Nice try, Paul's producers.
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Perhaps some Youtube's done a video on it... I feel like I've seen a headline or link saying something like "Why Paul is underrated" recently.
I didn't know there was an extended version, do the extra 6 minutes add anything? Maybe not
Thing that gets me. This is the 720p version... surely people would want the 1080p version? Lol
I have a friend who always downloads the smallest (by file size) copy of any video he can find. He has a 75" 4k TV, 5.1 surround speakers, the whole setup but he downloads 720p in stereo almost exclusively. He says he just doesn't care about the video or audio quality. It blows my mind, but some people are just weird.
Edit: Also, Paul is just a funny movie, if you're into goofy movie references.
Easier to find a 75" in 4k than 720p resolution I guess?
But I can't rationalize the sound aspect.
I have just plain stereo and wouldn't change it for the world. Have had all sorts of setups throught the years... it's so much easier when I don't have to worry about speaker mapping or what the player/browser would do with a plain stereo signal on a 5.1 or a 7.1 setup. Sometimes, everything's kosher, most of the time it's a mess.
Like it or not, stereo has been the default way to record audio for the last 80, 90 year, and it has proven that it's simple, yet effective at making the music "come alive" in the listener's mind. Sure, surround does it better, but there is too much maintenance into it, plus mastering albums in surround is a real PITA, especially electronic music (not real instruments, so how are you gonna map that effect/sound 🤷). Most TV stations also air plain stereo. Cameras, phones - plain stereo. Most series - also, plain stereo. Movies are basically the "odd ball out" because they're a combined multimedia experience (video and audio) and they're usually just shots of real world stuff happening in front of a screen, so it's not that difficult to surround map the sound on them (i.e. the video tells the story of how the auido should ”move").
stereo has been the default way to record audio for the last 80, 90 year
No it hasn’t been. 70yrs would be a stretch. Even in the 60s you’d still have Mono albums released regularly, as well as alongside Stereo releases. Stereo television broadcasts weren’t introduced until 1984 in the United States. For reference, the first Dolby Surround cinema release was Apocalypse Now in 1979.
Yeah, you're right, I messed up counting backwards 😂.
Still, stereo is good enough for me, I just can't be bothered with complicated setups any more 🤷.
Wait till you find out about the people who play shooters at literally the lowest quality possible AND 30fps
Edit: from my friend who does this, he likes the idea of using as little power as possible
In some cases it renders less in the game, making the game easier, too.
Unless it's not rendering the baddies.
A lot of pros play shooters at low just to get more fps.
I’m talking about what the YouTuber LowSpecGamer used to do. Running fallout 4 on a fire stick type stuff.
I roll a d4 for my FPS at the lowest possible quality. I literally can't go higher.
If they're watching on a phone, 720 might be fine. My preferred resolution depends a lot on what device I'm watching on and its screen size.
I usually watch the movie on my PC and my setup is plain stereo with a non-FullHD monitor, so... not much point in downloading 1080p 🤷.
😯non full HD in 2023? How do you handle such low res?
Meeh, doesn't really bother me 🤷. I usually just use the default settings in whatever DE in Linux (I usually use xfce, but I've switched when I felt like it, if I'm getting bored and wanna try something new 😂), or change a few font sizes here and there and all is good 🤷. Regarding Windows (I dual boot), I don't really care that much to be honest, I rarely use it the past few years. I only use it for work and only when I have to do some things from home or when I need to use some obscure piece of software that just doesn't work in Wine.
So.. no, I don't really see a reason to buy a bigger monitor. Actually, I haven't bought a monitor for ages, like probably 20 years 😂, all of the ones I currently use are salvaged from one person or another - they wanna trade up, they give me their old monitor 😂. I don't complain, they're still usable for me 🤷.
I appreciate you for preventing eWaste by reusing 🤩 that is awesome! I myself use the old macbookpro and iMacs from my father running Linux :D it’s great to live in a time where one can get such powerful computing devices for free 😇 But for watching movies and series, I really appreciate higher resolution and don’t feel satisfied if it is less than 1080 (more if we talking 25" plus)
To be honest, I just love reusing old stuff and giving it new meaning ☺️. And fixing stuff too. Sure, they will eventually be worthless, but I try and extend their life as much as possible ☺️.
Regarding the movies thing, each to his own 🤷 😉. I don't judge. Hell, even I sonetimes download 1080p and watch that on my TV, but it's mostly a special case scenario, like some good movie I've wanted to watch for a long time, but never got around to it, or something like.
So if you have newer nvidia based card you can upscale to 4K based off 7 20p
The result is closer to 1440 p
But, why not just download the 1080p version? Instead of doing the whole upscaling thing?
Because you can download faster and then upscale instantaneously
You'd need to have a wire made of bamboo to justify the 2gb more.
And with the added resolution you can even better scale it up.
Really? That thing works? Like no pixelization?
What, what? How and can I do it over Plex? Got a link, please?
Probably just an extra six minutes of Seth Rogan's annoying laugh.
Na, man. It's too damn long
Thanks. Ill download it now
Honestly, I don’t even remember it being that funny. I haven’t gave it a second thought since its release. The power of social media marketing, I guess.
If you’ve never seen Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, I’d encourage you instead to take a look at Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz, both really good movies.
My problem was I watched it expecting Cornetto trilogy and got stoner comedy so didn't enjoy it as much. Going in expecting stoner comedy (when in the mood for it) a few years later increases the enjoyment factor.
Paul versus Baby Driver really illustrates what Nick Frost and Simon Pegg's chemistry bring to a movie versus what Edgar Wright's directing brings to a movie.
And even in combination, the trio only nailed it two out of three times. The World's End is just... okay.
It's not great.
Its a great movie! Get onboard, do the lemming thing and follow.
(Sometimes a label is a distraction. expand your mind.)
Something like this happened to me once before. I sent a pm to the tracker staff to ask about it; they responded that a leecher had a borked client causing it to repeatedly download the torrent again. I suspect something like that is what is happening here.
I've downloaded it 100 times just for the lols
I've never seen it, but now I'm going to watch it too. Thanks OP!
Maybe something to do with the 10 foot tall aliens down in Florida? 🤷🏻♂️
This is the third time I've seen this referenced. I looked this up and now I feed stupider for having read anything about it.
Nooope ignore me I misremembered the billboard I saw
On January 11 (in Canada) a Paul prequel tv show will be released, perhaps all the interest isbeing generated by marketing for that shows release
What is the name of the show? I'm interested but unable to find articles about the show or who's in it.
Omg its a ted prequel tv show I saw a billboard for, not Paul, sorry I have no idea about the Paul movie interest
My mistake!
Wait, what!!??!?!
Yeah there's gunna be a prequel tv show for the ted movie with someone else playing the younger version of mark Wahlbergs character. It's out January 11. I only saw the billboard on my way to work though.
Not even sure if Seth MacFarlane will still voice ted but hope so otherwise that will be... Not a good show IMO
YouTube and/or tiktok shorts.
Social media influencers seems likely.