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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:They made some really weird choices. Most of it appears to be shot with some kind of anamorphic lens and a vignette style around the edges with blurring. And that's on top of the really strong film grain effect over everything. I don't understand why. The production values on this show are incredible but it looks like total poo poo. It objectively looks worse in 4K than 1080 due to all the film grain. The Ringer had a piece on this: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2024/4/8/24124015/shogun-cinematography-tv-background-blur-anamorphic-lens-effect
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The distortion and vignette I can understand as an artistic choice. But the film grain absolutely ruins the look when you are watching on large, high quality 4K screen. It looks like something shot on lovely film in the 70's (I guess Apocalypse Now really was their inspiration).
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Can’t tell if shogun is a bad show that’s really good or a good show that’s really bad.
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FizFashizzle posted:Can’t tell if shogun is a bad show that’s really good or a good show that’s really bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgk-lA12FBk
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FizFashizzle posted:Can’t tell if shogun is a bad show that’s really good or a good show that’s really bad. It certainly feels less than the sum of it's parts.
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Yeah tbh it’s not blowing me away despite what must be high production values. It doesn’t help that Blackthorne is such a tool. He looks like a bootleg Seth Rogen and sounds like a bootleg Tom Hardy. The character is written to be stupid beyond belief. At a certain point (like the end of the first week) you’d think he’d understand the gravity of his situation and stop being such a bumble gently caress. I get that the show wants him to be a fish out of water, but it’s too much. I’m still enjoying the show, on the whole, though 
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Apr 9, 2024 17:28
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Like how he’s speaking Japanese now He definitely delivers all his lines like he’s comic relief.
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My screen in black except for a few ovals of fire and a whisper of a white V from a kimono. Like what the gently caress.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:It doesn’t help that Blackthorne is such a tool. He looks like a bootleg Seth Rogen and sounds like a bootleg Tom Hardy. The character is written to be stupid beyond belief. At a certain point (like the end of the first week) you’d think he’d understand the gravity of his situation and stop being such a bumble gently caress. Apparently this was a choice made by the creators of the show to avoid him appearing as a white savior. But the problem is, he's so loud and incompetent it's hard to swallow Toranaga keeping him around.
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Apr 9, 2024 17:54
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He does something with cannons.
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I’m on a plane and someone in front of me is watching the new Aquaman. It looks like poo poo.
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FizFashizzle posted:He does something with cannons. Basic geometry I think? Which I kinda think Japan would know by this point in time.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:This Shogun show is dimly lit and low contrast. That's just what Japan looked like before anime
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Freaquency posted:I’m on a plane and someone in front of me is watching the new Aquaman. It looks like poo poo. It so loving bad lmao
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Apr 9, 2024 18:13
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Perfect airplane movie tho.
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T-Square posted:It appears the iOS BBCode shortcut is borked, SB confirm or deny? Yeah, I think Imgur changed something a few weeks ago. Try this. It’s not Imgur but it should work (at least it did last time I tried it). https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a7f168a6c2a342c58205b5005b59ec3f I found it in one of the iPhone threads, all thanks to them. Let me confirm that it still works first with my lunch.  Edit: it works.
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3 DONG HORSE posted:That's just what Japan looked like before anime Captain Blackthorne after the invention of anime: 
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Einstein's pathology came back and he is cancer free! He is gonna live forever!!
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swickles posted:Einstein's pathology came back and he is cancer free! He is gonna live forever!! Hell yeah!
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swickles posted:Einstein's pathology came back and he is cancer free! He is gonna live forever!! gently caress yeah!!!!!!!!!!!
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swickles posted:Einstein's pathology came back and he is cancer free! He is gonna live forever!! Hell yeah Swickles, that’s great news!
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swickles posted:Einstein's pathology came back and he is cancer free! He is gonna live forever!! gently caress. Yes.
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I once knew a friend of a friend who had a nice doggy named Einstein. I lost track of her when my friend and I kinda cut off our relationship and so in my head, that doggo is still alive, you know? I never heard otherwise so as far as I'm concerned there's a blond golden retriever named Einstein living in santa cruz who is like 20 years old by now and is permanently alive swickles I'm very happy for your Einstein too
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Silly Burrito posted:Yeah, I think Imgur changed something a few weeks ago. Try this. It’s not Imgur but it should work (at least it did last time I tried it). TY once again! And nice lunch
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swickles posted:Einstein's pathology came back and he is cancer free! He is gonna live forever!! 
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swickles posted:Einstein's pathology came back and he is cancer free! He is gonna live forever!! AWESOME!! Meanwhile I just dropped $7k for Little Bear's knee surgery next week. Poor guy had the left leg done two years ago and we get to go through all that recovery and rehab again 
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My work playlist started off with some bangers this morning and got me thinking about cover songs that are as good or better than the original. Paramore's cover of a Drake song sparked the thought. Lauryn Hill's cover of Can't Take My Eyes Off of You is also up there.
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Just lol if anyone thinks this is a serious country https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1777746045838991714
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Tulalip Tulips posted:My work playlist started off with some bangers this morning and got me thinking about cover songs that are as good or better than the original. Paramore's cover of a Drake song sparked the thought. Lauryn Hill's cover of Can't Take My Eyes Off of You is also up there. Jimi Hendrix's cover of All Along the Watchtower is so good a lot of people don't even know it's a Dylan song. There's a fair few songs like that right, where the cover is what got famous?
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Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" was a cover
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Tulalip Tulips posted:My work playlist started off with some bangers this morning and got me thinking about cover songs that are as good or better than the original. Paramore's cover of a Drake song sparked the thought. Lauryn Hill's cover of Can't Take My Eyes Off of You is also up there. Devo's cover of the Rolling Stones (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is my pick.
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Leperflesh posted:Jimi Hendrix's cover of All Along the Watchtower is so good a lot of people don't even know it's a Dylan song. There's a fair few songs like that right, where the cover is what got famous? Oh that's a good one. Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold the World is another on that a lot of people don't know is a cover as well.
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I completely unironically love Shatner's cover of Common People. I think a lot of people probably didn't realize the version of Mad World from Donnie Darko was a cover.
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the knife's cover of Heartbeats
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LeeMajors posted:Just lol if anyone thinks this is a serious country As always, Florida one ups them in unseriousness https://twitter.com/RyanMarino/status/1777701908314009923?t=ZBqSkR30uhepf7HVOZ9xgA&s=19
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House of the Rising Sun is a folk song, so maybe it doesn’t count, but The Animals’ version is absolutely iconic.
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one bourbon one scotch one beer
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Tulalip Tulips posted:Oh that's a good one. Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold the World is another on that a lot of people don't know is a cover as well. That’s a great one. I love the live version from the Live in NY album. Hurt by Johnny Cash is another one
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Johnny Cash's "Hurt" cover rules e:  rjmccall posted:House of the Rising Sun is a folk song, so maybe it doesn’t count, but The Animals’ version is absolutely iconic. Yeah I've always loved that song. If we're counting old folk/blues songs that someone else popularized though the list is going to get very very long
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Yeah, there’s a few old folk or blues songs where the original is semi obscure and there’s usually a far more famous rock version, such as Thin Lizzy’s version of Whiskey in the Jar, Van Halen’s cover of Ice Cream Man, or probably the most famous version of Crossroads being the one by Cream, to the point a lot of people don’t know it’s a cover.
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