I've had an Onkyo TX-NR609 for about two years now, and I had an interesting experience last night. I was watching a movie, when my receiver turned off; I assumed that I accidentally hit the power button the remote (I always keep it nearby, and I was shifting in my seat), so I turned it back...
This is going to sound like a totally newbie question, but, after years of dealing with HTIAB speakers, I have this set of real, genuine speakers. The only problem is that I have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to the fronts, which have built in powered subs. There's also two sets of...
I think this one is pretty timeless, regardless of what age you are or were when you first saw it. I wrote a full review of it if you want to read what a 27 year old thinks about it these days. :)
Am I going to to be the guy that sticks up for QoS? Granted, I haven't seen the movie in about 2 years (back when I revisited it on Blu), but I remember thinking it was such a good, logical follow up to Casino Royale. A smaller, more intimate flick that wrapped up establishing Bond as a...
I can't wait to give this one a spin; it's one of my favorite movies of all time. Glad to know the Blu-ray is up to par, quality-wise. As far as I'm concerned, American Graffiti is the best and most important teen flick of all time. And Lucas's best movie.
Yep, I got my tickets for an IMAX showing tomorrow. I'll have one day of work before summer break starts the next day, so I hope Super 8 is going to get it started off right. The trailer is certainly awesome, and even though I'm not sipping the Abrams/Spielberg kool-aid yet, I have pretty high...
I think the X-Men movies have all been pretty good adaptations on a thematic level--the kernel of the story has always been there, but I like that "First Class" really embraced being a big comic book movie. Is it still really faithful to the comics, plot-wise? No, but I just see it as another...
Ah! It was Bakula! I can't believe I didn't hear about that until just now. Great nod. A great film too. A prime example of how a film can surprise you if the marketing team restrains itself from feeding you every plot point in the promotion.
If this is any indication, as long as Snyder isn't writing Superman, it should be fine. I especially can't wait to see Amy Adams's midriff in the role of Lois Lane. :p
If you must see one alien movie released in the past month (between this and Paul), pick the one with the well-directed action scenes. That would also happen to be the one loaded with dick and fart jokes. ;)
I thought most of the humor was solid, but what made it work was the heart. More detailed thoughts can be found here (any and all feedback appreciated, btw).
I was disappoitned for Steinfeld too; that's one that I guess I might sort of disagree with, but I find it hard to take anything away from Leo in The Fighter too. And yeah, I would highly recommend both of those.
I thought the show was okay; maybe it's just been the stretch of poor hosts that's conditioned me to accept it, but I've come to expect awkward, forced humor. I was mostly disappoitned that they seemed to drop the thing about honoring past winners; I know they did something with Gone with the...
I really liked it a lot. You can click the link in my signature for my full thoughts. But despite my love for it, I'm not really that surprised by the performance--the marketing was pretty poor, plus, after the Grindhouse fiasco, it's clear that audiences don't care for this low-budget...
Interesting as always, Terry. I thought that international hauls were deemed less important than domestic in determining a film's relative box office success, and I suppose they were at the time. That certainly seems to have changed, though.
I have an odd and random question, and I figure this is the best place to ask it: what's the process for international distribution? I mean, how much money does the studio see from international grosses? I've always been under the impression that they make most of their money from domestic...
Shaye was absolutely right in the case of Nightmare 3. I'm not just going on hearsay when I talk about how awful Craven's Nightmare 3 script is. I've read it. It's godawful.
And anyone who thinks Shaye didn't LOVE Freddy and all that he did for New Line, I urge you to check out the upcoming...
That was Craven's first pitch for Nightmare 3. Shaye and company said it wouldn't work, then he came up with the absolutely atrocious script for Dream Warriors. Barely anything from it remains in the final product aside from some names and the stuff about suicide. They further anyone stays...