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Matt Zerella posted:Yeah the ones I specifically remember being double tape units were Casino, Braveheart, and all The Godfather movies. There were a few others too. I do not remember much else about that job. i can confirm that Titanic and Pearl Harbor were also double-tape sets. Fun Trivia: Tape 1 of Titanic ends right at the point where Cpt. Smith turns to the camera and gives the order to prepare the lifeboats.
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Rarity posted:I'd laugh at all the people buying physical TV media in TYOOL 2018 but I have a giant physical video games collection that keeps growing by a few titles each month I buy digitally. I figure the situations where I don't have access to the cloud but have access to a working player and TV are extreme corner cases.
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Argus Zant posted:i can confirm that Titanic and Pearl Harbor were also double-tape sets. On more than one occasion I watched just the second tape of the Titanic double set.
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zoux posted:I buy digitally. I figure the situations where I don't have access to the cloud but have access to a working player and TV are extreme corner cases. They never come with director commentaries. It's one of the best parts of stuff like the Clerks cartoon.
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A friend was telling me recently how a lot of digital copies on iTunes these days include a full menu and special features and poo poo. Haven’t seen it myself though so grain of salt and all that
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Jun 4, 2018 22:23
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Mu Zeta posted:They never come with director commentaries. It's one of the best parts of stuff like the Clerks cartoon. I hate that poo poo so no problem for me
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Jun 4, 2018 22:25
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I wonder how often a TV network would show a movie as a "two night special event" back in the day, and use the two-tape VHS set to figure out where to split it.
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Jun 5, 2018 00:18
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Season 1 episode 7 of Cheers, Norm's boss looks exactly like an older Eric Forman that it's distracting Would the timeline work that it is Eric Forman? Guy's a huge handsy creep
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Arist posted:I hated letterboxing too as a kid but in my defense I was too young and stupid to know any better. I didn't even realize they cut off parts of the screen, ugh. Letterboxing sucked rear end because most people had pretty small CRT tvs back then and the extra compression made really hard to see anything, especially if the movie had a ridiculously wide aspect ratio like Spartacus. Sure, directors flipped their poo poo about pan and scan because it messed with every decision they made about blocking and framing, but there was really no perfect solution. The idea of a movie seen at home even comparing to the theater experience is a very new one.
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Jun 5, 2018 02:34
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Lurdiak posted:Letterboxing sucked rear end because most people had pretty small CRT tvs back then and the extra compression made really hard to see anything, especially if the movie had a ridiculously wide aspect ratio like Spartacus. Sure, directors flipped their poo poo about pan and scan because it messed with every decision they made about blocking and framing, but there was really no perfect solution. The idea of a movie seen at home even comparing to the theater experience is a very new one. Yeah I didn't realize we were talking about the VHS era at the time.
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Jun 5, 2018 02:36
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I mean obviously anyone doing pan and scan on home releases in this day and age would be a monster.
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Jun 5, 2018 02:38
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Can you even still buy a 4:3 TV?
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Jun 5, 2018 02:43
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I got a couple in a basement if you really want one.
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Jun 5, 2018 02:48
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Watch Succession on HBO right now. Like I worked on it so I’m biased, but it is so deeply deeply loving amazing and I have seen very few dramas that have that caliber of very dark humor (Jesse Armstrong of Peep Show wrote it)
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theflyingexecutive posted:Watch Succession on HBO right now. Sarah Snook should be the biggest star by now.
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theflyingexecutive posted:Watch Succession on HBO right now. I was worried it was HBO trying to do their own Billions but since you are cool and good I will watch.
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Escobarbarian posted:A friend was telling me recently how a lot of digital copies on iTunes these days include a full menu and special features and poo poo. Haven’t seen it myself though so grain of salt and all that I’ve been buying movies digitally a lot recently since Movies Anywhere became a thing and yeah, iTunes Extras essentially work like the pop-up menu on a Blu-ray player, and the features on them generally rival those found on the Blu-Rays. Almost every film has them these days. Amazon and Google Play has special features too, but their implementation isn’t nearly as slick—Google Play just lists them as a bunch of clips under the movie, and Amazon just throws them all in the same movie file with chapter markers. The Amazon version of The Last Jedi is over five hours long  What really annoys me is that generally only films released since iTunes Extras became a thing have special features—no one’s ported the special features from, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World’s Blu-Ray to the iTunes version (fun fact: I actually bought a Blu-Ray player originally for Scott Pilgrim, as the DVD version didn’t have any special features). I got the digital copy of Scott Pilgrim for free but I would gladly buy a digital copy again if it meant I got the special features one it. So yeah, I’m the guy that still gives a poo poo about movie commentaries. Sometimes they’re even worth it—Taika Waititi’s commentary on Thor: Ragnarok is almost as funny as the movie is (until his three-year-old daughter barges into the room and there’s like ten solid minutes of him trying to convince her to watch the film).
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Jun 5, 2018 03:13
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did anyone else watch Pose last night? I love it so far, like a big queer fairy tale. And the soundtrack is on point. I hope it starts a trend of putting the stories of trans people on TV starring and written by trans people. i know it's Ryan Murphy so it could go off the rails at any moment but I have faith that the people he's brought in for this one will keep his worst tendencies at bay. the best moments of the pilot reminded me of how my heart felt watching the pilot of Glee so long ago, especially the climactic dance audition. i hope it doesn't fall down a well that that show did, but I'll keep watching until it does.
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Yeah, I loved it too! It def has its flaws, but it captures the ball culture so well. If the voguing and dance choreo stays on point I'll stick with it even thru the inevitable Murphy downslide. There's a thread up, too.  e: that dance at the end was a+++ and you can't go wrong with whitney
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Jun 5, 2018 04:03
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Succession is a very dark Arrested Development
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You guys can't fool me. I've been clean for years now, I don't need Ryan Murphy shows in my life 
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Rarity posted:You guys can't fool me. I've been clean for years now, I don't need Ryan Murphy shows in my life
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People vs OJ, Versace and Feud are all excellent on non regular Murphy terms fwiw
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esperterra posted:People vs OJ, Versace and Feud are all excellent on non regular Murphy terms fwiw I would definitely dispute Versace. I think the gimmick on that one irked me to the point I just kept yelling when it went further and further back. At one point I joked that we were due Gianni's conception the week we saw wee Versace and I caught so much poo poo from coworkers for the rest of the season.
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I certainly don't begrudge people not digging the season's structure. It was a little weird at times. But worth it in the end imo.
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Succession has a killer main-theme going for it.
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Also I wish I had coworkers who watched Ryan Murphy shows lmao
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Lurdiak posted:Letterboxing sucked rear end because most people had pretty small CRT tvs back then and the extra compression made really hard to see anything, especially if the movie had a ridiculously wide aspect ratio like Spartacus. Sure, directors flipped their poo poo about pan and scan because it messed with every decision they made about blocking and framing, but there was really no perfect solution. The idea of a movie seen at home even comparing to the theater experience is a very new one. I mean I had a 13" TV in college and was on VHS for much of that and I still preferred letterboxing. Once I started to notice the cropping and digital pans, they became too distracting- everything just looked so much more claustrophobic.
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I never had much issue with crops and pans, but once you see a movie in its proper aspect ratio it's impossible to watch the same movie in 4:3 again. But when you're stuck with mostly VHS and a tiny-rear end TV it isn't the end of the world. The end of the world was when you'd get gifted DVDs and the person who bought it for you bought the Fullscreen version ... Remember when that was a loving thing? Two diff versions before they started printing them on double sided discs? lmao e: and I swear those double sided discs were always confusing af and I swear half of them would be 'this side up' for, say, fullscreen, and another would want you to have it down but w/o really specifying ???
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I just watch tv on my phone so it doesn't really matter if it's hd or widescreen or HDR because it all looks like poo poo anyway.
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So where is the catchall Adult Swim thread so I can talk about how great Joe Pera Talks To You is?
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esperterra posted:I never had much issue with crops and pans, but once you see a movie in its proper aspect ratio it's impossible to watch the same movie in 4:3 again. But when you're stuck with mostly VHS and a tiny-rear end TV it isn't the end of the world. I have a version of First Blood on DVD, and it's a 2 disc set. One DVD is widescreen, the other is full screen.
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esperterra posted:The end of the world was when you'd get gifted DVDs and the person who bought it for you bought the Fullscreen version ... Remember when that was a loving thing? Two diff versions before they started printing them on double sided discs? lmao "This side Full Screen." "This side Wide Screen." Up or down? *flips disc over* edit^^^what he said.
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I have two dvds (Goodfellas and The Wild Bunch) where you have to flip the disc over halfway through to finish the movie. It's strange for such famous movies. It can't even be the length - I have longer movies that all fit on one disc.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I have two dvds (Goodfellas and The Wild Bunch) where you have to flip the disc over halfway through to finish the movie. It's strange for such famous movies. It can't even be the length - I have longer movies that all fit on one disc. I have the “limited edition” Extended edition LotR DVD’s that are just the films and those have to be flipped (I wanted the extended editions of the films but couldn’t afford the full 12 dvd versions with all the special features).
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I wonder how often a TV network would show a movie as a "two night special event" back in the day, and use the two-tape VHS set to figure out where to split it. The only movie I remember being a two night event was Aliens, and that had a few deleted scenes added back to it. Then again I was in 2nd grade, so I wouldn't have been interested in whatever would be the equivalent of Titanic in 1990. I remember there were always huge advertising blitzes for the classics like Gone with the Wind or the Wizard of OZ. I kinda miss those NBC Sunday night movies, I would get to stay up late eating nuts with my dad. I saw all the Bond movies, and other greats like The Road Warrior. Saturday afternoon UHF movies were great too, I lived for the Thing every summer. esperterra posted:The end of the world was when you'd get gifted DVDs and the person who bought it for you bought the Fullscreen version ... Remember when that was a loving thing? Two diff versions before they started printing them on double sided discs? lmao Until I got an HDTV, my mom would do this to me. I had a decently sized late CRT, and I held onto it for a long time, so my mom thought that I wanted Fullscreen movies for it, despite numerous occasions when I would tell her otherwise.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I have two dvds (Goodfellas and The Wild Bunch) where you have to flip the disc over halfway through to finish the movie. It's strange for such famous movies. It can't even be the length - I have longer movies that all fit on one disc. Early DVD releases weren't able to fit long movies on one side due to the way the information was stored on the disc. When working at Blockbuster, we used to get in a magazine that was directed towards video stores owners, and there was an article about the new Terminator 2 DVD and how it was a breakthrough in DVD technology because the information was now being "layered" on the disc, enabling it to hold more information. Ever watch a DVD and sometimes notice an ever so slight pause between scenes? That's it switching from one layer to another.
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Please tell me someone else is watching Sweetbitter. Gotta be the pretentious show on TV. I have met a version of every single character on the show. It's hilarious.
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Davros1 posted:Ever watch a DVD and sometimes notice an ever so slight pause between scenes? That's it switching from one layer to another. Looking for that pause is the modern-day equivalent to looking for the "cigarette burns" in the upper right corner.
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Anyone see the Dietland pilot? Holy poo poo. So good. Uh... elevator pitch: it's a feminist version of Fight Club written by UnReal's Season 1 showrunner. Julianna Margulies is terrifying in it. Robin Weigert's a regular too. Also it rules and I have great taste. I'm off to watch the second episode now. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Jun 5, 2018 |
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