The catch-all movie/TV comment thread .

[megabyteme]

Meet me in the woods, Idol...

[clocker]

Been catching up on some "must see TV" lately.
Gobbled up all five seasons of The Wire, which might in fact be the best series ever.
Justified is consistently entertaining.

From Denmark (and Sweden), The Killing and The Bridge are both fascinating and feature two of the most original female leads I can recall.

Haven't seen too many movies (few interest me lately), the latest being God Bless America, which starts off well and then just gets stupid (which may be ironically intentional).

Wilfred returns next month, so there's that to look forward to and Breaking Bad starts again soon thereafter.

It's hard work trying to drown out the political noise.

[Artemis]

i bought a couple Logitech Revue units after the prices dropped below $100. If you can find one refurbished, they make a heck of a media player- that is, with the exception of playing media directly (you need to set up a media server for that. I use a WD media player and the two work very nicely together).

Anyway, one of the apps available for Google TV is called Redux. You can watch the same shows on your PC, but this app is meant to be sort of a TV replacement. It has "channels" that have various content selected by a channel "editor" of sorts. A couple of the clips I felt had substantial merit- especially being low or no budget projects. IMO, there are some extremely talented individuals/small groups out there, and they are capable of producing shorts like these:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/wat...d-by-wes-ball/




Red

A modern take on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. I this film, Red finds empowerment and takes matters into her own hands. The wolf is clearly unprepared for this little girl!

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¨Based on a true fairy tale¨
As the silhouette of a lonely girl runs through the woods, something in the shadows is lurking her.
RED is an animated short film, which presents a new version of the classic tale ¨Little Red Riding Hood¨ by Charles Perrault. The directors Jorge Jaramillo and Carlo Guillot explore more thoroughly the drama, horror and realism of the story. A journey of feelings and moments, with visual and musical elements existing only to carry a clear and strong narrative.
In RED the directors based on traditional shadows animation, giving it a new perspective by using technology to create a new concept, while maintaining the visual and narrative force of the classic technique.
The production of the film was done almost entirely by the two directors and musician/composer Manuel Borda, who completed the story by reinforcing all emotions through it.

Anyway, a couple of interesting shorts I found. Enjoy. Or something else.

This should really go in the hardware section (maybe) but you seem to have an ever increasing selection of boxes scattered around the landscape in your attempts to NOT have a mediacenter PC. So how is that working out for you? My only screw-up so far is I chose a motherboard with two teensy little oversights, one being a lack of SATA ports (4) which after I put in a SATA BD-Rom left me with little wiggle room. So sadly I have to upgrade . A nice B75 chipset board with six SATA ports an Ivybridge i5 3450 and 8G DDR3 1333 RAM should solve that little hiccup, but I digress, your box extravaganza. WTF are you doing?

[megabyteme]

This should really go in the hardware section (maybe) but you seem to have an ever increasing selection of boxes scattered around the landscape in your attempts to NOT have a mediacenter PC. So how is that working out for you? My only screw-up so far is I chose a motherboard with two teensy little oversights, one being a lack of SATA ports (4) which after I put in a SATA BD-Rom left me with little wiggle room. So sadly I have to upgrade . A nice B75 chipset board with six SATA ports an Ivybridge i5 3450 and 8G DDR3 1333 RAM should solve that little hiccup, but I digress, your box extravaganza. WTF are you doing?

My thoughts were a bit rambled in that post. Mainly, I meant to point out the clips (which I like quite a bit), but also mentioned how I came across them. The Revue box actually contains an Atom processor, and has a slick Bluetooth keyboard. I do have a HTPC setup in the bedroom. Honestly, I prefer the boxes for their ease of use and the fact that they either produce little noise (the Revue has a fan), or no noise. And never require wake-up.

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Even with a pairing of the Revue and the WD, the total comes to ~$170 to $200 depending on sale price. I've never been able to build a PC for that especially including a keyboard option. The Revue (Google TV) has a growing number of app-like channels (which include the one I mentioned) which are pretty cool and easy to navigate.

Perhaps you are thinking I have all these devices in one room. I have the office computer which acts as my downloading source, and storage. A living room with full surround sound, Logitech Revue, LCD TV, and Seagate Media player. Dedicated media room with Revue, WD Media player, surround, projector, etc. And the bedroom with HTPC and LCD TV. All rooms are connected to office computer via wi-fi or Cat 5e.

I do apologize for mixing the topics. This being a "catch all" for TV/Movies, I should have kept the post focused on the clips themselves.

[Artemis]

Rather than go totally off the reservation I will create a fred in the hardware section to discuss this. Since it will involve Linux & XBMC expect the sounds of mary clomping towards the party, but the main theme will be the word 'cheap'.

[IdolEyes787]

Been catching up on some "must see TV" lately.
Gobbled up all five seasons of The Wire, which might in fact be the best series ever.
Justified is consistently entertaining.

From Denmark (and Sweden), The Killing and The Bridge are both fascinating and feature two of the most original female leads I can recall.

Haven't seen too many movies (few interest me lately), the latest being God Bless America, which starts off well and then just gets stupid (which may be ironically intentional).

Wilfred returns next month, so there's that to look forward to and Breaking Bad starts again soon thereafter.

It's hard work trying to drown out the political noise.

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[chalice]

Finally got around to Mad Men. I just hadn't been bored enough to watch it before. The premise and slickness of the trailers being ample repellent. After having watched every fucking thing in the entire fucking universe, I settled in recently to Mad Men, reluctantly acknowledging its persistent appeal.

Kinda immediately arresting, but dipping throughout, it's rich, retrospective writing and fantastic character play. Some proper noice burds, too. I know I'm late in coming to it, still I don't hang on it. Don Draper gets too much sex and should pound the fuck outta Betty's vagina until she recognises the error of her personal geography, and solution to her unbecoming vastness, in my humble.

Every scene is thick with reference, which I do flit to, but when there's not a flicker of a chance of a robot invasion, knowing history to an extent, these people, I'm almost sure, won't save the universe with their advertising grease slicks.Which is a shame, cos I'd really dig on the irony of an ad exec saving the universe. Perhaps I'll write it.

No, wait.

[clocker]

Ah, good to know that nothing has changed here.
Four pages of shit from some asshat making his post count bones.

[IdolEyes787]

Ah, good to know that nothing has changed here.
Four pages of shit from some asshat making his post count bones.

Who are you calling an asshat?

[Artemis]

Ah, good to know that nothing has changed here.
Four pages of shit from some asshat making his post count bones.

Who are you calling an asshat?

He obviously has you pegged there buddy.