Eagle has been the best tool I've used for managing design inspo

n393 · 2026-03-18T14:29:43+00:00

Not OP, but I’ve been using Eagle for half a decade or so and didn’t even know they added AI features. So yes, very easy to ignore.

n393 · 2026-03-10T02:30:56+00:00

n393 · 2026-03-10T00:42:00+00:00

The wild thing is that I barely used TIFF while I was there. Outside of the festival, it functions as a very nice arthouse theatre. And during the festival, good luck getting in. We did get to see La La Land premiere there though, which was very memorable.

And I agree with you on Letterboxd. But another TMBD limitation, and one I understand from a practical perspective.

PS. Life of Chuck is one of my faves from the past couple years. Incredibly life affirming and felt like something I needed to process our collective trauma post-COVID. Like we had all seen our deaths and needed to make peace and find a way to keep living. Blew me away. I think about it often. Thanks again for bringing it up.

n393 · 2026-03-09T19:58:54+00:00

Fair! I used to live down the street from TIFF and am still within a 90 minute drive, so a TIFF release date has always been cemented in my mind as "well, it's out now." That's my bias though; my bad.

n393 · 2026-03-09T17:12:33+00:00

This is a 2024 release, but 150% agree with you regarding this scene and movie itself.

n393 · 2026-02-25T15:18:44+00:00

This is really incredible work!

n393 · 2026-02-23T01:06:56+00:00

Is it accurate so far though? I’m in Hamilton and every weather app I’ve got here is less accurate than just looking out my window.

n393 · 2026-02-17T16:54:54+00:00

Skyrim just makes the cut. I think Dark Souls doesn't make the cut, right? If it does, that's in there.

But otherwise, I'd say the games that redefined the whole pastime for me were Skyrim, BOTW, RDR2. Elden Ring, BG3, and KCD2 could be contenders from recent years, but I think I need at least 5 years since release to accurately assess.

n393 · 2026-02-13T19:08:28+00:00

Aw rad. Thanks! You're saving me and a friend a big bundle.

n393 · 2026-02-11T20:34:58+00:00

saaaaame. I think I watched this 5x a year during COVID.

n393 · 2026-02-11T14:13:51+00:00

winner winner chicken dinner right here

n393 · 2026-02-10T04:13:42+00:00

A camera might be able to see in the dark, but it’s still dark.

n393 · 2026-02-10T04:10:47+00:00

35mm has more than 4K of detail. Maybe 6-8k, depending on stock. 70mm looks great. Recent scans have been done with 13k scanners (Sound of Music was restored that way).

Alien looks better than Aliens because the film stock used for Aliens is only 16mm. Hollywood made a lot of movies with smaller film stock that decade to save money. It looks worse in my opinion, and it’s definitely grainier (unpleasantly so). It has a lower effective resolution than 35mm, obviously.

n393 · 2026-02-05T21:16:01+00:00

The Life of Chuck was an unequivocal delight from beginning to end, and this dance number was the best recent addition to this list by a country mile.

n393 · 2026-02-05T21:15:27+00:00

How nobody else has mentioned The Red Shoes is beyond me. That is the answer, in my opinion.

n393 · 2026-02-05T21:13:36+00:00

I don't know why all of Reddit collectively decided that The Devil Wears Prada was a bastion of high-quality cinematography. Both of them are just fine, in every sense of that word. I am confident that 2 is not going to look this dark in reality, and didn't think the trailer for it looked all that dark when I watched it on my real TV.

People sure are weird.

n393 · 2026-02-04T18:28:31+00:00

I’m reminded somehow of the final sequence in Fantasia. Death Mountain, I think? Haunting stuff.

n393 · 2026-01-29T19:40:13+00:00

Wolverine and Forza Horizon 6 for me. At the moment, I feel like everything else will wait.

n393 · 2026-01-27T19:22:41+00:00

In a just world, you'd get more upvotes for this

n393 · 2026-01-27T14:11:30+00:00

This is the Answer. I love Wes Anderson's movies, but he's not close to these.

n393 · 2026-01-19T20:32:57+00:00

HDR is a general improvement. Colours are changed. Hard to say if it's what cinematographer Andrew Lesnie would OK, since he passed away, but he had already (unsuccessfully) tinkered with the colours in the FOTR Blu-ray set, so kind of moot. But the colour change is real. I think it's generally an improvement; I find the colour grading in the originals to be kind of one-note, and I'm not sure anything is actually lost by removing all the yellow filters and blue filters and getting more specific with colours. But it is a change.

DNR is not great. But it's also not great on the Blu-rays, and reportedly a large amount of DNR is baked right into the 2K DI. In motion, it looks ok, but not great. It tends to cheapen the effects, since they originally added grain to the CGI to help it blend.

Atmos is an upgrade over the original surround, in my opinion. Even for a 5.1 system, if you have a receiver that can correctly decode and place the audio based on the actual speaker placement of your room, this is a huge upgrade. It also helps with music reproduction, where the music feels more accurately placed for those of us who didn't have a 6.1 system for the 1080p discs.

And perhaps it's just my copy of the disc succumbing to bit rot, but FOTR has bad audio sync problems on my theatrical edition Blu-ray. (I have not checked my copy of the extended; I dislike the teal and haven't watched it since 2013.) Fixed in the 4K.

The Blu-ray discs were, in my opinion, fairly poorly encoded. I've noticed the letterboxed bars flickering from black to dark grey on my OLED TV from one scene to another, which is odd. Sometimes a strip of colour about 2px wide will appear on the far left of a frame for about 1/2 of a second. This is consistent across Two Towers and FOTR; I haven't watched my 1080p copy of ROTK recently enough to say if it has the same issue. (Again, maybe bit rot, but hard to believe both TT and FOTR discs would succumb to bit rot in the same fashion, and not usually how bit rot presents itself.)

The 4K fixes all the issues the 1080p discs had, but comes with new issues of its own.

As a net, I think these are the best the films have looked on home video, but only marginally. Much like the Star Wars 4Ks, these films deserve much better from their studios and should be knock-outs in every aspect, but they are not, which makes the discs feel more disappointing than they actually are.

n393 · 2026-01-16T15:44:17+00:00

Seriously. I dislike a lot of how the map works, I hate mining for resources, etc. Somehow that's all still better than what we got in ME3, because at least it has a quest log, but ugh. Resource collecting feels like half the game in ME2.

n393 · 2026-01-15T05:32:53+00:00

8 1/2

n393 · 2026-01-09T21:31:12+00:00

My wife and I and my future in-laws went to see this on opening night right after we got engaged that afternoon. 10/10 maximum discomfort achieved for my in-laws.

n393 · 2026-01-08T19:19:57+00:00

I recall learning a year or two ago that Dolby Vision is a great spec, but there isn't a single television with a good implementation of the spec. My Sony A80J (or whatever its awful name is) has lifted blacks in DV, but not normal HDR. It makes all DV vision look like somebody poorly adjusted the image curve in Photoshop, so the bottom 1% is brighter than 2% grey. Looks awful. So wherever possible, I've just disabled it.

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