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I don't know. I think that d9 was the only one that I've seen this year that seemed to warrant it. Final Destination 4, for example, did not.
Although The Fast and The Furious probably would also benefit, simply because it is just a series of images with a load roaring noise in the background.
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I think I will buy an HDTV in the new year. Is 32" big enough or am I going to be mocked for not getting an extra 10 inches that I don't really need?
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all depends on your room size and how far you are from it I think. I was round scrawny's the other day. She's got a sweet projector setup. If I had the space, I would do that.
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At the moment it is quite a big room and I sit about 10 foot from the screen probably but we've only got 28" at the moment and it doesn't seem overly tiny.
However, Hopefully we'll be moving early next year so I don't know how big the room will be then as we're looking to get two extra bedrooms and I suspect we will not have the ridiculously massive lounge that we have at the moment so 42" could be ridiculous.
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I don't like projectors. I think they're basically all shit. Bear in mind that my job often involves high end projection equipment, I think I can speak with some authority on the subject. They're all bollocks, man.
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Do cinemas not still run on projectors? They seem pretty good, but I suppose with HD perhaps it is all plugged into the back somewhere. I have no idea.
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I haven't been to the cinema since Dodgeball and I remember that looking alright. The film wasn't very good though. I'd probably recommend waiting for that one to come out on TV rather than rushing out to the cinema to watch it.
Benway, you should let scrawny know that her TMO contributions recently have been disappointing. Her and Victoria really need to step their game up a bit.
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The Masketeers had a couple of pals round for a sleepover, yesterday evening. They watched G.I.Joe, I caught a few glimpses of it as I fetched in Chinese food and Sprite. It looked great. I plan on watching it tonight.
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Ringo is quite correct about projectors being basically shit. They're good if you want to 'impress' your mates, not so good if you like watching films. Even better is if you have it hooked up to a Bang & Olufsen or BOSE home cinema system - it's much less permanent than tatooing "I'm a massive wanker who knows nothing about AV equipment" on your forehead. Regarding CiH's comment about cinemas using projectors... back in the days of dodgeball, a cinema screen would use a reel of film running past a bulb. This technology doesn't really have a lot in common with yer home cinema projector, hence the massive difference in quality. Of course, film fades, gets scratched and all that jazz so there's been a move towards digital projectors in cinemas too.
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I tried reading that and gave up after about 15 pages, it was dire.
I couldn't believe how lazy it was - literally the original text with some stuff about zombies dropped in at almost random points. There was an opportunity for a clever joke here: the social tensions and blossoming relationships transposed to a zombie seige scenario, that would have been great, although it would have required things like imagination, and time and effort to pull off.
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On a similar note to Timecrimes , I watched Primer the other day. Another good film, although it's more complex than Timecrimes, I'll watch it again to fully get my head around it. It was produced on a low budget. The audio is slightly annoying especially at the start as the characters keep talking over one another, and the jargon they use is apparently very authentic to the way scientists speak. I think I read that the guy who made it took a physics course in order to make it more accurate. Enjoying these low budget films where they really focus on the idea rather than effects.
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quote:Originally posted by Tilde: For me it's Moon, I've already wanked in about it in another thread. I haven't seen many films this year though so I can't really judge.
Finally saw Moon last night. It was certainly very watchable, but just too much of a tribute to all those films he delights in telling us he has made a tribute to.
It's kind of the film equivalent of Ocean Colour Scene... excellent influences, technically very capable homage to those influences, massively missing the soul and spark of the originals.
I certainly couldn't see where all the praise was coming from, really.
I also watched Quantum Of Solace recently, and I think that's probably the first film I've ever watched where I genuinely had absolutely no idea what the fuck was supposed to be happening, throughout the entire film. I mean, even stuff like Eraserhead or those Peter Greenaway films, I'd be happier standing up in front of an audience and explaining those than I would Quantum Of Solace. But I might have just been a bit tired when I was watching it.
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quote:Originally posted by Tilde: For me it's Moon, I've already wanked in about it in another thread. I haven't seen many films this year though so I can't really judge.
Finally saw Moon last night. It was certainly very watchable, but just too much of a tribute to all those films he delights in telling us he has made a tribute to.
It's kind of the film equivalent of Ocean Colour Scene... excellent influences, technically very capable homage to those influences, massively missing the soul and spark of the originals.
I certainly couldn't see where all the praise was coming from, really.
I also watched Quantum Of Solace recently, and I think that's probably the first film I've ever watched where I genuinely had absolutely no idea what the fuck was supposed to be happening, throughout the entire film. I mean, even stuff like Eraserhead or those Peter Greenaway films, I'd be happier standing up in front of an audience and explaining those than I would Quantum Of Solace. But I might have just been a bit tired when I was watching it.
Ocean. Colour. Scene.
I'm sorry dang, we can no longer be internet casual acquaintances.
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I watched both Moon and Star Trek over the weekend and am happy to conclude that Moon is the superior film. Even if it is trying rather too hard to be 2001/Alien/etc. The shift in pace in the third act also felt a bit messy and rushed. But yeah, great film. I haven't seen District 9 yet (I'm going to take a punt and just buy it) so I can't yet say which is the best sci fi film of 2009.
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I watched District 9 and Hurt Locker over christmas, both of which would be strong contenders for film of the year. But I can't really say for sure because I haven't seen that many films this year. Did Synechdoche, NY come out this year? If so - that's my pick.
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I would have got District 9 yesterday when I was in the shop getting Moon and Star Trek, but unfortunately it was all sold out on Blu Ray and it seems stupid to get it on DVD. Instead Reema convinced me to get Pan's Labrynth for some reason.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: I also watched Quantum Of Solace recently, and I think that's probably the first film I've ever watched where I genuinely had absolutely no idea what the fuck was supposed to be happening, throughout the entire film.
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I watched District 9 last night. They were a bit late with the apartheid metaphors, weren't they? I thought all that heart-tugging, political cal was shit. The mech-warrior and the alien weapons were kick-ass, though. There should've been more of that. Mechwarriors exploding Nigerians! Yusss!
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Oh, and I watched The Hangover during the holidays, too. That was well funny. Even Liz liked it and normally if there's two or more adult males onscreen at any one time she rolls her eyes and loses interest.
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: I watched District 9 last night. They were a bit late with the apartheid metaphors, weren't they? I thought all that heart-tugging, political cal was shit. The mech-warrior and the alien weapons were kick-ass, though. There should've been more of that. Mechwarriors exploding Nigerians! Yusss!
I don't think it was so much about "Hey - you know what? Isn't it about time we all showed each other some love, yeah?" so much as it drew inspiration from apartheid and used it as a jumping off point for a sci-fi story. If you take it as a direct allegory for apartheid, then it's probably one of the most offensive films ever made, given that it portrays "blacks" as inhuman, catfood eating barbarians rooting around in garbage and incapable of taking care of themselves even before the white man showed up, and that really what's best for everyone is that they fuck off back to where they came from.
It's more like it looks at the human character traits exposed during apartheid and uses them to drive an alien invasion plot that's a bit more original than the Independence Day thing where everyone's trying to flat out kill each other.
Obviously, the Johannesberg setting invites comparisons with apartheid but to say the film is "late with the apartheid metaphors" is unhelpful and reductive. You have to ignore a lot of the setting and plot to make it just a metaphor for apartheid. I mean, at the end of the day it's just nice to have an alien invasion movie that isn't set in California.
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Having watched both Avatar and Moby Dick during the holidays, I've come to the conclusion that the next film anyone makes should be a futuristic 3D version of Moby Dick in which an insane time-travelling mechwarrior goes back in time and hunts down an intelligent, vengeful megalodon, possibly to a soundtrack of Motorhead, AC/DC, The Ramones and The Wildhearts. There would be a number of symbolic lunch scenes, obviously, and it would be set in 2010 billion years BC, which would cause an ongoing dispute between Queequeg and Starbuck about whether it's twenty-ten billion BC or two-thousand-and-ten billion BC, which is only be ended when Ahab launches a volley of mech-harpoons at them both whilst raving, "zolo billion BC, ye Quaker cannibal gut-slurry!"
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