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Ovader wrote:Sounds like Do The Right Thing.

Nah, that's silly. I'm guessing The Beguiled.

I didn't realize that the Pretentious and Overrated had their own Amazon page to review films. I thought that was only at MichaelMedved.com.

Jeff wrote:

Ovader wrote:Sounds like Do The Right Thing.

Nah, that's silly. I'm guessing The Beguiled.

Might be School Daze

domino harvey wrote:Might be School Daze

Did Eastwood play Coach Odom in that? I always get him and Ossie Davis mixed up.

I know it wasn't Flags of Our Fathers because there weren't any black people in that movie.

Don't you remember that part of The Beguiled where Clint is, like, "Why don't you bitches go get me some pizza?" And so the girls go to pick up the pizza and Amy gets into it with Pino. She's like, "Fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra." And Pino says, "Yeah? Well fuck you, too, and fuck Michael Jackson." That's the best part of the movie.

That reminds me of that scene in Bird when Charlie Parker hoisted the Victrola up on his shoulder and blasted a 78 of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power"

I can't top that. Best. Scene. Ever.

It's not L'Eclisse is it? Oh, say it ain't so . . . #-o

The original Steelbook packaging

Funny for all the right reasons. It's a long one, but funny since it's not even on the page for that godzilla, but this one

What recent academy ratio movie could someone with the username WiiDSmoker have possibly seen?

dx23 wrote:Hi-Def movies should fill up the entire WideScreen TV.

I actually see this misconception from a lot of people who do not at first glance appear to be complete idiots. It's kind of infuriating. Like this little snippet from an otherwise fairly well-informed review of an HDTV:

Cons: Doesn't stretch HD signals for Blu-Ray or DVD that are 235:1 or 185:1 evenly to fill the whole screen, only stretches width not height, but most people watch it normal without stretch, so this isn't a deal breaker for me.

domino harvey wrote:What recent academy ratio movie could someone with the username WiiDSmoker have possibly seen?

WiiDSmoker wrote:I'm not a stoner, if you can't tell that my name is a play on the Wii and the Nintendo DS then you have inherent problems; which is probably why you love black bars on your movies.

Matt wrote:

domino harvey wrote:What recent academy ratio movie could someone with the username WiiDSmoker have possibly seen?

WiiDSmoker wrote:I'm not a stoner, if you can't tell that my name is a play on the Wii and the Nintendo DS then you have inherent problems; which is probably why you love black bars on your movies.

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I think it is completely understandable the guy is getting upset that people are assuming he smokes pot. [/sarcasm]

He doesn't smoke pot, he just smokes Nintendo game systems?

No, he mokes them. What, do you have inherent problems or something?

swo17 wrote:No, he mokes them. What, do you have inherent problems or something?

Not as much as the inherent problem like those damn black bars on film.

The scary thing is that there is a lot of people like WiiDSmoker, who are like the JoeSixPack of the HDTV era. And it could get scarier if studios hear complaints like this and begin catering to them by offering their new version of fullscreen dvds the same way HD channels like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and Starz zoom the films the put on their programming.

I think Joe SixPack likes to watch his 4:3 movies and TV shows stretched out to fill his 16x10 screen because it makes everyone appear about 20% fatter. He doesn't know anyone that looks like a TV star, but add an extra 20-40 pounds and suddenly he can relate to them.

You piiple are all just jealous of WiiDSmoker. Hii's cliirly representative of the New Intellectualism that is liiving us all in the dust. In the face of this new frontiir, wii are all just a pathetic bunch of chiisball anachronisms hewing to black bars. In this diisegregated world, and as someone who grew up in the Bronx and Manhattan, I can tell you that iiven up in Harlem there are verii few black bars left. Black bars, trulii, are for those living in the past.

(cue rain of tomatoes and cabbage)

WiiDSmoker is a symptom of a larger problem -- complete customer misunderstanding about what widescreen and what it actually means. I once had a boss at an IT company I used to work for actually say to me that widescreen TVs suck because they make everyone look fat. I don't think studios will start making the widescreen equivalent of "fullscreen" films, because most of the uneducated JoeSixPacks are already zooming their picture anyway, and thinking that's how it should look.

I had a read an article recently that something like 2 out of every 5 HDTV owners didn't realize they actually had to subscribe to HD digital TV feeds to get the most of their system. They should everything is HD out of the box.

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48 year old white female from Leeds, England Commented on Motorcycle Diaries (Lovefilm.com)

I ordered this film on the strength of all the reports saying how good it was.
Unfortunately - I had not realised it was a foreign film with English subtitles.
On this occasion - i wasn't in the mood to cope with following subtitles and the film, so i just sent it back without watching


48 and still hasn't learnt how to cope with subtitles, =D> hats off to the woman.

In addition to making the upcoming remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still look ridiculous, the author of this article manages to implicate himself in the process. In particular, I like how he feels the need to explain to the reader such foreign terms as "stay-at-home mom" and "Jesus Christ."

Other elements had to updated. For exmaple, the leading lady in the 1951 film (played by Patricia O’Neal) was simply a stay-at-home mom - a traditional woman’s role in movies at the time.

In the original, Klatuu was a rather blatant Christ figure (his assumed name on Earth is “Mr. Carpenter,” a reference to the historical Jesus being the son of a carpenter).