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I do not know the difference between my C1 and the B8 model. But whenever I know I'm going away from my TV for more than a couple of minutes (let's say I have to pause something and go to the kitchen to stir something for 5 minutes or so) I use the vocal command button on my LG Smart Remote and...

We discussed this very phenomenon in the TV subforum in the LG C2/G2 thread. I identified the issue (for me, on my previous generation C1) when I was watching the night fight scenes for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Towards the end of the Shu Lien/Jen fight, I thought I was losing my eyesight...

I couldn't help myself. Between meetings I spun up the opening armored car scene. Let's just say first impressions are extremely favorable. The film looks great, the HDR application for the first 15 minutes of the film looks appropriate...or maybe another way to put it is nothing out of the...

Game on, this weekend...

Tangent: this is really well put, I can relate to some degree as someone who lived as a child through the excess of the 1980s, went to college in the early 1990s with not much in my pocket, and the Seattle Sound (later to be named grunge) captured my generation of disaffected youth. While their...

Duly deleted haha. I'm really looking forward to the Heat 4K. When I last watched it, I realized that I don't think the soundtrack gets enough praise. It's really dynamic, intense when it needs to be, and has some of the more impactful and realistic sounds in a modern soundtrack. Not overly...

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It starts with the error that the movie was released in 1995, not 1998, and only proceeds to get less factual from there.

Again if you re-read my underlined part about not dealing with the conspiracy theory of "they weren't on the set together"...well let me reiterate it for you again. I am not trying to convince you (or anyone else) they were on the set at the same time. The great thing about conspiracy theories...

Fantastic summary Brian. Also I will never not be able to think of it as a "coffee date" from now on. Thanks. :lol:

Depending on one's POV, I can see how my comment can be condescending. Conversely I read criticisms of how "this could have been done better" without any actual proof of concept behind it as presumptuous. The truth is often what we don't want to face: both are right. I'm being condescending...

Let's also not forget another brilliant use of over-the-shoulder/reaction/full face shot used in another modern masterpiece of cinema. Or perhaps Jonathan Demme also made a terrible decision in shooting the scene to capture full facial expressions of one actor at a time, as well?

Correction of the correction. You can see every movement on one actor's face at a time. You get plenty of time with both actors. Mann is very intentional when to focus on one actor talking, and when to focus on another actor reacting. Without using something as gimmicky as a split-screen, or to...

I'm sure there are some in the Interwebs who will claim that's a full body back double for Pacino :lol: In all seriousness, it is an iconic final frame of the film.

Well seeing as to how we're all here armchair directors, and he's Michael Mann, here's my two cents from my armchair. Two guys on edge with each other, not knowing if the other will shoot in an instant. Do you sidle beside them in a corner booth or a round seat? Nope. You sit directly opposite...

Also, to prep for the 4K release I watched the hour-long panel that Christopher Nolan MC'd for the film's 20th anniversary. The first half hour was Michael Mann, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, and then the second half hour was just about everyone else from the film including the technical side...

The Conspiracy Theory I recall was that some people claimed that those over-the-shoulder shots was because the two actors "didn't want to be around each other" (for whatever unspecified reason, most likely inflated egos or what not) so Mann had to do over-the-shoulder shots and used back-of-head...

Love this film. I'll buy it. To be honest I didn't even realize it wasn't the TC, but reading peoples' comments it seems to be extremely minor differences. So I'll be buying this on Day 1. Also, anyone else remember the "De Niro and Pacino were never on set together conspiracy theory" back in...