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Posted by darthmaul1
 - Feb 01, 2010, 10:15:09 PM
if i turn up the brightness then i can see some stuff but the picture becomes grainy. and if i leave it like that and watch star wars, i can see the outlines around the ships.
Posted by Bishop2
 - Feb 01, 2010, 07:12:35 PM
Quote from: SiL on Jun 09, 2009, 09:05:31 AM
There's a difference between darkly lit, and just turning down the brightness level on the film in the editing.

The Alien films are the former, AvPR is the latter.

Well-said.

I just wanted to bring this topic to the fore because I left the boards for a time after AVP:R was released, and at the time, the majority opinion was that people "didn't see what the big deal was." Now, I see that most people agree that this movie is too dark for the sake of just being freaking dark. And I"m glad that the opinion around here has shifted to that.
Posted by DoomRulz
 - Jun 10, 2009, 05:04:03 PM
 :D
Posted by Übermensch
 - Jun 10, 2009, 06:25:38 AM
Foushta!
Posted by SM
 - Jun 10, 2009, 05:32:29 AM
Slightly less letters, but still the same amount of syllables.
Posted by Nukiemorph
 - Jun 10, 2009, 03:59:18 AM
Sodomy.
Posted by Übermensch
 - Jun 10, 2009, 03:55:35 AM
ZING!!!!
Posted by SM
 - Jun 10, 2009, 02:46:11 AM
'Disagree' has too many letters and syllables.
Posted by The Chibi Kiriyama
 - Jun 10, 2009, 02:13:00 AM
Quote from: DoomsdayApocalypse on Jun 09, 2009, 10:37:21 AM
f**k you, Eraserhead is awesome.

How about "I disagree, Eraserhead is awesome"? Yeah, let's stick with that, shall we.
Posted by SM
 - Jun 10, 2009, 01:47:56 AM
Quoterather than avoiding the film or spending the entire run time not being able to see anything.

Go with the former. 
Posted by Nukiemorph
 - Jun 10, 2009, 12:57:51 AM
No, you shouldn't HAVE to adjust the brightness.  But I'd much rather go through the very small amount of trouble so I can actually watch the film, rather than avoiding the film or spending the entire run time not being able to see anything.

Yes, with most dark games, you're changing the game settings, but I hardly see a difference.  It's sacrificing a few seconds to prepare your system before enjoying the piece of media.

Besides, it's not like you have to crank the settings up so high that any other film would look awful if you didn't change your settings back.  I had the tweak the settings ever so slightly and other media looked fine with the new settings.


And for the record, I personally love Eraserhead.
Considering it's score of 90% on rottentomatoes and 7.4 on IMDb, David Lynch wins.
Posted by SM
 - Jun 09, 2009, 11:41:51 PM
Quotef**k you, Eraserhead is awesome.

Awesome as a non-chemical form of curing insomnia.
Posted by That Yellow Alien
 - Jun 09, 2009, 04:19:17 PM
You shouldn't have to adjust the brightness.
Posted by Deathbearer
 - Jun 09, 2009, 03:52:46 PM
it looks fine on my TV if I brighten it up a little bit.
Posted by Übermensch
 - Jun 09, 2009, 10:37:21 AM
Quote from: SM on Jun 09, 2009, 10:21:12 AM
That's because they wish Eraserhead was darker and thus spare them the ordeal of sitting through it.

f**k you, Eraserhead is awesome.
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