Recently watched movies

[Arcadia]

Not that I've ever heard.

[kimber8ada]

I love old musicals. Anything with Fred Astaire. I just watched Judy Garland in Meet Me In St Louis, from the 40's. I really love just old movies from the 30's, 40's and 50's. Gone With the Wind is my favorite all-time movie and book. Clark Gable is a favorite. The Thin Man films with William Powell and Myrna Lot are great too.

[Arcadia]

Guess what I'm watching at the moment? One of those old "Sherlock in WW2" films that Moftiss were always going on about. Boy, is it lurid! It's wonderful! :P You can see where the tone of "Blind Banker" came from, wholly ridiculous by today's standards. I love it. Definitely only for Holmes fans and old movie buffs, but it's fabulous fun.

And check out the coat ... the scarf ... the hair ... XD

[Arcadia]

The voice ... the cheekbones ... 

[Arcadia]

OMG, this is "The Voice of Terror" -- the one that ends with the "East Wind" speech. Almost verbatim from the book. I think I like the HLV version better. :d

[Detective]

Baywatch - 4/10

[Van Buren Supernova]

On 7/2/2017 at 11:52 AM, Arcadia said:

Guess what I'm watching at the moment? One of those old "Sherlock in WW2" films that Moftiss were always going on about. Boy, is it lurid! It's wonderful! You can see where the tone of "Blind Banker" came from, wholly ridiculous by today's standards. I love it. Definitely only for Holmes fans and old movie buffs, but it's fabulous fun.

And check out the coat ... the scarf ... the hair ...

 

On 7/2/2017 at 12:02 PM, Arcadia said:

The voice ... the cheekbones ...

 

On 7/2/2017 at 12:26 PM, Arcadia said:

OMG, this is "The Voice of Terror" -- the one that ends with the "East Wind" speech. Almost verbatim from the book. I think I like the HLV version better. :d

I can't see the images you post, but sounds like you had fun XD.

 

 

 

 

And here, nerd alert.!

Please make space for nerd time. It's fun..really... eh.. 😛 REALLY!

 

Remember how I lost my mind after watching 47 Meters Down?

When my review was hardly helpful and decorated with ^#%@*◎«²®※?

Because most factual errors are actually common knowledge in that area, not rocket science and just require a little research. And them being so technically important in the plot?

 

I was really tempted to write all the inaccuracies and had to restrain myself hard because it would be too time consuming with risk of hypertension. But then, TA DA, somebody did just that!

 

 

Forget The Sharks: How 47 Meters Down Fails Dive Science

 

For me, it's worth the read and very interesting. 😛

Come on, read it, consider that as saving money from crappy movie. It has bit of synopsis.

 

He certainly did his research and mentioned almost every single thing and as far as I know, it's accurate. I'm glad he mentioned the shark inaccuracies as well, although didn't go to much details.

And everytime he talks about air consumption, go for the worst rate, that is the most likely reality.

 

The thing he misses (can't help it my straightjacket is loose :p)

 

 

 

Frigging oxygen tank.

There are repeated mentions of oxygen tank in the movie, which is my pet peeve because it happens way too often and many movies just mostly ignore the difference. The air we breath for scuba diving up to 40 meter (limit of advanced recreational dive) is just compressed Air (~ 79%Nitrogen, 21%Oxygen), just like the one we breath on land. It's not oxygen tank, normally refers to pure oxygen that usually means bad news because it's used as first aid when a scuba diver is suspected to have decompression sickness.

Other gas mixtures that recretional scuba divers use are call Nitrox (Enriched Air, with higher concentration of oxygen up to 40%) and those come with their own calculation for depth and bottom time safety because of another risk of oxygen toxicity. Technical diving is a whole lot other animal and gas mixtures, but never oxygen tank!

 

Sound underwater.

Since sounds travel faster about 4 times, it's difficult to determine which direction the sounds come from when you are down there. It's very possible that we could just swim to the wrong direction and only realized from the volume when you already get significantly further. But these chicks are superb, there didn't seem to have any confusion.

 

Buoyancy problem.

It takes awhile and long flying hours to get the hang of that perfectly. But even for seasonal divers, it would be quite impossible to maintain your buoyancy with near empty tank without weight belt (didn't see them wearing any). Weight belt is just that, we wear some kind of weights (usually one kilogram a piece, one or multiple depends on skill, weight and gender) on the waist or put them in pocket. Even with weight belt, at the end of the dive, when the tank volume has been reduced significantly, it would make us positively buoyant, beside proper amount of weights, there are ways to counter that by adjusting the breath or Buoyancy Control Device (the diving 'jacket').

And these girls, one of them has zero experience, manage to do just that. Good buoyancy, empty tank (less than 50 bar we consider that 'empty', no weightbelt, no fins, no knowledge. B eff S.

 

The solution and rescue.

Okay. This is supposed to be the hallucinations, so I leave it at that. Too risky. Too many! Dangling octopus! Arghhh! I better stop. Moriarty!! Cell mate!

 

 

Eta: And blood doesn't look red underwater, especially at that depth. Nothing looks red.

Edited October 28, 2018 by Carol the Dabbler
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[Artemis]

Saw "Moana".  Liked it pretty well, especially the music.  Makes me want to be out on the water, lol.

 

 

[Pseudonym]

Haven't seen it yet but let's go! I'm desperate to do anything not work today. :D

[Artemis]

I would totally find an excuse to steal you away.

 

 

[Pseudonym]

The damn Atlantic, always getting in the way!

[Fantasy Lover]

Despicable me 3 - 8/10

 

I was worried that It would be bad, because not every trilogy is successful. Thankfully I was wrong.

[Detective]

T2 Trainspotting - 6/10

[Detective]

Unbreakable - 9/10

[Detective]

Suicide Squad - 4/10

[Detective]

The Raid 2 - 9/10

[Detective]

Batman Begins (rewatch) - 8/10

 

The Dark Knight (rewatch) - 10/10

 

The Dark Knight Rises (rewatch) - 9/10

[Van Buren Supernova]

Wah, you are on fire! XD

The Raid 2, is it The Raid Redemption? That is Indonesian movie right? I remember it because I hardly find their production go international. I enjoy The Raid Redemption though, eventhough there is not much story, the good old fashion fighting scenes are well directed.

 

Dark Knight is still the best superhero movie to me. I'd rate Begins higher than Rises though, just personal references. Anyway, I like all the trilogy's villains.

 

Watched some scifi Space Between Us, Contact and Transcendence.

I like them just fine, although nothing really stay or very impressive, they are thought provoking and done well enough. 7/10 for each.

[Artemis]

I saw "Passengers". I liked it more than I thought I would. The ship was neat, and it kept me guessing about what was happening and how it would end. It was a bit sad, or bittersweet at least, but I was expecting it.

 

Although I thought it would have been cooler if

Jim had died, leaving Aurora alone on the ship, and it came full circle in the end with her waking up another person like he did to her.

 

 

But that's probably just mean, lol.

[Detective]

Wah, you are on fire! XD

The Raid 2, is it The Raid Redemption? That is Indonesian movie right? I remember it because I hardly find their production go international. I enjoy The Raid Redemption though, eventhough there is not much story, the good old fashion fighting scenes are well directed.

 

Dark Knight is still the best superhero movie to me. I'd rate Begins higher than Rises though, just personal references. Anyway, I like all the trilogy's villains.

Nah, the Raid 2 is the official movie title, The Raid Redemption is the first one. If you liked the first one, you've gotta watch the second one. I actually like the second one better, there's way more story and it's executed perfectly. One of the shining modern Martial Arts movies imo.

 

I love the Dark Knight trilogy and yes the Dark Knight in my opinion is the best superhero movie as well and also one of my favorites in any genre.

[Detective]

Following - 8/10

 

Thus I have watched every Nolan movie.

That guy in my opinion is a genius and one of the most talented and creative people in showbiz.

One of my faves as well, duh.

[Detective]

Reservoir Dogs - 8/10

[Artemis]

I saw "Spider-man: Homecoming" today.  It was hilarious, loved it.

 

 

[elbafo]

I finally watched Mr Holmes the other night. Sir Ian McKellen is just brilliant, and so is the actor who played the little boy.

[Fantasy Lover]

I agree, Ian did a marvellous job. However, I'm still pissed about

 

the prickly ash subplot, why would the greatest mind of the 19th century eat RADIOACTIVE plants?!

anyway, I saw wonder woman and the movie was gorgeous.