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Basebf555 posted:Half the appeal of having a nice movie collection for me is that I can go over the shelf and look at everything and choose something to watch that fits whatever mood I'm in at the moment. If they were all just stuffed in a box it'd be much less practical and satisfying to do that. I'm copying all my Blu-rays to my computer. I want those discs out of sight and mind.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Slipcovers make a better presentation for your product, they make spines more vibrant and easier to read on a shelf, and they provide limited protection for the case itself. I can’t believe there are people with strong opinions about them either way. Digital isn't as good quality when it comes to video or sound.
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Casimir Radon posted:Did you buy it before home file servers were easy to come by? Full on dork mode - I spent time this past weekend ripping the extended cuts of Lord of the Rings (spread across 2 discs) and combining them into one file. I have a small amount of satisfaction from this.
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Apr 10, 2018 23:46
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Iron Crowned posted:The Matrix was mine. Lethal Weapon 4? I did not get Titanic though.
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Apr 11, 2018 18:03
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First DVD was Tim Burton's Batman. First DVD player was a piece of crap divx player from Circuit City, but returned it for a Toshiba Dual Disc SD3109.
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I don't think the 70MM print I saw last month looked anything like that green-tinted trailer. It resembled the coloring on the blu-ray.
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Jul 4, 2018 16:10
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https://www.wbshop.com/products/supergirl-bd Supergirl, the Movie, coming to Blu-Ray later this month. It's my favorite bad movie.
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Superman 1978 was filmed with such soft focus it's hard to imagine the resolution bump helping.
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Jul 11, 2018 16:38
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Five Cent Deposit posted:I know the difference. I work in feature post production on stuff you’ve seen. I came into the industry before the transition from film to digital acquisition and before high definition home media formats. I’ve worked with, and for, film labs, DI facilities, VFX facilities, restoration facilities, and so on. Thank you for this. Anyone have links to any good articles / examples of films with technical flaws exposed because the home video version being too revealing? I recall reading when Superman 3 was released to DVD, an area of the sky that was supposed to be "bleached" in the theatrical run wasn't on the DVD transfer, revealing the wires holding Christopher Reeve during some flying sequences.
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Jul 14, 2018 15:31
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Boywhiz88 posted:Right? I don’t have a car and don’t live by Woodbury anymore so it feels so close yet so far. Yup. I don't think a 90 minute bus ride from Minneapolis is worth the effort. Also the Trylon showed Lawrence of Arabia some months back, so the sting is lessened.
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Aug 1, 2018 12:56
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Liar Lyre posted:I do wonder how much of our perspective on physical media is skewed by being collectors. How many movies did people own back in the VHS or DVD days? I know I’m an outlier. I probably owned over 1,500 movies since Pinocchio in 93. I bet the average was only about 80. I'd guess, in VHS days, 12-20 tapes that were purchased, the rest bootlegged or taped off TV. I had a great uncle who had like 2,000 VHS tapes though.
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Nov 2, 2018 02:10
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Xenomrph posted:Pffft I won’t watch Popeye cartoons in anything less than 16K. The Fleischer Studios Popeye shorts have awesome animation, I'd love to see them in HD. I'm not too familiar with the Famous Studios releases though.
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Nov 21, 2018 00:41
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Easy Diff posted:Remember when DVD first hit the scene, and we were going to have "angle options" like being able to switch between shot/reverse shot from our remote? And then nobody ever used that feature except for like exactly 1 porno and then that was the end of that. (not because of the porn, but just because it was a stupid idea that necessitated putting a lot of extra work into the release)
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Apr 30, 2019 23:52
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A minor thing from DVD i do not miss - on dual layer discs, half way through the film my DVD player would have a slight pause during the layer change. So minor, yet very distracting.
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Apr 30, 2019 23:53
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caligulamprey posted:In the same vein I really miss those off-putting scenes in movies that go on for a beat too long to accommodate a reel change. I've never picked up on this, could you give a good example? I'm a little more aware of reel changes these days from watching beat-up prints at our microcinema, I'll have to keep an eye out for these.
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May 1, 2019 00:45
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FilthyImp posted:Remember any movies where scene happened and it just stayed there until this frame with a burn-mark looking thing in the upper right hand corner came in? Then the audio and image jumped slightly? Unfortunately not, though I'm more aware of the cigarette burns and reel changes from recent screenings of older films. Years of seeing films digitally projected or on Blu-ray and DVD have hidden this phenomenon.
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May 1, 2019 01:03
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TheScott2K posted:They eschewed special features in favor of cranking the bitrate. It wasn't worth it. They had better sound though, and it was worth it. If you never watched special features, anyways.
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May 1, 2019 03:30
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CPL593H posted:Blu-ray killed off Superbit almost immediately. Superbit came out 5 years before Blu-ray, and I'm pretty sure they were Sony exclusive DVDs. I remember being happy to get some decent DTS tracks at the time. Want to talk archaic? How about what preceded Superbit - seperate releases for DTS-encoded discs.
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May 1, 2019 03:32
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Monday_ posted:What's the deal with a DTS soundtrack being worth paying extra for? Was the quality noticeably better than DD 5.1? Or did a lot of receivers back then only support one or the other? Early DTS tracks were 1.5MBPS and dolby 5.1 were like 300-400k if I remember correctly. It's hard to say if the better sound on some of the early releases were from a better mix or the higher bitrate, but it sounded decent. In the early DVD days, a lot of receivers did not have DTS decoders.
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Boywhiz88 posted:
Apparently we both support the same local micro cinema. I caught Brazil and Blade Runner, and wish I would have made it to more in the series. caligulamprey posted:I've never heard the term Micro Cinema, though the majority of non-chain/second-run theaters in Portland do weekly revival screenings. It's literally a tiny theater. It has about 80 seats, and they alternate between showing old 35MM prints and digital presentations. It's mostly volunteer run - it's hard to know if it's financially viable, but if it ever shuts down, it will be a sad, sad affair. roffels fucked around with this message at 12:46 on May 1, 2019 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:OK street parking. A 5 car lot for Peace Coffee, I use it when it’s a screening right before Peace closes or if it’s closed already. But right off Minnehaha, so the 7? line is right there. It's also not too far from the light rail on lake st if you don't mind a short walk.
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Detective No. 27 posted:So my friend and I are gonna go halves on a one year license on a program to dump dvds/blurays. He used the trial to test out a bluray. It took 4 hours. Not surprising, given how slow bluray drives are
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Unmature posted:Saw it at the Egyptian theater in LA a couple weeks ago in 70mm and thought the same thing. Was a hell of an experience. It's intermission at the 70MM screening I'm at right now. What a beautiful looking film.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Heights Theater in the Twin Cities? That's it!
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Boywhiz88 posted:Nice! I was thinking about going but had too much to do, so I opted for the Blu-Ray. Hence the topic and specificity. I can’t remember if Alamo Drafthouse had a 70mm or a digital copy, I think the latter. gently caress, that would have been so tight to catch. Oh well, next time! 70MM is rare around here, but the film makes its way around. Trylon played it digitally last year. roffels fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jul 30, 2019 |
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CPL593H posted:Also a lot of early DVD era "widescreen" DVDs were actually just the fullscreen version of the movie slightly cropped. When you watched some movies poo poo would be cut off at the top of the picture. Are you referring to open matte films? Or something else? I don't recall pan&scan copies getting cropped being a thing, but there are definitely a lot of open matte films - though it's usually more appropriate to consider the 4x3 versions as "opened up", sometimes revealing boom mics and other things viewers weren't supposed to see. roffels fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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Popcorn is the worst food for films because it's the loudest. And for some reason, 70% of people at the theaters are compelled to chew it with their mouths open, and rattle their tub throughout the film. I hate that this is tradition.
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May 29, 2021 15:04
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Spatulater bro! posted:It's not even close to the loudest. If I'm eating kettle cooked potato chips I have to pause the movie until I'm finished. I can't even hear over my own crunching. I haven't seen theaters selling kettle cooked potato chips. But if they do, they're monsters.
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May 30, 2021 20:50
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caligulamprey posted:I was gonna throw down the cash just for the signed Elvira poster alone until I found out it was $80. That's actually cheaper than her usual rate!
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Jul 7, 2021 23:46
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Cacator posted:The last time I went to a Room screening it was people being drunk as hell yelling over each other for the entire runtime (and the occasional spoon throwing). It was so obnoxious that I never want to do that again. I lasted about 10 minutes before I walked out. Not my crowd, I don't enjoy yelling "water" or "slut" at the movie, nor do I enjoy being around others yelling.
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Jul 23, 2021 20:29
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Best bootleg I ever saw was at a market in Cambodia. Superman Returns, only it was titled "Overwhelming American Action Movie"
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zer0spunk posted:Those are the same folks who are cool sitting in the first rows of a theater. For some reason, they've convinced themselves that having to move your head around to follow the action for two hours is immersive or something. I do it because I'm less likely to have anyone sitting next to me or behind me. Sometimes it backfires and some people late to the movie and are naturally distracting throughout sit up front.
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Steen71 posted:This is absolutely an entirely justified use case for piracy. As long as you've paid for some version of the films (I bought them once on VHS and once on DVD), there is nothing to feel bad about. Yeah... some fans out there have gone and scanned a few theatrical prints at 4k and cleaned them up. Way better than watching a DVD copy that was just a laserdisc transfer.
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