miker71 said:
Bingowings said:
I'm starting to think that he only makes these films to make Marcia cry.
that's the most plausible explanation i've ever heard.
That's quite possible...
To me it's like a lossy mp3 rip. Sad.
Digital films are so lifeless.
Working in a theater will make you very depressed about that state of things. I'm not very good as a projectionist, but I learned as much as possible and always tried to make the print look as good as it could.
IMAX and 70mm are similar but different. Not an IMAX fan myself.
2001 just in 35mm was overwhelming. I love the idea of Cinerama and will see something in it one day.
Data can never equal celluloid. Ever.
skyjedi2005 said:
No the 1997 US and japan set had 5.1 as well. Stored the traditional way they are stored on a laserdisc you need an rf out and demodulator to access the ac3 audio.
The bitrate is much lower on a 5.1 Dolby laserdisc mix than an equivalent 2 channel PCM digital audio on the disc. But the 5.1 is sort of like the bitrate on a DVD?
You would have to ask the resident know it alls not me.
But there was no dedicated stereo mix made for the 1997 film the 5.1 was just mixed down to stereo? Anyway the 5.1 sounds better.
Stupid demodulators! The 5.1 on LD is near DVD quality-384 kbp/s versus 448 kbp/s. DTS LD is double DVD quality.
Always thought the stereo was a downmix, but it is Dolby surround at least. It's exactly the same, and the 5.1 does sound better.
This project sounds awesome. Long live LD.
No, I didn't steal Laura's Mercedes!
Must have been a re-release print then. Odd to see those out and about. All I've seen are the Lowry restorations touring around the country. (which have none of the DVD problems.) Would kill to see all the classic Bonds on Technicolor IB prints.
Mean Streets. Gosh, I forgot just how visceral and kinetic this film was. Young Keitel, DeNiro, and Scorsese. This is what a movie can be. So unbelievably good. I've got the soundtrack stuck in my head now-which was the longest part of the credits...go figure. ;)
Nanner Split said:
captainsolo, I noticed you listed several Billy Wilder films. Have you ever seen Stalag 17? That one's one of my all-time favorite films.
I also can't believe I forgot to mention Apocalypse Now. That one might be my favorite movie of all time, I'd have to think about it a bit more. :P
A few more good ones:
Moon
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
(Paul Newman and Robert Duvall have tied for my "favorite actor ever" spot)
I like Stalag 17. Bill Holden=happiness. Billy Wilder may have been the funniest man who ever lived.
I love Paul Newman-especially The Verdict.
Duvall just is Tom Hagen and THX completely.
The Bond gunbarrel is pretty much the best opening sequence ever designed. It is instantly recognizable, brilliant, and the moment where you quiver with excitement. It is integral. Dalton is so good, and is rather like the book Bond in numerous ways. The thing is, that has never really been nailed film-wise. They are two separate entities. The closest we came was with George in OHMSS.
Connery becomes bored in his films because he was given nothing more to do. He was locked in to what the public wanted, and no one was going to mess with that. By YOLT he was completely fed up. The Japanese hounded him day and night, and the producers were unwilling to pay more or let him do more as 007. Thus, he is dull and uninvolving in the film for the most part. (compare this with his performance in The Hill two years before. Startling difference.) Thunderball was also besieged with problems and was essentially saved by Peter Hunt making frantic edits late in the game.
Hunt had wanted the ending of OHMSS to be the teaser for DAF, but with Lazenby's departure all plans for a down and dirty revenge picture were thrown out the window. Enter adult jokes, bad toupee Connery, Charles Gray in drag, Jimmy Dean, Wint and Kidd, Diamonds Are Forever. The wittiness of the script keeps the thing moving.
Moore could definitely kill and be dark. LALD and TMWTGG has him being ruthless and even roughing up women. Re-watch his second tryst with Rosie where he knows she is a double and begins to question her. "I certainly wouldn't have killed you before." Or the scene with Lazar the gunsmith where he turns the tables and aims at the man's groin: "Speak now or forever hold your piece."
The teaser for FYEO has never really worked. We begin with the nice tip of the hat to OHMSS. Then Moore has the serious delivery of "Yes, it usually is." He seems to be reminiscing of all he has lost because of his job. The action is not bad, but Blofeld in a power wheelchair? Come on! It's a cheap way to say that Bond is done with the past and is back in the Cold War. And who in the hell wrote the line about the stainless steel delicatessen?? Must have been the same person who decided to hire Bill Conti to do a Bond score.
Whoa. Completely forgot Sidney Lumet films:
12 Angry Men/The Hill/Murder On The Orient Express/Dog Day Afternoon/Network/Prince Of The City/The Verdict/Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.
And Frankenheimer: The Manchurian Candidate/Seconds/Ronin.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm/Batman Returns/Batman Forever:(childhood-don't judge me!)
Flint films/President's Analyst
I AM VENGEANCE. I AM THE NIGHT. I AM BATMAN!
Each film presents a different flavor of Bond, whether comedic or serious. That's one of the things that keeps it fresh.
As far as the "best" film is concerned it falls between FRWL or OHMSS.
My favorites (in some kind of relative order..I love them all.)
LALD, FRWL, OHMSS, Dr. No, Thunderball, TLD, Goldfinger, TSWLM, YOLT, TMWTGG, Moonraker, DAF, LTK, FYEO, Octopussy, AVTAK, GE, TWINE, DAD, TND.
I pretend the reboot, and Craig as Bond never happened. Like Indy 4 and Mad Max 3.
My favorite Bond changes depending on my mood. I flop between Moore, Connery, Lazenby, and Dalton.
I love that this is shot in Techniscope. The format gave so many great films their intense grainy look.
But your tickets never expire!
The OMG we're seriously screwed here, WTF are we going to do? cut.
Douglas Trumbull's new Showscan digital is using 60fps and 120fps. It's kinda scary.
They can blab on and on about how much clarity HD can give etc.
It still isn't the same. The technology is lifeless, their work is lifeless, and the videos (not films!) are lifeless.
70mm versus digital? If you say digital then you need your head examined.
hairy_hen said:
I've always been more of a Dark Forces kind of guy--I've owned the whole series at one point or another, and still get out Jedi Outcast/Academy for my Mac sometimes. (Of course, I do tend to cheat with the Force powers to make it more fun. lol) In addition to the excellence of gameplay, I like that their design makes relatively little concession to prequel-isms.
The dismemberment cheat is stunning. Outcast is awesome, Academy is really fun, and DFII: Jedi Knight is still a great game.
ChainsawAsh said:
Hey, I loved Jedi Power Battles! I actually still have it, and played with a friend a couple weeks ago. It's harder than I remember.
Actually, so do I. As much as it pains me to admit...
ChainsawAsh said:
(I also kinda like Bringing Out the Dead, but it's not one of my favorites by a long stretch. And Shutter Island was great, too.)
I still need to see Mean Streets, Casino, Cape Fear, and Gangs of New York.
Bringing Out The Dead is great. Mean Streets is fantastic, and I liked Casino more than Goodfellas. You can safely skip the other two.
In no order here are a few of mine:
James Bond 1-15
The Killing/Paths of Glory/Spartacus/Lolita/Dr. Strangelove/2001/A Clockwork Orange/Barry Lyndon/The Shining/Full Metal Jacket/Eyes Wide Shut
The 39 Steps/Foreign Correspondent/Saboteur/Notorious/Rope/Strangers On a Train/Rear Window/Vertigo/North By Northwest/Psycho/Marnie/Frenzy
Bridge On The River Kwai/Lawrence of Arabia/Dr. Zhivago/Ryan's Daughter
A Fistful of Dollars/For a Few Dollars More/The Good The Bad And The Ugly/Once Upon a Time In The West/Duck, You Sucker!/Once Upon A Time In America
Citizen Kane/Lady From Shanghai/Touch of Evil
Double Indemnity/Sunset Blvd./Ace In The Hole/The Apartment/The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The 400 Blows/Shoot The Piano Player
The Godfather/The Conversation/Apocalypse Now (original)
Blade Runner/Kingdom of Heaven (DC)
Who's That Knocking At My Door?/Mean Streets/Taxi Driver/After Hours/Casino/Bringing Out The Dead
The Killer/ Hard Boiled
Sunrise
THX-1138 (original)
Breathless
Out of the Past/Night Of the Hunter/The Yakuza
Chinatown
The Maltese Falcon/Casablanca/To Have And Have Not/The Big Sleep/Dark Passage/The Treasure of The Sierra Madre/In A Lonely Place
The Man Who Would Be King
The IPCRESS File
Get Carter
The Third Man
Duel/Jaws/Raiders of the Lost Ark/Temple Of Doom
Drunken Angel/Stray Dog/Rashoman/Ikiru/Seven Samurai/Yojimbo/Sanjuro/
Solaris (original)
The Wild Bunch/Straw Dogs/Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Hammer horror: Horror of Dracula/Prince of Darkness/Curse of Frankenstein/Monster From Hell/The Mummy
Universal horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein/Son of Frankenstein/The Mummy/The Invisible Man
Sherlock Jr./The General
The Gold Rush/The Circus/City Lights/Modern Times/The Great Dictator
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
The Awful Truth/Bringing Up Baby/Only Angels Have Wings/Holiday/Arsenic And Old Lace/The Philadelphia Story/His Girl Friday/Gunga Din
A Matter of Life and Death/Peeping Tom
Pinocchio
Bullitt
The French Connection/To Live and Die In L.A.
I knew you'd come in here soon and do that...what kept you? ;)
A nice "bitch" on the end of a sentence makes anything better.
It rolls off the tongue.
Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Watto, some of John Williams's scores, TPM duel was pretty good, some elements of the Jedi and their routines, Christopher Lee, Yoda on crack in Episode I, Samuel L. Jackson being pissed at other Jedi as Mace, and TPM's Dolby EX soundmix.
TPM is the best prequel. The others are only bad 1080p videos.
No one really got to act in these films, save for Neeson in some scenes of TPM.
It is a good sounding mix-and it is Dolby EX. The 97 is much much better though.
Are the Japanese LDs better than the regular US set in any way?
Yep. It was outdated, but did not need SEing and Prequelization.
We really need an ot.com convention. All of us in a room just gushing SW, some general fisticuffs, and burning the GOUT/Definitive Collection telecine. Wouldn't that be fun?
I'm glad you finished these. I know how much harder going through a mac can be on preservation projects.
ChainsawAsh said:
*ducks under the frying pan that has been thrown across the room*
Ditto!
d_j, i love you. those caps of the gkar really made my night.
I like the fact they did a mass re-release. I like that other companies were involved and actually did a restoration. While I don't like most of the changes it's George's prerogative to make them. The originals should not have been suppressed and shouldn't be claimed "lost" and "unimportant drafts".
Now even the supposed definitive special edition has been suppressed. What the?
Can't wait for dj's work.
I think it will eventually come in an acceptable way. It won't ever be what it should, but it will finally arrive several sets down the line. Lucasfilm will put a small trivial amount aside for a basic transfer and we'll finally have a anamorphic transfer that is up to probably 2005 standards with the 93 mix.
Try playing any of the awful prequel games (JEDI FREAKING BASH YOUR CONTROLLER AND PLAYSTATION AGAINST THE FLOOR POWER BATTLES!) and in about 2 minutes you will be cursing bad programmers, designers, and lucas. Or you could read an awful prequel novel.
Stover's ROTS novelization is so much better than the film though. Characters actually have psychological depth. If his Shatterpoint had been Episode II I think all of us would have been happy. (just about the best thing about the prequels.)
So I'd recommend reading the novelizations, and Ady's TPM reconstruction to have the least offensive prequel run.