Late Night Theatrics

actually being one who owns a widescreen HDTV, I can tell you that viewing a 480 movie in progressive is a great improvement over interlace mode. From the colors to the depth to the fricking blackness in peoples pours, you see it.

Current DVD players will NOT EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER play anything above 480 resolution, PERIOD. DVD's DO NOT have enough storage. In order to fit EVERY MOVIE CURRENTLY RELEASED ON DVD's the production crew COMPRESS'S the movie so it can be on a dvd. You know, ever downloaded that low-quality porn then resize the screen larger? Well, some DVD's look like that, only throw in a non-anamorphic fake widescreen format (as in black borders on the top, bottom, left side, AND right side) and that's what you get.. This is so there is room on the DVD for special features and commentary by your least favorite actor.. Now the "Superbit" DVD's have done a lot to improve on this as all Superbit re-released DVD's are widescreen and include the very very cool DTS for sound, but all the same it will never ever ever be able to give you a resolution higher than 480p because 1) The dvd player just cant do it and 2) A dvd disc has not enough room for a full length mega movie without compression.

I watched the Maltese Falcon tonight.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0033870

Pretty damn good, it's sort of interesting to see a movie that's got less profanity, sex and violence than a Disney summer cartoon production, but isn't at all a kid's movie. Wacky.

I saw the movie Gang Related an hour ago, http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118900 .

I wasn't expecting much and I didn't have a clue what I was gonna watch. This movie was a pleasent surprise. It's not perfect, far from it, but it has some clever (but seen before) tricks up it's sleave and it pulls it off neatly.

Watch it without knowing anything about the plot and you'll be pleased. Don't read the comments on IMDB they are fucking spoilers all of them!
Just know that it's a crime drama that quickly gets complex and takes a lot of turns.
Tupac is actually very convincing in this movie (more so than in Gridlock'd) and James Belushi is great as always.
Oh yeah and Kool Moe Dee has a small role in it (whoop whoop).

I'm gonna watch Shadow of the Vampire on DVD a litle later...

You know... if the people who standardized DVD thought ahead a little, we wouldn't see this retarded fucking DVHS stuff.

Gee, who would have thought that encoding DVDs interlaced would be a bad idea, with (progressive) HDTVs coming out soon and all... duh

Count of Monte Cristo rocked.

It is an excellent movie, it ties up the important plot threads, has good drama, etc etc. I don't know if it is movie of the year material, but that's because it was so easy to enjoy. I don't think you can go wrong with seeing it.

Has anyone mentioned the rumor of a Halo movie in the works?

http://www.zentertainment.com/article.php?sid=1533&mode=thread&order=0

that would be dope.

So? Can this fucking idiotic idea of DVHS be used to store other information? Ie. HD backups etc?
WHY BRING BACK TAPES?!?!?! THEY RIP! THEY GET CRUMPLED! argfhghghggh!

If anyone should reprise their role in T3, it should be Michael Bihen... Only thing is, he probably looks a zillion years older than his character would be.

WTF was his character's name anyway? I forget (too busy getting high actually)

Just a short comment, though 1080i is incredible (for those who haven't seen true hi-def, it really does bring back memories of going from VHS->DVD - this doesn't apply to all Hi-def programming, the quality varies as with DVD transfers) I believe D-VHS is just an intermediate format that a few people will jump on until/if a new DVD standard emerges (HD-DVD), however the way the studios are trying to milk it, we'll have to pry it out of their cold, dead hands. At roughly $1K for a D-VHS deck (atm the JVC is the only one that will play these pre-recorded tapes afaik), even those with HD compatible televisions will have a hard time convincing themselves to get one. I'd really like to see a backward compatible 1080p sourced DVD-standard, but this is unlikely. Joe Kane (of Video Essentials fame) is working on a similar format utilizing 720p that works with standard DVD media, the new edition of VE will be the first such disc... it'll be interesting to see how that turns out. As far as another tape-based medium goes, they can keep it as far as I'm concerned ;>.

Methinks that studios are getting worried that pretty soon we will have DVD burners capeable of easily copying any DVD...

Hence they wanna go back to a tape format...

Jesus i hate tapes.. if we are gonna have to rewind movies again in the future SOMEONE WILL DIE!!

Black Hawk Down was pretty good. It was also pretty fucking long... =p It is probably worth seeing if you're into that type of movie. The scenario is what really makes the movie. Kind of like a modern day band of brothers wrapped up into 2.5 hours....

Someone pee one me please?

I don't know, Robocop could be a tough sell nowadays. That movie was made in a different time when the viewers lived in a society that had different problems and the country was definately in a different mood. The charactor worked back then. A lot of the things a lot of people found funny back then are now frowned upon as insensitive and overviolent.

These movies interest me very little, however I did wath el mariachi tonight - took me long enough to get around to it - and it amazes me at how much rodriguez did with only 7000 bucks, the tecnique used allows it to easily compete with a lot of blockbusters being made today.

oh fuck I thought I was in ER.

fuck you deceiving assholes!

Terminator 3 really concerns me....I mean, they did technically defeat the terminators in the second movie, with Arnold's being the one that actually starting it all, there was that slight time loop, they stopped that by melting both him and T1000 down. They never really went into what actually started the whole thing, the introduction of the whole technology in the first place. Hell, we really don't even know where the terminators originated in the first place! If my line of reasoning here is wrong, please shackmessage me!

so all the movies listed there are hollywood crap. bah. how original

Count of Monte Crisco porn

Good morning late night theatrics readers!

Blackhawk Down = Equals complete and utter superiority of a movie recreating modern warfare. Hell, their interpretation of the Delta operatives were even realistic.

Robocop 1 and 2 were good, but 3 was bad, and don't get me started on the TV series... :-/

This one is best left 6 feet under.

"Henwood plays a man from Lake-town, one of several men in the scene at Rivendell where everyone argues about what to do with the ring. Most of the men, including Henwood, don't have any lines in the movie."

That whole sequence is severly cut - and you can tell. Right after Aaragon says his thing about "the ring answers to Sauron alone", the camera switches to Gandalf who says "Aaragon is right". It cuts immediatly to Elrond - ommiting the line "the ring must be destroied" - which made it into the trailer.

The whole film, while good, is poorly cut. You can tell they had a four hour movie that was trimmed down to three.

Another example of the bad editing was the cross-fading near the end. Was it just me or did that sequece seem hokey and taped on. It "felt" like someone behind the camera was like... "geez... we really gotta get this thing wrapped up. WTF? Another whole friggin chapter to go? WTF was JR smoking?!?!"

:)

Btw, afaik LOTR is being released first in August (theatrical version) with a director's cut following in November.

"Dude, Where's My Car?" is better than "Not Another Teen Movie."

Feel sad for me that I found this out.

JVC = BETA !?#! ph34r!!!

The Count of Monte Cristo was awful. I've seen better versions done for TV. Bleh

Hollywood is deathly afraid of digital TV and pay-per-view unless there is some form of copyright protection involved. DVHS has digital rights management in it, hence the Hollywood moguls approval. Digital TV is going to end up with digital rights management built into it and we will all eventually have to pay to record a TV show. The Fair Use Act allows us to record for personal use, but it doesn't require the broadcasters to TRANSMIT in a format that is recordable. The DCMA makes circumventing that encryption illegal so there will be no DVHS/DVD recorders that can get around it sold publicly. Maybe some of them could be hacked to get by it (hopefully)

Nicole Kidman? Birthday suit? say what? :)

Robocop had a taurus like i used to!

So is this Evening Reading Redux?

I suggest you see donnie darko

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can i post yet?