I’m pretty intrigued by the Ambisonic stuff, and I always look at something at NAB about VR every year I go. I’m most impressed right now about the hologram technology, but that’s just me (some amazing stuff at NAB a few years ago for sports sets).
I almost bought an ambisonic mic a few years ago, but Zoom now makes a recorder which I’m thinking about buying if a project I’m developing actually goes. I want to record a lot of ambiences, but have no idea how many wind issues something like that has. I think there are a lot of interesting ramifications for VR in the future, but I haven’t studied any of it at all. Mixing in something like VR actually gives me fever sweats when it probably shouldn’t.
I was not at all joking about holograms to draw people back into theaters. If someone combined holographic displays with the omnimax setup then I would pay that man his money. It’s not like theaters haven’t suffered these same defeats before. First the movie palaces were crushed by television (and the courts) and then again by home videos. You’ve already illustrated some of the finer points of the latter.
The bottom line is basically that if theaters want me to come and pay $15 or maybe even $30, they have to do carnival tricks I can’t do at home. It has to be a big gap between what they offer and what I can get elsewhere. In the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty, that was simply having a giant fuckin’ screen, a projector, some popcorn, and a big room. One hundred years later, the improvements on that front have been modest while every other entertainment option has become considerably more attractive to consumers.
Something like a Total Recall experience would be neat. Everyone remembers experiencing the movie as though they were in it in some way, so everyone’s experience is totally different, unlike IRL, where everyone experiences a movie exactly like I do.
The Black Friday movie this year was *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” I’m not in shape to give a proper review right now but suffice it to say it’s a good one and you can see it with your girl and kids and not feel ripped off nor worry about language or violence. It was not what the previews make you think. I gave it 4 out of 5 on RT
Ford vs. Ferrari was great if you want a saga of irresponsible dudes spending massive amounts of money on a dick-waving contest. Incredible shots, gorgeous cars, loved every minute of it and I’m not a car guy at all.Just great actors playing out a human drama with very fast cars and I love it.
I really liked Matt Damon’s performance but am not sure about Christian Bale’s. At first I thought he was going a little over the top on it, but having seen pictures and video of the guy he was playing I’m thinking it was better than I originally thought. Either way, I enjoyed the movie. There are a few documentaries on Netflix about Shelby and Le Mans at the moment if you want to learn more about them.
Watched “Blinded by the Light” last night and really enjoyed it. Fun musical that does an interesting job of mixing realism and the wackiness that is inherent in having people burst into song. A bit sappy, and very 80’s, but kept me engaged the whole time.
I’ve seen 1/2 documentarys about this throughout the years and it’s a great fast paced story about the courage it took to drive these cars/vehicles.
I’ll check it out over the Xmas period when I’m off as I was always fascinated by race cars as a kid, never got to drive a shelby though.
Closest I got was a 3,500 V8 MG MGB.
Cost my m8’s dad £7,000 around 1987 and the car was in pretty good shape tbh.
We took it into the school yard as 16 year olds, got caught and luckily got off by denials, who US?
What actually saved us was my friends mother having to stay away from home all night so the police couldn’t check how hot the engine was.
I didn’t know they made a V8 version of the MGB. When I was a mechanic I worked on a few of the 4-cylinder versions. Decent little car but they all tended to be in pretty bad shape (this was in the nineties).
The V8 version reminds me of the Sunbeam Tiger. This was a legend when I was just a small gearhead.
Editing to add: There’s a fun episode of Jay Leno’s Garage featuring the Tiger.
Couldn’t do it in one day but finished up The Irishman. Pesci goat, De Niro nearly goat, Al Pacino does his best but come on, as Jimmy Hoffa? Did not work for me. Direction: weird and all over the place. The parts where it wanted it to be like Goodfellas it just didn’t land, and it ended with an almost kind of a late Clint Eastwoody tone, which is fine, just incongruous (I guess this was intended I just didn’t like it that much). In all, too long but watchable, can’t say I was ever truly bored but a lot of the time it was flat. Did learn a bit more about the period though. Nicholson as Hoffa 4 life tho.
I don’t do this anymore because I don’t want to, but once in our mid-30s my wife and I exited a movie and went into another movie just to check it out, but we sat down. Some 16 year old told us we couldn’t do that and I just said something like “it’s ok” and the power of our adulthood prevailed. The usher just shrugged and moved on.
Yeah the V8 was different when you’re beside it, it has presence with some nice suttle bumps in the right spots, a very nice car indeed.
Build wise wasn’t the best by any means though, my m8s was always breaking down And the seats for us were the best in the business when we were used to Ford escorts
My gf will never sit through Ford v Ferrari so I’ll be renting it but I definitely want to see it. I was a yuge muscle car dork as a teenager; my first car was a ‘68 Mustang so I was into Fords and consider Shelby a Demi god
I stopped at the 2-hour mark and can’t bring myself to continue. I’m sad. I love Scorsese, and this will be the first film of his I not only didn’t finish but am pretty sure I never will. But I guess one miss out of so many hits for me is not sad at all.
I enjoyed this a lot. I was surprised by the ending. My failed prediction would be a huge spoiler imo so I’ll blur it
I thought they would go full Greedy, reveal he faked his suicide to find out which of his family members deserved to be in the will. He had no idea it would expose murderers.
I do not even race car, but Ford v Ferrari looks like a blast
Hate using 80 year old actors to play 40 something characters. You’re old bros. Old af. Scenes with 76 year old De Niro and his seven year old daughter doesn’t work for me.
Other than that, it was ok. But I really couldn’t get past the casting. Young actors can play old with makeup and acting but olds can’t and shouldn’t play young characters.
It’s really not so much about the cars as it is two extremely charismatic actors having a bromance and two old dudes being toxic hyper-competitive olds. Tell her it’s really a well-made Matt Damon/Christian Bale platform and she might be up to see it.
Fuck you, man, motherfucker my first car was a '79 Volvo station wagon, I would have stabbed a nun to drive around in a goddamn '68 Mustang like fucking Steve McQueen.
as I was always fascinated by race cars as a kid, never got to drive a shelby though. 
And the seats for us were the best in the business when we were used to Ford escorts 