Enjoy.
and the english countryside is beautiful when misty and rain-drenched.
Yes - the PG-13 remake!
COME SEE McG'S BRILLIANT RE-IMAGINING FOR AN ALL NEW AUDIENCE! STARRING SHIA LeBOUF!
Wow. I thought for sure Whitey would join the drinky/MAF CoM hate brigade. Cheers for choosing the right side. Easily the best movie of 2006 for me.
Hrm, i think ill watch Johnny Mnemonic today. Its awesome. Good theme idea.
Drinky's appraisal of COM is spot on. Like most poorly done artsy-fartsy films, COM thinks it's much smarter than it really is. Its story is plodding rather than thought provoking. The preaching falls flat on its face because neither the delivery nor the content is fresh. This movie bored me so badly that I wished it had gotten the Wilco treatment with Michael Bay as director and The Rock as an ass-kicking baby protector. It would kinda be like an updated version of Van Damme's Cyborg.
Drinky's appraisal of COM is spot on. Like most poorly done artsy-fartsy films, COM thinks it's much smarter than it really is. Its story is plodding rather than thought provoking. The preaching falls flat on its face because neither the delivery nor the content is fresh. This movie bored me so badly that I wished it had gotten the Wilco treatment with Michael Bay as director and The Rock as an ass-kicking baby protector. It would kinda be like an updated version of Van Damme's Cyborg.
your taste in movies might just be worse than pd's.
lrn 2 reed Himu, I have seen Clockwork before.
Time After Time will be included in any potential Malcolm McDowell night. Probably at the expense of either Tank Girl or Star Trek Generations. Or both, maybe.
You can still do a David Warner night and have it be good, but it'd have to be...not focused on his sci-fi works.
I give up! I just finished the shining and I am movied out. . .
Children of Men
2001
A Clockwork Orange
1.25 hour long documentary/interview with Malcolm McDowell
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut will have to wait.
What could next weekend's (attempted) theme be?
Get me some caps of Nicole Kidman's cupcakes in HD.
COM...meh. Cuaron has done better work with y tu mama tambien and potter.
COM...meh. Cuaron has done better work with y tu mama tambien and potter.
I too just watched A Clockwork Orange on HD-DVD yesterday Whitey, and its incredible how much of an improvement this transfer is over what previously existed. Also, watching it again for the first time in years, what was previously a middle of the road Kubrick for me, I now think I would place at #2, JUST below 2001. So yeah, I fully endorse the ACO love. The McDowell retrospective is great too. I loved his reaction to the dildo question, and his impersonation of the actor playing the crippled old man in ACO. These HD Kubrick sets are a godsend. And if ACO's transfer is considered to be "weak" compared to the others, then I am in for a real treat.
COM...meh. Cuaron has done better work with y tu mama tambien and potter.
cheebs, are you for real.
Yes to all of those! Is Strangelove (or any of the older ones) in widescreen? I forget what year widescreen got big.
Also, I really wouldn't mind Lolita and Spartacus on BD.
I still need to watch Black Book on Blu-ray...
i've only seen a handful of kubrick films. :-\what ones?
i've only seen a handful of kubrick films. :-\what ones?
I am so angry at myself for buying 2001 and clockwork last week on dvd since now I got a hd-dvd player. :-\ I can't buy 2001 twice in less than a week...
after seeing The Shining in HD last night, I have been acting like I'd never seen it before (it was the sixth or seventh time I've seen it)
wow just wow, HD makes movies worth watching again :bow :bow :bow
Call me crazy (as I contradict every review of the sets I have read), but I found that The Shining's HD DVD IQ wasn't nearly as impressive as A Clockwork Orange's. And I still think that, while awesome, The Shining is definately a lesser work from Kubrick.