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Cinema is saved!

The first time I saw Star Wars on home entertainment was on LaserDisc during a Hi-Fi show. I thought it looked incredible. 

The first time I saw Star Wars on home entertainment was on LaserDisc during a Hi-Fi show. I thought it looked incredible. 

And I thought I was going to kill the game! 

And I thought I was going to kill the game! 

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Go to the UK if you don't like it!
 
 
 
Hehehehehehe ...
 
 
 

My government warns against Zoom.

Apparently it's a hacker's delight. 

I'm pretty sure Hiroshima Mon Amour has no Dolby Atmos. 

The Empire Strikes Back?  Cloud City... Luke, Leia... severe hand injury...

I thought it ended with a car because, after their encounter with hillbillies, our city slickers are no longer into canoeing.
 

It's probably their most consistent record, although I love The Lamb's seething ambition.
 

 

Yes, Steve, it's my favorite Genesis album too!

If DUNE fails, he should be rehearsing six words: "Do you want fries, with that?".

OLED 4K vs QLED 8K

According to Lynch himself, the answer is no.
 
 

According to Lynch himself, the answer is no.
 
 

To store all the analog information of 35mm film to digital, it is estimated that would take up to 5K, depending on what film stock was used. For 70mm celluloid, the number needs to be even higher. 

Holko, you should have added this to your pictionnary!


 
 
Babe: Pig in the City!

Dead Poet's Society
Memorable late 80s melodrama held together by Robin Williams's inspiring performance.  I was actually disappointed that the movie does not focus on his character, Keating.  It would have been a stronger movie had explored more of the dynamics between him and the rest of the faculty and on how Keating truly upheld the spirit of the traditions that the school claims to stand for.  But, instead, we have an adolescent movie, where teenage emotions are taken very seriously and are shoved into clunky or cliched conclusions that don't ring true with reality.  
The romantic subplot is part of this, but exhibit A is Neil's suicide.  Not only does it seem a bit excessive for the immediate situation the character faces, but nothing we have been told or shown about Neil suggest this would happen.  Plus, there are plenty of alternatives.  And he has not been shown to be super unstable.  Instead, it feels like a heavy handed way to punish his parents for their strict ways.  
While the presentation of this movie is more overtly artistic and dramatic, there is still a bit of John Hughes's influence here in its earnest focus on teens and generational dynamics.  But it is missing the humor, wit, and understanding that makes his movies speak to teenagers and to adults.
At any rate, the cast is great.  The period setting really draws you in.  The score is quite nice.  And the final scene is very well-done technically.
 
3/4

I have zero interest in Dune. - Richard
That makes two, of us 

I appreciated Raiders Of The Lost Ark the most when I first saw it in theatres. When I watch Raiders today, I'm sure there are moments that I won't like as much as I did then.  To me, a movie only gets better with age if I get more out of it than I initially did, or if my enjoyment of them grows. For example, when I was 16, I didn't fully appreciate 2001 or Solyaris, but the older I got, the more I saw them in a different and more interesting daylight.

I guess that how a film has "improved", depends on different reasons: what's come after it (comparing and contrasting); people's personal circumstances; increased knowledge of the film's history, and place in contemporary (and, for that matter, current) culture; rediscovery of the film following a prolonged absence.
I saw RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK many, many times, in 1981, and upon subsequent reissues, but seeing it in IMAX, in 2012, brought to me a renewed appreciation for the film.
*****/***** then, and definitely *****/***** now. It's one of the supreme achievements in popular cinema, in the last fifty years.

300 is a different kind of movie in terms of how stylized it is; as a result it is, like you said, not really somber in the same way that the others are.