j_garcia
Audioholic Jedi
Oops, yes Killer's Game. Not sure why I put Elite lol. I didn't watch the Statham one.
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dolynick
Full Audioholic
I haven't seen the Statham/Owen one either. I had to look it up
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Movie2099
Audioholic General
Watched Gladiator 2 this weekend. Something went wrong with my 4k disc. It started glitching out at around 35mins in. So I had to finish watching it on the blu ray. Having to downgrade.....such first world problems.....hahaha!
Story was ok, nothing new. Denzel was clearly the acting winner in this movie. He seemed to enjoy his character in this movie. Which, it wasn't really different than some of his previous roles in other movies, but he just does it well. The worst acting job came from Connie Nielsen. She reprised her role as Lucius's mother. I'm not sure what Ridley was doing with this movie. It didn't need to be made. Someone needs to rein in Ridley and only give him $50m budgets and let him get creative, instead of just handing him $100m+ and going crazy. Picture and sound were good. From the 30mins I got from the 4k, the picture was crystal clear. ZERO grain. So all the grain haters will love it! The Atmos was pretty solid throughout. Lots of surround and height effects going on while in Rome and during some other fights.
Overall, I'm giving the movie a 7/10. It's generous. Only because Denzel did great for what he had to work with. If Denzel wasn't in it, this would easily be a 6/10.
Story was ok, nothing new. Denzel was clearly the acting winner in this movie. He seemed to enjoy his character in this movie. Which, it wasn't really different than some of his previous roles in other movies, but he just does it well. The worst acting job came from Connie Nielsen. She reprised her role as Lucius's mother. I'm not sure what Ridley was doing with this movie. It didn't need to be made. Someone needs to rein in Ridley and only give him $50m budgets and let him get creative, instead of just handing him $100m+ and going crazy. Picture and sound were good. From the 30mins I got from the 4k, the picture was crystal clear. ZERO grain. So all the grain haters will love it! The Atmos was pretty solid throughout. Lots of surround and height effects going on while in Rome and during some other fights.
Overall, I'm giving the movie a 7/10. It's generous. Only because Denzel did great for what he had to work with. If Denzel wasn't in it, this would easily be a 6/10.
j_garcia
Audioholic Jedi
Struggled through Cap: New World Order between Sat and Sun. It felt like it should have been a straight to D+ release. The visuals in the big scenes were pretty bad, as far as "we saved money here" and the story was pretty par for the course. There were some interesting moments, but overall I see why it is rated the way it is. It felt very phoned in.
AcuDefTechGuy
Audioholic Jedi
Another reason against physical discs. I noticed some of my discs over time became defective even just sitting there.
Doesn’t happen to DIGITAL 4K ATMOS files. Always perfect if the original file is perfect.
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Movie2099
Audioholic General
Yeah, the day will come when I invest heavily in K-scape and go away from disc collector. I am ripping all my 4k's and will be getting a Zidoo UHD8000 soon. Going to try that route for the time being. Now the most time consuming part is getting all my 4k's ripped.....haha!Another reason against physical discs. I noticed some of my discs over time became defective even just sitting there.
Doesn’t happen to DIGITAL 4K ATMOS files. Always perfect if the original file is perfect.
Regarding the Gladiator 2 4k disc, I burned the disc right away, before watching it. I don't believe the disc drive laser would've damaged the disc. My Panasonic UB820 has been acting funky the last month or so, so maybe it could be the player? I watched the scenes from my ripped version and there were no issues with it. I did purchase another UB820, but haven't taken it out of the box yet. Maybe I should setup the new one and see if it's actually my current player.
j_garcia
Audioholic Jedi
My Oppo 205 has issues with newer discs, most often on the layer change. Many updates after it came out were to fix those sort of issues, but no more updates. Though rare, it does occasionally happen to me. So far, the PS5 has played everything I've ever run into that had an issue on the Oppo though.
j_garcia
Audioholic Jedi
We went to see Princess Mononoke 4K remastered in IMAX. The sound was pretty impressive, but the most amazing thing was the PQ. It looks better than ever. Still one of the best Ghibli films.
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Movie2099
Audioholic General
I will wait to watch it on 4k physical disc. I'm sure it's coming soon. I haven't seen it since it originally came out. Good to hear it looks and sounds good.
j_garcia
Audioholic Jedi
Twin Peaks was late, but finally showed up. I didn't notice that it was 21 discs. The multifold is HUGE. Have not checked any of it out yet. Price dropped another $10 since I placed the order too, so that was cool.
Preordered Tombstone 4K.
Preordered Tombstone 4K.
AcuDefTechGuy
Audioholic Jedi
Oh man I’ve been waiting for Tombstone 4K for a long time.
April 22: Tombstone 4K, The Hunt 2020 4K.
Ooh, June 24: Dark City 4K, another one I’ve been waiting a long time.
AcuDefTechGuy
Audioholic Jedi
Yeah, hopefully “Princes Mononoke” 4K Remastered won’t take a year to get released on 4K UHD disc.
j_garcia
Audioholic Jedi
Started watching Twin Peaks. I am a little disappointed that the PQ of the original series pretty much is identical to the previous release. It was a TV show so that is how it looks, but had hoped there would be some improvement. The sound was upgraded to dts-HD MA and it does sound improved. Odd that they did so well on the sound while the video is so average.
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Movie2099
Audioholic General
I need to watch that show. I've never seen it. I will keep my eye on the set and purchase it when it's on sale. I just recently stocked up on Lynch movies when Criterion had their sale.
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Movie2099
Audioholic General
I agree. I would hope by summer it comes out.
j_garcia
Audioholic Jedi
I don't see it mentioned anywhere. I expected by the release of the film in theaters, they would have at least had a date up for it.
It is pretty standard Lynch. Weird, convoluted, and always about the crazy characters.
j_garcia
Audioholic Jedi
AcuDefTechGuy
Audioholic Jedi
I am a bit nervous about TRON ares because the writer hasn't done much. I hope I am wrong.
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