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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2009 9:48:23 GMT -4
"What the hell do you do with the Beta?" Well, I did have a vast collection of adult entertainment materials and family videos (in order of importance) but the important stuff has since been transferred to DVD. I kept it because it was pretty-much the best of its class and have read, repeatedly, that there's a market among collectors for these machines. Apparently a small market which doesn't check out Kijiji or Craigslist. Next stop: eBay?
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Post by satellite on Nov 17, 2009 14:16:02 GMT -4
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Post by MrsCatHead on Nov 17, 2009 18:18:48 GMT -4
Salo is an, uh, interesting film, isn't it? I always think films like that should be seen at least once. Kind of like Cannibal Holocaust.
That list looks good. Hmmm might have to buy myself an early Christmas present or three.
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Post by satellite on Nov 17, 2009 18:56:17 GMT -4
Yeah, I found Salo in the foreign section of Blockbuster (a treasure trove of unrated cinema about 10 years ago), yet they won't carry hardcore.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2009 16:56:30 GMT -4
Yeah, I found Salo in the foreign section of Blockbuster (a treasure trove of unrated cinema about 10 years ago), yet they won't carry hardcore. Much like In the Realm of the Senses, if it's foreign, it's a "classic" instead of "porn." (That's the comment I made in my screenwriting class about it. We had to see a film a week, and it was playing at the school.) |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2009 23:35:35 GMT -4
I took advantage of B&N's CC sale with my membership card and a 20% discount coupon as well. I finally bought Z, a movie my parents took me to see as a child. I felt like a kid in a candy store with all the CC selections. I nearly bought The Seven Samurai and Fanny and Alexander, but I had to retrain myself. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2009 12:29:12 GMT -4
My jaw was on the floor watching my new Fight Club BluRay on the weekend. It's one of my favourite movies -- despite being loved for the wrong reasons by idiots and being unseen by people who'd really enjoy it if they ignored the idiots -- and though the new packaging is much more low-rent than the original, 2-disc DVD, it's a spectacular release chock-full of amazing extras and, as with all Fincherfilms, commentary tracks that act as short film school courses. And the overcontrasty, undersaturated look of the film is actually pumped up by HD. Gorgeous.
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Post by huntergrayson on Dec 14, 2009 18:05:48 GMT -4
Besides the fake menu, what extras are there that weren't on the 2-Disc DVD?
So, despite the fact that I don't have a Blu-Ray player yet, I tweeted something about something and, bam, Warner's Blu-Ray department started following my Twitter. Which is hilarious as I am currently furious at their Home Video Department because the only copy of the Theatrical Cut of Watchmen on the Super-Snazzy Five
Disc box is an effing DIGITAL COPY. Which, no, fuck that, my TV isn't even that nice but I wanna watch movies on it rather than my computer. I was an early adopter to DVD - a *really* early adopter - and I remember how one of the technological breakthroughs that was touted was something called "seamless branching" - essentially by controlling how the laser read the disc and added/skipped certain chapters, one could pick to watch a rated/unrated version, a theatrical/directors cut on the same disc. Well, naturally, no companies ended up doing this when they realized they could fuck consumers over by making them buy and rebuy the same film over-and-over again in different versions. Sorry, it's RIDICULOUS that in order to get the theatrical/directors/directors+ freighter versions on disc, I have to buy three separate packages. And then annoying thing is that I really want them all. Grumble.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2009 22:02:46 GMT -4
Aren't there a bunch of BluRay movies with seamless branching, HG?
And no, you're right, except for the Drew Barrymore menu goof, the Fight Club BluRay is pretty-much the same as the 2-disc set but it's on a single disc making 8-hour, couch-potato marathons easier if you've got stacks o' snacks and inserted a urinary catheter beforehand.
There are a couple of new extras, like I Am Jack's Search Index, which enables access to an utterly ridiculous array of fine-grained topics or you can just watch the movie with the search index overlaying the movie, which gives you access to shifting topics on each of the commentary tracks, so you can bop from track to track. It's insane. And it will elicit the insomnia of the movie itself, it's so addictive. There are also a couple of new docs, like Fincher, Norton and Pitt hashing out an acceptance speech at the Spike Awards -- Brad acknowledges Mel Gibson with "thanks, Sugar-Tits" -- and a doc about the sound design of the movie.
But of course the real feature is the gorgeously-shot movie itself. I was a little afraid that with all the facial close-ups I'd be superaware of make-up on the performers -- I'm superaware of make-up even on regular-res television -- but it's flawless.
If he decides to go Blu on Se7en and Panic Room, I'll be forced to buy those, too. I can't help it. The man makes movie movies.
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Post by satellite on Dec 15, 2009 18:37:30 GMT -4
Which BluRay player did you get, bstewart? I remember you had an upconverting DVD player for quite awhile. I inherited a Phillips upconverting player/recorder this past summer from a guy moving out of my buliding as I was moving in. I think I might try to record some of my VHS stuff to DVD.
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