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Copy-and-pasted from the All Things Star Trek thread:

1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
3. Star Trek
4. Star Trek III: The Seach for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek Beyond, not so much tied, but rather constantly changing position in my opinion
5. (I’m including 5 and 6 for the sake of formatting)
6. (because markdown)
7. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
8. Star Trek Into Darkness
9. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

I have never seen a Next Gen movie, but I plan to get to them in due time (I started Next Gen a week or two ago and am only ten or eleven episodes in).

Slogging my way through Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. It’s very good, but it’s not a quick read. I’ve been reaching for Lovecraft short stories whenever I get too bogged down.

Finally getting around to the Inspector Morse mysteries after being a huge fan of Endeavour for years. Off to kind of a slow start, but I already love the characters and I’m sure it’ll find it’s groove soon, given the fact that it was on for thirteen years.

Oh wow, that’s absolutely perfect.

I fired up Amadeus for the first time in ages tonight. I went with the director’s cut on Netflix rather than my DVD of the theatrical version because I wanted it in high def, and for an hour or so I didn’t notice any major differences, but then I hit this awful added bit where Salieri explicitly blackmails Constanza into sleeping with him that’s just left a terrible taste in my mouth. I’m now thinking I want to purchase the theatrical cut, but the only blu-ray I can find is this director’s cut. Does anyone know if both cuts are included on that disc? I love this film in its original form dearly, and that extra scene was such a rude awakening.

Birthday and 70mm fest aren’t for another month. Jaws was an insanely well-preserved vintage print. This is all happening at the Somerville Theater in Somerville, Massachusetts. The head honcho (I don’t remember his actual title) came out to plug the 70mm series before the movie; according to him it took them literal years to convince Disney to loan them the Sleeping Beauty print. “If you ever have the choice between trying to obtain a rare print from Disney and giving birth to a porcupine that’s also on fire, you should go with the second option,” was how he put it.

Just saw a pristine 35mm print of Jaws. Absolutely fantastic.

That theater is doing a two-week 70mm series shortly after my birthday, and I’m seriously considering going to at least half the movies. The ones I’m circling are Lawrence of Arabia (again; I just saw it two months ago but I don’t think I could live with myself if I passed up seeing a real print), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spartacus, and Sleeping Beauty (they’ve got the only existing 70mm print). They’re also doing The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur on 35mm, and I’ll probably try to see one or both of those.

DominicCobb said:

1. Star Trek
2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
3. Star Trek Beyond
4. Star Trek Into Darkness
5. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
6. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
7. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
8. Star Trek: First Contact
9. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
10. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
11. Star Trek: Nemesis
12. Star Trek: Generations
13. Star Trek: Insurrection

Are we doing this?!

1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
3. Star Trek
4. Star Trek III: The Seach for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek Beyond, not so much tied, but rather constantly changing position in my opinion
5. (I’m including 5 and 6 for the sake of formatting)
6. (because markdown)
7. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
8. Star Trek Into Darkness
9. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

I have never seen a Next Gen movie, but I plan to get to them in due time (I started Next Gen a week or two ago and am only ten or eleven episodes in).

emanswfan said:

Damn, John Williams just blew me away, again. Unlike how it was shortened in the film, “The Jedi Steps: Concert Version” actually develops the theme further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZFkktFqi4M

Anyone else hear a “Luke’s been through hell since we last saw him” vibe in this?

I find this really evocative of some of the unused/alternate stuff from the ANH sessions. Really digging it.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Maybe Rey’s father is a certain three-eyed mutant son of Palpatine’s …

Triclops! or Trioculus! I forget which was which!

emanswfan said:

Damn, John Williams just blew me away, again. Unlike how it was shortened in the film, “The Jedi Steps: Concert Version” actually develops the theme further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZFkktFqi4M

Anyone else hear a “Luke’s been through hell since we last saw him” vibe in this?

I find this really evocative of some of the unused/alternate stuff from the ANH sessions. Really digging it.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Jedha turned out to be the birth world of the Jedi Order . . .

Isn’t that supposed to be Luke’s unpronounceable archipelago planet from TFA, though?

EDIT: I don’t feel like tracking down the video, but it looks like Donnie Yen let it slip that the Jedha-Jedi connection may have something to do with constructing lightsabers. I’m thinking crystals? Although there was already that Clone Wars ice planet.

Well that goes without saying. I still firmly believe that we get that (in 1080p) May 2017, so I’m assuming it will be included in any kind of compendium edition.

That too. I’m hoping that by 2020 A.) all of the SW films will be available in 4K, and B.) I’ll actually have a 4K TV, so the release of the theoretical ultimate saga box set will be the time to snag them all at one fell swoop.

I’ll wait for the inevitable ST box set when all is said and done before I buy TFA again (assuming such a set will include the new features). One commentary isn’t enough for me to pony up for 3D, given that I don’t have a 3D TV.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and A. A. Dowd’s Film Club videos at the AV Club are my favorite review series, I think. Here’s their Suicide Squad video:
http://www.avclub.com/video/there-anything-about-suicide-squad-240704

Jimmy Smits confirms he has a cameo in the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbiVB2vxJ7c

Did indeed fire up another Miles record, but it was not Kind of Blue.

I loved the hell out of this album when I was 22, but I haven’t listened to it in years. Holy shit is it still great.

For the record, I think this entire forum has an enormous stick up its ass about authenticity in color timing. Also for the record, I haven’t actually seen any of the Indy blu-rays, so if they’re actually full-blown ugly I guess that’s a legit problem.

SilverWook said:

Yeah, but why not use ships of equal scale? Even bad 80’s Scott Baio movies did it better! 😉

Wait, are there good Scott Baio movies?

My brain is telling me to go to bed when Sketches is done, but my heart (and my beer) say put on Kind of Blue.

Dek Rollins said:

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – A

Just wonderful. And a great release by Criterion, too.

My absolute favorite Kubrick flick of all time. I’m dying to get the Criterion release. Maybe on my next pay day.

TV’s Frink said:

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Sufjan Stevens album all the way through, but I’ve adored every song I’ve heard in isolation. This is something I keep meaning to delve into and then forgetting about. Hold me to it, OT.com!

Anyway,

I got into Miles when I took a jazz history class in college, and at the time Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead were my favorites of his records; I thought Sketches of Spain was kind of boring. I still rank those other two higher, but I get Sketches now. Snagged it on vinyl last week but I’m only just now getting to sit down and listen to it. Very good way to spend the twelve-to-one hour.

I once saw a system that puts a subdivision within Gen-Y in 1993 to take into account how warped the kids with no memory of the time before ubiquitous high-speed internet have turned out. I have a sister born in 1992 who’s totally fine, and my good friend’s little brother was born in 1994 and is a fucking weirdo, so I’ve seen it in stark relief and I think there’s something to that.

It’s like the sexiest Charlie Brown special ever.