Last Movie You Watched

[DavidW]

Yep, like Karl, saw that when first released; even the beautiful Lea Thompson could not save that flick, but she was fun to watch - 

I bet you were a diehard Caroline in the City fan.

[Brian]

Yep, like Karl, saw that when first released; even the beautiful Lea Thompson could not save that flick, but she was fun to watch - 

Heh ... I wasn't going to say it, but she was quite fun to watch. That would have been my favorite scene if it weren't for the nagging "ick" factor that she was putting the moves on a duck!

The best/worst line of dialogue was when the scientist's body was possessed by a Dark Overlord from outer space. "I am no longer Doctor Jenning. The transformation is complete. I am now ....... someone else!"  

[DarkAngel]

I hope that you're using your oppo player for the upscaling, as it's perhaps the best in the market for that.  It uses Anchor Bay solution for upscaling and deinterlacing, and is also one of the few dvd players that correctly handle non-anamorphic widescreen-- deinterlace before scaling.  For some even my Oppo 981 doesn't handle non-anamorphic widescreen right (if you want it to fill the screen).  When you scale fields first it becomes a jaggy mess.  Just dumb.

My previous player was the Oppo 981 and I must say that even for DVDs the new Oppo Blue Ray player with Anchor Bay VRS slightly improves picture quality, so I get better DVD and great Blue Ray.......also almost everything is better especially the user interface menus, it is best $500 investment you can make for movies!

I watch 2009 Sony Bravia 52" LCD midrange "V" series model, I sit rather close at 7-8ft........can't go smaller than 52" for a real home theater experience 

[DavidW]

My previous player was the Oppo 981 and I must say that even for DVDs the new Oppo Blue Ray player with Anchor Bay VRS slightly improves picture quality, so I get better DVD and great Blue Ray.......also almost everything is better especially the user interface menus, it is best $500 investment you can make for movies!

I watch 2009 Sony Bravia 52" LCD midrange "V" series model, I sit rather close at 7-8ft........can't go smaller than 52" for a real home theater experience 

I would just puke if I sat that close!   Let me guess-- in the theater you sit somewhere between 1/4-1/2 way back (when you have a choice I mean)?  I sit about 3/4 way back.  I wonder if your oppo bd player resumes right.  I'm actually irritated that I have to eject the disc for it (the 981) to save the location.   Not that I would hit the upgrade button just for a working resume, but it does help.

[The new erato]

42" Panasonic at about 8 feet here, cannot imagine anything bigger at that distance.

[DavidW]

I think I'll make a thread. jeje

[DarkAngel]

I would just puke if I sat that close!  Let me guess-- in the theater you sit somewhere between 1/4-1/2 way back (when you have a choice I mean)?  I sit about 3/4 way back.  I wonder if your oppo bd player resumes right.  I'm actually irritated that I have to eject the disc for it (the 981) to save the location.  Not that I would hit the upgrade button just for a working resume, but it does help.

Thats me..............at theater I love to sit at the 1/4 - 1/3  back row position, so entire screen engulfs your field of vision!
Never have to worry about getting seat since almost everyone else goes for 1/2 - 3/4 positions
I almost never go to movie theater (for some time now), system at home is too good now and I can wait a few months for
DVD release on Netflix

[DavidW]

Thats me..............at theater I love to sit at the 1/4 - 1/3  back row position, so entire screen engulfs your field of vision!
Never have to worry about getting seat since almost everyone else goes for 1/2 - 3/4 positions
I almost never go to movie theater (for some time now), system at home is too good now and I can wait a few months for
DVD release on Netflix

Haha I guessed right!   Same here, I usually wait for dvd, and heck bd looks better than the theater.  Recently I've been breaking the rule just to get out, but usually wait for rental.  It's also cheaper at home, and you can have beer.

[Saul]

The courageous heart of Irena Sendler

More about this amazing movie and great Catholic woman who saved 2500 Jewish children from murder during the Holocaust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99O2ZOt_jwU

[DavidW]

Oh yeah I watched Defiance recently, and it was good. 

I also watched Valkyrie last night, I'm surprised they got as far as they did if it really is tracking the truth well.  All I knew before was that one of the fifteen attempts had a bomb go off in the same room (the amazing part being that Hitler walked away from it), I had no idea that it was part of a huge conspiracy.  I thought it was just one man.

[SonicMan46]

I bet you were a diehard Caroline in the City fan.

Nope, don't watch too many TV series - but if there are scenes like the ones I posted, may have to consider some rentals! 

[DavidW]

Nope, don't watch too many TV series - but if there are scenes like the ones I posted, may have to consider some rentals! 

I think a scene with a man in a duck suit staring at a scantily clad girl's butt is pretty rare in film and tv.

Except, maybe I guess in porn.

[Harry]

I ordered finally this box

[drogulus]

     Taking Woodstock

    I saw this yesterday, and it's hard for me to say it's a great or even very good film. It does demonstrate that Ang Lee hasn't lost his touch for evoking time and place. There are a number of points in the movie where I felt that the impossible had happened. It was 1969 again and nothing was out of place. Naturally I was looking for flaws. Other than a preposterously overdone Jewish stereotype for the parents of the main character, nothing stood out. That hardly seems possible. The centrality of gay themes is due to the main characters perspective, and it's not at odds with the films larger view. One might quarrel with the essentially benign view of the liberation ethic. I think that belongs in a different movie.

    One point in the movie is transcendent for me. The main character wants to go see the concert itself, and joins the crush on the road perhaps a couple of miles from the stage. I got chills seeing that. I thought I might see a U-Haul van by the roadside where it ran out of gas behind the stage.

   

   

    There's someone sitting on the van. He's probably watching thousands of young women, none of whom are wearing bras.  

[Fëanor]

Amadeus (dir. Milos Forman)

I enjoyed all 2 hours and 40 minutes.

[karlhenning]

I ordered finally this box

Great fun, Harry!

[DavidW]

Great fun, Harry!

Yeah I love the whole series!   So I'll increase your counter to +2.

[Fëanor]

My roommates and I are having a Bad Movie Marathon ...

Howard the Duck (horrible; almost unbearable but morbidly fascinating, like a train wreck)
...

OK, perverse, but quite I enjoyed Howard the Duck -- quite a chuckle.  Take that, you snobs. 

I note that the Jeffery Jones played Dr. Walter Jennings in Howard; Jones is a quite ubiquitous character acter who also played Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus that I watched last night.

[Lilas Pastia]

Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds. This is the first Tarantino film I've managed to sit through till the end. I went with my son and we both enjoyed the film rather enormously - with a few reservations. It's brilliant, tautly narrated, well put together and smartly interpreted (brilliantly in the case of Waltz's character, the 'Jew hunter'). I guess the (surprisingly few) gory hemoglobinic scenes have to be endured for the sake of the remaining 95% superb craftsmanship.

There are many knowing and bowing clins d'oeil to the glories of French cinema from the period (thirties to mid-forties). Half of the plot revolves around the grand premiere of a nazi propaganda film in a parisian cinéma de quartier. Tarantino's cinematic culture is certainly up to par, so the whole thing is a feast for the cinéphile averti. I kept whispering comments and knowing 'explanations' to my son, but he didn't seem to be genuinely interested. There was just too much going on in terms of plot twists and turns and sheer cinematic excitement.

[DavidW]

There are many knowing and bowing clins d'oeil to the glories of French cinema from the period (thirties to mid-forties). Half of the plot revolves around the grand premiere of a nazi propaganda film in a parisian cinéma de quartier. Tarantino's cinematic culture is certainly up to par, so the whole thing is a feast for the cinéphile averti. I kept whispering comments and knowing 'explanations' to my son, but he didn't seem to be genuinely interested. There was just too much going on in terms of plot twists and turns and sheer cinematic excitement.

I think that's actually what makes Tarantino so bad.  He does this to every movie, he's so busy paying homage to films of the past that he rarely makes a good one himself.