Posted on 12/06/2004 11:15:57 AM PST by ambrose
Did you see it on VOOM in HD last night? I thought it was great!
I'll stick with my 65" 16x9 Toshiba rear-projection unit for now. It's still got several good years of hard watching left in it. :)
That movie was great eye candy.
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That is very true. There's only so close you can get to the samller screens, of course, but the size of the big screen you get should be based on the size of the room it will be in. For example, the afore-mentioned 65" Toshiba looked as large as a movie theater screen from about 11 feet away, but when we re-arranged the room (new couch) to be 16 feet away, it now looks like just a huge TV (which, of course, it is).
Pairing it with a 6.1 surround system is, of course, the icing on the cake. (The TV is Mrs. kevkrom's toy... the stereo system is mine...)
I think it was HBO HD. The movie was okay, not great, IMO. Great cinematography, though. I also had a historical issue with painting the samurai as some type of noble savage good guys. The analogy to America's treatment of the Indians was kind of heavy-handed.
I thought the movie was historically based? Am I wrong.
I've heard that the intended analogy was to John Walker Lindh.
The movie isn't unhistorical, it just puts a post-modern spin on the events. Sort of like how recent movies and mini-series (including the terrible "Attila") paint the Romans as the bad guys while painting their enemies (such as the Huns) as noble.
Seriously?
That's the way some people have interpreted it. Michael Medved I think. No one can know for sure. Allegories can be tricky.
You're watching only 1/2 to 2/3rds of the film!! Do you get a discount for that? If the pic is too small, move your chair a little closer. Sheez!!
"Anybody ever see the movie where pirates find booty and it contains a bunch of laserdisks and one of the pirates says something along the lines of 'What good are these? You can't record on them.'"
"Amazon Women on the Moon", IIRC.
Thanks. I'll have to enlighten myself and learn something about the Samurai.
Problem is I wouldn't know how to set it up. With a TV, I can just plug it into the wall, stereo to the DVD output..
Like you said, allegories are tricky. I see the movie as dealing more with a rejection of modernity and a return to simpler times. A pretty common theme in literature, I guess.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE see posts 27 and 146 many regular people as in, non movie fanatics like full screen or "pan an scan." Mainly because letter box looks like crap and it's hard to watch on regular sized TVs.If I had the money to spend on a "Home Theater System" I can think of half a dozen other things I'd rather spend it on.
That was a thumbnail sketch. Japanese history, especially the period from around 1860 until 1906 (when Japan entered the world scene with a bang) is fascinating.
Good movies use the entire frame. What's missing very often alters the actual content of the scene. If a character is isloated by the director in the corner of the frame to show their alienation you will not see that if they are panned to the center of the frame. Throw on 'Rebel Without a Cause', 'Ben Hur' or 'Lawrence of Arabia'. They are literally unwatchable in 'slice and dice' (pan and scan).
You're not watching the same movie. A good director puts everything into a shot for a reason. As soon as someone messes with that, the effect of the cinematography is changed, and always for the worse.
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