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1 hour ago, Basil said:

Tell me about it all my life we have had cadbury Christmas chocolate advent calendars 

Suddenly 2 years ago they thinned the chocolate down (weight) and it is poured into plastic tray always has been in plastic tray anyway just tasted of plastic so I stopped 

Yet this year we had tub of cadbury roses and they have thick cube of chocolate tastes fine.

 

Cadbury compared to everyone else has either reduced weight or increased prices silly wise

 

So nestles quality street has been selling out alot quicker this year I noticed, if cadbury carrys on like this they may as not bother soon people vote with there pockets and feet 👍👍👍

I don't know what they're using, but the chocolate is very gummy and super sweet. It doesn't even melt properly.

There are other brands like Whittaker's (from New Zealand), Haigh's and Darrell Lea. I'm not sure if they have these in the UK.

They're head and shoulders above what Cadbury is putting out.

2 minutes ago, Whodini said:

Facts!

I reckon Lindt and even the Aldi brands of chocolate are way better.

30 minutes ago, Zinco97 said:

Coming back to this again, not only are they already available for pre-order in France and have German sound, no, they will/are also cheaper.

FNAC as an example 

Für diese Preise sollten es Steelbooks sein.

1 hour ago, Basil said:

 

think they getting stopped by cadbury now as of last year problem its been bought out by kraft foods and they been cutting alot

who said being owned by europe was a good thing  

 

nestle last year just stopped caramac apparently not selling enough  

basil 👍

 

 

To be fair, Cadbury's has gone down in quality in the past decade or so.

They used to use real Cocoa for their chocolate, but now they use some cheap alternative that doesn't taste as good.

1 minute ago, extantsrevenge said:

Dieser Typ erinnert mich an unseren "Freddo den Frosch".

2 minutes ago, hal56 said:

Guten Morgen.

I know how you feel, mate. 😄

1 minute ago, Rockntoni87 said:

Oh, Nils, if you think that with all this mess you don't owe us any more beauty shots, you've cut yourself

 

I want Oppenheimer und Top Gun: Maverick OCs.

54 minutes ago, Cornbuster said:

Actually a good and cost-saving collector strategy for the future:

Four editions fit into the WeET OCs.

Purchase: 1 Weet OC, Contents:

- 1 WeET-Slip

- 1 Manta-Slip

- 1 Blufans briefs and

- 1 HDZETA - Slip

- Theoretically, a Nova Quarter still fits in, because the HDZETA briefs are now thinner due to the lack of goodies.

 

The remaining three WeET briefs are sold for 200 coins each and finance the whole thing.

Win-Win.

Das ist eine Millionen-Dollar-Idee, mein Freund.

In der Tat.

Auch...

7 minutes ago, Heywoodmoutaw said:

I’m a guy who thinks Jason Miller should’ve been in 2 movies a year for 40 years.  That looks very cool.

Me too.

His performance in "The Exorcist" as Father Karras is one of my favourites of all time.

@Heywoodmoutaw If you haven't seen it already, check this one out as well:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073451/

It makes a great double bill with The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

53 minutes ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

 

I agree with the last half of your last statement, but motion and color grading are not the same thing, as you know.  An image doesn't suddenly become more contrasty because it's in motion (the images aren't interlaced).  I personally have never seen a properly sourced still image from a scene, and then watched the scene and thought the grade was different.   You're right, if the still has been doctored, sharpened, whatever, then yeah, that's a different story, and it's completely useless.   You are also right, the overall affect is changed once you add motion, but not because the color grade is different or the still is wrong.  No colorist, myself included, would ever try to grade based on the moving scene, it would be impossible to get any consistency.  (Although you do correct for color bleed, chromatic aberration, lighting issues, etc via secondaries).  It is true you have to watch a scene during the process, but even color styles are held and applied via still frames.

 

I think that compression and output format make a big difference, and that is where motion can make things look differently from a still, if it's an inter-frame compression or not, and how it's handled.  But, we love our progressive scans, precisely because they are made up of non-interlaced still frames.

Thanks for sharing, it's an interesting topic and not one that gets talked about much : how a movie actually looks.

That's cool you're a colourist.

In your opinion, what do you think of the colour grading done for these James Cameron 4Ks?

Do you think there's too much of a teal push on them to make them look modern?

20 minutes ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

 

This is a nice list.  

 

I think it's an interesting challenge to lose the last 4 letters of the Gangster . . . Gang . . . what are your top Gang movies?  This opens it up to a lot more movies.  Gangs of New York, West Side Story, Donnie Brasco, Shottas, Set it Off, The Wild One, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, on and on.  Much harder, there are a lot more gang movies than gangster movies. 

 

Blood In Blood Out is a favourite of mine.

Would love to see the Director's Cut on blu-ray or 4K some day.

17 minutes ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

 

Ah got it.  So this is really an issue with the source and these analysis videos.  I missed that.

 

Calibration is a huge deal, and it is so difficult to know what is really there versus what you are seeing, if the calibration in the entire image chain is not correct.

Well, I've seen arguments for and against these types of comparison videos.

A lot of arguments against them bring up the same talking points I mentioned earlier.

I sit somewhere in the middle. 

I think these videos give you an idea of what the final product will look like, but may not be 100% accurate.

6 minutes ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

 

I'm curious why you don't like these still frame comparisons.  When you color grade a movie, that is literally how you do it, you pull up a reference matched still and color/contrast match.  I think you can tell a lot about how a movie looks from the frame grabs.  It's clear one of the above is more contrast-y and saturated, the other has a far wider gamma and there's more detail in the shadows.  

Maybe I missed part of the discussion and what was being discussed.  Forgive me if so.

I like these frame-by-frame comparisons because they provide some insight into what the final product will look like.

I know they're not perfect, especially because any perceived flaws in a still image may not be as noticeable or egregious in motion, or the images themselves may have been enhanced or doctored in some way by the person making the video.

6 minutes ago, Cornbuster said:

 

Lasst uns gemeinsam trauern.

13 minutes ago, Cornbuster said:

 

What about Beauties?

5 minutes ago, hal56 said:

I am not a friend of these half assed frame comparisons. U got to see it in motion.

Anyway, everybody is so hung up on pic comparison and totally overlooking one huge purchase reason.

The massive Atmos Audio upgrades 🤩

I agree, mate.

At the moment, it's better than nothing.

You have to watch the final product before you can make an informed judgment.

2 hours ago, hal56 said:

I find that to be worded in an overly fatalistic way.

A VHS tape is better than nothing.

VHS?

3 hours ago, Gentleman said:

 

I'll have to read up on it again before I buy. I've heard something somewhere several times now that the Cameron 4K versions have turned out terrible...

Der Moment, als das Farbfernsehen nach Deutschland kam.

3 hours ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

Very cool never seven that.  
 

Australia’s was by far the best and France was the worst.  Hmmmmmmm. 

I'd known colour TV came here in the 70s, but didn't realise it was much later than most other countries.

I thought this was pretty cool. Were any members here around for any of these? 

1 hour ago, Gladiator_MV said:

 

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2 hours ago, M1llzey said:

John, 

 

Thank you so much I really appreciate this!

Honestly means so much to have all the support I can get to ensure future releases.

 

This kind of mention from you and MP goes a long way and something I really don't take for granted.

 

Thank you for being so welcoming to me since finding MP and to the support you and your group have shown.

 

I wish you all the best and hope to work something out in the future between us.

 

Many thanks 

 

Dan 

The more retailers like you there are out there, the better.