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I won't miss Dana in season 4. Hearing great things about this new season.
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And now I'm watching season 3 of Comic Book Men since it's on Netflix.
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Just finished with episode 10 of Band of Brothers. I really do like the series and definitely picture myself watching it once a year or so. Got a request for Star Trek Into Darkness for tomorrow night. I think she's in for a treat this time around. Got to say the SQ and PQ has been improving and the tweaking is getting less frequent. I've settled on keeping the sound quality over adding more seats. The kids will have to get their own...lol.
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Trying out BoJack Horseman on Netflix. It has its moments, but it better be building to something. Ha ha. Kind of crazy how many celebrity guest voices they pack in. I liked it well enough. Not a classic yet, but solid. Now I'm re-watching The Wire. My sister re-watched it recently, and I'd been wanting to for a while. Still great, still keeping my interest from the beginning. I can understand people who have issues with the questionable content, but for the people I've recommended it to who don't have those particular hang-ups, I wonder what they don't find engaging about it. Maybe they grew up hard around Baltimore, so it's nothing new to them. One of the people I loaned it to really likes Idris Elba, so I'm surprised he didn't watch more of it. It's still the best project I've seen Idris Elba in. Someone else I loaned it to is borderline racist, but I didn't expect her major comment about the show to be that she had trouble telling all of the black characters apart. At least someone else I recommended it to finally got around to watching it and really liked it. HBO will be running a remastered high-def version of The Wire sometime in the future. That also means a BD release .
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Well... I watched Godzilla tonight (2014 version). 3 observations 1) The acting was actually pretty decent, but... 2) the story was so ridiculous, but... 3) the audio mixer guy forgot to turn down the artificial bass/LFE. That's right, the story was so full of plot stupidity that it took away from the good effects and actually pretty decent acting (especially given the odd dialog the actors were given). [SPOILER ALERT - Read on at your own risk] I mean, really... The city is getting obliterated by Godzilla (and other monsters) and what does the main smart guy scientist say? "Let them fight!" this is in light of the fact that the plan to blow them up at one point would kill about 100,000 people. HOLY CRAP, more people than that died just while the monsters fought it out, and there was so much destruction... "Let them fight." Pssssahhhh (roll my eyes) I will say this. I was about to delete this from my media server because I know that I will never watch it again, but at the same time if I ever want to show off a movie scene with excessive amounts of "shake your house" subwoofer effects, I could fire this up and pick, well, any point in the entire movie. They added LFE for just about anything outside of people talking. At one point I could actually feel a door to a building being shut. Not slammed, not some giant 3 foot thick steel door, just a regular door. That seemed silly. I understand shaking the house for Godzilla, the other monsters, buildings falling, or explosions as those make sense, but man oh man, the whole movie shook the house. Yes, I have 2 large subwoofers, but I am more of a "clean bass" person than a "shake the house" bass in movies, but the fact that everything shook all of the time actually took away from the effect when massive things were happening. It sort of numbed you to it.
Farewell - June 4, 2020
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I still have to watch my copy. I saw it in the theater and enjoyed it enough to purchase it, but that's too bad they couldn't reserve the LFE for when it makes sense. Hopefully the big destruction scenes are worth it for demo material.
I tried out most of the first season of The Blacklist, but it has very little going for it. Not that it's horrible horrible, but it's a very by-the-numbers show, way too familiar, even more so when it's trying to be surprising.
Now I'm trying out the About a Boy TV show, but it's not off to a promising start.
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I certainly agree that there is a trend towards excessive LFE in many movies now - to the point of annoyance for us. LFE is great where warranted; however, constant, needless background rumbling over a couple hours that make objects in my house rattle & buzz most definitely detracts from our enjoyment factor.
'TRON Legacy' comes to mind...
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Ooooooo.... I can't wait. I am picking it up tomorrow. At least it is a movie that I enjoyed. I will start a little tame just to get a feel (pun intended) for it, and then go from there.
Farewell - June 4, 2020
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I got my copy today, so we'll see how it goes. I'm trusting the DSPs to keep it under control.
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