What are you watching?

Bob,

First I saw two bad movies. The Mummy Returns had nothing original or compelling in it. I never feared for the safety of the stars and can just appreciate special effects so much. Rachel Weitz was the only reason for watching, a great actress and a beautiful woman, but she is no action star. Here fight scenes were badly done.

And Jennifer Garner was in “The Odd Life of>>>” I forget, but I hope I can forget this entire boring movie. As you said, "Total pure crap! ...Gimme my life back!"


Bob you and I are about the same age, but I wonder if anyone else reading this is old enough to hate Top Gun, which I will try to watch this weekend. (World Series comes first).

The hatred has little to do with the movie although Tom Cruise is in it. If you were “into” stereo in the late 1980s this movie was on in every Audio and Video store on a continuous loop. First Audio stores, which sold quality two channel stereo components were separate from “video” stores that sold TVs, radios, Laser Discs and some inexpensive audio components. These stores have really merged, but before Home Theater and 5 channel sound they were mostly separate.

But both stores were moving into four channel sound, two in front and two in the back. (A fifth would be required when THX became popular) They were NOT discrete, but the signal for the back was carried in the stereo channels of the front.

But for ten years it seemed that EVERY store had this damn movie on, day in and day out, to show off the new stuff. Then, I thin k Terminator II became the favorite.

So I have avoided this movie but will try to watch it.
 
Barry, I'll be applying for my pension in 2015 (first quarter). :)

- 'The Mummy Returns'? ...Kid's stuff. :cool: :D ...Rachel Weitz; I like her, not in love with her but I like her.

- Jennifer Garner? ...Anything and everything she's in I stay away of. :D
...So I really doubt that I ever saw 'The Odd Life Of'

- 'Top Gun'? ...What's that? ...Any good? :D ...I only like the intro: the jet's take-off from the jet carrier ship. ...The rest is of no importance to me, now at my age, and even when younger because they made a big deal of it in playing it everywhere and all the time where they were selling large screen TVs and surround sound systems. ...I got sick of it! :D

- Tom Cruise; weird guy, and not a good actor. ...But rich! :D

- 'T2 - Judgement Day'? ...Not bad at all back then (Cameron & Arnold), but lost its sex appeal now.
...That was in the prehistoric age of cinema effect. ...Similar to 'Poltergeist' (Spielberg).

>>> Got everything on Blu, except Jennifer Garner's flick mentioned just above.

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Last night I re-watched (few times now) this Blu-ray flick; @ 3D ::: (Baz Luhrmann & Leonardo):

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* And I disagree with most movie reviewers; for me this is real scale cinema! ...Amazing pictures! ...Colors! ...Music! ...And all that jazz.
 
Last night I revisited this flick (on Blu) mainly for the picture quality, cinematography, sumptuous decors and locales, Angelina, and all that beautiful jazz.

* This is a very fine picture quality with very natural tones and colors (nature and human; trees, sky, faces, city, train, ...), and good details.
-> Good to calibrate your display.

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* The film itself (story, acting, ...); nothing to sweat about (low value). But it's all the surroundings, the cinematography, the photography, Angelina's beauty (very well photographed) here that is the main attraction.
...Tres tres naturel et remplie de purete; couleurs de tout. ...Meaning: Very natural and full of purity; colors of everything.

The music? Nothing memorable (James Newton Howard).
 
Only very few pictures .... (4)

Last night I listened; I didn't watch this time. ...To this Blu-ray Audio, and the four CDs included in this Deluxe Edition ::

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=> The BD has two audio soundtracks, both recorded in hi-rez audio (lossless) Dolby TrueHD (192kHz-24-bit);
one in surround 5.1 and the other in stereo 2.0 hi-fi.
And the four CDs contain several takes, sessions, and the remastered 'Moondance'.

* You can click ^ on the above picture cover (as always) for some info plus one review from one reviewer (I mainly agree with him).
 
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Felt sleepy at times; no fireworks, no artifices, no magic, just old 1958 Halloweenish/cartoonish Ingmar Bergman's dark strange eerie atmospheric nightmarish introverted 'booms' in aurora borealis cold of the cinematic black and white night.

Not for everyone, mainly for people who are harrowing endlessly on lonely nights only.
 
Living Las Vegas....Love the sound track as well.

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Hey, this thread is reserved, for me and Barry only. :D

Jk Paul, of course. ...Nice seeing you watching movies. :cool: ...And that's a very cool/powerful flick too.
...Directed/written and music composed by Mike Figgis. ...He did it all, except acting (actually he did that too in that flick; mobster #1). ...A complete type of guy. :cool:
 
La Notte (1961) - by Michelangelo Antonioni

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- For people who love to study the master on a study of noncommunication between empty and alienated people.
Not for the faint of heart or someone who easily fall in love with everyone and the entire universe.
Watch at your own perils of equilibrium.
 
NorthStar said:
Hey, this thread is reserved, for me and Barry only. :D

Jk Paul, of course. ...Nice seeing you watching movies. :cool: ...And that's a very cool/powerful flick too.
...Directed/written and music composed by Mike Figgis. ...He did it all, except acting (actually he did that too in that flick; mobster #1). ...A complete type of guy. :cool:
Click to expand...

I'm so sorry Bob....................................................:evil:
 
May the best team win ...

I watched this last night; @ 3D :::

By the way:
Happy Halloween everyone, kids included!
:exciting::woot::derf: :ninja: :baby::satisfying::scholar: :olga: :afraid::coolyeah: :coolbroguy: :umbrella::turban: :superbanana::boing::pirate::bananamouse::inconspicuous::safe:​

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* Not as good as the other one which wasn't very good to start off with except for that little girl screaming (Boo),
but technically impeccable. Of course it's a PIXAR animation flick for kids (us).
 
I watched the first film ever directed by John Cassavetes (1959) last night, from this five-film boxset:

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------------------------------------------------------------- I enjoyed it; it had ^ natural panache.

--* And as usual, ^ it's a 'click-on' thing. ...Anywhere, everywhere; for info, and all ^ that cinematic jazz.
 
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