What are you watching?

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Fun/adventurous/slap flick, even for an older one like this (1963).

* Opens the door to my Criterion's vault....and more.

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<<>> Before that I completed 'Rush' viewing.
- Best part: The very short scene in the bathroom, right after the press conference on the return of Niki Lauda after his very bad car accident (burned face and lungs). ...James Hunt took his defense for once, and that was a fully deserved one.
-- Another favorite: The turntable spinning a record - nice tonearm and cartridge (1976). ;)

1976 - The director Ron Howard tried to give us that de-saturated old disco color look, so the picture is not pristine like a 2014 flick (still excellent on Blu).
The music score is not particularly my bag. ...And the roars of the engines are what they are; back in memory 1976 race car line (Formula One). ...And coming right up from the surround speakers. At times you feel like you're in the driver seat, under the race car driver's helmet, and manually hand shifting the gears, foot clutching, and turning that small steering wheel.

I enjoyed that flick (based from a true story on the rivalry between two famous Formula One car racers, in 1976).
 
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Black and white, 1960, by the Master painter (moving images - camera lens); enough said. ...On Blu, of course.
 
Barry, guess what I watched last night?

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That's right; this excellent 1902's flick! ...That, I'm sure you would tremendously love.
{On Blu too, of course. And you can click on it (picture cover) pour un bref apercu.}

By the way, this film is hundred and twelve years old!
 
Try to get your hand on one (there is a lesser expensive Blu-ray version; not that SteelBook Limited Edition from above but in a regular Amaray case). ...The Amaray Edition, with cardboard slip case, and also with both the Blu-ray and DVD discs.

This one (click on it):

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<<>> It's an important piece of cinema art history for any serious movie lover's collection.
 
My brother and I wanted to see what the Wizard of Oz looked like on blu ray so you turned it on for a few minutes. Well, we loved it and watched the whole thing
 

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Enterprise_firing_phaser_proximity_blast.jpgI’ve been watching over the last few months, the first five seasons of Star Trek, the Next Generation on blu ray. And I have seen a bit of season six on DVD. Boy, have I enjoyed this.

First, the difference between the sound and pictures between the DVD and blu ray are remarkable. The blu ray is sharper, more colorful, more detailed and much better put together. The difference in sound (DD 5.1 to DTS) is also incredible. The way they handle the deleted scenes is far better, making them very easy to assess. And every disc has old and recent features about the series.

There is a downside to seeing a TV show’s episodes so close together. You can get bored (I did a bit at times, then I stopped watching) and you can see some flaws.

For example, for a “ship of peace” the Enterprise is in a lot of battles. And it is armed to the teeth. But what got me is why they have “settlers” on board, a thousand passengers and their children. Where are they going? They describe Earth as a paradise, yet they endanger themselves and their children on these voyages to neutral zones, war areas, contaminated planets, radioactive space and so on. But they never had an episode about settlers settling anywhere. And where does the Enterprise go, “where no one has gone before?” Who would remove themselves from their families, doctors and cable TV?

Why would you have children running around the ship?

By the way for 175 episodes the Ship is in danger about 250 times. At the beginning of each show the Captain, in his opening log, mentions the dangerous mission they just came away from.

Everyone on the ship is overly competent. Everyone is assigned an impossible task that no one has ever done before and they can do it, usually 5 seconds before disaster. This was especially true when Wil Wheaton solved everything.

They all can figure out when they are put into various time loops and how to get out of it. I guess the one type of show I don’t like is when they are threatened by some ridiculous thing that causes ridiculous results (invisibility, aging, explosions, baldness) and they talk techno-babble to explain the cure for it. (Except for baldness.)


All that aside, the show was often a different one each week. A sci-fi adventure, mystery, a western, a pulp detective story and a comedy. I liked, but was not thrilled with the first two years. But, actually, as Roddenberry’s influnce diminishes in the fourth season, the stories got better and less formulaic.
 
Total sci-fi adventure in space.

I bet the world of tomorrow will expand its physical borders more and more into space, and that more and more people will live there, inside enormous orbiting space stations able to accommodate small cities.

And on Mars too, and who knows which other planets of the vast universe.

The planet Earth won't be able to support everything that man is doing to her, and she'll make very sure of that.

What do you think Barry? ...Will you own a piece of space?
{I'm thinking about purchasing a black hole myself; and see what's on the other side of it. - That must be quite a 'warp' ride!}
 
Nope.

I don't think we will ever live in space. We will never be able to travel faster than light, we will never be able to transport people or items; We will have no choice but to live here. By the way i just got the Hitchcock Essentials: North By Northwest, Vertigo; The Birds; Psycho and Rear Window. "A boy's best friend is his blu Ray."
 
Alfred's flicks are timeless; they'll live in space forever. ;) ...I'm waiting for their 4K remastering.

Barry, did you see them flicks; 'Elysium' - 'Oblivion' & 'Prometheus'?

Men already live in space (astronaut scientists). ...And in the future (the future could be far away in time), humans could send colonies living on Mars. ...And huge space stations could become new cities for some people. ...Because some people would rather live in space than on Earth.
And when man has an ambition, a goal, he is unstoppable.

Some people believe that, others don't; we are all free to believe whatever what would/will happen in the future, but that future will eventually catch up with the Earth's human race.
It's just a question of when, and not of how and if.

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-> Woody, not a big fan at all; he still lives in a broken world of dreams. ...Another soap opera, regardless of Cate's acting (is she really acting?) performance. Nonetheless, a few interesting snapshots in that broken type of environment. ...And some other actors I would simply rather not see them, but in space. ...I bet Woody and some of his entourage would love to live in a city from space.
I love New York. :heart:
 
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