Recent content by Tom McA

Chevy Chase in "Fletch". I KNOW - HEAR ME OUT! If you love the movie, chances are you didn't read the Gregory Macdonald Fletch novels. Chevy's performance had crap-all to do with the source material and was just Chevy being Chevy, and I was baffled when "Confess Fletch" came out and so many...

Pretty sure Imagineering turned the show over to Operations years ago. Also fun fact - the fire effect is enhanced by Cremora powdered coffee creamer, which happens to be super flammable. Maybe the pyro loader just had a shaky hand that day. <edit> The Cremora story is/was true (maybe with...

OK, here we go again. An "object" is an individual piece of sound. A gunshot. A thunderclap. A clown horn. And every object is mixed with positional metadata. And there can be up to 118 of them at a time. (128 is the total track count, with a default of 10 bed, a.k.a. channel-based...

I'm not ignoring your explanation - I'm disagreeing with it. Clustered objects can roam across all 16 "channels", and it's not true that there are only four channels for free-roaming objects. And "many studios never even use any of those four channels" is also untrue. It's up to individual...

There's no dark secret about it. It's just the reality of mainstream consumer device capabilities. There's no way that most home processors can handle a cinema object routing load, so objects are clustered toward their most logical speaker location in a process called Spatial Coding. Spatial...

A challenging watch to be sure, but even though I could have watched in HD for free on HBO Max, I sprung for the $3.99 rental on Apple in Dolby Vision. Looked stunning on my LG OLED. No complaint here on what it could have looked like in the cinema.

To the point of people not knowing what they were doing and production delays, I vaguely remember an ABC promo with a sleepy late-night network shipping clerk or security guy or something saying "I'm just waiting for the new Moonlighting episode tape. No idea when it will get here..." Is that...

Aw, c'mon. I can forgive Scotty forgetting how to operate an antique computer interface. Once he remembers "Oh right - it's a mouse", then he hammers on it like it owes him money, and whammo - advanced technological solution. Hardly makes him look like an idiot.

shhh... If you keep pressing for more seasons and you're not careful, they might release "Joanie Loves Chachi". Can't risk that...

Agree yay Bosch is back! But ugh, the freevee logo bug, the act break structure, and SDR with crushed blacks instead of HDR like when it was on Amazon proper is a big technical turn for the worse.

I just like how Gregory Peck pronounces "Navaroney" in the trailer VO...

Some of y'all need to reboot your irony/sarcasm parser...

The only movie I ever walked out on. It was that utterly charmless, dull, and painfully directed.

I'm sure I'll be in the minority in this opinion, but both Whiplash and Chazelle's other film LalaLand suffer from deeply self-occupied and unlikable lead characters who have no time for social graces or manners because they're ARTISTS!!! Having said that, the music recording and mixing in...

Just went live on Amazon - After a couple page reloads, got one!