| Title: | Movie Reviews and Discussion |
| Notice: | Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie! |
| Moderator: | VAXCPU::michaud o.dec.com::tamara::eppes |
| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1249 |
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I recently saw a story on MTV's "The Big Picture" where some people
in Hollywood were considering the idea of having a movie open on
Pay-per-view before it opens at the box office. They stated that it
would have to be a pretty big movie to try and equal the kind of hype
a big boxing match gets...like maybe an Arnold movie????
Anyway, as I was watching Total Recall on tv the other night, the MTV
story came back to my mind and I thought how horrible it would be to
see a movie like this on opening day on a television set. The effects
don't even come close to what is experienced in the theater.
I remember a Siskel & Ebert program where they showed many examples of
how much can be missed by not having the letterbox effect on the
television when watching big-screen movies. But even watching the
movie on tv in letterbox does not give the full effect.
Here are a couple movies that I regret not having seen
on the big screen:
Out of Africa
Road Warrior
Medicine Man
I was overjoyed when the director's cut of Blade Runner came out
because I never saw that one on the big screen up until then.
-steve
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| 173.1 | 12368::michaud | Jeff Michaud, DECnet/OSI | Tue May 04 1993 14:04 | 4 | |
> Here are a couple movies that I regret not having seen on the big screen: > Medicine Man don't worry, you didn't miss anything! :-) | |||||
| 173.2 | 6214::TORCHIA | Live in the now! | Tue May 04 1993 14:13 | 7 | |
re .1 Without getting into a discussion about the movie, I agree
that it wasn't the greatest movie, but the scene where they
are above the canopie of the forest must have been awesome
on a big screeen.
-steve
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| 173.3 | Small screen or small speaker? | VMSDEV::HALLYB | Fish have no concept of fire | Wed May 05 1993 14:20 | 5 |
... is it possible the dominant sense is Sound rather than Sight?
Who's got an audiophile-style TV sound system? (Party at -your- place:-)
John
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