Coleman Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 300 Rise Of An Empire: A very good rental if you liked the first one. Good PQ, SQ, LFE. and special effects This is a 4/5 movie for me. Actually that is the first movie I watched tonight with the 7's in house. Not bad but I liked the first one better I think. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbsl Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 300 Rise Of An Empire: tonights movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Casablanca HD DVD "Round up the usual suspects." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeesburgMonkey Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Sherlock Holmes...... I didn't think that I'd like but loved the movie! I wasn't a Robert Downey Jr fan but he changed that with this movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 We Were Soldiers HD DVD... Makes me sad to read the names, towns & States of dead; but, I do so often, after the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tromprof Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Watched this last night. Excellent film, good eye candy on a big screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Casablanca HD DVD "Round up the usual suspects." How did you enjoy this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 I love that movie & can watch it once or twice a year. Plus it has lots of special features, including music of Dooley Wilson from the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Casablanca HD DVD "Round up the usual suspects." How did you enjoy this one? I'm shocked, shocked to find you would ask how he liked the greatest movie of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Think that honor goes to D. W. Griffith Birth of a Nation; it's misunderstood, controversial & difficult to find a definitive copy, as it has been edited in ways D. W. did not intend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 But, certainly, one can make an argument for Casablanca. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappydue Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 i watched a couple tonight... absolute crap!! glad it was free... and then this one with the wife... it had some pretty funny bits in it, and i sure don't get tired of looking at ol Elizabeth Banks. she purdy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiet_Hollow Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Beautifully shot and scored remake of a popular short story. Zero 7 FTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I watched the newly released remastered version of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" last night.. Leone's brilliant Prequel to the "man with no name" trilogy. I must have seen every version of this film beginning with US theater versions and VHS versions ever since the 1970's... I have to say this new 4k scan made from the original camera negative and not some inter-negative or cobbled parts of prints is superb... the best the movie has ever looked... even Theater versions I have seen. I have two other Bluray versions that were remastered, but they were done in a HD 1080p scan and not 4k scan, and were made from corrected prints and not the direct camera negative... they can not compare. in addition to the new resolution, there is some very interesting framing that has never existed (except for the Italian original release)... there is a lot of new frame area round the tops and bottoms and more notably the left and right sides. this doesn't reveal any additional really important images, but it does reset the layout to something more akin to Leone's original vision... and I do agree it looks much better. More relaxed and much less compressed, which is great even though we have all gotten used to the cropped tight image that we've been accustomed to over the years of seeing this movie. there is one element that is controversial... it is the "TINT" of the movie. the movie has a very distinct yellow tint to the image... something that no one foresaw, but it has been confirmed that this "yellowish tint" as being Leone's original vision... and combined with the additional framing area, restores the directors idea for the movie. Overall I have to say that this movie benefits greatly from this 4k scan as many of the scenes actually come alive with depth and dimension almost to the point where they look three dimensional. some shots to compare with the original Bluray remaster done a few years ago... new release is second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Scanners (1981) I just received my newly released Criterion version of Cronenbergs Scanners... film has never looked better. Scanners seems to drive a wedge between Cronenberg loyal fans... some thinking it is the worst Cronenberg movie made, others Reveling in it's "Good versus Evil" over tones in an age where movies like the Omen and the Exorcist ruled the roost. This release is good looking give it's originals and budget restraints and unfortunately only comes with a mono uncompressed audio and sound track. A horror movie only in the most simplistic terms, Cronenberg seems to have purposely chosen a Jewish looking man to play the lead Good Character, albeit naive, Cameron Vale... and an Arian looking man to play the lead conniving Bad Character, Darryl Revoc. He tells a story of a naive Scanner that is lead from afar into a world of good versus evil by Patrick McGoohan who is no less aptly named Dr. Paul Ruth... as in Ruth from the "book of Ruth" where Ruth accepts God of the Israelites as her God and the Israelite people as her own. Ruth states... "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried"... and so it is with Dr. Paul Ruth as he seeks to save and care for (as a father would save and care for his children), as many Scanners as he capable of saving. As with the book of ruth... Dr. Ruth seeks inclusion and stress's the need for acceptance of outsiders and foreigners in an otherwise closed off secular world of the lonely Scanner. Ultimately, good must do battle with evil and as such the movie points out the duality of man... the polar opposites ingrained in much of humanity to do either good or to do evil. In the end, both good and evil must learn to live inside a single body with one being the dominate personality over the other and keeping that personality under control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Scarface(1936) One again Proving the 1930's, and indeed Howard Hawks himself, are supremely at the top of the list in terms of cinematic creme de la creme excellence. De Palma's re-visioned version of Scarface is purely comical and pales when compared to the original Howard Hawks movie with it's underlying story originality that was based on actual events and persona's... namely the real scarface, Al Capone. Howard Hughes himself produced this post depression era film staring a wonderful Paul Muni (Tony), Ann Dvorak and George Raft, and also has Boris Karloff in a small role. Howard Hawks brilliantly controls the camera and cinematography in this film and the opening sequence is to die for as it tracks for a couple minutes in a linear fashion while "Tony" stalks and kills a rival bootlegger. Hawks art direction, set design and detail are unmatched... and his control over action sequences are superb. The Saint Valentines day Massacre sequence is especially stunning as all action take places via shadows on the wall, and as the men are killed the shadows miraculously disappear and the camera pans upward to reveal the bracing of the ceiling that poetically take the shape of large series of "X's"... great stuff. Do yourself a favor and see this 1930's era movie if you ever have the chance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrickdj1 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Nice review on some old classic movies Schu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tromprof Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I watched the newly released remastered version of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" last night.. Leone's brilliant Prequel to the "man with no name" trilogy. I think it was you who put out the alert that Amazon had the new version of the trilogy on sale. If so, many thanks. I grew up watching these on TV, and as much as I loved them I had never seen them on a "big" screen. My wife and I watched the first, A Fist Full of Dollars, on the basement theater last night. Very enjoyable, we are looking forward to the next 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappydue Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I watched the newly released remastered version of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" last night.. Leone's brilliant Prequel to the "man with no name" trilogy. I must have seen every version of this film beginning with US theater versions and VHS versions ever since the 1970's... I have to say this new 4k scan made from the original camera negative and not some inter-negative or cobbled parts of prints is superb... the best the movie has ever looked... even Theater versions I have seen. I have two other Bluray versions that were remastered, but they were done in a HD 1080p scan and not 4k scan, and were made from corrected prints and not the direct camera negative... they can not compare. in addition to the new resolution, there is some very interesting framing that has never existed (except for the Italian original release)... there is a lot of new frame area round the tops and bottoms and more notably the left and right sides. this doesn't reveal any additional really important images, but it does reset the layout to something more akin to Leone's original vision... and I do agree it looks much better. More relaxed and much less compressed, which is great even though we have all gotten used to the cropped tight image that we've been accustomed to over the years of seeing this movie. there is one element that is controversial... it is the "TINT" of the movie. the movie has a very distinct yellow tint to the image... something that no one foresaw, but it has been confirmed that this "yellowish tint" as being Leone's original vision... and combined with the additional framing area, restores the directors idea for the movie. Overall I have to say that this movie benefits greatly from this 4k scan as many of the scenes actually come alive with depth and dimension almost to the point where they look three dimensional. some shots to compare with the original Bluray remaster done a few years ago... new release is second. you got a 4k tv and source now schu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 (edited) No... this is still presented in 1080p bluray, but the scan from the original camera negative was done at 4k. For what its worth, I would watch them in this order.... The good, the bad, the ugly Fist full of dollars For a few dollars more Thats the correct sequence as good bad ugly is a prequel to the other two older movies, the yojimbo remake fist full of dollars and the ending "off into the sunset" movie few dollars more. Edited July 19, 2014 by Schu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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