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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.204 |
Can we re-assess films because of picture quality? I just got these today and have been bowled over by some of the scenes I've flicked through. The places in them feel more real than they ever did. Does that make them better? I have to say watching old films in this format is like remembering what daylight looked like, getting new eyes. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.84.124 |
Do you mean blu-ray format? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.93 |
Yes. Hey - think we can say anything we like here. Wanna say something controversial? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I prefer the Matrix sequels, especially the third one, to the first film. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I loved the first one, fell asleep during the second one and never got round to seeing the third one. | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 77.98.13.43 |
They're nearly always the first films I put on to test out a new bit of AV equipment. I paid quite a bit for them on HD-DVD, and they looked quite magnificent. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
It seems, Tony, you're always drifting back into watching/appreciating film. Me, I've found 2011 the year I just plain old lost interest in watching movies. Oh yeah, I've seen my share, but they're all for non-reasons: I stumbled across it because it just happened to be on TV (e.g., the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street), or I got a bug up in me to robotically-programmed-like watch an entire series (e.g., the Bond movies), etc. There's a few new ones out there I want to see... kinda... but overall, I can honestly say I've sort of lost any and all interest in film. For now. It will return, I'm sure. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Craig, I can sympathise - 2011 is the year I completely lost interest in Hollywood films. But thankfully, there's a lot of other - much fucking better - stuff out there. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.95.30 |
Me too. I've no interest in either the deep or shallow end of film all year. I couldn't tell you what's in the local fleapit or arthouse cinema. I've stopped reading too. Even my own words. Not sure what I'm typing here. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
I'm glad it's not just me. I have some patience for some mindless TV... I have been reading a bit more lately, that's been nice... but 2011's sucked in the film department, as far as me keeping up with anything... who knows, maybe over the Xmas/New Year's break.... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.39.151 |
It's not films that are more boring, it's us. We've seen it all. It's why I recently decided to watch films I didn't fancy and ended up finding some absolute gems, like the absolutely classic Karate Kid remake (honestly folks, honestly I mean that!). The Matrix I put on the other day and played with the comentary by the two philosophers. I mean, what a masterstroke to do that. And it really enriches the films, and at one point I think changed my life. It was like my mind went hi-def. I agree that that sounds silly. But to go back to my question - has picture quality changed the worth of a film for anyone? I know my projector has. We watched House of Wax on it recently and it was much more effective than on the telly. In fact it became a brilliant modern horror in one fell swoop. (Some films fall by the wayside, however - Mad Max is just a stylish mess now, a good film with great flashes) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.39.151 |
Craig - I still can't read, only dip.  I do enjoy the dipping though - it's making prose into a kind of odd poetry. Like I ching. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
"has picture quality changed the worth of a film for anyone" Absolutely. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.24.64 |
I'd say Scorsese's Hugo demonstrates the principle very ably. Some of it genuinely reinvents 3-D, and I thought it was a real attempt to recapture the magic of cinema, very successfully for me. I'd say it's the finest of the new 3-D films, and certainly one that will survive the fashion. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I agree, Ramsey. It was a wonderful example of current Hollywood cinema at its very best. Even in 2D!  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Of course, having spoken my declarative, "I've lost any and all interest in film," my mind immediately worked to undermine itself. And so I finally got around to seeing BRIDESMAIDS, and must say, rather liked it. ... er, that's all.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.141.211.203 |
Craig - yes, there's something in us everyone needs and not everyone has, the ability to keep changing ones outlook and never take any of our mental states for granted. Be glad of that 'undermining'. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.141.211.203 |
Proto - the third film is AMAZING. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.204.65 |
Isn't it? That Biblical plague of squids breaking through the vaulted ceiling was like heaven and hell meeting. It had the lighting of a classical painting such as The Opening of the Sixth Seal. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.141.211.203 |
That's it! And there's a shot of these kids in the first film, a tv on behind them. What the philosophers point out is that tv and film and art can reveal wonders and have great insights to share, if only we *think about it*. A lot of tv and cinema is dull because we are. We ARE surrounded by great art, but are not treating it as such. I'd rather watch a movie like The Matrix than go to the Tate modern. And tv and film has changed the world, and in lots of good ways - more so than books, I'd say, because it's more immediate and communal. But it could be better if we took it more seriously. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Tony, I am glad of that "undermining." I daresay too, Stevie, you should check out BRIDESMAIDS for a possible entry onto your best-of-the-year list. It's actually quite a moving film, when you push past all the gross-out/outrageous/sex comedy stuff: Kristen Wiig might just earn herself a Best Actress nod for her turn here, as an incredibly vulnerable and wounded, but always trying to be perky and cheerful thirty-something woman, who's on the verge of losing the only thing she has left in life of any value.... The movie this main protagonist most brought to mind (for me) was Mike Leigh's recent HAPPY-GO-LUCKY; except unlike the blindly-up Sally Hawkins, Kristen Wiig here is always two steps away from total emotional breakdown; and this balance is what fuels the comedy. Really, a brilliant movie, and probably the best film by far Judd Apatow's been connected with.... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Meanwhile, on another continent: Hmmm... what was that again, Joel, about sucking donkey dick in Hell?... I'm starting to wonder, after seeing this trailor[sic], if that might not be in fact too gentle.... http://www.slashfilm.com/dracula-3d-sales-trailer-dario-argento-nsfw-praying-man tis/ | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 77.98.13.43 |
Kristin Wiig is incredibly talented, and very, very funny. She has at least half a dozen characters on SNL that could conceivably carry a Mike Myers-type film, so it was interesting to see her go with something more natural for her first starring role. Looking forward to watching it this Christmas. |