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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?
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Ah, well. You do know the high esteem in which our mutual friend, Dr Shrink, holds this exemplary and stunning example of outstanding cinematography (an opinion with which I happen to concur, most warmly, as is also fairly well known on these threads)……
In any case, excellent choice, and I think you would be hard put to think of a better movie to seek to preserve on DVD……...
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The 70th anniversary edition on Blue-ray is stunning. Its a high quality encoding, using a 4K source that in itself was created from an original master.
Theres a few packagings of this, that vary the amount of additional material (making of, Welles bio content, etc.)
And it only gets better every time I watch it.
I've seen those and one of these days I'll buy it!
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Last night we watched the extended version of The Fellowship of the Ring. I am positive we won't finish the trilogy before the end of the holiday weekend.
Bird on a Wire - fun even if I cannot see Golden and Mel as a couple.
Point Break - a good time killer.
Babe - Pig in the City - Decided to give Dr. Miller's non-Max output a go again. Babe is cute.
The Road Warrior - still a big 'meh' for me. I really like Max and the ideas/concepts, but the villains and some support cast diminish the story though. The first remains my favorite.
Point Break - a good time killer.
Babe - Pig in the City - Decided to give Dr. Miller's non-Max output a go again. Babe is cute.
The Road Warrior - still a big 'meh' for me. I really like Max and the ideas/concepts, but the villains and some support cast diminish the story though. The first remains my favorite.
'Kvinden i buret' Keeper of Lost Causes - caught it at cinema today.
Worth a watch if you like Nordic crime genre, though I'd suggest leaving it to small screen rental if you have to pay full price for cinema tickets. Would stand up really well as a 90 minute TV show pilot (it is part of a series of novels) but so-so as a stand-alone movie.
Worth a watch if you like Nordic crime genre, though I'd suggest leaving it to small screen rental if you have to pay full price for cinema tickets. Would stand up really well as a 90 minute TV show pilot (it is part of a series of novels) but so-so as a stand-alone movie.
That's only 9 or 10 hours, let it rip!
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The original Babe was excellent. I remember the sequal as being worthy too.
Ah, excellent: Thank you for posting this.
That sounds worth buying. This is a movie I consider to be outstanding, and is one I love - indeed, it is a movie which richly repays viewing on several occasions (a high esteem I share with our mutual friend, Dr Shrink).
Which of these versions do you consider to be the best (in quality, extras, and so on)? If I am to buy this classic (and I would like to do so), it makes sense to obtain the best possible quality version...
An unusually good adaptation of a work considered a classic.
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That's only 9 or 10 hours, let it rip!
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The original Babe was excellent. I remember the sequal as being worthy too.
Agreed, an excellent movie. Some years later, I had the great good fortune to be privileged to see James Cromwell on stage, live, in a superb version of Tennessee Williams's play "A Long Day's Journey Into Night".
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I would have to imagine that the Blu-ray would be the one to get for the best quality.
Here it is for sale on shop.tcm.com
The recent 70th anniversary AVC encoded Blu-ray is fantastic, and theres 3 different options:
2 Disc Digibook
3 Disc Collectors
4 Disc Collectors box set"
All include the outstanding BD of the movie itself, but the other editions include more and more discs (DVD based) of extra content, and additional things like books, limited edition prints, etc.
The basic two disc set is only ~$22 from Amazon, then ~$40, ~$80 for the subsequent two bundles, plus I see now theres some kind of Amazon only edition of the 4 disc.
The 3 disc has quite a bit of extra material, without getting into the collectables like the books, postcards and whatnot.
If youre just looking for the best copy of the film itself, then the $22/2-disc version is terrific.
Excellent review of the different versions. When the time comes I'll probably just go for the basic BD. I'm not one to watch extras that come with disc sets.
Watched the original Mad Max last night after Escape From New York.
I do not understand folks who say the quiet sequences with Max and his family drag, they are paced just fine I think. Excellent movie across the board. Might watch again today, the road sequences are insane.
I do not understand folks who say the quiet sequences with Max and his family drag, they are paced just fine I think. Excellent movie across the board. Might watch again today, the road sequences are insane.
A documentary that starts with the discovery of the unidentified body of a migrant in the Sonora Desert in Arizona and the attempts to uncover who he was and what his story was. The filmmakers also 'embed' themselves with Central American migrants making the journey north to trace the common paths they take and listen to the people making the perilous journey.
I would generally agree with that, but for me, the novel trumps all of them. I really hope we get a true period piece Rambo based on the book one day. The first film really screwed up the many elements that still make the novel such a potent read.
Part II; it's one of the very few James Cameron things I like (he wrote the script for this while prepping Aliens.) It was ridiculous, but most 80s uber action films were.
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I finally watched Bottle Rocket (1996) a couple of weeks ago, am still thinking about it. It was Wes Anderson's first crack at directing a commercial movie and I was impressed. The characters were all very likable*, and Owen Wilson's had more depth than some of his later, fluffier roles. Now I am up to date on all Wes Anderson's movies. Really wish I hadn't taken so long to see this one.
Edit: * Except James Caan of course, who was wonderfully repellent. Definitely not a fan of his, but he made a good job of being icky here.
Edit: * Except James Caan of course, who was wonderfully repellent. Definitely not a fan of his, but he made a good job of being icky here.
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Captain America The Winter Soldier > well, duh. Still my favorite 2014 movie. And now that I own the thing, the causeway sequences are still on repeat. Some of the best fights I've ever seen staged, but I love watching soldiers go hand-to-hand in genre films.
Sundance Channel showed Escape from New York yet again. I am focusing on background characters the last few times and find all these new things and people.
Watched a few minutes of Django Unchained last night and promptly lost interest. Typical for me and Tarantino, despite his constant homages to the exact type of schlock I love, I usually do not like how he reinterprets the material.
Sundance Channel showed Escape from New York yet again. I am focusing on background characters the last few times and find all these new things and people.
Watched a few minutes of Django Unchained last night and promptly lost interest. Typical for me and Tarantino, despite his constant homages to the exact type of schlock I love, I usually do not like how he reinterprets the material.