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I used to complain about 1.85 movies being "expanded" to 1.78 as well. But then I saw that Robert A. Harris wrote and said he was perfectly okay with it. And if "Sir Restorian" is okay with it, then so am I. One thing to remember is that we almost never see a completely accurate frame...

I no longer purchase ANY Blu-rays unless I think that I'm going to watch them at least three times, if they're also available on any of the streaming services that I subscribe to. I've got hundreds of discs that just sit on the shelf taking up space and mostly collecting dust. While there's...

In the 1960's, Ballantine and Ace re-published all of the Tarzan (and most of the other Burroughs) novels in paperback. I gobbled them up. And while as a kid I enjoyed the movies, I was always frustrated that they deviated so much from the Tarzan in the novels. After the 1932 film, which...

Not quite. Half of the top 10 films in the U.S. of 1991 were over 2 hours. Films over 3 hours were always rare. Terminator 2: 2:17 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: 2:23 Beauty and the Beast: 1:24 Hook 2:22 The Silence of the Lambs 1:58 JFK 3:09 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear 1:25 The...

Sometimes the IMAX sequences are nothing more than more top and bottom with nothing of significance in that space and as long as the screen was large enough, seeing the film in 2.4:1 AR really wouldn't have been a different experience, except for it feeling closer in what had been the IMAX...

This film was shot in 2-perf Techniscope. I seem to remember grain the size of golf balls. That was probably because of the budget which was only reportedly $778,000 (Just $5.4 million in today's dollars). That's nothing. There are TV spots that cost that much to produce.

That's nonsense. Your one Best Buy didn't kill off Virgin, Virgin killed itself. There are no North American Virgin stores and there haven't been since 2015. All 23 Virgin Megastores in the U.S. as well as their locations in Europe and elsewhere (except the Middle East, Saudi Arabia...

Even if the best presentation will always be on disc (and as per others, that's debatable), the fact remains that the broader market is abandoning disc and any look at disc sales will tell you that as they're in free-fall. And (unfortunately), 4K never captured more than a few percent share on...

One example is an anecdote, not data. Some people are collectors and have money to burn so they don't care. I've seen posts on FB from people who are fans of reel-to-reel tape recorders. Some of them have a room with ten tape recorders. Why? If one isn't mixing or doing multitrack...

Alien dinosaurs? Other planets??? I thought this movie was about collecting Social Security (which at some point in the future, might be fictional as well).

That's not what it means at all. It means that they want to recover the fee (and earn a return) that they have to pay WB per subscriber. Note that the way cable works, the MSO's (your cable company) have to pay a fee to each channel for each subscriber to the tier, not just the number of...

I was wondering. I was about to give a lot of praise to Lyonne and Sevigny. Someone want to let me in on the joke? I know it's probably a Russian Doll reference, but that's it.

IMO, many aspects of the story were so over-the-top as to be completely ridiculous (unless early Hollywood was far more wild than anyone else has ever legitimately documented). And I think those over-the-top aspects really undermine the movie as it makes none of it believable. But the look of...

It was the first film in 70mm Dolby Split Surround. It played In 15 theaters in that format. I also saw it at the Ziegfeld. But there were not stereo surround speakers "on both ends of the screen". The surrounds were in their normal positions on the walls of the theater and in those days...

A small company releasing titles may be satisfied with a $ million a year in revenue. But a large company would not be. As per my other post, Apple's strategy is to get as many subscribers as possible. If they start releasing in physical media, they get fewer subscribers. So it doesn't...