Recent content by Gabe Oppenheim

Thanks for the response! I saw this thread and said, "Wow, I too have wondered about this very thing!" and it turned out that I indeed had. Too bad about the DVD, though; I would have been interested in seeing the film again in a more comfortable environment, and it looks like I won't be...

I'm not trying to be a troll here, but why do YOU think this movie has been used by the Pentagon and other groups? When I saw it recently, I was struck by how badly things turn out for both the militants and, particularly, the French--which I think is largely the point of the picture. The...

Many reviews of the film (and some interviews with van Sant) specifically mentioned the 1.33:1 aspect ratio of the film and its "boxy" "familiarity," so the widescreen version is not the one that reflects the director's intent, though it does, unfortunately, reflect what was almost certainly the...

Please PM me as well if you please. I would be ever so grateful!

Does anyone have any idea how to put the packaging back together once it has fallen apart? Mine did, and I can't seem to get it back in properly. The thing is a damned logic puzzle masquerading as a DVD box.:angry:

Although I've reconciled myself to dubtitles on foreign films over the years (at least one gets the original soundtrack and attendant performances; a presumably weaker translation is unfortunate and detrimental but most English speakers, including me, will never know the difference anyway), the...

When the first season of Alias was originally broadcast, were subtitles provided when characters speak foreign languages? I have watched about 9 episodes, and only once were there burned-in subtitles during the electroshock scene in the Romanian hospital . I have seen snippets of the show on...

Solaris was initially given an "R" by the MPAA; the scuttlebutt (ha) was that some shots of George Clooney's rear were responsible for the rating--Soderberg and Clooney appealed and the rating was changed. The more cynical among us might have thought that the whole thing was nothing more than a...

Gah! Just after I spent good money purchasing the Babe DTS LD*...Any extras will be much appreciated; Babe is my second-favorite film of all time! *(which will quite possibly sound better than the new DVD).

Whale Rider is most certainly playing in Chicago and the outlying area. Even if you aren't close to one of those theatres, it would be well worth the drive to see this wonderful film. The distributor seems to be aiming for a gradual platform release, so if you absolutely can't make it to one...

Regarding the "big" prophecy revealed at the end of this book: was anyone else let down? Sure, the information given might be somewhat interesting for Harry, but any (even mildly) astute reader should have figured out by now that, by the end of the series, it's going to come down to Voldemort...