Finally found these and watched through them. As soon as the old MGM and UA logos came on I knew everything was right again. Thank you for doing these preservations FF. I am certainly looking forward to your Thunderball project and the others redone.
Who Are You sounds fantastic-kills the CD remaster. Just wish it had the single edit of the title track. I miss the cursing.
This is the thread for those who admire this format and refuse to let it die. I started collecting various albums years ago, but did not become a hardcore vinylphile until this summer. I always knew that vinyl was superior, but it was just never convenient and you can't exactly carry around a turntable in your backpack. Or can you?
One day I stumbled across some of my favorite albums (Murmur, Reckoning) ripped from their original pressings...and things were never the same. I finally heard digital files that sounded like my vinyls and not the CD mastering. They even topped the MFSL gold disc versions.
Modern CDs that are completely brickwalled can actually have some depth on their vinyl counterparts. (Accelerate-I'm looking at you.)
Now I just need a turntable...so I can listen to Quad the way it was meant to be heard.
Post thoughts, comments, and latest acquisitions!
U2-Boy. Island first US pressing.
The Who-Who Are You. First US Pressing.
Duran Duran-A View to a Kill. original 45.
Book of Eli. Not particularly good. Looks and feels lifeless-this is due to a dull script and the Red camera. Comes across as a bad Mad Max/western hybrid with religious overtones. Final twist is really too much and the ending is pure Fahrenheit 451.
LOL. Then face probable battery charges. Sadly, things aren't like 30's serials anymore...
DIGITAL TORTURE SYSTEMS!
Located in Room 101
Sluggo said:
REM has a new album coming out? Sweet! They are one of my favorites.
They just finished the recording sessions and it should be out in early Spring. YAY!
U2 will also release another album then. Supposedly it's the outtakes etc. from No Line on the Horizon.
ChainsawAsh said:
Bingowings said:
it had a nice editorial comparing the 3Dising of classic 2D films to Ted Turner scribbling pastel shades over monochrome classics
That's good. That's pretty much exactly how I feel about it.
It exactly the same issue. Instead of just being colorization the entire film is physically endangered.
The Han Solo novels are the best SW fiction ever.
Finally listened to the NPR trilogy a year ago and it completely changed my view of SW. I can completely understand why they are Anchorhead's go-tos.
Want to go as the Phantom. Not easy to find a full purple costume and an area of people that won't laugh at you.
Youch! It is already October. Time to break out the horror and...
New R.E.M. album.
Getting films made.
Dark_Jedi's GOUT v3 and 97SE v2
ESB:R
Rockband 3
Gaffer Tape said:
So does anyone here have the YouTube name duckyousuckr? That person just subscribed to me, and that wouldn't normally be a topic for conversation, but I noticed that this person had favorited 005's introduction video from this thread, which I found a little bit... shocking.
That's me. Shocking...positively shocking.
IrishLuck1980 said:
Only time I watch the prequels is to show off my Home Theater. 1080p and the Lightsaber battles are all that is shown. I have tried numerous times to rewatch The Prequels, but I always either walk away or just turn on ESB. Hell, I would rather watch Ewoks.
They can be great for demoing sound setup etc. That's it.
I just don't like the Prequel music. Otherwise it's nice to have an alternate SW experience.
Gaffer Tape said:
Man, all these "real life" videos. It's killing the magic of me imagining you people as... well, nothing at all, really. ^_~
Agreed. To me text has a tone of voice in this place.
Agree with the sentiments above. Ady, my thoughts are with you. My mom was diagnosed two years ago and it just hits you like a brick wall.
Digital technology will always introduce something new. They just want to kill our physical media. Celluloid film, vinyl records, and now even CDs.
If only Lucas had taken Henry Sr.'s advice: "Let it go."
What if there was some contractual loophole that gave Fox control of the original cut of Star Wars and someone like Criterion restored an IB print...what would then happen?
Haha! I am no.5!
Boy these questions get really random...
Ziggy Stardust
You can't beat The Who:
A Quick One While He's Away, Tommy, and especially Quadrophenia.
Can we make a pit stop at the Tosche station? Need new power converters...and a pee...
It Might Get Loud-actually entertaining and not so heavy handed like I thought it was going to be. The film is essentially White, Edge, and Page for 90 min. It made me wish for the millionth time that I could play guitar. And I could listen to the Edge for hours.
The Pawnbroker-great early Lumet film and very very bleak. Was surprised that I didn't like it as much as I thought it would and felt it was a bit of a letdown. Then again, I can't get it out of my mind. ;)
You Only Live Twice-childhood classic, and still just absolutely over the top. The new Lowry transfer does drain the life out though. The color is almost bleached out.
This new 3d is nothing new. "Dimensionalizing" older films is just as bad a colorization.
He said he wanted to make art films-guess that's out the window.
A grand re release of the films would make tons of money. No need for anything else. 1997 proved that.
This is so wrong. The films were not made that way. I had hoped that Lucas's no was final on this. Guess not.
Yeah, let's not.
I guess the thing that really gets me is that Indy 4 and the prequels were completely unnecessary and were made in that state of mind. They are painful to watch.