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#31617
Topic
Top Ten of 2003.
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New version of my list:
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Finding Nemo
Whale Rider
Dirty Pretty Things
PotC
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
RotK
Something's Gotta Give-- what a smart and funny movie!
School of Rock-- finally, a film about music in schools that isn't schmaltzy

That makes 10. It'll probably get modified again over the next couple of months.


Post
#31615
Topic
Oscars 2004
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/31615/action/topic#31615
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That may have been true of prior years, but moving the ceremonies to February has resulted in (you must admit) a more populist nomination list. This is because a lot of the independent films that would have been sent out as screeners in the last couple of months have been excluded due to the MPAA's new screener policy.
BTW, I saw Whale Rider last night; Keisha Castle-Hughes is very deserving of her nod.
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#31431
Topic
Does Re-Mastering EVER make a production better?
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It all depends on how you define remaster. In the music industry, remastering is done because older magnetic tape is not very stable, so it is a question of transferring to a new medium and (at the same time) getting as much information as you possibly can out of the original master. With the remastering of a film or a TV series, it can be done without substantially altering the original work, but someone in the chain of command often makes the myopic decision to "redo" the special effects and add in sound effects, arguing that current audiences are "too sophisticated" to accept the old version. Ironically, this results in a dumbing-down of the original in many cases. There are only two cases in which I found such tinkering to be justified: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Ghostbusters. In both cases, the tinkering was done to correct errors made at the time of release (unfinished special effects for both and with ST:TMP, a re-edit because the booking date for the film resulted in a rush job on the editing).