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B E C K · « **Reply #2310 on:** Oct 18, 2011, 02:41:32 PM »

I can't wait until I can see everyone's nose pores!

Fiero · « **Reply #2311 on:** Oct 18, 2011, 02:42:00 PM »

Argh....

I may have been paraphrasing a certain friend that tends to exaggerate some things.

joe · « **Reply #2312 on:** Oct 18, 2011, 02:46:33 PM »

Human beings never exaggerate. It's just not in our nature.

Never.

Never.

NEVER.

Fiero · « **Reply #2313 on:** Oct 18, 2011, 05:34:36 PM »

Quote from: joerammstein on Oct 18, 2011, 02:46:33 PM

Human beings never exaggerate. It's just not in our nature.

Never.

Never.

NEVER.

I really, really, really think you've proved your point.

But this guy ... Let's say there are ten people at a gathering, well, this guy ... he'll say there were at least a hundred.

Rama · « **Reply #2314 on:** Oct 18, 2011, 05:36:24 PM »

Then there are epic exaggeration fails...like when I said I had to use a heavy duty jack on my car because "it weighs like 400 pounds."

joe · « **Reply #2315 on:** Oct 18, 2011, 06:06:49 PM »

I'd drive that car! On a windy day you could just shut off the engine and raise the sails!

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #2316 on:** Oct 18, 2011, 07:53:18 PM »

As for whether Blu-ray is better than DVD, I'll share a quick exchange from my board:

Quote from: BONR

X-Warlock - I swear nothing beats high definition hockey.
SparkStalker - Hi-Def pr0n does.
Matt - do the scars and the red bumps turn you on?

So there are downsides.

And it depends largely on the conversion process itself and the quality of the original materials being mastered. I've got a lot of newer movies on BR, but I have not yet watched one that looks more awesome than The Ten Commandments. But I confess to not having taken the three-and-a-half some-odd hours to break out that collector edition of Ben-Hur yet....

joe · « **Reply #2317 on:** Oct 18, 2011, 10:33:49 PM »

Man, we've gone pretty far off the rails this time.

I saw Dream House a few weeks back. Maybe I already posted about that. Anyway, it was dumb.

On the weekend I went to The Thing and Real Steel. The Thing wasn't bad, but CG gore is worthless. I think there may have been some of the good old fashioned stuff as well, but mostly I just noticed the lackluster CG. Real Steel was actually pretty good, despite how nauseating the ads made it look. The runtime of just over two hours might have been a little much. Condense that shit. 90 minutes is the sweet spot, never forget.

IDE · « **Reply #2318 on:** Oct 19, 2011, 02:09:53 AM »

I'll steal both those movies asap.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2319 on:** Oct 19, 2011, 12:43:50 PM »

Quote from: joerammstein on Oct 18, 2011, 02:36:26 PM

Won't there come a day when the standard outstrips the current one, and "old" (digital) movies actually won't look as good anymore?

True, but I don't see any other major change happening with resolution while we're still in the 2D world. 1920x1080 is really at the top of what the human eye can really appreciate. DVD was outdated when it hit the shelves. Not that people had TVs that could do better, but the technology was out there, and theatres just looked better. A movie will look better on film than in HD, yes, but it's not a big enough difference that you could really see it, especially on a TV. I mean even with a 60" TV, do you really think a human could see the difference between 1920x1080 and say some theoretical doubling of that, around 3840x2160? I'd be surprised if most people could...

That being said, aside from the non resolution native to film, stuff like digital video does have advantages like better in low light situations, better colour dept/contrast and such. I don't think we have to worry about how bad Cloverfield will look compared to Indiana Jones in 100 years. I think it will still look better.

joe · « **Reply #2320 on:** Oct 19, 2011, 02:13:22 PM »

I remember way back when they first started talking about theaters installing digital projectors, I thought, "Oh, that's cool," and I just assumed the theater I frequent had them.

But in the past year or so I'm noticing most new movies I go to have (DIGITAL) after the title, and the picture is just so fucking crisp and clean, I can scarcely believe it.

Also, all our auditoriums now have widely spaced, reclining leather seats, which is glorious, although completely unrelated to picture quality.

I'm assuming you have SilverCity locations in Ontario and know what I'm talking aboot.

Fiero · « **Reply #2321 on:** Oct 19, 2011, 02:48:43 PM »

Quote from: joerammstein on Oct 19, 2011, 02:13:22 PM

I remember way back when they first started talking about theaters installing digital projectors, I thought, "Oh, that's cool," and I just assumed the theater I frequent had them.

But in the past year or so I'm noticing most new movies I go to have (DIGITAL) after the title, and the picture is just so fucking crisp and clean, I can scarcely believe it.

Also, all our auditoriums now have widely spaced, reclining leather seats, which is glorious, although completely unrelated to picture quality.

I'm assuming you have SilverCity locations in Ontario and know what I'm talking aboot.

The only Silver City in Dallas is a strip club. They probably have leather chairs.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #2322 on:** Oct 19, 2011, 06:03:01 PM »

Quote from: joerammstein on Oct 18, 2011, 10:33:49 PM

The runtime of just over two hours might have been a little much. Condense that shit. 90 minutes is the sweet spot, never forget.

90 minutes is the length of a television special. Anything less than two hours in the theater seems like a waste to me. Of course, if it sucks, 90 seconds is too long....

B E C K · « **Reply #2323 on:** Oct 20, 2011, 12:32:14 AM »

Quote from: Fiero on Oct 19, 2011, 02:48:43 PM

Quote from: joerammstein on Oct 19, 2011, 02:13:22 PM
I remember way back when they first started talking about theaters installing digital projectors, I thought, "Oh, that's cool," and I just assumed the theater I frequent had them.

But in the past year or so I'm noticing most new movies I go to have (DIGITAL) after the title, and the picture is just so fucking crisp and clean, I can scarcely believe it.

Also, all our auditoriums now have widely spaced, reclining leather seats, which is glorious, although completely unrelated to picture quality.

I'm assuming you have SilverCity locations in Ontario and know what I'm talking aboot.

The only Silver City in Dallas is a strip club. They probably have leather chairs.

Probably more like leather stippers. Ha ha. High five? Anyone? Bueller?

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2324 on:** Oct 20, 2011, 07:27:08 AM »

Yes I have a Silver City in town, and a pre-Silver City Colloseum which is of a similar quality. I'm mixed on digital projection.

The first movie I saw was St*r WarzzZZ in digital. The picture was crisp and colours were very clear, but I felt like if I looked really close I could see the pixels. This makes we wonder if that's just the same source they use for the film stuff and that I just don't see them because it's not as crisp. Not sure.

Recently I went to my local kind of cheap but walking distance theatre to see a non special effectsy movie and it was clearly a digital showing. I think it was not as nice because I noticed that it was digital, though again hard to get a frame of reference. It was mostly just obvious for landscapes and shots of the sky for some reason. I felt like maybe they were just doing it for this movie because it wasn't super popular and people wouldn't care but I don't really know.

Anyway with film there's little dust, scratches and the picture sometimes shakes a little, which I'm happy not to have.

B E C K · « **Reply #2325 on:** Oct 28, 2011, 12:50:20 AM »

I watched the The Troll Hunter. Since it was a decent movie from Scandanavia with a great idea, of course the US is going to remake it. Christ.

At least unlike the Swedish films Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo and Let The Right One In, The Troll Hunter does have room for improvement. I hope they don't add more gore or some stupid shit like that and maybe do an extra troll scene and some more dialogue to add to the mythos, since learning shit about the trolls was pretty awesome.

IDE · « **Reply #2326 on:** Oct 28, 2011, 01:59:46 AM »

I saw a preview for troll hunter and am going to watch it soon. How the fuck are they going to remake that over here? What are they're going to say that there are American trolls?

The trolls is scandananvanians! /Squisgard

blanktoe · « **Reply #2327 on:** Oct 28, 2011, 05:09:31 AM »

If they do remake it they need to lose the found footage angle and just focus on the Troll Hunter himself.

B E C K · « **Reply #2328 on:** Oct 28, 2011, 11:12:00 AM »

I kinda like the found footage angle: "...and these bitches were never found." As pretty as the landscape was though, I'd like far fewer of those shots. They could still keep it in Norway similar to how the English-lang Dragon Tattoo movie was keeping shit in Sweden. I agree that I don't think the trolls could be relocated. Har har, maybe in Canada, eh? And instead of Hans, they'll have joe.

Sam · « **Reply #2329 on:** Oct 28, 2011, 12:39:31 PM »

I bought Captain America this week. It was pretty decent. I'm excited for Avengers now.

joe · « **Reply #2330 on:** Oct 28, 2011, 02:06:06 PM »

...but instead of tracking mythical creatures, I'll be going door-to-door, accusing people of antagonizing others over the internet.

B E C K · « **Reply #2331 on:** Oct 28, 2011, 10:57:50 PM »

^ I would watch that.

IDE · « **Reply #2332 on:** Oct 29, 2011, 03:22:22 AM »

This stars me right?

IDE · « **Reply #2333 on:** Oct 29, 2011, 04:00:43 AM »

as I hit post I saw the post time. I didn't do that on purpose, actually I have no idea what time the board is on it's not even 2 here.

But just look at that conjoined 222s.

joe · « **Reply #2334 on:** Oct 30, 2011, 10:53:56 PM »

The Three Musketeers. In case you hadn't already heard, this movie is fucking terrible to the point of hilarity, and they even had the gall to end it with a setup for a sequel.

Sample dialogue:

Christoph Waltz: This alliance would be advantageous.
Orlando Bloom: Yes, but advantageous for whose side? Yours?
Christoph Waltz: Ours!

Seriously, not even IDE could have saved this turd.

Puss in Boots. I liked it. The plot was not at all what I expected, but that's okay. Easily better than all the Shrek sequels.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2335 on:** Oct 31, 2011, 07:45:06 AM »

Quote from: B E C K on Oct 28, 2011, 11:12:00 AM

I kinda like the found footage angle: "...and these bitches were never found." As pretty as the landscape was though, I'd like far fewer of those shots. They could still keep it in Norway similar to how the English-lang Dragon Tattoo movie was keeping shit in Sweden. I agree that I don't think the trolls could be relocated. Har har, maybe in Canada, eh? And instead of Hans, they'll have joe.

I'd buy it. I've never even seen anything north of Quebec city. I'm sure there are vast expanses of the North West that have never had a human set foot on them.

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Puss in Boots. I liked it. The plot was not at all what I expected, but that's okay. Easily better than all the Shrek sequels.

Special olympics. I like cats but I hate Antonio Banderes and the Shrek franchise so I don't think I can watch this. How many scenes have out of place post 1970s music that the characters interact with?

Rama · « **Reply #2336 on:** Nov 03, 2011, 05:07:08 PM »

The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Fiero · « **Reply #2337 on:** Nov 03, 2011, 09:18:47 PM »

I don't even know what the last movie I saw was.

IDE · « **Reply #2338 on:** Nov 07, 2011, 04:44:01 PM »

New Conan movie is bullshit.

You're watching and you're thinking...hey this ain't so bad and then the final show down comes and you're like wtf.

I've had more epic show downs in my personal life where I've burst forth from an SUV, roared into the night, and turned the tide of battle with my band of adventurers (i.e. drunk frat boys) than the crap that was the end of this movie.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2339 on:** Nov 07, 2011, 06:58:11 PM »

I really enjoyed "In Time". Here's my full review and thoughts:
http://powet.tv/powetblog/2011/11/06/in-time-presents-an-appealing-mother-daughter-grandmother-scenario/

MDG baby!