What are you watching?

[firebane]

Watched Blue Eye Samurai and don't get all the hype around it. It was decent for what it was and the animation was good. But the whole story around it was mediocre and felt like it was just to cater to todays woke crowd.

[Gman.45]

Not a fan of the CGI in Masters of Air so far - I'd go so far to call myself a subject matter expert on WW2/Cold war/Current aviation graphics, and still do QA work for DCS and two of the contracted teams with Eagle Dynamics, as well as a slew of other previous PC military flight sims. A lot of the CGI used in modern films and TV has direct connection or at the very least strong roots coming from the PC flight sim sector. I find they are making the Luftwaffe fighters look FAR too fast, same with the tracers from both the B17 .50cals and the 7.92/13mm/20mm rounds coming from the Luftwaffe 109s and 190s (they haven't shown any 110s, or other later models of LW fighters, nor any that would be commonly equipped with 30mm rounds).

The actors do a pretty decent job IMO, the uniforms, base structures, and the B17 damage shown on the ground is all well done. It's just the combat scenes aren't blowing my hair back. IMO Memphis Belle did a better job 35 years ago ffs, so there is no excuse for this especially in 4k IMO. Still, for me, anything WW2 and/or air combat related is going to get watched, and multiple times, as it's my primary area of interest and study aside from gunfighting, which was mostly a work thing, and I'm retired now.

I'd recommend watching it, it's worth the sub to Apple TV IMO for the couple months you'd need it if you don't have it already, and worth the time to set sail on the pirate seas as well. Most will find my dislike of the aerial scenes a nitpick, but they are valid.

[Brent.ff]

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That sucks. Best show of the last few years.

But if you don't like dramas you don't like dramas.

Bear was good, but best of last few years? There’s a reason they went in for Comedy Emmy instead of Drama as they would have gotten punked

[gwill]

Binged the night agent over the last few days while stuck on a plane.

Was an interesting TV series. Cia/politics with lots of murder and deaths.

[16hypen3sp]

I just recently stumbled across departures. again. Anyone remember that show?? Aired on OLN and Citytv in 2008 to 2010. My buddy, a big travel buff, always had episodes playing in the background when we stopped at his place back then. I was looking for places to watch, I think Netflix did have it for a time, but I instead found a playlist on youtube that organized in chrono order. It might also be on Prime.


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...TQW6pWiQD5mMZ0

[dj_rice]

Mr & Mrs Smith on Prime. Entertaining and Donald Glover is comedic genius

[littledan]

top picks from LD:

Tokyo Vice
Pantheon
Phantom Boy
The Overlap

[Buster]

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Bear was good, but best of last few years? There’s a reason they went in for Comedy Emmy instead of Drama as they would have gotten punked

I dont pay attention to awards. I also don't watch as much TV as I used to.

What would oyu consider better series?

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Not a fan of the CGI in Masters of Air so far - I'd go so far to call myself a subject matter expert on WW2/Cold war/Current aviation graphics, and still do QA work for DCS and two of the contracted teams with Eagle Dynamics, as well as a slew of other previous PC military flight sims. A lot of the CGI used in modern films and TV has direct connection or at the very least strong roots coming from the PC flight sim sector. I find they are making the Luftwaffe fighters look FAR too fast, same with the tracers from both the B17 .50cals and the 7.92/13mm/20mm rounds coming from the Luftwaffe 109s and 190s (they haven't shown any 110s, or other later models of LW fighters, nor any that would be commonly equipped with 30mm rounds).

The actors do a pretty decent job IMO, the uniforms, base structures, and the B17 damage shown on the ground is all well done. It's just the combat scenes aren't blowing my hair back. IMO Memphis Belle did a better job 35 years ago ffs, so there is no excuse for this especially in 4k IMO. Still, for me, anything WW2 and/or air combat related is going to get watched, and multiple times, as it's my primary area of interest and study aside from gunfighting, which was mostly a work thing, and I'm retired now.

I'd recommend watching it, it's worth the sub to Apple TV IMO for the couple months you'd need it if you don't have it already, and worth the time to set sail on the pirate seas as well. Most will find my dislike of the aerial scenes a nitpick, but they are valid.

I dont think you need to be a subject matter expert to see that the CGI is a bit bad. Some of your complaints were similar in terms of Band of Brothers. Everyone agrees that the show was shot with the infantry too close together compared to reality with the idea that translating to TV means something has to give.

The CGI thing is a problem probably because of the overall state of the visual effects industry - which is not good. My guess is the creators of the show are also cringing when they see the aerial shots.

[gpomp]

Bear is excellent. Forks is one of the best episodes of TV I've ever seen.

[Brent.ff]

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I dont pay attention to awards. I also don't watch as much TV as I used to.

What would oyu consider better series?

Of just for the enjoyment of watching TV, Succession, Beef, Last of Us. The Bear was good, and this season better than last, but not the best show of the year IMO.

Beef was excellent if you havent watched that yet.

[birdman86]

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top picks from LD:

Tokyo Vice
Pantheon
Phantom Boy
The Overlap

Liquor Depot?
London Drugs?

Tokyo Vice was a great show, new season starts this week I think

Watching Reacher S2 currently. Its good. Lots of shots of Reacher looking off into the distance and being mysterious.

Edit: Oh, Little Dan

[Xtrema]

Feb 16th

[gmc72]

Currently watching a show on Netflix called "The Watcher".


Watching the last episode tonight.

[firebane]

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Currently watching a show on Netflix called "The Watcher".


Watching the last episode tonight.

That is based off a true story FYI https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/...ix-true-story/

[gmc72]

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That is based off a true story FYI https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/...ix-true-story/

That's true, but basically the only thing that relates to the actual story is the letters. Most everything else is made up. Pretty good so far.

[ThePenIsMightier]

I watched American Animals movie on a plane and it was fine.
Pretty neat seeing how bad regular people are at crime.

[SportEL]

Amazon Prime

[Gman.45]

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I dont pay attention to awards. I also don't watch as much TV as I used to.

What would oyu consider better series?

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I dont think you need to be a subject matter expert to see that the CGI is a bit bad. Some of your complaints were similar in terms of Band of Brothers. Everyone agrees that the show was shot with the infantry too close together compared to reality with the idea that translating to TV means something has to give.

The CGI thing is a problem probably because of the overall state of the visual effects industry - which is not good. My guess is the creators of the show are also cringing when they see the aerial shots.

I hope so - the sad part is that it wouldn't take all that many changes too vastly improve the aerial combat scenes, without even changing the albeit terrible CGI graphics and details themselves. I know on all the forums for animated air combat be it gaming or TV/Film related, almost all the members are hollering in sync about what a giant fuckup MOA has been in terms of the points already made. Band of Brothers was different as other than some of the drop zone and aircraft scenes, it didn't use all that much CGI (plus it was over 20 years ago), and that yes, tactical formations were greatly compressed in order to fit the characters into frame(s) for a lot of the shots the director of photography needed. Master of the Air wasn't bound by that, since the vast majority of airborne shots of aircraft were all CGI and the spacing, speed, formations, all of it, isn't subject to the needs of the cameras or directors.

[birdman86]

Watched The Marvels last night.

Not the worst of the post-Avengers wave, not the best, and just as forgettable as the rest of them have been. Made good background noise while I stared at my phone though.

[suntan]

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Watched The Marvels last night.

Not the worst of the post-Avengers wave, not the best, and just as forgettable as the rest of them have been. Made good background noise while I stared at my phone though.

"Brie Larson nude"
"Zawe Ashton nude"
"Jude Law nude"