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UKFilmNerd
A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What 'bad' movie could you fix with a simple casting change?English
3·4 hours agoIn regards to Star Wars, I remember watching the behind the scenes documentary on the Phantom Menace DVD where you get to see them auditioning child actors for the part of Anakin.
Specifically, you watch them screen test the final three kids, one of which is obviously Jake Lloyd.
In my opinion he was second place of the three, I could never understand why George chose him.
I’ve been very picky about music players over the years. Basically for decades (well, maybe not that long) it was PowerAmp, ever since I had my HTC Hero on Android 1.5.
Then when I got into the whole Open Source thing, I chose Musicolet and loved it, even donated to the author.
Sadly, on my latest phone which seems to have incredibly strict memory/power settings, I had to stop using Musicolet. The phone would kill the player a sing or two into listening no matter what tricks I would use to try and stop it happening.
Now I’m using Phocid which has never been killed while in use.
And I keep all my music in finders, correctly named and tagged with MP3Tag and MusicBee because, you know, Autism. 😁
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movies@piefed.social•The Lord of The Rings Trilogy - Official 25th Anniversary Teaser TrailerEnglish
3·1 day ago25 years, eh! I remember excitedly downloading the very first trailer which was a mixture of early footage and behind the scenes material. I think that was about 18 months before the first film was released.
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Games@lemmy.world•Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 GamesEnglish
12·1 day agoI don’t think I entirely understood what the hell was going on in Control but I really enjoyed playing it. The way they integrated Alan Wake into the story was brilliant.
Hopefully, this will be just as much fun to play and maybe even understand… 🤣
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movies@piefed.social•Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ IMAX Prologue Shows Matt Damon Emerging From the Trojan Horse and an Epic Battle BeginningEnglish
61·2 days agoApparently, people are proclaiming this is the best film of next year and possibly the century!
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movies@piefed.social•Steven Spielberg's UFO movie teased with cryptic new posterEnglish
2·4 days agoAccording to the article, there’s no official title yet.
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movies@piefed.social•Not sure if I'm just old and bitter now or movies have gotten worseEnglish
62·5 days agoI’ve realised that over time, a lot of my favourite films or ones that I enjoy and basically mainstream blockbusters.
I try to broaden my horizons but quite often, I find these amazing acclaimed films boring.
It’s not quite the same but I was amazed when I got the Criterion edition of Armageddon. All these bonus features about a great blockbuster film.
So imagine my disappointment when every other release from Criterion is a film I’ll probably never watch in the first place.
Example, I took a chance on Brazil because I was in a bit of a Terry Gilliam phase. I quite enjoyed that one. Then I tried Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. That DVD never got a second play.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?English
78·5 days agoThe only one that I unsubbed to pretty fast was the 8bit guy. I generally enjoyed his videos and then in one of them, he had a fairly rare IBM PC and for some reason, he sticks a screwdriver into the power supply and blows a component.
But what really turned me off was when footage of him turned up on Reddit, taken by himself, of shopping in a place like Costco with his assault rifle on his back. I think he was taking pleasure in scaring some of the customers too.
(I think I’ve remembered that correctly)
Anyway, never went back to his channel after that.
EDIT: I found this Reddit page where someone asked what he did. Didn’t realise that was 5 years ago now!
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movies@piefed.social•Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th AnniversaryEnglish
4·9 days agoYeah I find that I tend to stick to the first version I saw syndrome. It’s the one you grow to love first.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•PixiEditor is a Universal Editor for all your 2D needsEnglish
5·9 days agoFor my image manipulation, I use paint.net. I’ve tried other free open source stuff but can’t get on with them. I’ll gladly give this one a go! Thanks for posting.
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movies@piefed.social•Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th AnniversaryEnglish
6·9 days agoDidn’t they update that scene twice? The first Special Edition release and then updated the Jabba CGI a second time for another release. (The Blu-ray’s? I’m not sure)
It’s all a bit moot anyway as everything in the “new” Jabba scene is almost a repeat of what was said in the Greedo encounter a few scenes earlier.
And they forced in Boba Fett which was cool at the time but just seems out of place now.
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movies@piefed.social•Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th AnniversaryEnglish
9·9 days agoThis rebate looks even better but 4K77 is the best choice for now.
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movies@piefed.social•Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th AnniversaryEnglish
28·9 days agoYes, the original originals from 77, 80 and 83.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it true that one of the reasons VHS beat Betamax was porn?English
1·9 days agoDidn’t Blu-ray win because it was basically neck and neck with the amount of studios backing HD-DVD vs Blu-ray. I think everyone was waiting to see what the final studio would pick (off the top of my head it was either Fox or Warner Bros).
Sony paid said studio basically a massive multi $m bribe to pick Blu-ray (to help promote their new console, the Playstation 3) which they duly did and that format was declared the winner.
HD-DVD would’ve been great as the winner as the specifications don’t include any form of region protection. But blurays hold more data and therefore allows for better quality encodes.
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movies@piefed.social•James Cameron is gearing up to write a new Terminator scriptEnglish
4·11 days agoSo if this film turns out really good and he ignores most of the sequels, will we see Cameron telling us that Terminator 7 should be considered the real Terminator 3? 😁
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movies@piefed.social•James Cameron is gearing up to write a new Terminator scriptEnglish
221·11 days agoIt can’t be worse than Genisys. 😂
Yeah, I have a horrible feeling that I’ll see the first trailer and it will be very disappointing.
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movies@piefed.social•New Poster for "Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu"English
11·17 days agoAndor is really the best thing Disney did since getting the Star Wars franchise.
Rogue One was also surprisingly brilliant and despite the general negative reviews, I really like Solo as well.















If you enjoyed that, search out the other [Famous Play/Show] Goes Wrong episodes.
Each one is really funny and based on a different theme. I remember one based on a World War II drama and another on Peter Pan.
They did or do have a show in London, last I saw on Instagram it was based on spies.