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UKFilmNerd

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A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for www.filmstories.co.ukor my ukfilmnerd.wordpress.com.

Have a great day.

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Personally, I’m not a fan but it’s like all art. Some people like it, others don’t. It’s like the wall art version of Spiderman which I think just looks a little odd, but there’s obviously a market for these kind of sets.

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Considering it looked like the red band trailer revealed every kill, it certainly felt like it, I have no interest in this film.

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My problem with Prometheus and Covenant is that it explains the mystery of the Alien and that’s not what I want.

Part of my fascination with the creature is that we know nothing about it. I didn’t appreciate the explanation of the space jockey either. Is it a helmet, is it a skull, it’s so weird.

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Back in 2000, I think you were practically brainwashed into linking Metallica with Mission: Impossible II.

It’s a decent song but I seem to remember that summer its all I heard. 😄

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I was always annoyed a little bit because I was a bigger Limp Bizkit fan and at least their song used the M:I theme music!

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If you like NewPipe but want your videos to skip the annoying bits, there’s a fork called Tubular that incorporates SponsorBlock.

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I remember my friend and I discovering Guyver in our local blockbusters. Here in the UK, it was called Mutronics.

The first film is quite silly but lots of fun. The second takes a more serious tone and I’ll always remember it has the voice of Metal Gear Solid’s Snake, David Hayter, in the lead role.

Anyone migrate from PlayerPro to a FOSS alternative? (play.google.com)

Looking for a music player that will do a good job of loading album art. It all looks great in PlayerPro, but I tried Auxio and Aplayer but they didn’t do a great job of pulling in the album art. Tracks were also incorrectly lumped together with mixed albums/artists....

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Having used PowerAmp since Android 1.5, I switched to Musicolet last year and it does the job just as well. It’s not open source but it proudly claims that it has no network permissions, so it cannot send any data anywhere.

Andor: The Complete First Season (Steelbook) (4K UHD Review) (thedigitalbits.com)

Andor was captured digitally by cinematographers Adriano Goldman, Frank Lamm, and Damián García in the X-OCN ST codec (in 16 bits and 6K resolution) using Sony Venice cameras with Panavision C and G-Series anamorphic lenses. It was finished at the 2.39:1 scope ratio for its streaming and physical release, and is presented here...

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In my opinion, this is the only TV show so far that feels like real Star Wars. People have said it’s slow and boring but stuck with it right to the end, even after the credits of the final episode for that little stinger.

Everything else Disney has made just feels like fan service or a toy commercial.

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Even though I paid for Nova years ago, I went back and downloaded a modded version of 7.0.58, the last version before they were bought out and the code was changed.

I really wanted to like Lawnchair but I always end up back with Nova. It does exactly what I want it to.

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This was the first computer I ever played on, it was at my cousin’s house. I was convinced there was a loop of film in the cartridge but couldn’t figure out how that would work with player interaction.

When my cousin got a screwdriver and opened the cartridge to reveal a couple of black chips on a circuit board, my mind was blown.

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What chartered flights? Even the Rwanda airline wants nothing to do with this.

Where are all the extra judges suddenly come from? Are you pulling then off other cases like rape and murder?

No interference from Foreign courts. They’re not foreign, it’s the European court of which we, the UK, are a member.

Labour keeps voting against the bill! Yes, they do but you have the majority in the house of commons and the Lords. It’s the Tory lords voting against this bill because they have the sense to realise how batshit this legislation is.

Rant over.

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Does it include the second film made from all the offcuts. I remember that being rather rubbish.

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This could make for a great series of posts, but let’s not decrease ourselves down to the level of IMDb trivia. That’s gone really downhill over the decades.

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I just want a “without the tat” edition. I’m fairly sure somewhere will sell it eventually. For example, Event Horizon was originally sold with gubbins, but thankfully was later released as a plain old 4K edition.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will be releasing "SHREK: 4-MOVIE COLLECTION" on 4K UHD on June 12. (lemmy.ml)

Get the greatest fairytale never told with all 4 Shrektacular films featuring the voice talents of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, and Eddie Murphy! A hilariously hideous ogre rescues a feisty princess in Shrek, meets his royal in-laws in Shrek 2, rules the kingdom in Shrek the Third, and finds his world turned upside-down in Shrek...

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I don’t know about Shrek 2, 3 & 4, but I know the original was rendered at a resolution just below Full HD. The reviews I saw said that it benefits from 4K, but only just. Maybe because of the AI upscaling algorithm.

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The older one is on the left.

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I don’t have the money or a house big enough unfortunately. I nearly bid on the older UCS version today on eBay. It was missing several easily replaceable parts on the front right hand side by the wheel but I decided not to.

I’m happy with my minifig collection of film vehicles.

ECTO 1, ECTO 1(2016 version - clone), BttF Delorean, Tron light cycles and Batmobiles.

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The shadow box is lovely and way out of my price range. 😄

I used to have a clone of the technic Lego Batpod but it was rather fragile and I lost pieces so I binned it.

Although, I’ve just recently got a MOC Batpod which a minifig can ride.

If Lego released the animated version of the Batmobile, that would probably do me.

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I don’t get a lot of Lego, so I’m often surprised by new pieces. The one that surprised me with this set was a 2x2 flat piece that had a technic bolt on the bottom.

There’s three of those holding on the sloped front ends on either side, clicking into the technic brick substructure.

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