Oh, I've been updating the SBCs. Although my current Pi 4 has been running for over 5 years, don't see a need to update to Pi 5.
jbone
joined 4 months ago
I was actually planning to watch it in the cinema. :) Thankfully I missed the cinema window. I would not have wanted to waste a cinema trip on this.
I am relatively easy going about quality and there are many b-movies that I find very entertaining (I am not only talking about cult classic type productions), but it's difficult to enjoy Return to Silent Hill. I even liked the second Silent Hill movie (I get the impression the first one is slowly becoming a classic with time); it wasn't great, but it had its own experience to offer.
The main actor's expressions and style was off-putting. I couldn't get rid of the feeling that he was thinking in his mind "what the fuck is this shit?". The horror elements didn't work, I didn't feel any tension. The effects seemed solid from a production quality/budget perspective, but they also felt off, in a way that much smaller indie production don't.
Their story telling was also subpar. I've played the original SH2 and seen the other movies, there is a solid base for a good horror story. This felt more like a bunch of Silent Hill themed scenes stitched together with a dude who looked like he has better thing to do.
I prefer sharing interesting movies that I enjoyed, but Return to Silent Hill was bad enough that I had to write this post.
Probably should have gone in with lower expectations (watched the second one with no expectations and I had a good time).
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The Borderlands (2013) Review - The Borderlands earns its reputation through focus rather than flash.
(foundfootagehorrormovies.com)
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Why US cinemagoers are dressing as Jimmy Savile to see 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(www.theguardian.com)
It works great, I've been using a Pi SBC for torrenting for nearly 10 years now (in addition to NAS, a media server, Pi-Hole and more).
I would strongly recommend going with DietPi. It has a great set of custom CLI management tools, very active developers and a relatively large community (150K+ installatios active last quarter). It's based on Debian for ARM so it has a solid foundation.
Sounds like a bad fit, even though I only want to share (it's some relatively rare content that took me some effort to procure in the highest quality that I believe is available).
Something like Qbittorrent-Nox or rTorrent/ruTorrent for Gnutella would be great.
The use of Limewire in this context seems to be more of an interesting news novelty.
That being said, in any democratic leaning country that truly values freedom (in the real sense, not the polemical American sense), the distribution of such media would not be an issue and you wouldn't have to resort to Limewire, a torrent would suffice or even another broadcast TV network would air with violation of copyright.
You can stream popular torrents. It can be challenging with more niche content (unless you're on private trackers), but you're not going to find niche content streams in the first place.
For me personally, the OG pirating was buying bootleg VHSs/CDs/DVDs. But torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.
It's still somewhat big in certain regions, even younger people torrent (although streaming piracy is more popular).
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I don't think this a bad thing, let another director give it a go.