28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[Yxklyx]

Nashville is so glorious! I've seen it a few times already - need to rewatch 3 Women now...

[Dead & Messed Up]

The Ice Storm.

Um... I have no idea what to make of the film. Was completely disinterested for nearly the entire runtime. Maybe the tone was pitched just a little too low, or maybe "trouble in suburbia" angle has been too prolific since then for the film's comparatively sincere drama to land. Stuff like Elijah Wood giving a speech on molecules or Sigourney Weaver explaining that Kline is boring her don't feel clever or reveal anything meaningful about the characters. Ricci ricocheting from brother to brother suggests sexual boredom more than sexual curiosity (she looks doped for most of the film). I was worried when the film suggested that Maguire might molest a passed-out girl, but mostly because it felt like the film didn't lay enough groundwork to convince me that it might be a real possibility (it felt dishonest, like the film contrived of an ethical dilemma to match to the A-story).

Maybe that's the point, though, that the characters are all superficial, and that it takes the tragedy of [

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a child dying

] for something resembling real emotion to spill over, sorta like how all those branches laced with ice just get colder and colder until they finally snap. But when that event happened, I just thought, "Oh, all right." I didn't feel a thing.

There's no specific detail that I can point to and say, "Nope, bad movie, bad," but the overwhelming feeling afterward is, "Ehhhhhhh."

[transmogrifier]

Nah, The Ice Storm is great

[Scar]

Nah, Jaws is great

I knew you'd come around.

[transmogrifier]

I knew you'd come around.

Hey, I've always thought Jaws was great. Ezee is the one you need to talk to.

[Scar]

Hey, I've always thought Jaws was great. Ezee is the one you need to talk to.

Holy shit. I honestly thought Ezee wrote that.


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[Dukefrukem]

Holy shit. I honestly thought Ezee wrote that.


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You mean trans?

[transmogrifier]

You mean trans?

I think he means he thought Ezee wrote "Nah, The Ice Storm is great".

Which it is.

[Ezee E]

Ice Storm is great.

But it's been many a years since i've seen it.

[Scar]

I think he means he thought Ezee wrote "Nah, The Ice Storm is great".

Which it is.

This.


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[Morris Schæffer]

It is a great irony that just as TV technology is catching up on 3D, the format is pretty much abandoned by all.

My LG OLED 65E6V which I received two days ago is last year's generation and still includes 3D format (Passive 3D).

Today I threw in Beauty and the Beast 3D and my mouth couldn't be further agape if I tried. So vibrant, so striking, crosstalk-free, none of the darkness which usually plagues 3D in the home format and sometimes bad movie theaters.

The depth and dimensionality to the image was staggering.

[Skitch]

They killed their own golden goose. Far too many subpar quicky conversions that lacked any depth, theaters turning down projector bulbs, and forcing too many tentpoles to be 3D against directors wishes. The price was too steep (in theater and at home) to validate the bulk of the media being far from impressive. Only a handful really used the tech well. Avatar is an example of a film being greatly improved by its tech. Viewed in 2D, its faults become glaring. Prometheus, Fright Night...its not a big list of great use of 3D, while the list of piss-poor ripoffs is endless. I saw Phantom Menace in 3D rerelease (if only to show the kid a Star Wars movie in theater), and there might have been two scenes that felt like they had any depth. It was watching a darkened 2D version with glasses.

[Morris Schæffer]

I do understand its demise, and I've experienced some of these things exactly. Star Trek Beyond was just, well, beyond awful as per its usage of 3D. Murky, drab, details seemed to dissapear into oblivion when I saw it at my local theater. Rogue One in a bigger IMAX theatre was a real eye-opener for me, I found the 3D, or at least the clarity of the image startling and a breath of fresh air. To now finally have this in my home is great.

I do wonder though, when the likes of Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will see them released for the home formats, whether there is any point to release them in 3D. I obviously wouldn't mind, but perhaps 3D will thrive some more in theaters compared to people's homes. I don't find there's a drought of theatrical releases that support 3D.

[StanleyK]

Just watched Altman's Beyond Therapy. How baffling is it that the guy that made Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller and several great movies in the 70s would go on to make stuff like this and OC and Stiggs? Did he have a brain tumor or something during the 80s that made him lose the ability to discern good from bad?

[Dead & Messed Up]

There have been maybe two or three times I've seen a dimensional image in a 3D movie and thought, "Wow, I'm glad that shot wasn't in 2D." The girl crawling through the tunnel in Coraline, or the first shot of the floating mountains in Avatar. If it goes away, I won't miss it, and I'll be grateful for the loss of dimmed screens and occasional migraines.

[Dead & Messed Up]

There is object evidence of how bad "Big Trouble in Little China" could've been, and its name is "The Golden Child." Wow, this movie sucks. Think I'm gonna just fast-forward to the visual effects moments. So far a dancing Pepsi can and a brief vision of Hell have been the only times I haven't wanted to stop.

[Morris Schæffer]

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=21710

It's double-dippin' time!

[Dukefrukem]

I dont think I'm ever going to buy another physical media anything ever again.

[Morris Schæffer]

I dont think I'm ever going to buy another physical media anything ever again.

Will you get real surround formats then? 4k movies? Hdr?

[Dukefrukem]

Yeh digitally.

[dreamdead]

Due to the Barnes and Noble Criterion sale, we grabbed up Ride the Pink Horse, Certain Women, Hiroshima mon Amour, and Picnic at Hanging Rock (the first two were blind buys). As we were watching special features on Weir's Picnic, Sarah wondered what are other fundamentally unsolved mystery films like Picnic, L'Avventura, Zodiac, and The Vanishing, as they're one of her favorite sub-genres. Thoughts on others to pursue?

[Skitch]

Yeh digitally.

Do you store your digital copies locally or through a service? What if they fail?

In my experience, the streaming surround audio is never close to physical blu-ray quality.

[Dukefrukem]

Do you store your digital copies locally or through a service? What if they fail?

In my experience, the streaming surround audio is never close to physical blu-ray quality.

Maybe audiophiles would complain about the sound - but everything is stored locally.

https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS41...words=Synology

[Skitch]

If its stored locally I bet audio is comparable. I house all my digital stuff through Vudu. The sound is totally fine, but it doesn't shake the house like physical.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I like still having the physical media.