Trailer for Tarentino/Rodriguez's GRINDHOUSE

[Man In Black]

I think I just had a mangasm. Can't wait to see this.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/grindhouse_hd.html

[Fleegle]

God, that just looks terrible!

[Man In Black]

God, that just looks terrible!


Well, thats sorta the point. Grindhouse films are plotless films that sacrifice artistic qualities for blood, guts, sex and action. Pretty much what Tarentino and Rodriquez have been making for years, only now theyre doing it for real.

[thevargasgrl]

I am ALL about Grindhouse. Can't wait to see it.

[Fleegle]

Well, thats sorta the point. Grindhouse films are plotless films that sacrifice artistic qualities for blood, guts, sex and action. Pretty much what Tarentino and Rodriquez have been making for years, only now theyre doing it for real.

Exactly why I have no desire to see this... I don't really like either one of them.

Tarentino has had exactly 2 good movies: Resivoir Doge and Pulp Fiction.

[geko29]

On a related note, Quicktime makes me want to murder small children. Aside from their atrocious implementation of h.264 that prevents 1080p content from running smoothly on anything less than an 8-core 146Ghz machine with quad-SLI video (while 8Mbps WMVs encoded with VC-1 run nicely on hardware that was moderately high-end 4 years ago), there's there's the fact that if you want to wait for the download to finish before watching the video, you have to hit pause EVERY FUCKING SECOND because it resumes each time a single byte downloads. Burn in hell Apple.

Aside from that, looks pretty mindless and entertaining.

[Otto]

geko: Umm.. I don't have any of those problems with Quicktime. You might consider that your system is the one with the problems, not Quicktime. Okay, I admit that QT requires a bit more juice than WMV does. It also looks about 1000x better and doesn't require 8 freakin' mbps to do it. And I have no idea what this resume problem you're talking about is. Never seen that at all. I just hit pause and let it buffer a while, then unpause. Works fine.

[Man In Black]

I use QT whenever its avaliable. It always works for me, whereas WMP hardly ever works.

[geko29]

The reason the WMVs were 8Mbps is because they were HD DVD trailers (http://www.thelookandsoundofperfect.com/), and as such, are intended to somewhat resemble the quality of the actual product (which ranges from 12-25Mbps ABR for the video stream, depending on the title). I'll admit that my system is BARELY fast enough to play those at 1080p without skipping, but with QT I get a few barely noticible skips at 480p, and anything higher is unwatchable. The 3.2Ghz machines at work (ATI x600 video) can play the 720p QT files fairly well, but still stumble a bit on the 1080p ones.

However, the failure in progressive downloads is most DEFINITELY not my system. I just tried it on my work-issued laptop as well as my wife's work laptop (before anybody asks, no we don't work for the same company :) Totally different hardware, one Thinkpad, one HP), and both exhibited the same behavior on the previews from the yahoo movies site (I used the Live Free or Die Hard trailer this time). And they're all running different versions of QuickTime. My PC has the latest (7.1.3), my laptop has 7.0.4, and my wife's has some variant of 6.2 (she's using it now, so I can't check).