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xhonzi said:

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Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.

^This. I was surprised CC kept in the KKK scene. Also, I love Neil Patrick Harris.

 

You mean you're a...

Teeth.

Not for the faint of crotch, but well worth the time.

I loved that movie.  My roommates just seemed angry at me for convincing them it would be good.

I believe I mentioned this in another thread, but fuck the Chicago Manual of Style.  Or the Chicago Manuel of Style, that being the one that xhonzi mentioned.  I'm going with TV's' Wife, as 005 suggested.

And I watched it by myself late last night while my baby daughter slept in my arms.

At least, I hope she was asleep and not just pretending.

Is this still the INCEPTION THREAD?

We're watching all the Harry Potter films again in anticipation of the next release.  Just saw Chamber of Secrets, four more to go in the next week, lol.

It's so nice finally hearing them in full 5.1 again for the first time since seeing them in the theatres; there is some impressive use of the surround channels and LFE that I'd really been missing before.  And of course I love the John Williams scores (damn disappointing that he didn't do any of the others, and won't be doing the last one as had been rumoured).

I used to be rather active in Harry Potter fandom, going over the books in a lot of detail, and it has to be said that there are numerous places where the movies destroy various aspects of characterisation through unfortunate screenwriting and directing choices, particularly in giving a lot of Ron's best moments to Hermione so that Emma Watson can badly overact them (ironically, her performance in the first film was actually the most convincing).  Still, it's not nearly as bad as stuff that was changed in Lord of the Rings, so I don't usually fret about it too much, and the later ones have been much better in that regard.

Hairy_hen - I just watched Philosopher's Stone on Blu-Ray with 6.1 surround, and it was pretty freakin' awesome.  I'm planning on watching one per night until Deathly Hallows Part 1 comes out.

Too bad I only have the other 5 movies in DVD-resolution MKV rips.  They still have the AC3 5.1 audio, though - better than stereo, at least.

What is 6.1?  Rear center?  What is the rear center used for?

Carriers.

So-so movie, but it was nice to see a virus movie where the virus just made people sick and die, instead of turning them into zombies.

Yeah, 6.1 has a rear center channel.

It's largely been replaced by 7.1 (surround back left and right channels), as apparently the brain perceives sounds coming directly behind you (as it would in 6.1) in a strange way, so having two channels in the back, but on either side of your head, is a better way to do this.

And before you ask - in 7.1 setups, the regular surround channels aren't meant to be behind you so much as to your sides, and maybe slightly behind you.  I think that's what you're supposed to do for 5.1 as well, but everyone I know with a 5.1 setup puts the surround channels way in the back.

As a sidenote, my roommate has a 7.1 setup, which is awesome and all, but the receiver will not accept audio through HDMI.  Therefore, we have to use digital optical ... which can't carry a 7.1 signal (or lossless surround audio).  Thankfully, DTS-HD MA 6.1 is fed through as DTS-ES 6.1, so I was able to get the full 6.1 experience with Philosopher's Stone (spread across two channels instead of one, of course).

I wanna know who the hell thought it'd be a good idea to make a 7.1 receiver that can't decode HDMI audio...

Hands Of The Ripper, really interesting story mix of Victwardian repression/hypocrisy, delicate characterisation, lush production values and lurid sudden bloody violence (lovely female belching too from busty, brassy Lynda Baron).