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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #50 on: July 29, 2025, 10:58:40 PM »
I watched The Gorge last night. "Two operatives are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a classified gorge." 6.7/10. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13654226/

 I downloaded about 50 movies and will probably watch another one here shortly.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #51 on: July 30, 2025, 10:41:31 AM »
Not TV series, but I watch a couple of Youtube channels that are a running series of car stuff.

Vice Grip Garage is a guy that finds old cars sitting up for years (some for decades) and revives them where they sit and tries to drive them back to his home base. He started in Minnesota but moved to Tennessee for better climate year-round. Good clean entertainment.

A similar themed channel, based in Texas, is Flying Sparks Garage. A husband and wife team works on various projects....cars, trucks, tractors, boats, planes ans a semi. They just finished a multi-episode series reviving an 80's era Peterbuilt rig and converted it to RV status instead of commercial so they could pull the 40' enclosed trailer (retired Red Cross blood drive trailer) they've been converting to a race car hauler/camper rig.

If you're a car guy, it's good stuff.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #52 on: July 30, 2025, 02:11:09 PM »
If you're a Helen Mirren fan, pox on you if you're not, she did a dark TV detective series called Prime Suspect set in the 1990s.

Also, rather light hearted private eye genre, is the Jane Seymore series Harry Wild. 

Untamed, about murders in Yosemite Park, is a limited series, 6 episodes.  They could spin off short episodes with either the lead male or female character.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #53 on: July 30, 2025, 04:25:32 PM »
I like the best of the year Real Mechanics React videos and Customer States videos by Just Rolled In on YouTube. They have videos all the time about cars that people bring in, customer states car has this problem, and holy crap, you wouldn't believe what's really wrong with it. Here are the latest videos from each channel. I haven't even watched them yet. I either watch a few at a time or just watch the best of the year.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVspBnQMbY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdbNBq-z_OE
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #54 on: July 30, 2025, 08:39:41 PM »
War of the Worlds on Amazon Prime. It didn't have a rating at IMDb when I looked earlier today. Now it's at 3.4 and rising. If I knew it was that low I would have skipped it. I'm 15 minutes in and will kill the whole 2 hours of my time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13186306/
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Re: What are you watching?
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #55 on: Yesterday at 04:52:21 AM »
The War of the Worlds gets a big fat thumb down. I finished The Fantastic Four: First Steps (7.4/10) earlier after seeing half of it the day before. It was was okay, but not great, and I just watched Predator: Killer of Killers (7.5/10) which I thought was really good. It's an animated movie, so some people will be prejudiced against it. But it's the the sixth film in the Predator franchise, eighth overall counting the 2 Alien vs. Predator movies, and better than average.

The Fantastic Four movie took place on Earth-828, not Earth-616, AKA the "Sacred Timeline", the main universe depicted in the MCU. It's a retro-futuristic 1960s looking scene. They'll be back a week before Christmas 2026 in Avengers: Doomsday, when the Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, New Avengers (Thunderbolts), and the X-Men team up to face Doctor Doom. In that universe Tony Stark is Doctor Doom, not Iron Man. Confused yet? Join the crowd. I watched Thunderbolts* (7.3/10) a few days ago and liked it, but I like most of the Marvel superhero movies I see.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10676052/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36463894/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Predator%2520

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21357150/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_avengers

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #56 on: Yesterday at 07:46:35 AM »
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #57 on: Yesterday at 09:10:14 PM »
Sitting here this evening and thinking of the next few days. Two long days of gun training Saturday and Sunday, and then an interview for a volunteer position Monday evening. Thankfully, since I am in training for the weekend, I get Monday as a day off. So, I'm trying to just escape into a couple of movies this evening.

Bad news is that with two ways for sound editing to be done, the movies I was planning are done in a way that I consider unwatchable. The voice track is so low I can't understand anything, so I turn it up to a very low understandable, and then there is a sound effect of a slamming door, book drop, gunshot, squealing tires, etc, and it is so loud that it is unenjoyable, and it echos too loud to all corners of the house.

Does anyone understand what the purpose or draw there is for this style of movie making?

The movie I just turned off was "Olympus Has Fallen." Normally I will set our volume setting at 10-12. At that level the sound effects were perfect, but I had to turn it up to 18-22 to be able to understand the dialog. Can you imagine what the spinning and skidding limo sounded like at 20 on the volume setting?
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #58 on: Yesterday at 09:31:16 PM »
Actors used to "act" and project their voices so they could be heard, as if they were on a stage. Now they do "natural acting" where they talk like they're sitting next to you. Meanwhile, the movie companies aren't going to let that fancy 8-channel surround sound go to waste. So they blast everything so loud it's like you're in the middle of the action. If you can't hear Mr. Mumbles over the sound of the world ending, well, there must be something wrong with you, not the way they make the movies now. ::)  I watch almost everything with closed captions on if they're available. It doesn't always match up with what they're actually saying, but it's close enough. Especially if you hear most of it, and only need the CC to fill in the blanks. This isn't an old geezer problem either if anyone is thinking that. There are plenty of younger people asking WTF is wrong with movies these days? A YouTube video I watched about it attributed it to realism.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHYkEfIEhO4
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #59 on: Today at 07:32:52 AM »
What Frank said. Edited for giga-channel movie theaters immersive sound.  I think they’re realizing the real money is in streaming where 2 channel Stereo reigns, so things are getting better. 

On the other hand, live event mixing drives me up the wall.  modern mixers have the ability to shape almost every aspect of each channel, including delay, on the fly.  So why did the guy’s voice singing the Nation Anthem at the NFL Hall of fame game look so bad?  Because the audio was about 100ms behind the audio.  It’s not that they can’t do it, it’s that nobody in the whole chain of command cares.
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