Film

[ldj]

Renfield:

Watched this last night. Pleasant enough popcorn movie but if you're going to cast Nicolas Cage as Dracula it needs to be way more batshit mental than this actually is.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched one of the fan edits of The Hobbit trilogy today with the wee lad after finishing the book together in the week. He'd been asking me if there was a film of it, but I was hesitating, because of just how shite they get. Found a great one edited down from the extended versions of the trilogy, takes roughly 1h25 from each one to create a single 4h18 epic. It's so much better than the full thing. A couple of slightly jarring scene transitions, sure, but give me that any day over the literally hours of cringe they edited out.

Anyone interested can find more info and download links here:
https://m4-studios.github.io/hobbitbookedit/

File is a massive 25GB because it was edited from highest quality files. Probably there are versions of it compressed down to 1080p or something, but I went for this and the dl was real fast.

The entire ridiculous barrels in the rapids "battle" scene, just excised. The love story, evaporated. So satisfying!

[astfgyl]

Watched one of the fan edits of The Hobbit trilogy today with the wee lad after finishing the book together in the week. He'd been asking me if there was a film of it, but I was hesitating, because of just how shite they get. Found a great one edited down from the extended versions of the trilogy, takes roughly 1h25 from each one to create a single 4h18 epic. It's so much better than the full thing. A couple of slightly jarring scene transitions, sure, but give me that any day over the literally hours of cringe they edited out.

Anyone interested can find more info and download links here:
https://m4-studios.github.io/hobbitbookedit/

File is a massive 25GB because it was edited from highest quality files. Probably there are versions of it compressed down to 1080p or something, but I went for this and the dl was real fast.

The entire ridiculous barrels in the rapids "battle" scene, just excised. The love story, evaporated. So satisfying!

Jaysus I'll have to get a look at that

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

That is absolutely hilarious

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Saw Brokeback Mountain for the first time last night. Good film, would watch again. Found it much better than, say, Call Me By Your Name.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Jaysus I'll have to get a look at that

Do, you won't regret it. Yer man put a hell of a lot of thought into it and it really pays off. Take this, for example, from the list of edit explanations:

Removed Bilbo killing a Warg to keep him as a non-warrior at this point. Throughout this edit, he only ever struggles to fight one Goblin and then kills two spiders, mostly with the help of the ring or element of surprise. Other than these instances of combat, he uses his wits and brains to escape situations, like the book.

[astfgyl]

Yeah fuck it I'm penciling that one in for Saturday evening with the kids. Even they hadn't the patience for the Hobbit films

[Cailleach]

I watched There Will be Blood recently. What a chilling performance by Daniel Day-Lewis. It's a shame he went and on finished his acting career with that turd of a film.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Phantom Thread? Loved it myself.

[Carnage]

Watched 65 last night, poor show. Adam Driver vs. dinosaurs. Should have called it Before Earth and left it at that.

[Naraka]

Watched 65 last night, poor show. Adam Driver vs. dinosaurs. Should have called it Before Earth and left it at that.

Yeah it's terrible. Two hours of my life that I can't get back

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Red Sparrow.

Russia vs USA spy type thing told from the Russian side. Jennifer Lawrence in maybe her hottest movie role, though the film itself is pretty grim and brutal in several places. Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling, and Ciarán Hinds also star. It's a film I've seen almost no one talk about, but definitely worth a watch imo. Rated pretty badly on letterboxd, but I think that may be because Lawrence's "normal" fanbase will have been repelled by some of the seedier and more violent (many sexually so) scenes.

[Caomhaoin]

Dead Shot on Sky Cinema last night. Decent thriller, not too much context for the 'Ra stuff but watchable. Mark Strong...he's the Rowdy Roddy Piper of films, just a born villain.

[91/30]

Got a fairly battered DVD copy of 'I Went Down' an ex video store rental copy, Aussie released Region 4 based on recommendations here. Won't get a chance until next weekend.

[Eoin McLove]

Stand by Me on the telly. A truly timeless beaut.