Today — Tuesday, 2 December 2008
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| Re: If John Carpenter did the next Star trek movie? Derek Janssen 01:18:22 |
| | David E. Powell wrote:
Geordi's VISOR makes him see nasty aliens everyone else can't!
Kirk and Spock would have a ten-minute real-time punch-out for no
clearly-defined script reason!
Derek Janssen (but we kid John, we *know* he hasn't made a non-cable
movie since "Ghosts of Mars"!)
ejanss1@verizon.net
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Yesterday — Monday, 1 December 2008
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| What a Crappy Wide Screen Format... I could just puke... Martin Hart 07:56:22 |
| | Come on guys. We need some action here. I've been hanging around these
parts for almost 15 years. Come on you Canadians, call us Yanks a bunch
of assholes. Somebody do something.
I have run the Blu-ray HTWWW in Smilebox on our ten foot screen, after a
short demo from the first DVD, and our audience members were just
stunned. I haven't seen lots and lots of high def, but so far HTWWW and
PATTON, made in Dimension 150, just kick some serious butt, especially
compared to films made in the last 20 years.. And for those that want
to know, HTWWW noses out PATTON for a razor sharp image, but HTWWW has a
lot more depth of field to provide a crisper image. Both are winners.
Now somebody argue with me about that.
Marty
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The day before yesterday — Sunday, 30 November 2008
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| Re: 3D = Dim Disney Digital - A Bolt of Darkening Guest 21:35:02 |
| | On 21 Nov 2008 13:56:31 -0500, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
J. Theakston <tomservorobot@yahoo.com> wrote: Disney specifies that with their equipment, you're supposed to get a reading of 4.5 fL on the screen, but that the acceptable range is 3.5 to 5.5 fL. Considering that your target range for dual-strip should be about 6-8 fL at the LEAST, I think this rather appalling. Dimness Jesus, at 3.5 fl. I can hardly even read the credits. Whatever happened to "16 fl or bust?"
IIRC, there can be ghosting issues when most projected 3D is run at
higher light levels. Still, I agree that 3.5 is too low.
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Sunday, 23 November 2008
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| Re: Roadshows David Weiner 09:47:09 |
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) Someone told me that Robert Wise had preferred no intermission, but offered theatres an alternate version with an intermission and entracte. Has anyone heard anything about that?? I had some conversations with RW about presentation, which is how I got the story about why he has an onscreen overture for WSS and why he chose the opening shot, but I don't recall hearing about an "optional" intermission.
The optional Intermission card and music for WSS is on the most recent
DVD of the film.
Dave W.
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| My take on new movie Alan Radtke 02:17:49 |
| | The way I see this movie is that a bunch of kids with out any experience
regardless of learning at the academy getting taught a lesson in very
rough conditons
in the field by some one with experience how ever obtained, that will help
create the characters we all know. Of course they will look like to the
friendly vets in the movie and to we the audience as snot nosed youngsters
deserving no respect. It would be surprising if the vet or vets who shows
Kirk and Spock and the good doctor things, were young looking as well, even
though they were older. Most likely later in the orginal series their
problems that theEnterprise came up against it was Kirk's ideas all
the tricks that Jim Kirk pulled later during the original series can be
traced back to those vets that Kirk met and worked with at this movie's
time. As for relationships between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy this time of
this movie could be the one that started it.
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| Re: Cinerama on Broadway, September, 1952 Peter 02:17:49 |
| | On 2008-11-21 10:38:39 -0800, "J. Theakston" <tomservorobot@yahoo.com> said:
LIFE magazine has been putting up their morgue online for everyone to look at. Check out these photos:
Interesting ...
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=fc142966d8a3412c&q=cinemascope+source:life&usg=__bavgkl54z3a6SJzWZ6KazBvov4w=&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcinemascope%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
...
which works out to be 2.63:1, meaning this was most likely a
pre-release presentation, with separate sound.
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CinemaScope®: The Modern Miracle You See without Special Glasses!
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Saturday, 22 November 2008
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| 2008 Best Animated Feature Oscar Juan F. Lara 21:19:59 |
| | This year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved
14 submitted animated features for the BAF oscar.
http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2008/08.11.10a.html
Bolt
Delgo
Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!
Dragon Hunters
Fly Me to the Moon
Igor
Kung-Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
$9.99
The Sky Crawlers
Sword of the Stranger
The Tales of Despereaux
WALL-E
Waltz with Bashir
Amid Amidi has a collection of official websites for all these movies.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/oscar-qualified-features
Two of these movies are animes. "Sword of the Stranger" had a nomimal
release in Los Angeles in July. "The Sky Crawlers" will be released later
this year, but I don't know what distribution it'll have, if any. That movie
is directed by Mamoru Oshii, so I'll be sure to bring my pajamas and a pillow
when I see it. 
Among the non-wide releases: "Dragon Hunters" is a CGI movie version of
the French TV cartoon that Cartoon Network briefly showed. "$9.99$ is a stop
motion movie by Talia Rosenthal based on short stories by Etgar Keret. I
think it's from Israel. Also from Israel is "Waltz with Bashir", a movie
about a massacre that occured during the war in Lebanon in 1982. I think it's
made mostly in motion-capture animation. It's getting a tremendous amount of
buzz, but more for its important subject matter than for its animation.
There were a LOT of notable absences this year, most likely because the
studios didn't bother to submit these movies for consideration.
The Pirates who Don't Do Anything
Space Chimps
Star Wars: the Clone Wars
Roadside Romeo
Fear(s) of the Dark
Azur and Asmar: the Prince's Quest
None of these movies would've likely been nominated, though I've heard
that "Fear(s)" is good enough to merit a nom. But I'd think that submitting
your movie anyway would be a courtesy to maximize the number of nominees and
raise the profile of the award. If just one of these features had been
submitted in time, we would've had five nominees instead of three.
- Juan F. Lara
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Friday, 21 November 2008
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| Re: 3D = Dim Disney Digital Scott Dorsey 17:37:39 |
| | CineSIght <CineSight@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't profess to be an expert, but I do know that 3D projection is essentially throwing two different pictures on a screen, and the glasses filtert one out for each eye - meaning half as much light in the picture, which is why a silver, presumably high gain screen is used. I have heard of someone using two projectors focused on top of each other to get the brightness back, but clearly that didn't happen here.
Okay, SOME 3-D processes use polarized light... one eye has a horizontally
polarized lens, the other has a vertically polarized lens and the projectors
set up likewise. These processes use a silver screen because the silver
screen preserves the polarization of the light.
If you shine polarized light on a matte white screen, what reflects off is
randomly polarized, which of course would make the process unworkable.
In fact, the silver screens actually have lower reflectance than some of
the higher quality white screen surfaces out there.
I just saw BOLT in 3D in Hollywood. The movie is great fun, well animated, nice to look at, and highly recommended, but it looks about half as bright as a normal film. Like in the old carbon arc days when the two rods weren't aligned well... I saw Chicken Little in this same theatre and, while the story wasn't very bright, the picture was.
There is no excuse for a dim image. You should have demanded your money
back.
I expect to get a lot of answers at the big 3D Summit next month, but meanwhile, has anyone any idea what was going on? The booth has two digital projectors, both with RealD adapters in front of the lenses, but only one was running.
Odds are that the theatre just didn't want to pay the money to do the job
right. If there is light loss in the adaptor gadget, you need a brighter
projector to deal with it, but that's an easy thing to work out on paper
before installing anything.
--scott
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| Why does Star Trek keep looking backwards? Booster Platinum 02:12:01 |
| | There were already two into-the-past time travel movies, then
Enterprise, now a pre-TOS movie?
How are you supposed to have thoughtful science fiction in a setting
constrained by 50-year-old notions of science and social progress?
Is the Star Trek franchise now only valuable for nostalgia-exploitation?
Are form and brand to trump content and ideas forever now? Won't it
ever be inventive and forward-looking again?
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008
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| Re: Star trek 2009 - AMAZING!! Your Name 22:51:19 |
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"evetommy" <tom.andries@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:19489207-a062-47dd-8fde-5c0dfc55141d@t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
Wow! I've just seen the new Star Trek movie trailer and it's just FANTASTIC! Looks more like a James Bond movie than Star Trek ... lol! <snip>
That's because it's not "Star Trek" as we know it. It's another pile of
"rebooted" rubbish that has little to do with the franchise we enjoy. 
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