What are you watching?

[BULUPTAX]

The Terminator on 4K UHD. James Cameron has been getting a lot of flack for being too heavy handed with digital noise reduction when it comes to remasters of his older movies but the Terminator 1 remaster is pretty good, I think. A lot of people didn't like the Aliens one but I thought it was pretty good apart from some parts that were really distracting. I haven't checked out True Lies and The Abyss which I've heard are the REALLY bad ones

[NateDog]

The Terminator on 4K UHD. James Cameron has been getting a lot of flack for being too heavy handed with digital noise reduction when it comes to remasters of his older movies but the Terminator 1 remaster is pretty good, I think. A lot of people didn't like the Aliens one but I thought it was pretty good apart from some parts that were really distracting. I haven't checked out True Lies and The Abyss which I've heard are the REALLY bad ones

I was put off getting the new steelbook for this exact reason but read once it released that it was really good. Wong Kar Wai is another one, I've wanted to pick up a few of his Criterion releases but I've seen some images of ridiculous changes to the colour grading in them.

[BULUPTAX]

The Terminator on 4K UHD. James Cameron has been getting a lot of flack for being too heavy handed with digital noise reduction when it comes to remasters of his older movies but the Terminator 1 remaster is pretty good, I think. A lot of people didn't like the Aliens one but I thought it was pretty good apart from some parts that were really distracting. I haven't checked out True Lies and The Abyss which I've heard are the REALLY bad ones

I was put off getting the new steelbook for this exact reason but read once it released that it was really good. Wong Kar Wai is another one, I've wanted to pick up a few of his Criterion releases but I've seen some images of ridiculous changes to the colour grading in them.

Oh really? I'd not heard about that. I have the World of Wong Kar Wai Criterion boxset and that was the first time I'd watched any of his movies, so I had no idea they were considered bad versions

[NateDog]

The Terminator on 4K UHD. James Cameron has been getting a lot of flack for being too heavy handed with digital noise reduction when it comes to remasters of his older movies but the Terminator 1 remaster is pretty good, I think. A lot of people didn't like the Aliens one but I thought it was pretty good apart from some parts that were really distracting. I haven't checked out True Lies and The Abyss which I've heard are the REALLY bad ones

I was put off getting the new steelbook for this exact reason but read once it released that it was really good. Wong Kar Wai is another one, I've wanted to pick up a few of his Criterion releases but I've seen some images of ridiculous changes to the colour grading in them.

Oh really? I'd not heard about that. I have the World of Wong Kar Wai Criterion boxset and that was the first time I'd watched any of his movies, so I had no idea they were considered bad versions

I was looking at that for a while before but saw some reviews mentioning it. I've been dying to pick up a copy of In The Mood For Love for years but held off on the Criterion because of this, can't find it otherwise here on blu-ray. Saw some screens a few weeks back about them and some were unbelievable, literally completely changing the entire look of most scenes.

[BULUPTAX]

I started rewatching Andor because I remember really enjoying it and season 2 comes out soon. I've rewatched the first 2 episodes and it goes hard. It's definitely my favourite work of Star Wars since the Disney buyout

[Wayno]

I think I'll watch Andor in the near future. Not watching anything since Severance finished. Not a TV show but my favourite Disney era Star Wars media is easily the Jedi games. Mando season 1 was great. Season 2 felt like 8 episodes advertising spin off shows so I never bothered with season 3.

[Dirty Duck]

I watched the first 3 episodes of Andor and just wasn’t drawn in. I’ve always intended to go back to it though.

I watched The Acolyte as it released as my brother was bed bound after an operation and it was a reason to call him up once a week to chat about it while I was working away in Bristol. The show had its issues but I enjoyed how removed it was from the rest of what Star Wars has been churning out lately. It felt a bit different. Disney Star Wars has lost any good faith it had left with me by cancelling it after one season with a cliffhanger ending. As if their 36 other projects in the IP don’t make them enough money to prop up one final season to wrap it up for people? It’s one thing when Netflix do it as their projects are all unrelated. But I don’t want to get invested in Star Wars stories if Disney will just pull the rug from under my feet at the first sign of a southern trend in viewership. Was cool to see Carrie-Anne Moss do some martial arts again for a bit at least.

[BULUPTAX]

I think I'll watch Andor in the near future. Not watching anything since Severance finished. Not a TV show but my favourite Disney era Star Wars media is easily the Jedi games. Mando season 1 was great. Season 2 felt like 8 episodes advertising spin off shows so I never bothered with season 3.

I definetely agree with you about Mando S1 and S2, but honestly S3 sort of won me back, it took the show back to what made me like S1, but the season still got it's detractors so it's hard to tell if you'd like it

I watched The Acolyte as it released as my brother was bed bound after an operation and it was a reason to call him up once a week to chat about it while I was working away in Bristol. The show had its issues but I enjoyed how removed it was from the rest of what Star Wars has been churning out lately. It felt a bit different. Disney Star Wars has lost any good faith it had left with me by cancelling it after one season with a cliffhanger ending. As if their 36 other projects in the IP don’t make them enough money to prop up one final season to wrap it up for people? It’s one thing when Netflix do it as their projects are all unrelated. But I don’t want to get invested in Star Wars stories if Disney will just pull the rug from under my feet at the first sign of a southern trend in viewership. Was cool to see Carrie-Anne Moss do some martial arts again for a bit at least.

I didn't mind The Acolyte, it had some neato ideas but overall I found it kind of boring, the episode where they fight the sith guy slapped though. It definitely was nice to get something in a different time period, I hope Lucasfilm don't learn the wrong lesson from the criticism and make everything else set in the Original Trilogy era

[tr0nic]

I watched the first 3 episodes of Andor and just wasn’t drawn in. I’ve always intended to go back to it though.

Yeah me too. I know it's well written and well acted, I'm just so burnt out on Disney's formula. I get it, the guy is constantly running and hiding from the Empire on the fringes of the galaxy and meets a wacky cast of characters along the way. Something happens at the end that ties into a bigger movie. And people are telling me "No, that's not what happens" but like, come on. That's what happens.

[Wayno]

There will be no deadpan gold that only Nielsen can deliver. But I have a little bit of faith that this won't be terrible.