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Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

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Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

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Post by RHSeeger »

nullify88 wrote: post #73
b112 wrote: post #64

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That, and its cousin the shaky cam. "Let's make things difficult to see and hear. That makes for better cinema!" Jackie Chan once discussed action scenes in US movies versus his movies. Western films: cut before the punch lands, maybe cut a few more times. Hong Kong moves: just show the action in one scene.

A great example of this is Hard Boiled 1992, the Hospital Shootout. I think audiences are beginning to appreciate continuous scenes and are becoming more frequent in western films. The most recent one I can think of is John Wick 4, when it goes top down. Some of the recent Michael Bay movies are so aggressive when it comes to cuts, the average shot length must be 2 or 3 seconds.

Michael Bay are basically not worth watching for me. Things move around the screen too fast to know what's going on. The Transformers movies are especially bad due to it because it can be hard to tell which robots are on which side; and , if you're bouncing all over the screen so you never get a chance to focus on one, it becomes impossible.

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Post by xattt »

Re: negative re-masters

I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette.

For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for.

I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to video tape. Were studios really that reckless with their properties?

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Post by xattt »

b112 wrote: post #64
stuaxo wrote: post #32

"The dialog is clear, sharp, stable, and easy to follow." if we didn't already know it was an older film this would be the thing that nailed it.

That, and its cousin the shaky cam. "Let's make things difficult to see and hear. That makes for better cinema!" Jackie Chan once discussed action scenes in US movies versus his movies. Western films: cut before the punch lands, maybe cut a few more times. Hong Kong moves: just show the action in one scene.

Gasland was unwatchable for me.

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Post by AStonesThrow »

Ntrails wrote: post #78
sbarre wrote: post #74

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I saw Sneakers when it first came out in theatres and at the time I was in high school and working part-time in a shoe store.. I had learned from the store owner that you can tell so much from someone's shoes, often more than from their clothes. Combined with that line in this very formative movie (for me), I still to this day can't help but check someone's shoes when I first meet them.

> you can tell so much from someone's shoes You can make educated guesses based on apparel of all sorts - but you are always guessing .

Yes but many times, these can be quite valuable inferences.

Shoes are indeed a valuable source of information about a person. I knew at least one BH case manager who really paid attention to them.

Shoes are expensive, very durable, and typically one of those items that people have only a few pairs of. So while someone can easily change their outfit to match a situation, place, or mood for the day, they may be less likely to change their shoes to match more than a basic purpose.

And shoes tend to accumulate evidence of where someone's been. Are they muddy, dusty, spit-polished?

Personally, I own about five pair of shoes. I have a pair of Oxford dress shoes, a very nice pair of white New Balance with hook-and-loop, some hiking boots I picked up at JC Penney, and a few others. My clothing, on the other hand, is mostly Adidas and Columbia and some tee shirts, but I don't own any Adidas or Columbia shoes. So you can tell a lot about me, no matter what I'm wearing, by studying my shoes for a while.

I met another BH professional who said he owned 52 pairs of Crocs. He said that he'd kicked an addiction habit, but it seems he traded something unhealthy for perhaps a less-detrimental dependence on collecting shoes. To each his own, I suppose, and surely a lot of information could be gleaned about this fellow if you paid attention to which pair of Crocs he'd selected for the day.

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Post by fredoralive »

alias_neo wrote: post #58
hudo wrote: post #50

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Netflix is "4K Ultra HD: Up to 7 GB per hour". Blu ray is 25GB per side, so max 50GB for 2 layers. Typical movies are 35-50GB. So, BR, and think even DVD still looks much better than any streaming service!

> Blu ray is 25GB per side, so max 50GB for 2 layers Are pressed Blu-Rays limited compared to writeable ones? I have 100GB BDXL blanks (single-sided) I use as one of the archives for my family photos/videos. Couldn't a film BluRay also be 100GB on a single side?

100GB discs won’t work on standard Blu-Ray players, the basic standard predates BDXL discs. Ultra HD 4K player can play them.

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Post by sgt »

xattt wrote: post #82

Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…

Speaking of, I am desperately trying to get hold of Then Came Bronson that is of reasonable quality. Great and well known TV-series that came out in 1969. It's simply impossible to get a good rip though.

The only copy that exists (as far as I know) came from a VHS recording of a TV-channel in the 1980s. But surely the film rolls still exist?

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Post by sgt »

sneak wrote: post #72
devoutsalsa wrote: post #23

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This is always the first thing I remember about the movie... COOTYS RAT SEMEN "No, I don't." "No. No." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GutJf9umD9c

One of my cover/shell companies for privacy purposes is an anagram of that phrase. :D

Let me guess your password...

"Too many secrets"

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Post by sgt »

geerlingguy wrote: post #76
mortarion wrote: post #55

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The best movie about physical pentesting and grayhat hacking in general.

It was the previous generation's "Mr. Robot"

In a movie format, like they used to. Not a series that keeps on going... seemingly never ending.
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