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Bob, Um, really? The movie made so little impression I don't remember that. If true, sorry!

Cameron, I've heard same as you. I understand actually that flying daggers was big in China and as you said they found Crouching Tiger a snooze. I find it interesting that, silly flying sequences aside, Crouching Tiger did appeal to me much more on the strength of its characters and Flying...

This thread seems filled with fans overly glowing about this film. That's fine I guess if mostly fans come to the thread, but for those who are not already fans of this genre, I'll offer an outsiders review of the film. I agree with Jason GT, unfortunately. There is no character development...

As far as the novels being sucky, I read the "real" Ender's game first, which was a short story. I say real because that was clearly the inspired form of this tale - the novels were just fill-out projects for a working writer trying to earn money after the short story was a hit and thus by...

Could you tell us the ending? I'm not gonna see the movie, just curious. Put it in a spoiler box to protect those who don't want to see?

After searching the forums for info on this 38" 16:9 tube set, I've found general references to the set having a great quality picture, some potential difficulties with evenness of brightness in the tube and susceptibility to stray magnetic fields, and some concerns about reliability (very...

Hey all, Thanks for a string of interesting responses. Several of you were correct in interpreting my question. I wasn't asking about religious beliefs but simply what is the source of the specific events in Gibson's film. I read the Gospels and basically saw none of it. I haven't seen the...

Thanks for the response. I hope there's more to this than what you say, because Gibson's whole point (along with his supporters) is that the very details of Christ's suffering are absolutely necessary parts of Christianity. So, I was surprised that the gospels don't mention it at all. I guess my...

I haven't read all 29 pages of this thread either, so apologies, but I had a reaction similar to above (though I haven't seen the film). I checked all 4 Gospels this weekend and noted that "the passion" does not exist in any of them as a detailed description of Christ's suffering. They all say...

I agree this film is now in clear record territory and it's also off the conventional film curve, so it's very hard to predict where it will end up. I thought it would fizzle at the BO, then when it rang up record opening numbers I was sure it would pull a Hulk and fizzle in weekend 2. This was...

Couldn't agree more! I'm on the verge of buying right now, and I see this announcement, people talking about new products in the spring, wait for those until you buy. These aren't new products in the spring, they are next year's models, still 8 to 9 months away. And, if the GWIII threads...

My point is, let's have an apples to apples comparison and not confuse the issues with all these distracting comparisons. I think it's fair to say the mainstream of buyers interested in a digital TV today are in my situation. - They have a big tube TV, but they want to expand to a more...

Going back to the original purpose of this thread, I would warn against concluding too much based on what you see at BB and CC, etc. As someone pointed out, it's truly remarkable to me that they sell anything given how badly they set up their TVs. And, normally, I find they are NOT set up to let...

Well, I'm no engineer, but since CRT stands for cathode ray tube, I imagine that a rear projector using a CRT is in fact using a tube. And, this makes me wonder how a direct view CRT could be inferior to a rear projected CRT. The mask you mention might be a factor that makes sense to me. But...

Just to chime in uselessly here, I did exactly the same calculations as you for my 36" 4:3 Toshiba vs my buddy's 34" Sony XBR 16:9 CRT since they are now very affordable (under $2k). I concluded that I would get a widescreen picture (my main concern) that was in the neighborhood of an inch or...

Wise words there. I too finshed slogging through many of the very long threads over at avsforum.com and one takes away a general sense of alarm at first, there seem to be a lot of folks with the Wega sets that had problems. And, the XBR sets don't seem to have problems. But, on closer...

What???!! You're crazy, man. No offense, but you can't go more than a couple of feet off axis before CRT projectors I see in stores become very degraded to my eye. I understand they can produce great pictures in the absolute sense, but their positional brightness limitations, hotspotting, and...

I think this point is key. It's fair to say that the book, while not perfect of course, deals with a number of these classic internal consistency issues with considerably more subtlety and thoroughness than the films could. I mean, the basic premise of sending 2 inoffensive hobbits into Mordor...

Well, as many have said here, this isn't so automatic in my book. The Hobbit was a children's story, lacking the obvious influence of Tolkien's WW1 experiences that frankly form the essence of my attraction to LOTR. Also, after the grand tale of kingdoms in conflict that is LOTR, I think Hobbit...

As I finish re-reading the book, I'll just sum up my feeling about the movies. Overall, my re-read since TTT has made me realize that Jackson was closer to the books all the way through than I had realized. Particularly in TTT, virtually everything there is in the books in some fashion (example...

I haven't seen it yet (tickets for tomorrow night Grove theaters Hollywood), but I will say this is one thing Jackson has consistently had problems with. Tolkien took pains to try and explain every situation like this rather than having characters pull new powers out of thin air to conveniently...

This is a difficult issue. It seems nostalgia and other forces help to cloud our ability to compare films from different eras. But, I agree with those who feel there has been a definite change for the worse in film making over the years, all film making, lead by changes in Hollywood which is...

Perhaps the problem is that willy-nilly recutting of films has been confused with what I would think of as a true "director's cut." And, I agree, obviously, that the willy-nilly recutting is a bad idea. Case in point - Apocalypse Now Redux really was an inferior film, and the motivations...

I think film does change as the years go by. Consider some basic big-picture trends. Attendance at films has basically been declining since they were invented. In the early part of the 20th century, attendance at cinemas in the US amounted to something like 85% of the public weekly seeing at...

I haven't see Matrix 3, but I saw the previous 2. All I need to observe, it seems, is 1) how awful Matrix 2 was compared to Matrix 1, revealing the W brothers as pretty mediocre, unoriginal film makers with immature points of view and nothing to say, and 2) all the back and forth in this forum...

Well, I'm not surprised to see so many negative reviews of the film here. I agree with those negative reviews, actually, almost to a tee (my group was snoozing through this thing, plot was TV-quality police drama, depended a lot on really lame coincidences and unrealistic behavior), and like...