ChainsawAsh said:
in my Documentary Editing class, where my professor is the most pretentious douche on the planet. Seriously, he's the only instructor at my school who has ever insisted on us calling him "Professor." And he looks like V. I. Lenin, goatee, bald head, and everything. Sorry, I'm ranting now...
I feel your pain... ;)
Same here. Makes perfect sense though-and it looks more grindhouse!
Thanks for doing this print Puggo! It's the ultimate curiosity.
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I was 1, and I feel old! ;) That means Nevermind is 20. Crap.
Good for you ChainsawAsh!
But why would one want to be unignored when being ignored is so much fun?
HotRod said:
EyeShotFirst said:
I haven't had a relationship in a long time. It's not because I am afraid or lazy. I would just prefer I had some money to be able to show a girl a good time, working on that. I am 20 after all.
Showing a girl a good time don't cost much...Just gotta have the moves man, the moves!!!
Moves, what moves? What are you talking about? I'm not going in there.
I always come off as some crazy Ben Kenobi wizard/3P0 hybrid. What joy.
NOT INCEPTION! ;)
Bonjour Tristesse-a dated Preminger drama that I watched only for Jean Seberg and David Niven. Not particularly very good, but not a bad random selection from the rental shelf.
The Trouble With Harry-Saw this on a gorgeous original VistaVision print!! Extremely underrated Hitchcock film where he turns from suspense to black comedy. Stunning-the Technicolor hadn't faded one bit! It even had the old style of reel cues-tiny white circles.
The Bridge On The River Kwai-watched this old DVD for the last time in preparation for looking at the new restoration. It was definitely in need of some cleanup because the last restoration was in 1985! God, it always takes David Lean to remind me of why filmmaking is worth pursuing. For the first time the story actually completely held together for me. Usually I get slightly bothered like many at how much time the story spends on the Shears character. Maybe I've just become too big of a fan of Bill Holden.
1.Not a fan of the title. Rise has indeed been overused.
2.Anne might be able to pull off Catwoman but it will be a challenge.
3.I enjoy the first Apes and Conquest, especially with the original ending. Beneath and Escape aren't bad either. Battle is atrocious. We don't really need another reboot attempt.
4.I have not seen and don't care to see Inception. There. I outed myself. Happy? (Although I will probably see it during my Oscar prep...so I guess I lose)
Bane figures out Bruce is Batman in abt. 5 minutes (something which no else is ever able to do) and then breaks into Wayne Manor, goes down into the Batcave, beats Batman unconcious, takes him to downtown Gotham and up onto a building where he then "breaks" Batman.
I love the Knightfall novel, but things do get a bit weird.
The Smithereens-Only A Memory
The Besnard Lakes-Like the Ocean, Like The Innocent Pts. I and II
Bowfinger.
The garbage mattes have bugged me ever since I first noticed them. Same with the head slugs.
I think this says it all.
I have to try that mod now. Still love that game.
I hear it every time it's used, but to me its endearing unlike other bad overused sound effects.
The Criterion Taxi Driver is also the only release with the original mono.
So the Faces VHS tapes have differences from the LDs? WTH? Good thing I held onto mine.
Over on the steve hoffman forum there's an ongoing thread for the blu release:
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=238224
One poster actually worked on the 04 transfer and has given some insight about the coloring etc.:
George only came in during the mornings on Tuesdays and Thursdays and would approve new shots, review old shots, and revise stuff as needed. The rest of the time, I just used my best judgement to get the shots in the ballpark. But everything you see is 100% what he wanted. The 2004 version was the first (and so far, the only) time that the home video transfers were exactly what the director intended you to see.
Wayneklein earlier is correct: they pretty much have 2K scans of everything, even some trims and unused scenes, so master copies exist in a sense. But the original Kodak 5247 camera negatives are extremely beat-up and turning magenta (fading yellow & cyan layers), and it's not going to last much longer.
The problem is, the restoration was only done on the new version, not the unused shots from the original "classic" version. The expense of cleaning all those up and then conforming the 1977 version would be pretty astronomical.
Yeah, I was in a room that was just down the hall from the big screening room in Building C at the old Kerner Blvd. facility. We occasionally would adjourn and go down there and compare what I was doing to a print. Now, I think these were the 1997 prints, but those were timed and supervised by George at the lab. Again, it's all a subjective call; these are not absolutes in terms of right or wrong. Lucas is very, very astute when it comes to photographic issues; he actually lit part of Star Wars himself (like the trash compactor scene), so he knows color timing backwards, forwards and sideways.
They lean towards what the director wanted. I did most of Jedi, all of New Hope, along with Rich Garibaldi doing some of the final touches; Natasha Leonett and Rich did Empire. But we all worked in the same room and could see each other's work as still frames. All three of us are credited on the bonus disc.
We'll traditionally lean the whites towards blue to give them a "whiter" look, and I did that in the opening shots of New Hope because of the corridors and stormtroopers. On a monitor set to 6500-degree whites, it's going to look fine; on a consumer monitor with very bluish whites, it'll be too blue. I watched the DVDs (and seen the 2K digital projection), and they look fine to me.
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Damn, the Albini original mix of In Utero is fantastic!!
Frink-frinky
FanFiltration said:
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Definitive. I need to re-watch this. It's starting to snow and that's when I usually revisit this classic.
The Magnificent Ambersons-finally took the plunge and watched the best version I have of this. Even in butchered form (like Lady From Shanghai) , this is an absolute masterwork. See it if you can.
Rabbit Hole-slightly better than expected, but still not much going on other than people being distraught and not saying much...
I'd love BR and Lawrence. I've got the basic Criterion North by Northwest which looks remarkably good.
Most of all I'd love to see Magnificent Ambersons and Taxi Driver.
+1 if the right balance can be achieved. Otherwise don't worry about it.
This is exciting!
97 Jabba all the way. 97SE Nostalgia and the 04 doesn't work at all. It sticks out like a sore thumb.
It's going to be the same transfer, possibly reprocessed with tweaks made to color and at least one new sound mix. No real surprises. When the Lucasfilm media machine starts up it will suck.