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I find such things very interesting and funny.
I'm from Munich, so I'm not familiar with all the different English dialects and accents and informal slang expressions.
I watch a (watcha? no.) lot of YouTube videos on various topics, including, coincidentally, many from the US, England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, etc.
I understand most of it pretty well now, if it's not spoken too fast or mumbled. But some of it sounds a bit strange in comparison. I have the impression that there are many strongly pronounced dialects, similar to Germany, especially in the British Isles. But I like that, I like dialects.
I therefore ask for your indulgence if some of what I write here does not make sense grammatically or the choice of words is strange.
(I'm - kinda -sure, however, that the content is very well thought out. 😜 )
Been binging through 'The Expanse'. A lot of seasons to watch and it isn't half-bad. It definitely grows on you. I even have a couple favorite characters (Miller, Amos, Drummer).
I'm probably repeating myself, but I saw it in college (at some time between 1973 and 1975) in a double feature, followed up directly by Woody Allen's 1972 "Play It Again, Sam".
It seems to have been a popular double bill then -- I saw them that way -- though neither for the first time -- at an art house theater, and again a few days later, when they showed them as a sort of "bonus" for those who stuck it out through an all-night Science Fiction marathon. We stumbled home at about 8AM Sunday morning.
I love that movie! So much so that I bought both a 60th Anniversary DVD and a 70th Anniversary Blu-Ray! Restoring and remastering in 4K does wonders for the crispness of old black & white movies!
I haven't seen the Blu-ray yet. 4K works better on some of the old films than others, or so I've heard. Apparently it makes the cardboard character of the sets in the original Frankenstein a little too obvious, for instance.
I haven't seen the Blu-ray yet. 4K works better on some of the old films than others, or so I've heard. Apparently it makes the cardboard character of the sets in the original Frankenstein a little too obvious, for instance.
Agreed. Wouldn't go much further back in cinema than 1940. The live acting black and white dramas, like Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, The Longest Day, and Seven Days in May tend to look pretty good. You go much further back than that and the original props and such start to look flawed where they were reasonably well glossed over with earlier tech. Of course, a lot has to do with the producers of the disks too. If they try to get away with cheap, it looks cheap.
Yes, I imagine that the films of directors who, like Frankenheimer, were influenced by Italian neorealism, would only benefit from the 4K treatment (as it happens, I saw Seven Days and The Train in the theater, but as a callow teenager, was of course ignorant of the connection).
And if there could have been such a thing as a "neorealist studio", it would have been Warners.
I guess I'll have to break down and acquire a Blu-ray player. 😕
Yes, I imagine that the films of directors who, like Frankenheimer, were influenced by Italian neorealism, would only benefit from the 4K treatment (as it happens, I saw Seven Days and The Train in the theater, but as a callow teenager, was of course ignorant of the connection).
And if there could have been such a thing as a "neorealist studio", it would have been Warners.
I guess I'll have to break down and acquire a Blu-ray player. 😕
My lovely wife Elora bought me an Oppo Blu-Ray player a number of years ago now. It was pre-hacked to play all regions as I have a lot of U.S DVDs. It does a wonderful job of 'upscaling' older DVDs.
What I'm watching now is a very strange show called Legion. It's been out since 2016 but just recently found it on Netflix. Three seasons worth!