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#3401 Post by domino harvey »

DVD Review: Pretty much the greatest thing about this Blu-Ray is that both movies are in 1:78 ration aspect. Or 1:77. Whatever. The picture quality may not be up everyone's a$$ but I hate HD so I was happy about it, thus, don't care what you think.

Movie review: Wizard Of Gore was a weird movie. It made absolutely no sense what so ever. But it was gory. Gore Gore Girls is a wonderful movie filled with ugly broads showing their boobs. Then they get mangled in a hilarious way. Butt tenderizer!!!!
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#3402 Post by gcgiles1dollarbin »

He should have replaced "thus" with "ergo" for more syllogistic power.
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#3403 Post by Adam X »

someone on [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCtuP41Y5xM]You Tube[/url] wrote:i lovve his art , what type of art is though does it have a name? like how there are types of writings is there types of art?
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#3404 Post by Gregory »

Sadly it's true, they let kids on YouTube.

I believe that type of art is known as "primitive computer animation."
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#3405 Post by Adam X »

I'm not sure I'd refer to Dave McKean's work as primitive, though the resolution of that clip (from 2000) doesn't really help.
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#3406 Post by tarpilot »

Of a true crime book about Jesse James Cummings, who was executed five years before it was posted:
PuMbA's MoMmy*•.♥.•* wrote:5 stars for this one not because of the horrific crimes that Cummings commited but for the extensive research that the author did to write this book. The book flowed like a movie and not like a text style true crime novel.

This has got to be one of the most horrific and brutal true crime stories I have ever read. It is just unimaginable what Cummings did to these women and children. The instance that stands in my mind a lot is when he beat 12 month old Scottie until he got welts because Anita did not want to prostitute herself one night. Another is when he pours bleach on scraped skin. This man is the devil in carnation.

As hard as it was to read, it is important because when murders like him come up for parole, more people can stand up against it if they know the crimes committed. It is amazing how Anita & Sherry stayed as long as they did and how they refrained from putting a bullet in this man's head themselves.

I sympathize with them to an extent. However they are in jail where they belong for their part in Judy & Melissa's murder. I plan on reading and googling more on this case and I hope to discover that they have already put this devil to die.
"The Devil in Carnations" is actually my favourite Nick Cave song. I also like the following exchange in the comments:
Sounds horrible!
OMG it was and this guy is so lame.
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#3407 Post by domino harvey »

Re: Leave Her to Heaven
Had to watch it in B&W however, that's how I like my Noir.
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#3408 Post by FrauBlucher »

domino harvey wrote:Re: Leave Her to Heaven
Had to watch it in B&W however, that's how I like my Noir.
Can't figure out who's worse, this clown or Ted Turner.
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#3409 Post by Manny Karp »

domino harvey wrote:Re: Leave Her to Heaven
Had to watch it in B&W however, that's how I like my Noir.
David Lynch's Black & White Velvet
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#3410 Post by domino harvey »

A professional robbery at the Hubert National Bank in Cincinnati draws the attention of the FBI. Agent Montgomery (Christopher Meloni) heads up the investigation. His wife was killed and tortured. It still bothers him.
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#3411 Post by domino harvey »

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#3412 Post by Forrest Taft »

This 4 star Letterboxd review of O.J.: Made in America gave me a good laugh:
Can't believe you all gave five stars to a documentary that crops and zooms archival 1.33 footage to fit a 16x9 screen.
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#3413 Post by Ashirg »

That was an artistic choice of the director to show how racism in USA crops out African-American issues and zooms on what's important for the white America...
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#3414 Post by Zot! »

Very few people relize that Pan & Scan is short for Pan Asian and Scandinavian, leaving all other ethnicities literally on the margins.
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#3415 Post by rspaight »

Black Bars Matter
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#3416 Post by Robin Davies »

RobertAltman wrote:This 4 star Letterboxd review of O.J.: Made in America gave me a good laugh:
Can't believe you all gave five stars to a documentary that crops and zooms archival 1.33 footage to fit a 16x9 screen.
Am I missing something here? Is it "rediculous" because he said 1.33 instead of 1.33:1 or something?
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#3417 Post by mfunk9786 »

It's because it's patently absurd to imply that archival footage from television news and/or security cameras, etc needs to be treated with the same reverence as archival film, and even more absurd to imply that this negatively impacts the quality of the documentary itself
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#3418 Post by EddieLarkin »

Though stretching 1.33:1 archival footage to 16:9 really is annoying.
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#3419 Post by cdnchris »

Is it zooming or stretching (haven't seen it)? Because if it's stretching... oh man, that's a 2 star review there!
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#3420 Post by AfterTheRain »

rspaight wrote:Black Bars Matter
Now there's a movement I can get behind!
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#3421 Post by mfunk9786 »

I think the fact that I can't remember a single instance of this being distracting in all 7+ hours of the doc means it's probably well-considered cropping, not stretching
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#3422 Post by Forrest Taft »

Yeah, I didn't notice any streching at all. Didn't notice any cropping either, eventhough (I like to think) I tend to notice these thigs. But that's probably because I was entirely engrossed in the doc. One of the best things I've seen all year, second only to One More Time With Feeling.
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#3423 Post by Robin Davies »

mfunk9786 wrote:It's because it's patently absurd to imply that archival footage from television news and/or security cameras, etc needs to be treated with the same reverence as archival film, and even more absurd to imply that this negatively impacts the quality of the documentary itself
That may be true in this case - I haven't seen this documentary. And it's not as bad as "stretching" which now seems to be sadly endemic on British TV at least. But surely this is the sort of thing that reviewers can usefully mention. I was about to buy a Thin Lizzy concert on DVD until I decided to check out a one-star review. Often they are written by certifiable lunatics but in this case he was the only reviewer who mentioned that the entire thing had been cropped to 16:9. Order gratefully cancelled...
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#3424 Post by calculus entrophy »

that crops and zooms archival 1.33 footage to fit a 16x9 screen.
Its even more rEdiculous because on top of the type of footage that it is, its not even inferring that there was any stretching of the image. Total fail.
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#3425 Post by Never Cursed »

Guess the movie! This one is a 5 (of 10) star review from IMDB.
vitachiel wrote:Time for some counterbalance. For me it was quite a challenge to sit this one through. There has been much praise for its historical significance, its lyricism and the remarkable feats of the actors; I found it boring, monotonous and slightly pretentious. Am I the only one here or do the like-minded just not care to review on it?

The main character, (name), lacked charisma and the attempt to tell so many stories at once results in a serious lack of coherence. The only things I may remember from this film are the magnetic 'rebel without a cause' (other name) and the little guy singing in his rock 'n roll band. The rest is just a drag. (x) hours long…
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