Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4K UHD (2019)

[sockableclaw]

Originally Posted by nerdy916

Sony stuff sometimes does that. Just restart it and it should go away.

Originally Posted by chocolat

So I think I may have a defective disc. This white line appears on the very bottom of my tv screen when I gave the disc a quick check out last night. I only wanted to watch the additional scenes but this white line seen here was present for when I viewed all of them (I played em manually one by one not all at once)





The first pic BTW was when I started the main feature. I skipped around and it actually disappeared after hopping around back and forth a few chapters. The duration of each chapter I let it play for (about 10 sec each time) played fine speaking for the film itself.

This is the first UHD I ever played in my 4K player (had it for a couple years now) and the first to be played through my TV. So what is going on here if that white line/glow appears and disappears randomly when playing the disc? This never appeared whenever I played blu-ray's and yes, I own a few other UHD's, gave them a quick spin/check out and the white glowing line did not appear when playing any of those.

My Bram Stoker's Dracula disc does that as well (also made by Sony). As someone else mentioned, just restart it and it'll go away. Trust me, your disc is fine.

[slimdude]

What's with all of these two and a half to 3 hour movies. Does filmmakers have editors anymore? They're getting way too long. They can become tiresome and tedious to sit through, if you don't fall asleep first! Practically you'll have to take a half a day to watch one movie. Movie directors having four or five different versions of their movie, as if they don't know what the hell they want to do with their own films, like they're amateurs who're still experimenting, instead of professional filmmakers who knows exactly what they want, and have one version of their film.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by MacSteed

Just got around to watching this today. I read some posts here saying the 4K was dark-Seemed perfect to me. Granted my pupils were pretty dilated from the “wet”cigarette I enjoyed beforehand( best fifty cents I ever spent) . I didn’t notice any excessive grit described in the review either. One of the cleanest 4Ks I’ve watched honestly.
Still hoping for a Pulp Fiction 4K as well.

Excessive whatnow? *Geoffy goes and reads the review* The archival 'clips' are supposed to have all that grain but I never once felt it to be distractingly overcooked, just authentically grainy, and the main body of the film has grain so fine it's virtually invisible. Maybe that's what's throwing off the reviewer though, that it's very heavy one minute and gone the next?

[nerdy916]

Originally Posted by slimdude

What's with all of these two and a half to 3 hour movies. Does filmmakers have editors anymore? They're getting way too long. They can become tiresome and tedious to sit through, if you don't fall asleep first! Practically you'll have to take a half a day to watch one movie. Movie directors having four or five different versions of their movie, as if they don't know what the hell they want to do with their own films, like they're amateurs who're still experimenting, instead of professional filmmakers who knows exactly what they want, and have one version of their film.

I cant even

[nerdy916]

Originally Posted by chocolat

@nerdy916 thanks for clarifying. Also super awesome avatar!

Fulci lives!

[LegacyCosts]

Originally Posted by heineken

This movie was so full of itself, I couldn't stand it. In addition to the painfully slow pace, it was just screaming, "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!"

And the Manson thing at the end was just ridiculous.

I miss the old Tarantino.

I totally understand what you mean but this has been his style post kill bill, so were talking 15 years or so. I'm surprised you think you'll still like his movies.

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by slimdude

What's with all of these two and a half to 3 hour movies. Does filmmakers have editors anymore? They're getting way too long. They can become tiresome and tedious to sit through, if you don't fall asleep first! Practically you'll have to take a half a day to watch one movie. Movie directors having four or five different versions of their movie, as if they don't know what the hell they want to do with their own films, like they're amateurs who're still experimenting, instead of professional filmmakers who knows exactly what they want, and have one version of their film.

[Leonidas King]

Amazon’s random $24.55 price drop is unmatched which is rare.

[KubrickKurasawa]

He just doesn't have anything left to say.

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by nerdy916

I cant even

Me neither.

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

Originally Posted by Filmfan73

Name a better writer/director in Hollywood currently.

Whoa! While I don't agree with anything heineken is saying, and I'm a pretty big Tarantino fan, I would NOT place Quentin on the top of the heap. He's good, but there's a lot of good writers / directors out there, many of them better than Tarantino (not going to play the naming game, just look at the list of top films from the past decade).

Chris

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

Originally Posted by LoSouL

[ Rian Johnson ]

Have you seen his work outside of the SW stuff?

[gates70]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I never met Bruce Lee, but when I was heavily involved in martial arts, I knew those who did and were quite familiar with his traits, among which he was a great teacher - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15922564

I admire Chuck Norris and Joe Lewis as well – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXdG577px94#t=5m23s

It doesn’t matter to me who would have ever prevailed in a full contact fight between the three of them, but I am of the same sentiment as Kareem Abdul Jabbar –
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...ts-him-1232544
as even given the liberty of artistic license by the filmmaker, I feel in this case Q.T. disrespected the memory of Bruce and in so doing also hurt the feelings of his surviving family.

P.S.
For full disclosure, I may have some subconscious inherent bias as the vintage T-shirt from wardrobe worn by Cliff throughout much of the motion picture could have reminded me that Champion plugs were pathetic in my experience, e.g. http://www.pentonusa.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5184
And likely caused me podium finishes in more that a couple races.

Otherwise, I pretty much liked the motion picture and the classic songs from that era.

I'm a big BL fan but this is getting ridiculous for 2 reasons;
1)He was the best and strongest fighter in the world and it was impossible to beat him? It's just stupid to think that. It was never proven either way.
2) it's just a movie!

[KubrickKurasawa]

Originally Posted by slimdude

Me neither.

I love you two's different opinions. Keeps it spicy in here!

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by slimdude

What's with all of these two and a half to 3 hour movies. Does filmmakers have editors anymore? They're getting way too long. They can become tiresome and tedious to sit through, if you don't fall asleep first! Practically you'll have to take a half a day to watch one movie. Movie directors having four or five different versions of their movie, as if they don't know what the hell they want to do with their own films, like they're amateurs who're still experimenting, instead of professional filmmakers who knows exactly what they want, and have one version of their film.

I know right? Gone With The Wind, Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia... and what’s with that so-called “Restored Edition” of Spartacus? Filmmakers these days, I tell ya! Back in my day Mack Sennett could say everything he needed to say in ten minutes.

[Brightstar]

Originally Posted by slimdude

What's with all of these two and a half to 3 hour movies. Does filmmakers have editors anymore? They're getting way too long. They can become tiresome and tedious to sit through, if you don't fall asleep first! Practically you'll have to take a half a day to watch one movie. Movie directors having four or five different versions of their movie, as if they don't know what the hell they want to do with their own films, like they're amateurs who're still experimenting, instead of professional filmmakers who knows exactly what they want, and have one version of their film.

That's why movies made in the 80's and 90's where the best they only ran for 2 hours

[LoSouL]

Originally Posted by NotASpeckOfCereal

Have you seen his work outside of the SW stuff?

Yeah, that's why I laughed.

[johnnyringo7]

Originally Posted by Brightstar

That's why movies made in the 80's and 90's where the best they only ran for 2 hours

I think you forgot about these classics: Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Braveheart, Scarface, Das Boot, The Shining, Dances With Wolves, Scent of a Woman, Casino, Heat and Titanic.

[geomon]

Received my Collector's Edition today. It's beautiful.

[Geoff D]

Two days later and I still can't get this film out of my head, I haven't enjoyed a new movie this much in God knows when. I'm a fan of filmmaking as much as films themselves and this story is like mana to me, not that I don't find Dalton's struggles against obsolescence compelling in its own right, it's pretty much an experience that's universal to the human condition.

I know that people keep saying it's nothing like vintage QT but I'm not so sure, even the soundtrack is very old-school QT in that it's mostly songs and not music score stolen from 101 other movies. As much as using score can still work well, it's often hard for me to disassociate it from the movie it came from, whereas plugging in this multitude of '60s tunes (typically several that are a touch more obscure) gives the movie a bit more of a feel of ownership over that material for me.

There isn't any anachronism going on with the music either, unlike the noted WWII recording artist David Bowie being used in Basterds (I know it wasn't diegetic usage, but still). And the regular bursts from the radio announcers harks right back to Reservoir Dogs, and the songs all coming from the same period gives the music that same sense of focus as Dogs too (which was all about the super sounds of the '70s).

Having mentioned them Basterds, some people see OUATIH as using the same alt-reality schtick but for me there's a key difference in the way the device is used. In Basterds nothing much really changes as far as history goes because Hitler still ended up brown bread regardless, but in OUATIH there's a genuinely huge diversion as to the fate of Ms Tate. Every time I see her in the film it's like watching a ghost.