Recent content by ChristopherDAC

I admit that I didn't go to see The Master in 70 mm at the Toronto International Film Festival. Instead, I saw a movie which was all static shots of buildings!

"I'll be happy to see Toronto again, although I'd rather see it through a telescope from the lunar surface."

Dr. Goldfoot & the Bikini Machine! That's not a title you see every day. Hopefully.

Nobody beats Chaplin for ridiculous old-man makeup. Twelve-year-old Robert Downey Junior playing nine-hundred-year-old Charlie! Also, I am going to be appearing in a film directed by a Canadian later this year, although I don't know if you'll be able to see it in a theatre. It was...

Oh, they're gonna put me in the movies Yeah, and make a big star out of me You know, I'm gonna be a big star And all I gotta do is, act naturally

I've always thought it would be fun to have a Standard Dachshund. My sister remarks that she saw a Standard Poodle / Irish Wolfhound cross the other day, which seemed like the epitome of the Large Dog.

Saw A Princess of Mars on a free ticket, & scored another free ticket from a survey-taker on my way out. A total narrative mess, & the definition of a loose adaptation, but quite entertaining.

I don't pay much attention to reviewers, since they tend to be horribly jaded, & very rarely do they show familiarity with the source material, which in cases such as this is rather important. The person at Disney who decided to call the move John Carter, because boys wouldn't go to a movie...

Crom!

Ah, Coumadin. My aunt was a little startled to realize that Grandpa was taking by prescription the stuff she had used as rat poison when she was in Africa with the Peace Corps. I know a guy who lost two thirds of his lung capacity to pulmonary embolisms before anyone noticed what was going on...

This being-in-a-movie business is tiring beyond belief. I've half a mind, the next time someone asks me if I'd like to be in one, to knee him in the groin & make my escape while he's doubled over.

I have the 704, & the Mitsubishi clone with the blue front display (which I like better) as my main players. This one I got mostly for the MUSE High Definition discs. Unfortunately there were never many made - the LDDb counts 113, although it's not a complete list, & few of them interest me...

OK, here is the player with its crazy flip-top remote. The text "HDVS" stands for "High-Definition Video System", the designator that Sony used for all its high-definition video equipment, consumer & professional, for years. If you see, there are two LD logos, the normal square one & a round...

Yeah, they came out in the 1990s in Japan, but they weren't popular because of the high price. I'll post some pictures in the next couple of days, but I want to wait for daylight, & I think I'll have to open up the player - something isn't quite right in the mechanism, or it wouldn't be making...

My high-definition LaserDisc player came today. It's very cool, despite the general lack of releases to the format.