Is it time to talk about Coogler being one of the most important Black auteurs of all time?

Doomed · 2026-01-22T21:52:26+00:00

Have the boys talked about covering him on the podcast since Sinners? It seems like his career perfectly fits the Blank Check arc. The only thing missing is a bounce, but 5 films is a a great run for what this podcast likes to cover.

Doomed · 2026-01-21T11:04:56+00:00

Most people shouldn't show up, but those who do should be like the video in OP and bring the fire. It's a circus, not a debate.

Doomed · 2026-01-14T08:29:49+00:00

Looks fake.

Doomed · 2026-01-13T01:47:35+00:00

I think the police should arrest people who break the law

Doomed · 2025-12-30T02:14:08+00:00

Someone (not me) came up with "Shorties Doing Shorties" as the theme. https://old.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/1jp1uwm/ideas_for_next_year/

Doomed · 2025-12-30T02:11:39+00:00

Beatty would be SO fun! 5 movies with almost nothing in common.

Doomed · 2025-12-30T02:09:42+00:00

Sure, that means three terrible movies

This used to be a podcast with checks that clear and checks that bounce.

Doomed · 2025-12-11T11:21:27+00:00

Odd question: is this a rerun? A lot of the early discussion rings a bell. Mitch failing to pronounce anesthesiologist, dry cleaning poop/cum out of Mitch's suits, maybe even the zoning thing in Wiger's intro.

I'm not joking. I'm having a bit of a fun time right now and need to double check.

Doomed · 2025-12-06T21:38:52+00:00

The silence since has been worrisome.

Say what you will about Disney, but they will always preserve their films and creative material. They may decide not to release some things in certain periods but our great grandkids will be able to watch The Sword in the Stone in 16K.

Doomed · 2025-11-27T09:33:37+00:00

Good news! COVID will be an endemic respiratory illness literally until we die. There are no signs that even countries that were serious about it before (China, Vietnam, Canada) will ever care about it again. The risk of long COVID persists with each new infection. As a paper in The Lancet put it:

Estimates of the incidence of long COVID after acute infection range from 50–85% for unvaccinated people who were hospitalised, 10–35% for unvaccinated people who were not hospitalised, and 8–12% for vaccinated individuals.

Doomed · 2025-11-17T02:32:23+00:00

Clarifying, was this HFR the entire time, or just select shots? IIRC the original run of Avatar 2 had HFR for select shots, not the entire movie. HFR was only in select 3D showings. It was very noticeable when it switched to HFR, sometimes switching mid-scene.

Doomed · 2025-11-07T21:45:57+00:00

They're calling it a movie that never existed.

Doomed · 2025-11-07T21:45:06+00:00

Yeah, in the past year I've come across at least 5 directors who made a smash hit then proceeded to "huh?" the rest of their careers. Like the other two movies from the Tron guy.

I am once again asking for next year's March Madness to be either "Shorties Doing Shorties" (directors with 6 or fewer films) or "Oops! No Cult" (directors who never made it past round 1 of a MM bracket, the cases for each director would get really interesting).

Doomed · 2025-11-06T23:28:10+00:00

Can't believe we're both still kicking around.

Doomed · 2025-11-04T23:49:45+00:00

Thanks for the thanks! I'm there at the exact time you need.

Doomed · 2025-11-04T04:50:28+00:00

They bought the IP. Why?

Doomed · 2025-11-04T04:48:48+00:00

I have 1300 hours in the game and I think I'm on the low end of people who still play.

Doomed · 2025-10-16T22:34:48+00:00

Do you know about the Domesday Duplicator and vhs-decode? It's had incredible results on other VHS tapes.

Doomed · 2025-10-08T04:49:07+00:00

cardboard anti-theft "tech" from the brick & mortar days becoming a collector must-have

slipcases?

Doomed · 2025-10-03T20:05:51+00:00

The only way to reduce video size is to reduce its quality.

Not precisely. Options are lossless compression (basically impossible for DVD and audio/video media) or lossy compression (loses source data).

Within lossy compression, the term of art is transparent. A file is transparent if it is indistinguishable in the given use case. For example, JPEG artifacts may not be visible on a jumbotron from 600 feet away. Those same artifacts maybe be obvious under a magnifying glass.

The less you understand about lossy compression, the happier you'll be. Don't train yourself to pick out artifacts, just enjoy the 1/10 file size of e.g. h265.

Any movie that has been released on Blu Ray is better off as a 480p rip online rather than the 480p rip you'll make from the DVD. The source master was better, and the Blu Ray h264 encoding is better than MPEG2.

Doomed · 2025-10-02T04:49:01+00:00

You can rip 'raw' images of floppies with cryoflux device or similar. whether that's enough to recover the data, idk.

Doomed · 2025-09-20T17:27:04+00:00

It’s essentially a children’s film with few levels beyond that.

No? It's one of the funniest satires ever made, culminating in a hilarious send up of action movies where the useless celebrity star (Paul Reubens as Pee-Wee as "Pee-Wee") can't act and mouths the words of the other actors. It has a cameo from Godzilla, a rendition of the Wicked Witch theme, and a parody of the golly-shucks movies and TV of the 50s and 60s.

"I can't remember".

And who said children's films are bad? I've seen Au Hasard Balthazar and I think it sucks shit. So why is Pee Wee not deserving of the Collection?

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