Last Monster/Horror/Sci-Fi Movie/Show You Watched

[Lazarus]

You're a machine, Memph, as always.

Gremlins
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Beetlejuice

My nephew is the age I was when I started really getting into horror, but he doesn't like scary stuff, so we keep it fun for him.  And who doesn't love the Gremlins?

[Monsters For Sale]

Saw an interesting, if not that great, film.

Watch the Skies, 2025

It is a Swedish film, shot in Swedish.  But is presented in English by having actors re-shoot the dialogue and using AI to alter the image so the on-screen actors' lips match the new language.

It matches "pretty" well, but not perfectly.  It is like watching a European film that was shot silent with dialogue recorded at a later date.  I expect this technique will improve over time, like colorization has.

This must be the future for international films - better than subtitles, any day.

[Mike Scott]

- better than subtitles, any day.

Oh, yeah! I can't read as fast as some people talk and that's how long the subtitles stay up.

[Monsters For Sale]

Oh, yeah! I can't read as fast as some people talk and that's how long the subtitles stay up.

And, since it is used with film already shot and in the can, it might possibly be applied to some classic, older films from years past...

... Interrresting!   https://youtu.be/krD4hdGvGHM

[Monsters For Sale]

The danger is...

They could change the dialogue altogether, thereby altering the film in the most unintended and disturbing ways.

When it is not being used on the mouths of politicians, political dissenters, defendants on trial...

... chilling.

[Mike Scott]

The danger is...

How long will it be before we don't believe anything we see (on the tubes) is real?

[horrorhunter]

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)

Vampire Hunter D (1985)

Pumpkinhead (1988)

Trick 'r Treat (2007)

Halloween (1978)

Halloween II (1981)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

The Thing from Another World (1951)

Frankenstein (1931)

[Mike Scott]

I don't believe you! I think you're just AI. 

[horrorhunter]

The danger is...

They could change the dialogue altogether, thereby altering the film in the most unintended and disturbing ways.

When it is not being used on the mouths of politicians, political dissenters, defendants on trial...

... chilling.

Fully agree.

The more I see of AI the more I dislike the whole concept. Not only does it threaten truth, but it also promotes laziness and bad art. Many of the audiobook and podcast videos on YT use AI voices as well as images. Some of the images have wonky anatomy with body parts disappearing into other items or just fading away. Some of the AI voices pronounce the same words several different ways within the same story. I avoid some videos that advertise AI use. I'm not a fan.

[horrorhunter]

Wow. Even UMA is ruling over what we can post. In my post above I typed another word instead of "advertise" that the first five letters of which match the name of a controversial orange person in charge. In the finished post I was only left with the end of the word. Come on, UMA. Ixnay on the igBay otherBray how about it?!

[Monsters For Sale]

Wow. Even UMA is ruling over what we can post. In my post above I typed another word instead of "advertise" that the first five letters of which match the name of a controversial orange person in charge. In the finished post I was only left with the end of the word. Come on, UMA. Ixnay on the igBay otherBray how about it?!

Another reason I will never give up my DVD's and BLU-Rays.  I fear studios and streaming "services" will make too many adjustments to old movies that do not align with today's attitudes to race, social or political rules.

Sure, I find 1930's racial stereotypes embarrassing, but they are a product of their time and I take them as such - no matter how much some of them make me cringe.

It's like those awful editions of "Huckelberry Finn" that remove THAT word completely, thereby destroying the integrity of one of America's greatest literary works.

"And that's all I have to say about that."

[horrorhunter]

Another reason I will never give up my DVD's and BLU-Rays.  I fear studios and streaming "services" will make too many adjustments to old movies that do not align with today's attitudes to race, social or political rules.

Sure, I find 1930's racial stereotypes embarrassing, but they are a product of their time and I take them as such - no matter how much some of them make me cringe.

It's like those awful editions of "Huckelberry Finn" that remove THAT word completely, thereby destroying the integrity of one of America's greatest literary works.

"And that's all I have to say about that."

Important point, keep your physical media. It can't be adjusted without someone physically entering our homes and we have some control over that.

The past has many unpleasantries but those are also part of history...the truth. The famous quote, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", has weight.

[Mike Scott]

In my post above I typed another word instead of "advertise"

What was the word? Probably just spellcheck run amuck. That's why I proofread my posts.

[horrorhunter]

eted

[Mike Scott]

eted

Never heard of it.