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Post by sick2b on Nov 1, 2020 19:20:42 GMT -6
Very very excited at the prospect of getting to see (at last) the Painted Bird (the EU film festival is turning virtual this year in my town)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2020 21:53:38 GMT -6
Wild movie. Overall pretty good, but the great premise isn't executed as well as it could be.
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Post by munkivelli on Nov 1, 2020 22:17:48 GMT -6
Wild movie. Overall pretty good, but the great premise isn't executed as well as it could be. Did u watch Echo yet?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2020 22:27:37 GMT -6
Not yet. That’s the only one we signed up for that’s not restricted to a narrow time window.
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Post by munkivelli on Nov 1, 2020 22:38:41 GMT -6
Not yet. That’s the only one we signed up for that’s not restricted to a narrow time window. Ohh, okay...virtual film fests are crazy like that
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Post by Kamera on Nov 5, 2020 9:40:36 GMT -6
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 5, 2020 9:43:04 GMT -6
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Post by zircona1 on Nov 5, 2020 10:12:46 GMT -6
Last night Back to the Future was on A&E. We kept it on as background noise.
They completely cut out the part of Doc Brown getting killed by the Libyans in the first half of the movie, as if they were censoring the violence. That's a critical plot point!
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 5, 2020 10:39:44 GMT -6
Last night Back to the Future was on A&E. We kept it on as background noise. They completely cut out the part of Doc Brown getting killed by the Libyans in the first half of the movie, as if they were censoring the violence. That's a critical plot point! i am not here to defend censorship of back to the future but aren't there several shots of marty seeing him dead on the ground before he jumps in the delorean? maybe in the tv version he gets too stressed out and has a heart attack.
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Post by venom on Nov 5, 2020 10:55:36 GMT -6
Last night Back to the Future was on A&E. We kept it on as background noise. They completely cut out the part of Doc Brown getting killed by the Libyans in the first half of the movie, as if they were censoring the violence. That's a critical plot point! i am not here to defend censorship of back to the future but aren't there several shots of marty seeing him dead on the ground before he jumps in the delorean? maybe in the tv version he gets too stressed out and has a heart attack. doc getting killed by the libyans is critical because of the letter that marty writes to doc before going back to the present at the end.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 5, 2020 11:16:16 GMT -6
i am not here to defend censorship of back to the future but aren't there several shots of marty seeing him dead on the ground before he jumps in the delorean? maybe in the tv version he gets too stressed out and has a heart attack. doc getting killed by the libyans is critical because of the letter that marty writes to doc before going back to the present at the end. right, i just don't think the actual shot where the libyans are pumping doc full of lead are particularly necessary if there are other subsequent shots of him dead on the ground after being chased and shot at by the libyans, but its also been a little while since ive seen the movie (at least 3 or 4 months) it'd be interesting to know if they censor it again at the end, because you see it twice - at the end, marty watches the whole thing play out from up by the mall sign. doc's wearing a bulletproof vest, so if they censor it there, they might as well censor marty's gunfight with buford in part III
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 5, 2020 11:18:47 GMT -6
also this is an apropos conversation for november 5th
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Post by venom on Nov 5, 2020 11:29:27 GMT -6
hmm... it doesn't look like there is a clear view of doc on the ground apart from getting shot.
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Post by zircona1 on Nov 5, 2020 13:45:01 GMT -6
chvrchbarrel, you may be right, I was cooking while the movie was on and only looked up at the TV every once in a while.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 5, 2020 14:24:27 GMT -6
hmm... it doesn't look like there is a clear view of doc on the ground apart from getting shot. the shot im recalling is at 3:01 when marty looks over his shoulder before shutting the delorean door
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 5, 2020 14:24:53 GMT -6
chvrchbarrel , you may be right, I was cooking while the movie was on and only looked up at the TV every once in a while. all in good fun, i will take any opportunity to use up half a page of the movies thread to talk about back to the future
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Post by Kamera on Nov 6, 2020 9:58:12 GMT -6
B&N CC is 50% off today
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 6, 2020 11:39:08 GMT -6
thru the rest of the month
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Post by Kamera on Nov 6, 2020 11:59:51 GMT -6
thebosma Is it worth getting the Pearls of the Czech New Wave box set?
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Post by thebosma on Nov 6, 2020 12:01:17 GMT -6
thebosma Is it worth getting the Pearls of the Czech New Wave box set? I’ve only seen Daisies which is excellent, but I have faith the rest of the box is good. Would hope for blu ray upgrades of some of them but that seems like a lost cause at this point.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 6, 2020 12:06:15 GMT -6
will take this opportunity to plug the lone wolf & cub set which i would happily buy again at full price if i ever lost mine
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Post by Kamera on Nov 6, 2020 12:28:43 GMT -6
I would love to own some John Woo films like Hard Boiled but I didn't know they've been out of print for years.
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Post by zircona1 on Nov 6, 2020 13:39:06 GMT -6
I would love to own some John Woo films like Hard Boiled but I didn't know they've been out of print for years. I have a Criterion edition of Hard Boiled. Found it in the used section at a CD/video games store. Might try places like that.
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Post by jazzpolice on Nov 6, 2020 13:54:01 GMT -6
I have the Criterion edition as well.
On laserdisc.
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Post by zircona1 on Nov 6, 2020 14:08:03 GMT -6
I have the Criterion edition as well. On laserdisc. Do you have a lot of Criterion on laserdisc? Apparently some of them have special features that they couldn't transfer to DVD because they lost the rights to them.
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Post by jazzpolice on Nov 6, 2020 14:28:06 GMT -6
I have the Criterion edition as well. On laserdisc. Do you have a lot of Criterion on laserdisc? Apparently some of them have special features that they couldn't transfer to DVD because they lost the rights to them. About a dozen or so? Fisher King, Kane, and the CAV versión of Seven are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
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Post by thebosma on Nov 6, 2020 14:31:53 GMT -6
Do you have a lot of Criterion on laserdisc? Apparently some of them have special features that they couldn't transfer to DVD because they lost the rights to them. About a dozen or so? Fisher King, Kane, and the CAV versión of Seven are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Do you still have a player? That’s pretty sick
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Post by jazzpolice on Nov 6, 2020 14:34:13 GMT -6
Yep still have a player but haven’t really used it for 20 years. Hooked it up a couple of years ago and it still works ok.
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Post by Kamera on Nov 6, 2020 15:32:59 GMT -6
will take this opportunity to plug the lone wolf & cub set which i would happily buy again at full price if i ever lost mine Thanks for the plug, I picked this up.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 6, 2020 15:41:17 GMT -6
will take this opportunity to plug the lone wolf & cub set which i would happily buy again at full price if i ever lost mine Thanks for the plug, I picked this up. Yessssss
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