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#1218431
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Jurassic Park films
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Jurassic Park is great, of course. I haven’t seen The Lost World in a long time, but I remember it being palatable. The rest has been a joke. No plans to see JW2.

LexX said:

They’ve also released the others on 4K, has anyone bought those yet?

I don’t have them. Nor a 4K set for that matter, but Bill Hunt has put up a review.

TL;DR, an improvement over Blu-Ray, but the early 90s CGI has its limits and isn’t that much better on 4K.

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#1218203
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The last great practical effects movie
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timemeddler said:

Collipso said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

timemeddler said:

intersteller really needs a fan audio touch up or something, I tried to watch it at a friends house, and the dialog was inaudible, and the sound effects were enough to require earplugs!

Maybe your friend needs to friend rebalance his sound system.

yeah, from what i remember Interstellar’s sound mix is superb.

he didn’t have a sound system at the time, just an old crt.

I don’t know a lot about downmixing. But I suspect that a stereo CRT could make a DTS surround track sound like shit.

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#1218011
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Religion
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chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

I’m Protesting Christianity

WIR :p

Actually, according to wiki, the word Protestant does use “protest” as its root word, as the original term was political in nature but acquired a broader meaning over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism#Protestant

Well yeah. The protestant churches were formed when Christians protested the teachings of the Church.

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#1217907
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Last movie seen
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TV’s Frink said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

TV’s Frink said:

8/10 (I’d probably give 1 a 7/10)

Flip those two and that’s my rating.

There was nothing in 1 as enjoyable as the baby in 2, so by that metric alone 2 wins.

Also 2 had a beer at the theater and 1 had no beer at home. Both had popcorn but the theater popcorn was better.

Jack Jack and Edna were hilarious. Though I prefer the first one. The novelty and the clever references of the original just can’t be replicated.

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#1217731
Topic
Going away? Post so here!
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TV’s Frink said:

I think you can agree that any percentage is disgusting.

The question though is not at what percentage it is disgusting, but at what point it is a systemic problem of the Church and at what point the top bears culpability. I don’t know what that number is, and the latter (culpability) relies on a multitude of other factors as well.

I will say, I was raised in the Church, went to Catholic school through high school, and I was very insulated from the degree to which this was a systemic problem. We were always told it was a few bad apples; everyone was out to get the Church for it unfairly. The truth, as always, is probably somewhere in between. Though my estimate creeps closer to culpability the more I read.

Ironically, the Church is horrible at self-reflection and owning up to its flaws and mistakes, while it’s adherents are told they must confess their sins to a priest it appoints or face eternal hellfire. What a farce.