to rely on DVDs because we don’t have adequate internet service for streaming. (I used to work for a government agency that studied such things, so I’m familiar with the background here.)
I noticed that Apple doesn't have their shows like, Ted Lasso, on DVD. We have tried several of the streaming platforms but never keep them very long. We sign up when certain shows come back but we soon run out of things we want to watch. Frankly, unless we know an exact title, it can be nearly impossible to wade through their vast catalogs.
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Post by marysara1 on Feb 7, 2024 20:00:32 GMT
Scarlet Street is on 4k, and Meet John Doe is being released in 4k soon.
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Post by Guest on Feb 22, 2024 2:42:29 GMT
Past Lives (2023). Nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay
Bilingual but mostly in Korean. It reminded me of Lost in Translation in the leisurely pace, the sparce dialogue and simple plot.
We meet Na Young and Hae Sung, 12 year old best friends in Korea. Na's family moves to Canada while heartbroken Hae stays in Korea. They lose touch and 12 years later Na, now called Nora, discovers that her childhood friend has been looking for her on Facebook. They reconnect through video chat but Nora eventually pulls away deciding that she needs to live her life and not get caught up in the life she left behind. The story advances another 12 years and they reconnect again. The movie explores what could have been, their differences now as adults, how one stayed in Korea while the other lived in Canada and New York.
Its a pretty simple story, filled with what ifs and things left unsaid. Not bad but, as with most recent Oscar nominated movies, not a something I'll ever watch again.
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Post by kims on Feb 22, 2024 12:32:52 GMT
I've noticed that newer films I have watched and liked, I too find I rarely care to see them again.
I'll give an example of a film and its remake MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. Both are, like most mysteries, slower paced. The newer film needs a writer from the old days to say and show more with less words and action. Missing today are good producers who could over-ride the director and say cut that scene, it's redundant or it's not necessary.
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Post by Guest on Feb 25, 2024 5:07:13 GMT
The Holdovers (2023) Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Supporting Actress,Editing and Screenplay.
Directed by Alexander Payne, starring Paul Giamatti as a curmudgeonly Classics teacher at a New England boarding school. Co-starring Da'Vine Joy Randolph as the head of the cafeteria and Dominic Sessa as one of the students. Set during Christmas Break 1970, it has the look and feel of a movie from that era.
The title refers to the students who stay (or are left) during Christmas break. Giamatti's Mr. Hunham is the lone teacher assigned to watch the holdovers. He's not well liked by the staff or students. Sessa is Tully, who ends up being the only student abandoned by his family over the holidays. Randolph's Mary Lamb stays to cook for forgotten few. She also is grieving the loss of her son who died in Vietnam. It explores the relationship of this unlikely, lonely trio and the pain behind their stories. Fine performances by all.
There's nothing surprising here, you can guess where the story is going but you enjoy getting there. Would recommend.
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