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| Trish |
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marantzo wrote: Quote: Does anyone actually have a 19" TV anymore?
I have two 15" one 20" and a 26".
a 26 inch ? don't you want to watch your DVDs on something a bit more substantial? Are you saving to get a big HD flat screen? The prices are coming down you an get a 37" for a very reasonable price |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:25 pm |
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I re-watched The Simpsons Movie a few days ago and liked it better this time. I think initially it is a film which both overwhelms and underwhelms. The jokes come too fast to be processed or at least remembered, while the plot kind of whizzes past too. Result was the first time I thought it was okay but spotty. I think the somewhat weak ending also leads to a devaluation.
On second viewing, the pace was fine as I knew the main outline, and there were a lot of good jokes and moments which I didn't recall. It seemed funnier and better executed the second go round. It's still essentially three Simpsons episodes strung together, but they even poke fun at that notion via "To Be Continued ..." (pause) "Right Away." |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:51 pm |
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Trish wrote: marantzo wrote: Quote: Does anyone actually have a 19" TV anymore?
I have two 15" one 20" and a 26".
a 26 inch ? don't you want to watch your DVDs on something a bit more substantial? Are you saving to get a big HD flat screen? The prices are coming down you an get a 37" for a very reasonable price
26" is OK for me. A bigger size isn't a big deal for me. Plus, my apartment is a little small for a bigger screen. I'm buying a new TV when I return from my trip and it's going to be 26" |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:52 pm |
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| Oh yeah, I see most all of the films at the theatre. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:54 pm |
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gromit wrote: I re-watched The Simpsons Movie a few days ago and liked it better this time. I think initially it is a film which both overwhelms and underwhelms. The jokes come too fast to be processed or at least remembered, while the plot kind of whizzes past too. Result was the first time I thought it was okay but spotty. I think the somewhat weak ending also leads to a devaluation.
On second viewing, the pace was fine as I knew the main outline, and there were a lot of good jokes and moments which I didn't recall. It seemed funnier and better executed the second go round. It's still essentially three Simpsons episodes strung together, but they even poke fun at that notion via "To Be Continued ..." (pause) "Right Away."
My second and third viewings of the film were better, too. We got this movie on Blu-Ray for christmas. I also caught some of the jokes on the repeated viewings. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:01 pm |
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No End in Sight was a bit reminiscent of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, only better. A classic documentary in form and function.
The Simpsons Movie was a hoot, albeit a very series-centric one, and saved perhaps its funniest inside-itself joke for the very end of the credit crawl. They're surely going to do a sequel. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:12 pm |
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marantzo wrote: It wasn't my description, I never saw it.
I meant gromit.
Inla points out that No End is something like Enron, the one I thought was terminally blah. But inla says No End is better. Guess I better see it. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:48 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Inla points out that No End is something like Enron, the one I thought was terminally blah. But inla says No End is better. Guess I better see it. |
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| shannon |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:18 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote:
Could you use NetFlix or rent from Facets (in Chicago)?
Just how bad if Blockbuster? I'm curious. We don't have one here.
I've used them both in the past, but I don't like being obligated to a monthly fee with my movie watching as sporadic as it is. (Only movie I've rented in the past two months or so has been Superbad.) Generally, I rent more than I download, but if I really want to see something that the mom n' pop stores don't stock, there's no where else to go but Blockbuster and I absolutely refuse. Just how bad are they? Shitty selections, only stocking content-edited movies (just how else am I supposed to see, I dunno, Shortbus?), exorbitant prices (over $5/rental for two nights), staff who aren't paid enough to give a fuck, and the fact that now more than half of their store is devoted to selling me cell phone plans and the like as opposed to, you know, stocking more movies... Now studios are releasing Special Blockbuster Edition versions of films and refusing to ship the non-Blockbuster edition of these titles to other rental outlets. One of my local stores is being forced to purchase these titles at Walmart every Tuesday for $19.99 apiece because the studios just won't ship them, while at the same time, I go to Blockbuster and see roughly 500 copies of the same movie, for which Blockbuster probably paid $3-4 apiece for. This, to me, is entirely unacceptable. I could go on. They're terrible. But at least they've stopped stocking pan-and-scan only dvds.
The only time I'll ever download a theatrical release is when there's absolutely no hope of it making it to a theater near enough to me that I won't have to drive two hours to see it. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:28 pm |
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| We're fortunate to have a Hastings nearby. $3.75 for a week and a good selection for a non-specialty store. That's where I rent most of my foreign films. Borders gets a lot of interesting things. I got Nancy a copy of "Death Walks on High Heels" for Christmas and earlier got a copy of the Nazi-era German "Munchhausen" and "Titanic." |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:32 pm |
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| Hastings does the 90 copies of the same movie thing, too. One of the movies they did it for was Balls of Fury. A few years ago, somebody there ordered thirty copies of Alone in the Dark, one of Uwe Boll's legendary disasters. I notice they didn't try that with BloodRayne. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:50 pm |
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Quote: One of my local stores is being forced to purchase these titles at Walmart every Tuesday for $19.99 apiece because the studios just won't ship them
shannon, so far only one studio is doing this. The fucking Weinstein brothers.
I've had to buy SICKO and The Grindhouse flicks at Walmart because of the deal the Weinstein's struck giving Blockbuster an exclusive on their films. I think it was bad business decision and will backfire. By the way, Walmart retails dvds for the same price I pay for them wholesale. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:54 pm |
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Syd wrote: We're fortunate to have a Hastings nearby. $3.75 for a week and a good selection for a non-specialty store. That's where I rent most of my foreign films. Borders gets a lot of interesting things. I got Nancy a copy of "Death Walks on High Heels" for Christmas and earlier got a copy of the Nazi-era German "Munchhausen" and "Titanic."
Munchhausen is an excellent film! Talk about yer guilty pleasures. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:32 am |
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http://tinyurl.com/yuspfx
Here is the most astute review I've yet read of Sweeney Todd. It's not by a film critic but by the NYTimes music critic Anthony Tommasini, who manages to include convincing raves for Len Cariou, George Hearn, Maria Callas, and Debbie Reynolds into this fascinating fan letter to Johnny Depp.
He also gives damning-with-faint-praise semi-pans to Joan Sutherland and Helena Bonham Carter.
Excellent review. Joe, particularly take note. And inla. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:05 am |
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Wow, Mr. Brooks surpasses ludicrous and rushed headlong into preposterous.
Was this based on a cartoon or graphic novel by any chance? Who writes this stuff?
At least it zoomed by, but I can't remember laughing more at inappropriate moments in quite some time. (did I just make that same comment last week?)
Silly nonsense (as opposed to the reasonable kind), though the interplay between Costner and Hurt was mostly fun.
Won't be seeing this in any Top 10 lists.
It does make my 2007 Top 30 list, by default. |
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