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Pete’s Dragon (1977)

Having seen the remake, I realized that I hadn’t seem the original film since I was too young to remember hardly any of it. After an intensive search for the old videotape I had as a kid turned out unlucky (but I did find a box with every Disney tape except it and a Song of the South bootleg), I got the blu.

Anyway, I liked it. I don’t know what number to score it, but I liked it.

The Fifth Estate (2013) 4/10

Good subject, good acting, terrible film making.

Frances Ha (2012)
I generally don’t like a lot of ‘mumblecore’ indie films, but for some reason I really liked this one. Maybe it’s to do with the David Bowie songs that are sprinkled throughout.
Three and a half out of Five Balls.

Deadpool (2016)
This was a lot of fun. I’m pretty much done with the whole superhero thing, but I found this whole movie really refreshing.
Three out of Five Balls.

Re-watching “Star Trek V” and this film seems to be the first of the Star Trek movies where the villain has no motivation for his actions. The script seems to completely omit any exposition that explains that Sybok had been driven to his madness by repeated telepathic contacts since childhood from the God imposter. The shoehorned jokes are so cringe worthy. The effects are just horrible and cheap looking. Was that the same effects team that worked on “Superman IV”? 😉

Magnum Force-Surprisingly effective if not a film with deep meaning like the original. 3/4.
The Enforcer-A mess of ideas that ultimately has very little meat on the bones. Great ending but very little to really go on. 2.5/4.
Sudden Impact-Feels like part of a movie and rather uninspired in places. I enjoyed it but it was never that memorable. 2/4.

These keep decreasing in quality, and I know many hate The Dead Pool so I have one more to look forward to.😉

Mission:Impossible

I LOVE this movie. Still. To. This. Day.

My local arthouse got a print for a DePalma series, and to finally see this on the big screen without video constraints or poor masters…Wow!
They unfortunately had to run the matrixed Dolby backup as the ac3 was shot, but it DOES have the heavy low end proving the Laserdisc is indeed the theatrical audio and every subsequent release has been remixed to tame the sound.
The 5.1 is better than the 2.0, and the 2.0 PCM is without the print deficiencies i.e. boominess, loss of detail, some shrillness from the analog optical.

The LD is quite close, in fact darn near perfect for NTSC video. I only noticed one shot with different color to the home video releases, but they can never touch the proper levels of an actual release print.

I’ll start a thread in preservations.

One of those films I will always stick up for.
My favorite Cruise film and IMO his best performance.
My favorite DePalma film.
One of the best films of the 90’s.
The only truly good film in the series.

Side note: The audio went out at the head of Reel 2 before it had to be restarted, leaving the elevator shaft scene to play in silence. “Hasta lasagna don’t get any on ya.” 😉

SilverWook said:

I never got the impression Sybok was nuts, just deluded and misled.

And yeah, the outfit they went to for the FX should never have been allowed near a Trek movie. Can’t recall if ILM was swamped or Paramount didn’t want to pony up.

ILM was swamped with Last Crusade and Ghostbusters II.

D- is generous.

Joke is generous.

C post.