Introducing Agora Movie Nights

[Wandrer]

Akira (1988)

 

[Punp]

I've got a stockpile of "bare metal tech monsters" films for a rainy day:

Virus, Deep Rising, Hardware, Moontrap and Sphere.

Also got:

The Empty Man (2020)
Repo Man (1984)
Planet Terror (2007)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
The Relic (1997)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Street Fighter (1994)
Street Fighter the animated series / movie
Goodfellas (1990)
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Ghost Ship (2002)
Amadeus (1984)

 

[Andy Kaufman]

Yesterday my bluray-Drive came in the Mail and I started ripping "the VVitch" it as it came in the same package.

I'm using MakeMKV to do that. But now that I started ripping the files, I wonder how I will select the languages later on

because I didn't have any options but to just rip the files and decrypt.
Either way, it will take a long time to digitize my whole collection but I will start with the good ones. For a Halloween themed movie night I propose these out of my collection (just a sample):

Terrifier 1 + 2 (trashy slasher but with many good practical effects)

Hellraiser Trilogy (although I heard you guys watched that recently)

Under the Skin (don't want to spoil too much here, but it's eerie, has the best goddamn soundtrack ever and was created in a special way)

Incident in a Ghotland (just a normal horror movie)

Suspiria (The 2018 remake, probably one of my fav horror movies)

Videodrome (From 1983, a little cheesy but worth experiencing, certainly an odd film)

The Void (lovecraftian horror)

MAD GOD (100% stop motion philosophical + body horror)

 

[AnHero]

Suspiria (The 2018 remake, probably one of my fav horror movies)

They remade that movie? lol. I still want to watch the original.

 

[AnHero]

Maybe we should watch AMP House Massacre. Came out this year. It's a slasher movie about online influencers. Not as bad as it sounds; it's basically just a typical, fairly solid slasher-flick, with topical subject matter.

 

[Enrofflesss]

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Constant Mental Anguish-1982 Dolly P.

 

[☉Kud]

Here's another recommendation!

Occult (2009)

A low budget pseudo-documentary horror flick from Japan.

 

[Punp]

I have Mad God, but I need a group to watch it with to keep my attention from drifting.

I also have they/them which is meant to be a comedy transgender parody slasher film. I don't know anything else about it.

@Andy Kaufman sick that you're ripping your disks. Honestly with how fragile digital storage is, I'd just keep them all on disk and buy a slot case folder to reduce their footprint.

Under the Skin is an excellent film. The soundtrack stays with you for weeks, months and years. Johansen kills it. The original story it's based on is batshit insane and arguably ruins the narrative of the film if you take it as canon.

@Enrofflesss thanks for the reminder. I need to add this to my library.

 

[eris]

My rec for halloween times:



Attack the Block (2011) - this thing is truly excellent, aliens come to attack the mandems and everything escalates.

 

[Enrofflesss]

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Jst Pttin this ut here cause its really fnny -Jason Lee 2007

 

[Andy Kaufman]

With so many recommendations, how do we even decide on anything? just have a vote or what?
@Punp I will keep the Discs, but having them also on my PC is convenient. The process of ripping is slow though. I'm currently on the 9th film and there's much more to come. I don't even know how many I have but it's gotta be a 100 discs if we count those in collecitons such as LOTR extended and such.
IDK if I even have enough Disk space but I take every excuse to buy bigger and more harddrives.

 

[Rikstah]

Are movie nights still going? Which day is it on?

 

[Punp]

With so many recommendations, how do we even decide on anything? just have a vote or what?

The benefits of a benevolent dictator. The streamer gets to decide like a DJ. Don't over think it.

IDK if I even have enough Disk space but I take every excuse to buy bigger and more harddrives.

480p is so underrated. It's a perfectly fine format to watch shows.

Are movie nights still going? Which day is it on?

EU timezone stream is 6pm UTC. Venue changes so you need to check the thread for announcements.

 

[Andy Kaufman]

The streamer

who decides who that is?
I just tested my setup over on giko and would be a potential candidate.

 

[Punp]

who decides who that is?

Technically the person who organises it, enforced by those who turn up to it. HandOfEris has the Saturday EU slot and I'm her backup if her stream fails or she can't make it.

You could resume the US slot on Sunday at 12am UTC while Mew and Umbreon are out, if you want to.

 

[Rikstah]

The benefits of a benevolent dictator. The streamer gets to decide like a DJ. Don't over think it.


480p is so underrated. It's a perfectly fine format to watch shows.


EU timezone stream is 6pm UTC. Venue changes so you need to check the thread for announcements.

480p definitely underrated I used to watch entire series on old (pirate days) Crunchyroll at 480p or less.

6pm UTC oof that's like 4am my time haha

 

[Wandrer]

480p definitely underrated I used to watch entire series on old (pirate days) Crunchyroll at 480p or less.

6pm UTC oof that's like 4am my time haha

Even 360p way back in the days

 

[Andy Kaufman]

Technically the person who organises it, enforced by those who turn up to it. HandOfEris has the Saturday EU slot and I'm her backup if her stream fails or she can't make it.

You could resume the US slot on Sunday at 12am UTC while Mew and Umbreon are out, if you want to.

Nah, I'd need or make a new EU slot.

 

[Rikstah]

Even 360p way back in the days

you're right I think all the drama / anime / movie streaming from the early to mid 00s was even less than 480p. Nostalgic times!

 

[Some_porcupine]

Nah, I'd need or make a new EU slot.

Agora Road EUTZ Movie Nights

Next movie: Street Fighter (1994), 5 Oct, @792 (1800UTC). IPTV will open 30 min before Mellow greetings, road denizens. Movie Nights for EUTZ are to become a thing, this is mostly because the standard movie night time lands around bedtime on Sunday for us yuros, which is not conducive to work...

forum.agoraroad.com

tho yeah, times are not set in stone, last time it was 4hrs or so in advance for us Eu guys