4K - 8K Resolution and/or Dolby Atmos/DTSX Content Reviews

[j_garcia]

Send Help from Raimi looks kind of good.

It is on my list. Probably watch that this weekend.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I'm kind of looking forward to watching that Send Help movie. It does help that Rachel McAdams is in the movie as well.

I also plan to watch that movie. Just have to finish watching Bridgerton S04, The Other Bennet Sister S01, and Seeking Persephone S01.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Okay I just saw Avatar Fire & Ash 4K. How the heck did this movie make almost $1.5 billion?

It was terrible. So anticlimactic and boring as heck. James Cameron should retire.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

We saw the “Peaky Blinders” 4K movie and “Send Help” 4K.

Peaky Blinders movie- as expected, nothing remotely close to being as great as the TV series. On the boring side. I guess they felt like they had to “wrap it up”, which I think is a mistake. Just let us “wrap” it up ourselves in our minds. Reminds me of that sorry-s$$ “Deadwood” movie to “wrap” up the TV series. Unless it’s awesome, just let us wrap it up in our own minds.


“Send Help”. A weird movie, different than most movies. Seems like most characters here are just evil. I would have liked to see a lot more goodness in the protagonist and a lot less evil. But I guess this is kind of like a “horror” type of movie where everyone is pretty much evil. Overall I think I like it.

 

[j_garcia]

I liked Send Help, but it had a number of scenes that were just unnecessarily excessively gross. Since you saw it ADTG, you know what I'm talking about. Entertaining, but it does have a negative vibe to it.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I liked Send Help, but it had a number of scenes that were just unnecessarily excessively gross. Since you saw it ADTG, you know what I'm talking about. Entertaining, but it does have a negative vibe to it.

Yeah, I didn't like the gross scenes.

I get that many of these directors want to be "different". But most of the times, I think most of us don't care as much as about a movie being "different". Sure, you can make certain things different, which I think "Send Help" does a good job with. But Raimi just kept going with "different", instead of giving most of us what we truly wanted at the end of the day - most of us aren't psychos who want to kill people. If people die due to accidents or because of "variations" of self-defense, we can feel terrible about it, but at least we (or our protagonists) didn't want to kill them if we didn't have to. I don't mind seeing the protagonist kill the evil bad guys to stop them from killing other people - good riddance.

But I have limits - I don't like seeing evil people win in the end - regardless of how others treat them emotionally or economically. Being wrongly treated emotionally or financially is evil and deserves correction and compensation, but does not deserve death.

I think "Send Help" is overall a good movie. But it could have been the type of movies that I could watch a million times. But instead, I will most likely just watch it once.

 

[j_garcia]

Yeah, I didn't like the gross scenes.

I get that many of these directors want to be "different". But most of the times, I think most of us don't care as much as about a movie being "different". Sure, you can make certain things different, which I think "Send Help" does a good job with. But Raimi just kept going with "different", instead of giving most of us what we truly wanted at the end of the day - most of us aren't psychos who want to kill people. If people die due to accidents or because of "variations" of self-defense, we can feel terrible about it, but at least we (or our protagonists) didn't want to kill them if we didn't have to. I don't mind seeing the protagonist kill the evil bad guys to stop them from killing other people - good riddance.

But I have limits - I don't like seeing evil people win in the end - regardless of how others treat them emotionally or economically. Being wrongly treated emotionally or financially is evil and deserves correction and compensation, but does not deserve death.

I think "Send Help" is overall a good movie. But it could have been the type of movies that I could watch a million times. But instead, I will most likely just watch it once.

The way the trailer shows it, it feels like a "get fed up and fight back" movie, but that isn't what it is.

 

[Movie2099]

We saw the “Peaky Blinders” 4K movie and “Send Help” 4K.

Peaky Blinders movie- as expected, nothing remotely close to being as great as the TV series. On the boring side. I guess they felt like they had to “wrap it up”, which I think is a mistake. Just let us “wrap” it up ourselves in our minds. Reminds me of that sorry-s$$ “Deadwood” movie to “wrap” up the TV series. Unless it’s awesome, just let us wrap it up in our own minds.


“Send Help”. A weird movie, different than most movies. Seems like most characters here are just evil. I would have liked to see a lot more goodness in the protagonist and a lot less evil. But I guess this is kind of like a “horror” type of movie where everyone is pretty much evil. Overall I think I like it.

I would've loved to have a 4th season of Deadwood. That is one of my ALL-TIME favorite shows. If David Milch had just taken a few days to cool off from his discussions from HBO, there would've been a 4th season to wrap everything up. Then, they could still do a movie later. I thought the Deadwood movie was alright. Since we didn't get the 4th season, I will take the movie. It is better than nothing at all.

 

[j_garcia]

Finished watching Ready or Not 2 the other day. Pretty average; not bad, not good.

Last night I watched Redux Redux, an indie film. It is clearly low budget, but manages to focus on the story, which was pretty decent. It is a time travelling mom who pops around the multiverse killing her daughter's killer in each of them. A dark spin on the whole multiverse thing.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Recently saw "Train Dreams" 4K because it had some major Oscars nominations.

I thought it was okay, but nothing special. Overall I was pretty bored. I can't see much of the plot or point to this movie. I would have never nominated this movie for anything.

 

[Movie2099]

Recently saw "Train Dreams" 4K because it had some major Oscars nominations.

I thought it was okay, but nothing special. Overall I was pretty bored. I can't see much of the plot or point to this movie. I would have never nominated this movie for anything.

Ouch! Train Dreams was amazing. Great acting, great cinematography, great writing. Overall was a really great movie. Was it on the slower side, absolutely. That's what built the tone throughout. The movie is not going to leave you feeling happy. It's an overall sad movie. But it was done very well. It's a little "art-house" because it was filmed in a different aspect ratio. If you love great acting, writing and cinematography, I definitely think you should give Train Dreams a watch. It went under the radar being on Netflix.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Ouch! Train Dreams was amazing. Great acting, great cinematography, great writing. Overall was a really great movie. Was it on the slower side, absolutely. That's what built the tone throughout. The movie is not going to leave you feeling happy. It's an overall sad movie. But it was done very well. It's a little "art-house" because it was filmed in a different aspect ratio. If you love great acting, writing and cinematography, I definitely think you should give Train Dreams a watch. It went under the radar being on Netflix.

Yeah, I would give you the good writing, acting, and all that for this movie.

But just depressing and boring to me. What was the point? Most people will waste their lives away working all their lives and then they die? If they are lucky enough to find happiness, it will be fleeting and then they will be miserable again because life is a miserable test until you die?

I would never want to watch this movie again.

 

[j_garcia]

Recently saw "Train Dreams" 4K because it had some major Oscars nominations.

I thought it was okay, but nothing special. Overall I was pretty bored. I can't see much of the plot or point to this movie. I would have never nominated this movie for anything.

Same. I though it was good, better than Sinners, but not exactly earth shattering. It is a character study, like There Will Be Blood or No Country for Old Men, or even Chloe's own Nomadland, which I liked.

Look at most of those movies mentioned. They also don't have a real "point"

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I just saw Netflix’s “Remarkably Bright Creatures 2026” 4K ATMOS.

This movie should be nominated for Best Picture next year at Oscars. It’s heartwarming, not depressing.

Shot with 4K digital Arri Alexa camera, PQ looks great. It’s in ATMOS, but it’s not a special sound effects movie.

The story is just great. I think it’s very different. And it’s heartwarming for a change. So it’s a movie that I would rewatch.

 

[Movie2099]

Watched Avatar 3 4k disc last night. It was just okay. Nothing special. Just felt like a continuation from Avatar 2. Same rinse and repeat story. Which is getting kind of old at this point. I really hope they don't make any more. James Cameron really needs to move on from this franchise and come up with something else. I'm just going to keep this one short, so I don't "spoil" anything for anybody who hasn't seen it.

I think I will give Avatar 3 a 7/10. It wasn't bad, it wasn't great it was just okay.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Watched Avatar 3 4k disc last night. It was just okay. Nothing special. Just felt like a continuation from Avatar 2. Same rinse and repeat story. Which is getting kind of old at this point. I really hope they don't make any more. James Cameron really needs to move on from this franchise and come up with something else. I'm just going to keep this one short, so I don't "spoil" anything for anybody who hasn't seen it.

I think I will give Avatar 3 a 7/10. It wasn't bad, it wasn't great it was just okay.

I am a huge James Cameron fan ever since The Terminator. I liked Avatar part 1. Part 2 got old fast. Part 3 just sucked. That means he is just too damn old to make anything good anymore.

 

[panteragstk]

I am a huge James Cameron fan ever since The Terminator. I liked Avatar part 1. Part 2 got old fast. Part 3 just sucked. That means he is just too damn old to make anything good anymore.

I still haven't watched the first Avatar. I might at some point, but I don't have a compelling reason to.

 

[j_garcia]

I still have no reason to watch the new Avatar

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I still haven't watched the first Avatar. I might at some point, but I don't have a compelling reason to.

I think you should watch Avatar 1 for the fact that it made almost $3 BILLION.

But just pretend part 2 (made $2.3 Billion) and 3 (made ~ $1.5 Billion) were never made.

 

[j_garcia]

I think you should watch Avatar 1 for the fact that it made almost $3 BILLION.

But just pretend part 2 (made $2.3 Billion) and 3 (made ~ $1.5 Billion) were never made.

I saw 1 in the theater and I own the 3D, because it looked good at the time. It was pretty much a modern thrashing of Pocahontas. I watched 2. Visuals still feeling like the last one, not up to the best of today. So 3rd one will have a hard time convincing me.