Heartofice Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Second season of Big Little Lies. Streep is incredible Kidman’s face is surely computer generated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 9 hours ago, felice said: Not season one Bashir, I hope! Lol season 1 Bashir... pisses off Kira in their first meeting, and O’Brien hates him until they become BFF’s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 8 hours ago, Heartofice said: Kidman’s face is surely computer generated? I wonder how far off we are from actors starting to insist on being CGI de-aged for their vanity's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 22 minutes ago, RumHam said: I wonder how far off we are from actors starting to insist on being CGI de-aged for their vanity's sake. I wouldn’t be surprised if it hasn’t already happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Surely Tom Cruise will be the first, if he hasn't done so already. I'll be looking suspiciously at Top Gun: Maverick when it comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 17 minutes ago, SpaceChampion said: Surely Tom Cruise will be the first, if he hasn't done so already. I'll be looking suspiciously at Top Gun: Maverick when it comes out. How. Dare. You! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 What people don't realize is that Clint Eastwood has been using extensive CG de-aging since Gran Torino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 10 minutes ago, Ran said: What people don't realize is that Clint Eastwood has been using extensive CG de-aging since Gran Torino. The real reason the baby in American Sniper looks so fake is that it's actually Eastwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luzifer's right hand Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 I just rewatched Contact. It aged rather well imo. Took me some time to find a streaming service that had it in the OV though. Now I want to read a good first contact SF book but I have already read most of the good ones I belive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarGalley Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Luzifer's right hand said: I just rewatched Contact. It aged rather well imo. Took me some time to find a streaming service that had it in the OV though. Now I want to read a good first contact SF book but I have already read most of the good ones I belive. Off topic but what are the good ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 The Rise of Skywalker is on Disney Plus, now i can finally see what all the negativity was about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luzifer's right hand Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 4 hours ago, WarGalley said: Off topic but what are the good ones? Well it is just my personal taste of course. I'm forgetting many I do not have on my kindle. I really like contact novels and this is not really a "best" list but stuff I enjoyed. Contact: Carl Sagan :p The Forge of God by Greg Bear A Darkling Sea: James L. Cambias Dawn: Octavia Butler Blindsight: Peter Watts Learning the World: Ken MacLeod Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds(I guess many of his other books involve first contacts too) A series by the Russian Sergey Snegov that has never been translated into Englisch afaik called Mensch wie Götter in German (I could name a few Russian and German books that have never been translated into Englisch I guess) Stanisław Lem: Solaris, The Invincible, Fiasco, Eden, His Master's Voice Semiosis: Sue Burke The Mote in God’s Eye/Footfall: Jerry Pournelle/Larry Niven A lot of early Larry Niven The Killing Star : Charles R. Pellegrino/George Zebrowski The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. I better stop now as you wrote it is off-topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 My favorite is still the story that Arrival was based off of - stories of your live. Arrival is also excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luzifer's right hand Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 45 minutes ago, Kalbear said: My favorite is still the story that Arrival was based off of - stories of your live. Arrival is also excellent. Yeah Ted Chiang is awesome. Back on topic I watch many of the SF movies that come out even the russian ones that show up on amazon which are often really bad. My main problem is often that quite a few of the better received smaller movies are only avaliable in the German dub around here unless you do VPN shenanigans. The German and Austrian streaming providers are just useless if you want to watch OVs. Netflix is best when it comes to OVs but it has only a limited a selection in Austria(Even I Am Mother is not avaliable). Apple is surpriseingly good in that regard though and it was the only streaming provider that had the englisch audio of Contact. Amazon is complete garabge as it uploads multiple versions of every movie. I bought the German dub of Spider-Man: Homecoming recently by accident and they tried to refuse refunding at first(I had not even watched past the title sequence and they claimed I had watched more than an hour 15 minutes after I bought it). Edit: Google only has German versions avaliable. I really dislike the region stuff and would love to live in a world without old style TV stations which buy licences which would hopefully put an end to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 18 minutes ago, Luzifer's right hand said: The German and Austrian streaming providers are just useless if you want to watch OVs. Netflix is best when it comes to OVs but it has only a limited a selection in Austria(Even I Am Mother is not avaliable). Do they have The Wandering Earth, the Chinese SF film, and have you seen it? Been considering adding it to my queue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luzifer's right hand Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 26 minutes ago, Ran said: Do they have The Wandering Earth, the Chinese SF film, and have you seen it? Been considering adding it to my queue. I actually did not finish watching it which is something that does not happen often. It just did not really work for me. It has some things that are typical chinese movie tropes I guess like the humorless soldier or designated silly guy which I kinda enjoy in martial arts and action movies but did not work at all for me in this case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkdaub Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Last night I watched The Outsider. Jared Leto joins the Yakuza. It was alright I guess. There were some beautiful scenes visually speaking and the music was good at times. The story was odd and the pacing was off. There was a clear Refn influence to this film, which made it better than it might have been. I rate it mediocre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luzifer's right hand Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 When should one stop watching the Simpsons? Season 10 or 11? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 27 minutes ago, Luzifer's right hand said: When should one stop watching the Simpsons? Season 10 or 11? Season 10 is really not great, almost all of the episodes are forgettable.. but it does contain Homer to the Max which is one of my absolute favourite episodes ever! It’s such a stand out in a not good season. Cant think of a single episode of season 11 I’d recommend to anyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 As part of my historical show/film rewatch, I put Passion of the Christ on as background while ‘working’ from home on friday. Too used to Jim Caviezel (Jesus) being Reese from Person of Interest; during the garden of Gethsemane scene, I was half-expecting Jesus to beat the shit out of the soldiers to the Reese-kicking-ass theme music.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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