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  • klu9toB Movie Bonanza@lemmy.world•Bad Black (2016)English
    2·
    9 days ago

    Watched it last night (on Tubi). Hilarious!!! Thanks so much for this discovery. I’m going to try to find other Wakaliwood films.

    My log:

    Many spoilers

    • The high security enclosure for the money exchange… is made of cardboard.

    • Narrator: “I have a key.” Swaz smashes window with hammer. Narrator: “Ugandan key!” :D

    • How many Abba song titles is the narrator going to use?

    • OMG, this narration :D 🤣

    • SWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZ!

    • Swaz shoots cop up the arse. Narrator: “My bums!”

    • “I’m too old for this shit.”

    • Chase scene squeezing through narrow gaps in shanty town. Narrator: “The unfittables.”

    • After an absolutely insane pedal-to-the-metal opening 12 minutes, the orphan section really slows things down. But very soon “Ten years later”. Phew!

    • Man with eyes closed in chair. Narrator: “Is he dead?” Man rouses. “Oh, this is Uganda, I thought he’s dead.”

    • “Sluuuuuurp”

    • “How can you love this roach turd?”

    • Little kid to US doctor: “I can train you to be a commando.” SLAP! “First lesson.” :D
      Is that Wesley Snipes or ‘Buddy’ Spencer?

    • Shanty town boys chasing white doctor as part of his ‘commando’ training. Narrator: “Get the muzungu. Eat the muzungu. Cook him alive! He must be delicious.”

    • “This is ghetto. THIS IS GHETTO.”

    • “Mamma mia.” Another Abba song title.

    • Muzungu wants info on Big Black’s location from little girl. Her: “First, give me my sweets.” Narrator: “Ugandan women.”

    • Cop explaining plan: “My kung fu cops will surround them.”

    • “Predator’s half-Jamaican, you know.”

    • “Uganda’s first women in prison movie”, starring the female Bud Spencer! SLAP!

    • Supa criminal’s demands: “… And I want ‘24’ back on TV!”

    • “What a movie! Good thing it’s over.”

    • Character background? Narrator: “Booorrrriiing.” Fast forward.

  • klu9toB Movie Bonanza@lemmy.world•Bad Black (2016)English
    2·
    10 days ago

    Sorry, I should have been clearer. It’s not a technical error message, but a media availability message.

    Tubi MX - content not available

    • Contenido no disponible = Content not available
    • Recuérdame - se te notificará por correo electrónico cuando esto esté dispnible - “Remind me: you’ll be notified by email when this is available”.

    Lots of other movies on Tubi play just fine in my browser (Zen, mod of Firefox). But 90% of the movies featured on the home page are “Content not available”.

  • klu9OPtoB Movie Bonanza@lemmy.world•Skyscraper (1996)English
    2·
    14 days ago

    Per Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubi#Global_availability

    • US
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Mexico
    • Ecuador
    • El Salvador
    • Guatemala
    • Costa Rica
    • Panama
    • UK

    I remember watching Death Race 2000 and some others on Tubi here in MX before it supposedly launched here, so I guess they weren’t geoblocking back then. Unfortunately since the official launch, geoblocked to Tubi México only, with all films dubbed into Spanish and a different selection of available media compared to other countries.

    I just remembered that there’s now more overlap? interchange? between Tubi and Fawesome (both part of Fox), and the Fawesome website has Skyscraper in English and uncut, and doesn’t geoblock me.

    PS I’ve added the links for the movie on Tubi and Fawesome to the OP.

  • klu9OPtoB Movie Bonanza@lemmy.world•Skyscraper (1996)English
    2·
    14 days ago

    I was pausing frequently to do my “live log”, so I guess that throws off my sense of the pace. But it seemed to move along at a fair old clip. For a straight-to-video flick, I’d rate the action pretty good, and the dialogue and performances as “so bad it’s good”.

  • klu9OPtoAsk Android@lemdro.id•Decibel meter app?English
    2·
    17 days ago

    Thanks. Step 1 seems to make sense to me, but…(excuse me if this seems a silly question) this means I need a sound loudness measuring tool in order to use my phone as a sound loudness measuring tool? At least to do the calibration?

    EDIT: Doh, re-reading, I see you already addressed that, thanks.

  • klu9toAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the worst rated film that you love?English
    2·
    17 days ago

    Lost River (2015)

    I went into it with zero knowledge or expectation and was held by it from beginning to end (even when I knew it was blatantly emulating David Lynch etc, I didn’t care, I was gripped). Only to look it up online afterwards and find out that critics and viewers kind of hate it.

    • IMDb: 5.6
    • RT tomatometer: 30%
    • RT popcornmeter: 38%
  • klu9OPtoAsk Android@lemdro.id•Decibel meter app?English
    1·
    17 days ago

    Thanks. I’ve installed it and looking at it now.

    The experiment I need would be… Acoustic Amplitude, right?

    And the steps would be? (sorry, I’m not very scientific)

    “Calibrate” tab > “Calibrate”: do this when there is no/little noise?
“Calibrate” tab > “Offset”: no idea what to do here.
“Amplitude” tab > when there is noise I want to measure, press the play button?
“Amplitude” tab > after a bit, press the pause button?
Then, other? 3-dot menu > “Export data” or “Share screenshot”?
  • klu9OPtoAsk Android@lemdro.id•Decibel meter app?English
    1·
    17 days ago

    Thanks. I’ve installed it and looking at it now.

    The experiment I need would be… Acoustic Amplitude, right?

    And the steps would be? (sorry, I’m not very scientific)

    1. “Calibrate” tab > “Calibrate”: do this when there is no/little noise?
    2. “Calibrate” tab > “Offset”: no idea what to do here.
    3. “Amplitude” tab > when there is noise I want to measure, press the play button?
    4. “Amplitude” tab > after a bit, press the pause button?
    5. Then, other? 3-dot menu > “Export data” or “Share screenshot”?