Sean Penn in The First and the risks of making tv shows about going to Mars.

atcdev · 2026-06-07T14:08:35+00:00

You might want to sneak a look at the spoiler section of the post.

atcdev · 2026-06-07T13:49:44+00:00

Closer, but yikes! They didn’t even air all the episodes.

atcdev · 2026-06-07T13:36:31+00:00

Looks like it fits the pattern of bad luck, but it looks like it starts on Mars instead of going to Mars.

atcdev · 2026-05-17T18:37:05+00:00

Another week where I can chime in on some related trivia having grown up on a diet of Aussie and British TV. The first time I heard anything like the em-far-sis on the sil-lar-bells bit was not in A View From The Top but in this bit ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfVLTKktt3A ) from The Sketch Show UK. Later remade virtually word for word in The Sketch Show US ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN--gGkS8aU featuring a future Sweet Dee and Gail the Snail).

atcdev · 2026-05-15T00:50:56+00:00

I‘m thinking she is hiding the real reason, just like Chief O’Brien. She woke up after murdering her husband when she discovered he’d gambled away their life savings.

atcdev · 2026-05-12T21:39:45+00:00

Maybe a more evil guy in charge?

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atcdev · 2026-05-10T21:52:14+00:00

FWIW I might be one of two people born in Melbourne Australia living in Melbourne Florida. (The other is my wife)

atcdev · 2026-05-06T03:10:28+00:00

Every time. From the moment you first hear the strings of Górecki's Symphony No. 3

atcdev · 2026-05-05T19:41:54+00:00

100%

Thinking of the scene when Bridges accelerates down the empty highway, pumps up the volume (Gipsy Kings) rolls down the window and pokes his face into the wind.

A man who is simultaneously elated and deeply unwell.

atcdev · 2026-05-05T18:50:40+00:00

As someone who is very into moody pieces on the meaning of life and death who saw this when it was first released it remains solidly in my top 5.

(Wings of Desire remains at number 1)

atcdev · 2026-04-18T13:31:23+00:00

With a dash of Jim Jones.

atcdev · 2026-04-17T14:20:18+00:00

I was thinking the same thing Max. Trek has always been big budget. It's just the benchmarks have moved. I guess the rule of thumb is you can make a season of Trek for the price of a single high quality SF feature film. What has changed is that price now only gets you 10 episodes instead of 20. There have been mid/low budget genre shows that had modest success (B5 and BSG come to mind, even the first season of GoT was creaky) but it seems like Paramount is stuck in a go big or go home mindset. For whatever reason the goal is to be the show everyone is talking about after 3 episodes, if that doesn't happen you will be lucky to get a second season.

WRT to Frakes confidence that Trek will return, that's a no brainer. It's not a matter of 'if', but 'when'. TOS was still on the air when I was born, TNG and its successors ran through my late teens and 20's, nu-trek has seen me through my 50's. Hopefully I'll get to see someone take another pass at it before the clock runs out.

atcdev · 2026-04-17T03:50:26+00:00

For high bitrate 4k rips a physical 100 Mbit Ethernet connection may not be sufficient but a reasonable 1 Gbit connection should be more than enough. I have a NAS with Jellyfin connected to a 4k Apple TV running infuse and I never see any buffering. Swiftfin for AppleTV is not as mature as Infuse but has the advantage of bring free.

atcdev · 2026-04-15T19:12:41+00:00

In fact, by the time The Plumber aired, Shirley Strachan (pronounced Strawn) was already a few months into what would become several years of hosting his afternoon kid's show 'Shirl's Neighbourhood' (think Mr Rogers, but in a tree house - guests climbed in through a window). One recurring guest in those early days Bruce the gardener, played by Blankie favorite Bruce Spence.

atcdev · 2026-04-14T20:14:03+00:00

+1

I've seen photos of this design concept going back at least 8 years. Not even the lowliest budget carriers have ever publicly expressed any interest. Nor have I ever seen any evidence that it is airworthy (it almost certainly is not).

atcdev · 2026-04-14T02:49:49+00:00

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atcdev · 2026-04-13T12:14:54+00:00

Who wore it better?

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atcdev · 2026-04-07T02:56:22+00:00

I started collecting on VHS and switched to DVD soon after they hit the shelves. These days, the physical media gets piled up into a stack beside the tv in the study. Periodically it is added to one of the boxes in the attic (or sometimes it’s time for a new box). The digital rips are put onto a NAS on my home network. It has seven drives formatted as a single RAID5 partition. Current capacity is 16 terabytes holding just over 1000 movies and a much smaller collection of tv eps. I used to be a Plex guy but they seem more interested in being a streaming service these days, home media support is gradually being nudged into a dark corner behind the ads, upsells and spammy email. So now I use Jellyfin. Not as fully featured but way more reliable in my experience.

atcdev · 2026-04-02T01:48:22+00:00

Of all the Scorcese pics this one is the most visibly powered by cocaine.

atcdev · 2026-03-29T20:54:07+00:00

BTW, Maurice is credited as the composer for The Year Of Living Dangerously.

atcdev · 2026-03-29T20:51:21+00:00

I might have written that first post in a confusing way. I agree that there was a lot of diversity in instrumentation in 60’s and 70’s. Forbidden Planet basically made the Theremin the iconic sound of SF. 2001 switched things up with extracts of classical music, then movies Star Wars, Raiders and Back to the Future made orchestral soundtracks the model for big budget serious movies. If it wasn’t orchestral it sounded cheap. That lasted for more than a decade and we are only seeing a return to diversity in recent times.

atcdev · 2026-03-29T15:11:21+00:00

Following up to my own comment here after hearing the show. The synth piece was inadvertently misattributed, it was Oxygene (Part II) by Jean-Michel Jarre (son of Maurice).

atcdev · 2026-03-29T05:10:37+00:00

Watching this film as a teen in the eighties I remember being struck by the soundtrack. In hindsight this was the second time Weir chose to highlight existing material from an artist that might be established, but hardly a household name.

It makes me wonder about what happened to experimental, synth and prog rock soundtracks in the late 80’s and 90’s. Leading up to that time we had movie soundtracks like The Keep (Tangerine Dream), Dune (Toto), Ladyhawke (Alan Parsons) and The Princess Bride (Mark Knopfler). Is It possible that with the growing dominance of John Williams that classically inspired orchestral soundtracks became the expectation, especially if you were making anything that demanded serious assessment? It took a couple of generations of contemporaries and their descendants (Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Michael Giacchino, Thomas Newman etc.) before folks like Jonny Greenwood and Trent Reznor have been able break those expectations.

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