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  1. David_B_K

    International Via Vision Entertainment announces new premium Blu-ray label IMPRINT

    I have that older A&E Blu-ray of The Prisoner as well, so I'm good. I actually feel that Danger Man has more re-watchability than The Prisoner. However, I think the A&E Danger Man DVD set in the slim cases is all I need.
  2. David_B_K

    ***Official 1st HTF Western Movies/TV Shows Challenge 2024***

    I've never heard of this movie. Sounds interesting.
  3. David_B_K

    RIP Eric Carmen

    It's like Rachmaninoff dying all over again.
  4. David_B_K

    ***Official 1st HTF Western Movies/TV Shows Challenge 2024***

    It also has what is quite possibly the greatest western film score of all time by Jerome Moross. There are a couple of sequences in the film that seem to be shot to go with the music, rather than vice versa (probably didn't happen that way but it seems like it). The hazing sequence with the...
  5. David_B_K

    "Maestro" on Blu-ray and 4K UHD?

    I hope it does. I'd like to see the movie, but did not want to subscribe to Netflix just to do so.
  6. David_B_K

    ***Official 1st HTF Western Movies/TV Shows Challenge 2024***

    This kind of thing is why I will not likely buy the Blu-ray release of Colt .45 until it goes down in price. William T. Orr's cheap-ass approach to re-using scripts and footage gets old after awhile (not to mention cheaping out on paying his stars). For me it makes it pointless to get...
  7. David_B_K

    Films in which the opening theme or song bleeds into/plays over the opening studio logo(s)

    Barry Lyndon’s music begins over the WB logo, originally the 70’s logo, but on home video they changed it to the original style WB logo.
  8. David_B_K

    International THE ALAMO (John Wayne's extended cut)

    Today is the 188th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo.
  9. David_B_K

    Tony Bensley: Not A New Member, But I Lost The Password To My Old Hotmail Registered HTF Account!

    Tony, Hotmail still exists; they call it Outlook now. If you were to set up a new account, your email would be [email protected], but if you have a Hotmail account, your email will still read as [email protected]. I use a password program to keep track of passwords. It was impossible to...
  10. David_B_K

    HTF Member Bob Grippo (RobertMG) has sadly passed away

    Wow, what sad news. Robert will certainly be missed. His enthusiasm for movies and general good-heartedness were apparent in every one of his posts. May he rest in peace.
  11. David_B_K

    Napoleon (2023)

    I watched this over the weekend. Waste of time, IMO. It was eventually so boring it was a struggle to get to the slowly-paced end. In spite of the spectacle we see in the trailer, it was really not for the most part very epic. The battle scenes in the second half looked low-budget - at Waterloo...
  12. David_B_K

    Vertigo (Remake) (2025)

    Try The Ninth Configuration for a precursor to Shutter Island.
  13. David_B_K

    Vertigo (Remake) (2025)

    Putting aside the questionable logic of remaking a classic, who would be the audience for this? If they make it entirely from Madeleine's POV as a woman controlled by two men, one criminal and one obsessed, they just might be able to sell it as a Lifetime movie.
  14. David_B_K

    Hulu Shogun (2024)

    I forgot about this as well. I read the novel back in the late 70's and I enjoyed the original miniseries. The miniseries was faithful to the novel, but it de-emphasized the Japanese characters. There were no scenes involving the Japanese characters speaking to each other, and it there were a...
  15. David_B_K

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Mary Poppins -- in Blu-ray

    I've heard the word a few times. I always thought it was the actual name of some native tribe somewhere. In Ridley Scott's The Duellists, when Keith Carradine's character reports to the general played by Robert Stephens, his face has been scratched by a woman, and the general says "you look like...
  16. David_B_K

    Masters of the Air (2024)

    Episodes 5 & 6 were extremely intense. I need to quit watching this show close to bedtime.
  17. David_B_K

    Press Release Paramount Presents! Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) (4k UHD)

    There are spaghetti westerns, and then there are Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns. Leone was a truly great filmmaker who (along with his creative team) put the genre on the map in 1964. The hundreds of imitation spaghetti westerns that followed are IMO mainly crap and are difficult to sit...
  18. David_B_K

    Suggestions for 4K with region free Blu-ray playback

    I have this Sony X700 player from 220 Electronics. I think the Amazon ratings are pretty good - 4-1/2 stars from 2,229 ratings. It is very simple to change the region. When the eject tray is open, you press one of those colored buttons (yellow, blue, red or green) to set the region. I cannot say...
  19. David_B_K

    Unable to enable ARC between Hisense & Yamaha

    Follow-up: I must have been streaming a non-Atmos source. Streamed a couple of episodes of Masters of the Air on AppleTV+ last night and the Denon was receiving Dolby Atmos. ---EDIT--- Only drawback I have seen from using ARC is that I have to change the setting back to TV speakers if I want...
  20. David_B_K

    Unable to enable ARC between Hisense & Yamaha

    Finally figured it out. You’re right, thanks. I hadn’t turned it on in the receiver settings. It was a video setting that I thought would be an audio setting. Simply had to toggle it on. So far seems to be working well. Not getting Atmos, but only DD+.
  21. David_B_K

    Napoleon (2023)

    Abel Gance's Napoleon is not so much about Napoleon as it is a fantasy inspired by the legend of Napoleon. I still enjoy it. In spite of its flights of fancy, Some of the scenes feel as if they were actually filmed in the 18th century. I think Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo is very good, aside...
  22. David_B_K

    Unable to enable ARC between Hisense & Yamaha

    I was not sure whether to start a new thread about eARC or add my issues to an existing one. Mods can feel free to move it if they wish. I have a similar issue as the OP, only my components are a TCL QM8 TV and a Denon AVR-S960H receiver. I have never used my TV as the source of sound for my...
  23. David_B_K

    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Star Wars: A New Hope — in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    I think all the great Houston movie theaters are gone now. I don't think I ever went to the Westchase. The one I really liked was the Windsor, which also had those sort of rocking seats and the big screen (can't remember if it was curved).
  24. David_B_K

    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Star Wars: A New Hope — in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    I remember hearing rumors of the Luke/Darth Vader relationship before the film opened. Several friends and I in our early twenties saw the movie the week it opened (can't remember if it was opening day) on the big curved screen of the Alabama theater in Houston. We had heard no confirmation of...
  25. David_B_K

    R.I.P Carl Weathers

    Sad news. Always enjoyed seeing him in movies. R.I.P.
  26. David_B_K

    SIRIUSXM: Still Lazy After All These Years

    I need to remember to cancel Sirius before my subscription runs out in April. I listen primarily to the Sirius Symphony Hall classical channel (recently moved from 76 to 78). Through the years Sirius has shrunk the classical music radio offerings. At one time, they had, in addition to the...
  27. David_B_K

    UHD Review A Few Words About About A few words about...™ - Conan the Barbarian & Conan the Destroyer -- in 4k UHD

    I saw Barbarian in the theater and was disappointed at the time. I had collected the Lancer paperbacks with the Frazetta covers, and subscribed to the Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan comic books, so I was looking forward to it. Even though he totally looked the part, I did not care...
  28. David_B_K

    What annoys you?

    I agree. IMO, the culprit is the building administration. If their contractor is not up to the task, they should have gotten another one. In addition, do any local TV stations have some sort of "watchdog reporter"? Here in the Houston, TX area several stations do. Most companies and city...
  29. David_B_K

    Masters of the Air (2024)

    Watched episode one. Loved it. Perfect mix of probably accurate macho flyboy cliches and gripping action scenes. I expected more of a CGI look, but it looks like real B-17's all over the place. The only CGI-looking parts were some of the terrain shots. Music score has a sense of drama and import...
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