Theater vs. Home Theater?

[Kam]

She'll do. Bring her too.

if i hadnt actually already met her (go ahead and hate me, it was worth it) she would be in the running for wifey #3, but alas, i must keep my wives completely separate from reality, lest they ever meet.

[Worf101]

The shuttle from Q'uonos was held up by a run-in with Borg. Luckily a Cylon BaseShip blundered across the space time continum and allowed me to "sneak" away. Onto the topic at hand. I go to the movies still. I've an "art house" cinema near me run by folks I've known for 25 plus years. I watched em grow from a single screen in a converted porno theatre to 8 screens in a converted 50's moviehouse. They make popcorn with REAL butter, they play movies I've NEVER heard of and enough commercial stuff to pay the bills.

My band played both anniversary parties there. The Spectrum 8 Theatres is like home to me. I got there twice a month whether I want to or not. I convinced them to go DD in all of their theatres. I tell them when they need calibration (and they do it). They recently built a coffee house next door and I installed the sound system with my own to greasy mitts. I guess you could say I am almost in the theatre business so I'll never stop going to movies.

Da Worfster

PS all the free movie passes I earn for doing work round there don't hurt none neither.

[SlumpBuster]

Two thoughs:

As to ground breaking movies and CGI, ect. ect. I saw "The Best Years of Our Lives" for the first time a couple of weeks ago on PBS. That movies 50 years old with no CGI and was groundbreaking in 1946 and still one of the most haunting movies I've ever seen. I'm still thinking about it weeks later. Similarly, The Shop Around the Corner almost as perfect a film making gets in is clarity and decieving simplicity. It is leaps and bounds better than You've Got Mail dispite the remake being in color with digital sound. You don't need technology to break gound.

As to being able to identify event or hallmark movies of this decade, that is really an impossible task. Would anyone have guessed in '80s that the Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink and Ferris Bueller would still be a right of passage for teenagers today? Who is to say whether a movie like "The Notebook" (regardless of what you think of it now) won't hold unanticipated importance in 20 years?

[Troy]

As to ground breaking movies and CGI, ect. ect. I saw "The Best Years of Our Lives" for the first time a couple of weeks ago on PBS. That movies 50 years old with no CGI and was groundbreaking in 1946 and still one of the most haunting movies I've ever seen. I'm still thinking about it weeks later. Similarly, The Shop Around the Corner almost as perfect a film making gets in is clarity and decieving simplicity. It is leaps and bounds better than You've Got Mail dispite the remake being in color with digital sound. You don't need technology to break gound.

Yep, all great movies. I also saw "Best Years" for the first time a couple of years ago . . . I expect it to be remade before too long. Hopefully with it's poignancy intact.

As a guy that had done extrensive photography in aircraft junkyards that last scen of all the mothballed B17s almost made me pee.

http://www.lostamerica.com/aircraft.html

[JSE]

Yep, all great movies. I also saw "Best Years" for the first time a couple of years ago . . . I expect it to be remade before too long. Hopefully with it's poignancy intact.

As a guy that had done extrensive photography in aircraft junkyards that last scen of all the mothballed B17s almost made me pee.

http://www.lostamerica.com/aircraft.html

Hey Troy,

Excellent stuff. I really like the lighting effects. I'll have to dive deeper into your website when time permits.

Just added you as a contact in Flickr.

JSE

[3-LockBox]

Yep, all great movies. I also saw "Best Years" for the first time a couple of years ago . . . I expect it to be remade before too long. Hopefully with it's poignancy intact.

Its one of those, "if it ain't broke...don't fix it" things. It should just be left alone.

As to ground breaking movies and CGI, ect. ect. I saw "The Best Years of Our Lives" for the first time a couple of weeks ago on PBS

Where the hell have you two been? I saw Best Years Of Our Lives when I was a kid. Great movie though.

But if you guys have a real zen for classic movies, there's an old movie with Orson Wells in it, Citizen Kane I think is the name, that you might want to see.

[PeruvianSkies]

Two thoughs:

As to ground breaking movies and CGI, ect. ect. I saw "The Best Years of Our Lives" for the first time a couple of weeks ago on PBS. That movies 50 years old with no CGI and was groundbreaking in 1946 and still one of the most haunting movies I've ever seen. I'm still thinking about it weeks later. Similarly, The Shop Around the Corner almost as perfect a film making gets in is clarity and decieving simplicity. It is leaps and bounds better than You've Got Mail dispite the remake being in color with digital sound. You don't need technology to break gound.

As to being able to identify event or hallmark movies of this decade, that is really an impossible task. Would anyone have guessed in '80s that the Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink and Ferris Bueller would still be a right of passage for teenagers today? Who is to say whether a movie like "The Notebook" (regardless of what you think of it now) won't hold unanticipated importance in 20 years?

Right on! Two of the greatest Science Fiction films, Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS (1927) and Jean Luc Godard's ALPHAVILLE (1965) stand the test of time as films that did not use so-called Special Effects and certainly nothing computer generated. METROPOLIS is one of the earlier pioneers of using scale models, but the majority of the films impact is simply it's creativity and ingenuity that is rarely found in filmmaking today. Both of these films will live on because of their ingenious display of raw expression.