OJ Smith 🐤

All things Movies, Films, Cinema, NCFC, and other random findings from the internet.

[OJ Smith 🐤 @Ojsmith84]

’Tis the time of year once again…
150+ films watched in 2025.
Here are the 10 I enjoyed the most & where to find them. 🧵
Seek them out. Add them to your watchlist for when you’re stuck for something to watch… 🎬🔥
#OJFilmsOfTheYear #Letterboxd #Top10Movies

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

One of the craziest drone shots ever over a 1,000,000-person rave

[Variety @Variety]

The Oscars' New Inclusion Rules Wouldn't Disqualify Any Best Picture Nominee in History. So Why Is Elon Musk Melting Down Over 'The Odyssey'? https://t.co/RwJNqDFU3S

[Robin @neocruyffista]

As James Gray’s Paper Tiger is currently in premiere at Cannes, here’s a throwback to this legendary clip. It permanently changed my perspective on the movie industry.

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@stats_feed

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@T0TALfps Any chance of adding the “Request order” prompt and then being promoted to squad leader if no orders? 🤞

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@TheCinesthetic Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

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This is me;

20s: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - (3)
30s: M - (4)
40s: Bicycle Thieves - (5)
50s: The Seventh Seal - (6)
60s: Rosemary’s Baby (5)
70s: Halloween (10)
80s: My Neighbor Totoro (4)
90s: Princess Mononoke (19)
00s: Coraline (13)
10s: Midsommar (9)

[KMS78 @kmstx78]

#FilmTwitter: Go to @Letterboxd, search decades by popularity & share top entry you haven’t seen per decade.

Me:

20s: Metropolis
30s: Gone w/ Wind
40s: Rope
50s: Ikiru
60s: Harakiri
70s: Holy Mountain
80s: Kiki’s Delivery Service
90s: Perfect Blue
00s: Oldboy
10s: Infinity War

[Lester @Chen]

the best 3 minutes of video I've watched this year

[OJ Smith 🐤 @Ojsmith84]

@kmstx78 You know what, I completely miss read your post and shared the ones I had seen. 🤦‍♂️
I'll go back and take a look with fresh eyes.

[OJ Smith 🐤 @Ojsmith84]

Me;

20s: Nosferatu - (1)
30s: Wizard of Oz - (1)
40s: Casablanca - (1)
50s: 12 Angry Men - (1)
60s: 2001 (1)
70s: Godfather (1)
80s: Dead Poet Society (1)
90s: Fight Club (1)
00s: Eternal Sunshine (1)
10s: Inception (1)

🤓🏆

[KMS78 @kmstx78]

#FilmTwitter: Go to @Letterboxd, search decades by popularity & share top entry you haven’t seen per decade.

Me:

20s: Metropolis
30s: Gone w/ Wind
40s: Rope
50s: Ikiru
60s: Harakiri
70s: Holy Mountain
80s: Kiki’s Delivery Service
90s: Perfect Blue
00s: Oldboy
10s: Infinity War

[OJ Smith 🐤 @Ojsmith84]

@ShowMeYourGod @BattlefieldInte

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@CinemaTweets1 22 years!!!!
I. feel. OLD.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them.

You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from.

One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream.

Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers.

Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid.

The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

This is what would happen if the stormtroopers from Star Wars got eye surgery.

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@TheCinesthetic

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Seeing Project Hail Mary in @IMAX tonight 🚀

Everything I’ve heard says this is one you have to see on the biggest screen possible.

If it lives up to the hype, this might be one of the standout films of the year.

[OJ Smith 🐤 @Ojsmith84]

@MrProWestie Agree completely.
As a quick win, why don't they include some of the best portal created maps, with full XP, a bit like the recent fan made Metro map, on the new maps rotation.
Seems a no brainer - more maps plus improved Portal engagement.

[OJ Smith 🐤 @Ojsmith84]

I’ve officially seen every single Best Picture winner in Oscar history 🏆

All 97 films — from Wings (1927) to Anora (2024).

To celebrate Oscars night, here’s my full ranking from best to worst 🎬

https://t.co/ef7lD84SAv

Agree? Outrageously wrong?
Let me know…
👇

[OJ Smith 🐤 @Ojsmith84]

@VHSDVDBLURAY4K Ebert was the goat 😍