I'm pissed that they remove it from the first place. I want to watch a movie the way the filmmakers originally intended, not with Netflixs modifications.
Did the filmmakers really intend for their films to have grain in them, or was it a feature forced upon them by the nature of their tools?
If non-grainy film stock had been available for the same price, do you think filmmakers would have intentionally picked the grainy film instead? Every single time?
To me it's less about what they wanted to achieve, and instead about what they actually achieved with what they had available.
As an over-the-top example: Most people (that I know) would agree with George Lucas re-edits of Star Wars with newer CGI are worse than the original edits. The only reason to choose the newer edits are because they're released in HD and the original is not.
Film grain is horribly incompressible and 100% different randomly from frame to frame. It tends to be the first thing that vanishes from MPEG-compressed video.
(and of course if your film is shot on digital, then it was never there)
In practice, you are happy with all sorts of artefacts introduced by compression, and that's all this really is – a method of encoding data about what you are looking at in a smaller space.
The thing is you can't. What the silver iodide did 100 years ago is now coupled to complex chemical processes that affect the picture quality and sometimes serious choices in restoration (see Metropolis).
1. Going into this, you need to research a ton.
2. Know someone that sells it. Or look for a field for them and go hunting. Or grow them, spores are legal and you can buy everything you need online.
I met someone who's best friend committed suicide while sober. Those stories of suicide on psychs usually turn out to be fabrications, exaggerations or miscalculated cause and effect.
I think one of the biggest fallacies is that alcohol "shows who the person really is".
It definitely loosens you up, to a point. Maybe 3-8 drinks in it is definitely closer to "the true self".
But in large amounts it definitely creates an over-emotional person. In it's own way it creates emotional reaction spirals that could cause suicide, or lashing out at people, irrational love or hatred of self, etc.
Less so in France: virtually everybody that would sip 2-3EUR coffees has a 19EUR cellular plan with unlimited data. And that's the price if you're not bundling and not playing off providers off eachother.
Can confirm. Having dropped my mobile in the bath (...) I needed wifi yesterday and only the fifth café I tried in provincial France had wifi available. (And that didn't work until I adjusted my settings to use the DHCP server's provided DNS...)
Now I wonder if it's this law that made it not worth the effort for them.
Many EU tourists as well, here you can still get sub GB plans, and unlimited is twice what it is in France, and if you're not savvy, four times is possible too.
