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Oh my god it looks like Waking Life. loving something up that bad seems like it would take a lot of work. What kind of a weirdie thought that up?
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| # ¿ Jun 16, 2010 00:30 |
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Is Pandora and the Flying Dutchman worth seeing? I hear mixed things.
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| # ¿ Jul 24, 2010 02:12 |
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A Prophet rules. It's like The Godfather but with more Nas.
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| # ¿ Aug 5, 2010 16:16 |
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The scope of the story, the arc, and the ending.
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| # ¿ Aug 5, 2010 20:02 |
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Looks real good. I swear to god, James Cameron has made a career out of people forgetting that he knows what he's doing.
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| # ¿ Sep 7, 2010 01:57 |
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I said come in! posted:I don't understand how the blu-ray doesn't look better then the Canal+ H.264 screen shot. At least to me, I see a lot more detail in the blu-ray. Remember, mousing over is the blu-ray. The blu-ray is slicker (and in the right aspect ratio), but they blew out a lot of texture. Look at the close-up up his face in screenshot 5 - in the Canal+ one you can see eyelashes and pores and stuff. When they minimized the grain on the blu-ray, all that disappeared. He's a waxy-faced weirdo.The Canal+ version isn't amazing, but it's a much warmer, less processed image.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2010 22:53 |
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I don't think it's artifacts on his face in 5. I can't really tell either way from any of the other pictures, but the close-up really favors Canal+, I think.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2010 23:03 |
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Neither impress me or upset me much, but his face looks weird as poo poo in the blu-ray. It's not Predator-bad, but it's not a good thing they did to it.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2010 23:09 |
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:5 is the one with Biff in poo poo right? I don't see the pores you refer to, but if you look at his teeth and lips, especially on the left side the artifacting seems pretty clear to me. Same thing on Fox's face in 7, look where his face meets his jacket. It's clearer when you look in darker areas as that's where everything turns blotchy in the HD stram caps. Is 5 Biff in poo poo? I was talking about the one where he's looking at his disappearing hand.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2010 23:14 |
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Yeah, that's pretty much how special sets should be done, not statuettes somehow concealing discs inside, or whatever. Yeah, it looks classy and fits on a shelf. It doesn't make you look like a child who is also a sweaty rapist, like this does: 
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| # ¿ Oct 18, 2010 21:33 |
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Aliens doesn't matter that much, but Alien is a big gently caress difference, if only for the Dallas scene, which is great in concept but has probably the worst effects in the film and just feels flat.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2010 17:31 |
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Aliens is even better than the screenshots suggested. I've never seen it look anywhere near this good -all the problems it had with murkiness are totally gone, and there's no DNR waxiness. If anything, it looks even more textured than before.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2010 05:09 |
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I feel like with every new generation of media, I'm reintroduced to Aliens. I first saw it on a beat-up old VHS where I could barely make anything out, then a slightly less beat-up VHS of the special edition which blew me away at how much story I was missing, then a nice DVD where I saw it in widescreen and was amazed at all the background detail, then the restored DVD from like '06 where it was as good as I ever imagined it getting, then this loving Blu-Ray where I didn't even want to blink while it was going on. For the next generation of media, I fully expect it to do my laundry and suck my dick.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2010 05:19 |
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I use Google to navigate DVDBeaver. It's really incredible how lovely it is.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2010 05:44 |
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My 1999 Backstreet Boys Geocities site was way cleaner. Plus, when you loaded it it played a midi version of "Larger than Life"
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2010 06:28 |
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http://www.mididatabase.com/2010070...r_Than_Life.mid
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2010 07:10 |
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Egbert Souse posted:Carlotta (France) is releasing three Frank Borzage silents... I hope they get to Lazybones. Sometimes I think that's my favorite American film from the 1920s.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2010 04:05 |
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All those movies and Dirty loving Dancing gets the top slot? That's somethin else.
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2010 05:17 |
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If you had to get rid of one of those entire shelves right now, which would it be? Looks like middle's the only one without Criterions, but that's a whole buncha good TV shows on it.
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2010 05:24 |
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So is the Eyes Wide Shut Blu worth buying, or should I hold out for a better release down the line?
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| # ¿ Nov 21, 2010 17:11 |
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Yeaaah Vampyr. What a great spine.
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2010 00:12 |
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In genreal it behooves you to see the theatrical Alien and Aliens first, and workprint Alien 3. Aliens director's cut is really cool but the pacing is problematic, and Alien director's cut is whatever. Alien 3, however, really needs to be looked as an incomplete movie like Mr. Arkadin, and the workprint is the closest we'll get to what it would've been.
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| # ¿ Dec 26, 2010 06:32 |
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FitFortDanga posted:The Horse Soldiers - 5/10 No way! ...why?
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| # ¿ Mar 15, 2011 01:51 |
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MassRayPer posted:It is a good movie and we need more John Ford movies on blu ray. It's just a really really really weird choice for the, like, 4th Ford Blu Ray.
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| # ¿ Mar 15, 2011 17:12 |
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Egbert Souse posted:These are both awful. The Great Dictator has all the flaws of the existing cover, with none of the creativity.
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| # ¿ Mar 25, 2011 20:18 |
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It can't be hard to find better ways to spend the Scrooge McDuckian amounts of money those people must have. Jesus Christ, buy a boat if you're that desperate to piss away cash. Or donate all those movies to a library.
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| # ¿ Apr 9, 2011 19:05 |
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:The Alien and Aliens blurays are both good buys, right? I'm not interested in the box set because honestly Alien3 and Resurrection sucked pretty bad. They're terrific. Aliens in particular is like a brand new movie.
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| # ¿ May 9, 2011 01:25 |
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The pHo posted:I was under the impression that the theatrical and DC video tracks for Aliens were completely different videos as the DC had Cameron's new mastering work while the theatrical used the old grainy 86 print? No, they both have the new mastering.
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| # ¿ May 11, 2011 19:29 |
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FitFortDanga posted:seriously, gently caress you, Warner I don't know how they expect Blu-Ray to take over when they keep pulling poo poo like this. It's making me paranoid to buy anything. I was gonna pick up Eyes Wide Shut but I suppose I'll hold off now, and see if they announce anything about that.
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| # ¿ Jun 7, 2011 03:17 |
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Is there any talk of Sirk Blu-Rays coming up?
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| # ¿ Jun 9, 2011 17:54 |
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TheManWithNoName posted:I'm sure Seinfeld would be funnier if it was set in a Denny's, or Friends was in a Starbucks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1HXXcVFySM
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| # ¿ Jul 1, 2011 18:18 |
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Kiss Me Deadly Blu-Ray is pure sex.
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| # ¿ Jul 6, 2011 04:35 |
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Sporadic posted:Some preorder news. This is awesome, I had no idea about it.
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2011 02:48 |
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Criminal Minded posted:I feel bad that I've never even heard of the guy. That looks like a super loving interesting set. I looked him up and apparently he wrote For A Few Dollars More and Massacre Time. Of that set, I've only seen Caliber 9 and it's kind of amazing. The whole poliziotteschi genre is kind of a blind spot for me, though.
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2011 03:35 |
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Criminal Minded posted:I'd imagine I'd feel the same way, if I had any experience there. Any recommendations? I'm sure there's a million people here who know way more about it than I do, but try Caliber 9. The Blood Hands of the Law is pretty cool, too. It's grim as gently caress and it's got Klaus Kinski blowtorching a guy's dick off. Also, I've never seen Deodato's contribution to the genre but it has one of the best posters I've ever seen. 
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2011 03:59 |
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Is there a list somewhere of Blu-Rays to avoid?
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| # ¿ Sep 23, 2011 22:49 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Suicide is never the answer to Blu-ray related woes. Unless you bought Predator.
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| # ¿ Sep 24, 2011 19:29 |
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mod sassinator posted:It's definitely worth the trip. I caught this film originally in theaters and got the full 3D experience--it was well worth it. The cave paintings are just incredible in how they bend and wrap around the cave walls. I liked the film so much I saw it again at a cheap theater in normal non-3D and definitely felt it lost some of the effect. The best part is the shimmer of the crystals.
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| # ¿ Oct 31, 2011 19:06 |
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Jay Dub posted:Sadly, no. Yeah man, gently caress those ivory tower eggheads for not liking Die Hard. (Like half of them are in there BECAUSE they love movies like Die Hard, you jackass. 80s action and comedy are a common denominator of film school conversations.)
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2011 02:50 |
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Jay Dub posted:Yup, that's me. Lording my appreciation of a popular action movie over lesser plebes who'd rather keep talking about Tarantino or whatever. That's straight up 100% what you just did. Dead Snoopy posted:Die Hard is really such a well made film that it is taken for granted because of it's genre. By who, exactly? I can't think of ANYBODY under 35 or so that doesn't love Die Hard, and the ones that love it most are the ones that love film the most. penismightier fucked around with this message at Nov 12, 2011 around 07:40 |
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