Movie & TV Chat: A entertainment discussion thread ~ Live, Love, Enjoy movies! What did ya'll think of Joker?

[SvennoJ]

^ Interesting, I'm downloading it to the ps3. 311MB, that's low quality indeed. I made it through 5cm per second, that's 185MB and about the same length. It's not available on blu-ray here either.


I just watched The last Starfighter (25th anniversary edition). Still a very charming movie, although just as corny as Back to the future. It looks pretty good on blu-ray, a bit too clean maybe and the make up looks fake. Doesn't matter, at least it matches the clean CGI.

A groundbreaking movie for CGI and the extras were actually more amazing to watch than the movie itself. The Cray supercomputer and crappy terminals, that struggle to render simple wire frames, was cool to see. They set no jaggies and sharp hi resolution images as their main goal to get to a photorealistic look. And it shows on blu-ray, the clean lines on the ships look great, and can still easily match modern indie games. The planets and asteroids however look pretty bad by today's standards.

Pretty amazing how far we have come from The last Starfighter to Gravity. Personally I still prefer the 'realness' of an actual model and set, yet CGI is getting pretty damn close.



Pretty impressive while we were playing this at home