Whatcha gonna watch this weekend?

[Woochifer]

Going to carve out a little bit of time this weekend to go through the supplementals on the new Titanic special edition DVD. Aside from finally putting out an anamorphic version of the movie and including a new 6.1 DTS ES soundtrack, the supplemental disc on the new edition includes 45 minutes worth of deleted scenes.

That will be very interesting to go through because of how disastrous the test screenings went when test audiences were shown a 4 1/2 hour rough cut that presumably includes a lot of those deleted scenes. The resulting publicity that resulted from the audience feedback left everyone bracing for a box office disaster when Titanic came out. History obviously had a different story to tell. I heard that the rough cut had to use storyboards during critical scenes because the visual effects weren't finished yet, and the music had to rely on canned tracks because the score hadn't been composed. The movie itself is already pretty melodramatic, I can only imagine the unintentional humor when you got all this over the top acting against a backdrop of green screens and pencil sketches with canned music playing in the background.

[L.J.]

Going to carve out a little bit of time this weekend to go through the supplementals on the new Titanic special edition DVD. Aside from finally putting out an anamorphic version...

I was wondering what does anamorphic mean exactly?

[Woochifer]

I was wondering what does anamorphic mean exactly?

It simply means that the picture is enhanced for widescreen TVs by anamorphically compressing the image, which a widescreen TV will then stretch out. The advantage to anamorphically enhanced DVDs is that they provide a higher level of detail for widescreen TVs. Almost all widescreen DVDs nowadays are anamorphically enhanced, but in the early days of the format, the majority of them were not. Link with info below.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articl...ic185demo.html

[L.J.]

It simply means that the picture is enhanced for widescreen TVs by anamorphically compressing the image, which a widescreen TV will then stretch out. The advantage to anamorphically enhanced DVDs is that they provide a higher level of detail for widescreen TVs. Almost all widescreen DVDs nowadays are anamorphically enhanced, but in the early days of the format, the majority of them were not. Link with info below.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articl...ic185demo.html

Thank you. That was a great link.

[snodog]

I watched the exorcist for Halloween mood. What a great flick! The extras on the disc are interesting too.

[L.J.]

I finally gotta chance to see House of Flying Daggers last night. Not as good as Hero IMO, but I did like it.

I still got a huge list of movies to watch. Master&Commander, Das Boot, Lawrence, LOTR extended editions......it goes on and on. I will try to sneak in one on Sat. Still waiting for my Batman Begins in the mail .

Taking my kid to see Zathura tomorrow. I'm.........Oh I mean he's, looking foward to seeing it.

[paul_pci]

I finally gotta chance to see House of Flying Daggers last night. Not as good as Hero IMO, but I did like it.

I still got a huge list of movies to watch. Master&Commander, Das Boot, Lawrence, LOTR extended editions......it goes on and on. I will try to sneak in one on Sat. Still waiting for my Batman Begins in the mail .

Taking my kid to see Zathura tomorrow. I'm.........Oh I mean he's, looking foward to seeing it.

I told you.

My girlfriend's making me watch the Harry Potter movies this weekend because she wants me to go see the new one with her. We watched the Sorcerer's Stone last night. Not too bad, I suppose.

[L.J.]

I told you.

My girlfriend's making me watch the Harry Potter movies this weekend because she wants me to go see the new one with her. We watched the Sorcerer's Stone last night. Not too bad, I suppose.

Yeah, it was alright. Nice DD track. I thought the story was a little weak. Not close to Hero but still a very good watch IMO.

[caniac]

Nobody's mentioned Kingdom of Heaven. A slow-moving film but the sequence with the siege towers coming down is worth the price of admission.