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@JesseVinterlik @blumhouse It’s not the same studio as The Mummy series starring Brendan Fraser. They’re telling the truth.

@blumhouse Please don’t spoil it if he is. We already got spoiled Starfox in Mario Galaxy a week ago. Do what Marvel did before No Way Home came out.

BRENDAN FRASER IS NOT IN LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY

@IMAO_ My theater genuinely doesn’t charge that fee if you buy in person.

"Convenience fees" are 100% a way to just hide part of a movie ticket price, right? I thought I could avoid it by buying directly from the theater instead of through Fandango, but the fee was still there. Am I really supposed to believe that this new-fangled internet is so complex that it costs two extra dollars per ticket for the online processing (which I have trouble believing costs more than 5 cents)? I'm not dumb -- I know movie theaters are the ones getting the convenience because they have to hire fewer people selling tickets. Stop insulting my intelligence by calling it a "convenience fee," and just tell me how much the ticket actually costs.

@seminole4life22 @aaroncabrera_ 2017 was a rough year. Aside from 2022 and 2023, it feels like we’ve never recovered.

@gryfun3 @aaroncabrera_ Wish he wasn't forced into the fire

O captain my captain

@greekmonster77 @krolljvar Whoa, Marvel should jump on that.

@krolljvar Wonder if this creates an opening for him to get in the ghost rider talks again

The big reason has to do with the film shooting in LA this summer after landing the tax credit and it being unable to move off those dates no matter what the reason even if someone as big a star as Gosling wanted to do it but needed more time after a massive promotional campaign

@BadQualityMemes @michaeljknowles That’s what compression can do. It makes the information behind him more pixelated to save data but looks “fake.”

@michaeljknowles To be fair, it really looked like a green screen 😂

A viewer demanded I touch the grass behind me to prove it wasn’t CGI on a green screen.

@EmpireCityBO @netflix Fincher back on the big screen 🙏

@gryfun3 @netflix Nope.

Heard earlier this week that @netflix going to release CLIFF BOOTH with a full on theatrical run in late September or October. Seems like that is leaking out now.

@MyTimeToShineH Not that I needed to check but fake and made by Gemini.

OMG? 😱

@rkylesmith The 33% hold weekend 2 lol. What horrible word of mouth the film must have!

There’s always someone who dares to be completely and ridiculously wrong (on Project Hail Mary)

@IMAO_ Dune got IMAX exclusivity. Makes sense to try for a week, if you can.

Did not expect them to be the ones to blink.

@neontaster I really liked Sixth of the Dusk when I read it a few years ago. Hope to get on that soon.

Currently reading Sanderson’s Isles of the Emberdark. If you’re not up on your Cosmere lore, a lot of this book will go right over your head, but I guess it’s one of those books that is explicitly Cosmere connective tissue. I’m enjoying it.

@RealSeabiscuit1 @anishmoonka Kaleidescape is the most uncompressed way of viewing a film at home, but I’ll attach a comparison to a DCP to this. Endgame was a 223GB DCP, the max file size on Kaleidescape for Endgame is 110.7GB (Still an improvement over the 4K disc in terms of bitrate).

@anishmoonka And even Blu-ray has compression, as far as I know Kaleidoscope is the only way to get the uncompressed files. Those 70GB blu-rays are like 120+ on Kaleidoscope.

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

@Nikk1066 @politicalmath The directors already have the rights to Artemis.

@politicalmath This is dumb. They should just adapt Weir’s Artemis instead. It wasn’t quite as good as The Martian and Project Hail Mary but still a great science fiction story.

Somehow, the astrophage returned

@MatthewBetley @redsteeze It’s an in movie joke. He teaches the rock alien to do “thumbs up” but he does thumbs down instead.

Project Hail Mary: Two Thumbs Down.

@Cryptic4KQual So close to getting his line right. How did this high quality of a leak, straight from a camera get out?

Banger

@seminole4life22 Selfishly, It’s necessary for books 4-7. But yeah books 1-3 were pretty much the adaptations I’d want. Even movies 4-8 were good, I just always wanted expanded versions.

I'm sure it'll be good but this is the most unnecessary thing maybe ever

@IMAO_ People want prestige TV with big budgets. Network TV worked on much tighter budgets.

How is the thing that had been standard for well over half a century — a season of TV every year — now no longer possible?

@Susie487 I don’t think it has to be. It looks good to me in Mando Season 1 & The Batman (2022).

@gryfun3 But does the volume have to be so colorless is my problem

Honestly comparing how the live action Moana looks to how Project Hail Mary looks will depress you

@FormerlyCBM If Doomsday moves they actually get a week in IMAX. I would rather that happen selfishly

This is Dune 3's chance to not get doubled up by Doomsday on 12/18