Johnny Ringo said:
My all-time favourite episode would have to be EARSHOT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earshot_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29
Just watched this one last night. It was very good indeed, definitely one of the better ones of the season, but my favorite is still probably either the Halloween costume episode, the band candy episode, or the nightmares-become-reality episode.
Just saw American Graffiti for the first time. Damn that digital sky. Damn it to hell!
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
Gaffer Tape said:
Just saw American Graffiti for the first time. Damn that digital sky. Damn it to hell!
Sluggo said:
Gaffer Tape said:
Just saw American Graffiti for the first time. Damn that digital sky. Damn it to hell!
Fixed.
Repo! The Genetic Opera, nice visuals, some fun ideas, some of the singing is great (it's the best thing Sarah Brightman's done since I Lost My Heart To A Draft Excluder) and shock horror Paris Hilton, not bad (no really) but this should have been a musical not an opera.
Some of the fun ideas need talking around and the singing can't hold the exposition, what it needed was a night surgeon to catch up with the thing in the dead of night and cut it's vocal cords out during a key moments.
It's really tries too hard to be a cult movie (you can't force that, if it happens it happens) by putting in too many visual references to already existing cult movies.
Worth a watch but a bit too we are weird for my taste.
Buffy fans already know that one of the cast can sing and he is on form throughout here...if they must make another Lecter film give him the role, he looks great knee deep in guts.
Leonardo said:
Sluggo said:
Gaffer Tape said:
Just saw American Graffiti for the first time. Damn that digital sky. Damn it to hell!
Fixed.
you finally really did. YOU MANIACS!!!!! YOU SCREWED IT UP!! AW, DAMN YOU!! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!!!!!!
--ignore, I didn't do my research properly--
Ridley Scott's "The Duelists."
Good flick. I understand period accuracy is sometimes hit and miss, but those little pigtails the bad-ass soldiers were wearing took me some time to get used to.
Nowhere Boy, the story of Julia and John Lennon. Quite worth seeing, even if you're not a fan of The Beatles, I thought.
A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
I loved The Duellists.
Seconds. Frankenheimer's most paranoid work and absolutely brilliant.
VADER!? WHERE THE HELL IS MY MOCHA LATTE? -Palpy on a very bad day.
“George didn’t think there was any future in dead Han toys.”-Harrison Ford
YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/DamnFoolIdealisticCrusader
Once again not exactly a film but I had the DVD for Neverwhere hanging around in the vaults for some time and I had a vague memory of it's initial broadcast (which didn't fire my enthusiasm back then) but I thought I'd give it a spin and it's really good.
It shows what you can do on a tight budget and the characters are charming.
Just watched Machete.
Just finished watching 12 Angry Men (1957 version).
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
"The Dark Knight"
Just got the Blu-ray of this.
I like this film more and more each time I see it.
I was not impressed when I first saw it in the theater. A lot had to do with my being shocked by the radical shift in production design style from "Batman Begins". The more contemporary look of Gotham, the increase in verisimilitude, etc... But now that I have had time to let it sink in, I find what a great piece of work it is.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
Watching Dark Knight in IMAX at 3 o'clock in the morning is a terrifying experience. Not having any idea if the Joker was going to squirt water on someone or bite their nose off from one second to the next made for a truly scary villain.
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After seeing Julian Bleach playing the Judderman...I mean the Nightmare Man in the Sarah Jane Adventures I think he would make a fine replacement Joker if they wanted to bring him back.
Gaffer Tape said:
Just saw American Graffiti for the first time. Damn that digital sky. Damn it to hell!
Let me guess they cut the end credits with silly voiceover announcing the next film! SIGH
Let me guess they cropped off the sides of the image buy zooming in on the image! SIGH
Let me guess they panned and scanned it to death! SIGH
Let me guess Sky digital doesn’t do justice to films. SIGH
That’s why I don’t bother watching British TV no more! I don’t have to pay for the licence so the TV inspector told me years ago. I’ve got willpower that says I’ve just about had enough of the British TV garbage, I live quite happily without it.
Its ether laserdisc DVD not so much bluray anymore or a CD I don’t have turntable for my LP! SIGH
Gaffer Tape said: Just finished watching 12 Angry Men (1957 version). That’s a good B&W film with Henry Fonda if I’m not too mistaken.
Only the originals from the 70mm six-track Dolby stereo Dolby format 42 will sound better on DVD/Bluray.
Um... no. I just meant that George Lucas went back and altered the sky over the drive-in in the opening shot with a digital sunset.
Anyway, last movie I've seen:
Superman.
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
Gaffer Tape said:
Um... no. I just meant that George Lucas went back and altered the sky over the drive-in in the opening shot with a digital sunset.
Anyway, last movie I've seen:
Superman.
Oh, yeah I know the one you’re ranting about. I have the DVD first edition is it the same as what was on Sky? There have been versions on TV many, many years back and those where panned and scanned with the opening in scope and end credits.
Also there’s THX laserdisc version which I think is the same as the DVD extras part of the Universal Signature Collection.
Was the caped wonder good for you as it was for me, back in 1978? I like vintage films it helps lets us escape in its word for a few hours what marvellous invention film is.
I can’t really comment on what film I saw last because I’ve been doing a few sound alignment tests in the past few days. Okay last one I viewed was Earthquake (1974) it may not be close to the original (((Sensurround))) experience of early 1975, which I saw three times!
It still rumbles with soap and characters you ether love or hate. Jody is wacko in Earthquake LOL. Charlton Heston I can’t help taking my eyes off such one of many iconic actors of the 20th century. The lows on the LFE.1 when the added extension of rumble comes in on the big one chapter 8, lasts for 8 minutes, and if you could bare to stand the theatrical level of near 120dbc, it was LOUD!!!!!
In the home I play it laser level 105dbc max would be just about tolerable for 8 minutes.
The lows sound more like random pink noise that is generated on the original release by a sound generator, the film had an encoding that triggered the sound generator to produce lows that extended down to around an 18Hz. The DVD seems filtered to around 30Hz on the LFE.1 no big deal its still rumbles loud enough and how many hear tones that is down at 30Hz each day!
Only the originals from the 70mm six-track Dolby stereo Dolby format 42 will sound better on DVD/Bluray.
Jedi Temple34 said:
Gaffer Tape said:
Um... no. I just meant that George Lucas went back and altered the sky over the drive-in in the opening shot with a digital sunset.
Anyway, last movie I've seen:
Superman.
Oh, yeah I know the one you’re ranting about. I have the DVD first edition is it the same as what was on Sky? There have been versions on TV many, many years back and those where panned and scanned with the opening in scope and end credits.
Um, I don't know. I'm not from the UK. I've never watched Sky. I was talking about the sky.
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
Splice.
What'd you think? I've heard very conflicting thoughts on it.
It was really a weird movie, to be honest I am not sure if I really like it or not yet, maybe have to see it again LOL, Machete was way better.
Overnight.
I love docs like this. I had heard of Boondock Saints but didn't know anything about it. I still don't really know much about it, but the guy who made it seems like a really interesting douchebag.
Jedi Temple34 said:
Oh, yeah I know the one you’re ranting about.
You obviously don't understand what the word "rant" means.
