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"Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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449 points bertman | 4 comments | 27 Dec 21 12:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.005s | source
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specialist ◴[27 Dec 21 15:45 UTC] No.29703385[source]▶
I just want to control the viewing experience, not hoard warez.

Effortless rewind, skip filler (car chases, sex), play at x1.25 speed, etc.

aka the "Blu-Ray experience".

If that means I gotta bypass the DRM and download, so be it.

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Some shows have my complete rapt attention. I'll keenly watch (and rewatch) every single frame. Like Netflix's Maniac. OMG. So frikkin good. (So many other examples.)

Other shows, especially rewatching a series, I just want to focus on the character development, dialog, and plot points.

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ramraj07 ◴[27 Dec 21 16:33 UTC] No.29703861[source]▶
Who the hell skips car chases? What movie had a car chase that you wanted to skip that made that movie more watchable (this sentence applies to the furious films as well, skipping the chase scenes there gives you the dumbest drama of all time).
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1. boardwaalk ◴[27 Dec 21 16:49 UTC] No.29704052[source]▶
Car chases are often filler like action scenes in general are filler, IMO.

It's not universally true and depends on how consequential the scenes are. If you could flash "<insert fight scene here where X gets the upper hand>" instead and not miss much, I don't want it.

Movies with top, top notch action and/or better integrated action are exceptions. The original Matrix, John Wick movies, Baby Driver, The Italian Job, Mission Impossible, etc.

Superhero movies are usually not (it feels like they paste the drama and the action together in editing and it's dreadful).

> (this sentence applies to the furious films as well, skipping the chase scenes there gives you the dumbest drama of all time)

Well, yes, and I don't watch those movies :d.

(I don't actually skip these car chases, but I do often zone out.)

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2. specialist ◴[27 Dec 21 16:58 UTC] No.29704160[source]▶
Yup. Just depends on the telling.

"There are only two types of music. Good music and bad music." -- Duke Ellington.

3. 29athrowaway ◴[27 Dec 21 17:01 UTC] No.29704203[source]▶
It is not the fact they are a car chase but their relevance in the story.

Personally when I rewatch the Back to the Future trilogy, I skip much of the car chasing stuff.

4. ramraj07 ◴[28 Dec 21 02:19 UTC] No.29709573[source]▶
My point is, it’s almost unheard of that a good movie has a boring car chase. Or at the least the movie is a good action movie. If you’re watching Fast 5 or whatever, of course the chase is campy but the entire movie is campy. What are you watching the movie if not for the chase? The plot?

Even in the Bourne films with ostensibly better story lines, I’m struggling to understand how you’d be interested in watching those movies if you’re actually not interested in watching the chase scenes fully. I often just watch the chase scenes on YouTube to give where I’m coming from. I rented Bullit and Ronin and watched then just for the chase. So I suppose I’m the opposite.