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I rewatched the '46 cut of The Big Sleep the other day, and while the dialogue between Bacall and Bogart (and to a lesser extent Martha Vickers as the younger sister) remains as electric and sharp as ever, I can't help but feel that the movie is seriously gimped by the Hays Code interference. I guess it's just an unavoidable part of American cinema in the 40s, but coming from the book I just can't help but think what this movie could have been if it was shot a decade or so later, with the actors magically transplanted. Anyone else feel the same way?
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Does anything really beat "Yipee Ki-Yay, Melon Farmer"?
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Jan 14, 2016 07:34
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Some of it has to do with how much the average home theater has caught up with the actual movie theater experience. There's definitely something about being part of a captive audience, but I'm not sure how much that plays into the decision making of a typical household. Just over a decade ago, most people were still watching movies at home on a 20" CRT. Today, it's increasingly difficult to find even a budget TV smaller than 40" in stock. For an average consumer, it definitely seems like there are fewer and fewer reasons to watch a movie that's not pure audio-visual spectacle on the silver screen.
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Jan 20, 2016 05:49
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Terrorist Fistbump posted:This is exactly backwards. Spectacle movies look and sound just as good at home with $1500 worth of equipment as they do in the theater, plus you can text your friends and get up and make a snack and grab a beer whenever you want. The theater experience, on the other hand, is an opportunity to focus your attention completely on a film with (ideally) no quotidian distractions. Films that reward that attention are what you should be seeing, especially if they're what you'd prefer to be watching anyway. Like I said, I'm not sure how many people that constitute that average moviegoing populace agree with you on that.
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Jan 20, 2016 07:03
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Terrorist Fistbump posted:The average moviegoer is wrong about a lot of things anyway. Yes, but their dollars do make the bulk of revenue for Hollywood and the various distributors — hence why I pointed out the inertia going the other way.
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Jan 20, 2016 07:22
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