What DVD have you just watched?

Brucie

How the West Was Won looks and sounds stunning on Blu-ray. Despite the age of the film (1963), it looks like it was made yesterday, and puts to shame some of todays HD discs. The restoration including cleaning up the 'joins' in the 3 part image is superb. Strongly recommended as it is unlikely to get any better than this.

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Originally posted by tonym:
Dear Frank,

Sound options are 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio & 2-channel Dolby Digital.

The sound quality on my original Gladiator DVD was pretty exceptional - encoded in dts-ES, but the BluRay's a whole different kettle of fish.

I'm using the Oppo BluRay player to do the decoding & feeding the 7.1 analogue inputs on my AV2.

Thanks much Tony!

Haim, how did you find "The Visitor"? I was slightly underwhelmed by the film despite some great acting.

Regards...

We watched Angels And Demons on BluRay last night.

Nothing like the book of course and despite all the slagging off the film's had we thought it was pretty good.

The way they managed to recreate scenes around the Vatican without actually being allowed to film there were very impressive, plus the quality of the picture and sound was exceptional.

Not a DVD ,but went to see District9 last night ,not as good as I thought it would be, judging by the positive reviews I had read in several papers.

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Originally posted by tonym:
We watched Angels And Demons on BluRay last night.

Didn't know it was out on disc. I'll order my copy ASAP Thanks Tony!

Buena Vista Social Club, wonderful DVD I'd certainly buy in a bargain bin.

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Originally posted by Flame:
Haim, how did you find "The Visitor"? I was slightly underwhelmed by the film despite some great acting.

Regards...

Same here, Maher, disappointed.
A good movie I may recommend though I am not sure that you can get in SA (it is an Israeli film):



http://www.netflix.com/Movie/T...07451706b6b586_0_srl

Regards,

Haim

hmmmmmmm
very interesting

Netflix doesn't work internationally. Looks like i will have to buy the movie from Amazon. It is on my shopping list

Regards...

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Originally posted by Flame:
Netflix doesn't work internationally. Looks like i will have to buy the movie from Amazon. It is on my shopping list

Regards...

Let me know, Maher, how you find it.

Haim

This was really fun and touching. One of the great things is the scenery, I"ve never seen the desert and western landscape filmed so well. It becomes a character in it's own right.

then I watched




such a delightful film

I think it benefits from not being 6 1 hour episodes as the original BBC mini series!

Looks interesting Blueknowz. Do you recommend it?

I thought it a very good recommened!

Laurel & Hardy (Volume 14)

A Job To Do ~ Classic Shorts

Busy Bodies 1933
restored black and white version
(The Sawmill)

Busy Bodies
computor colour version

Double Whoopee 1929
restored black and white
(silent with music)
(A footman and doorman are hired at a plush Broadway hotel,
also staring a young Jean Harlow)

Hog Wild 1930
black and white version
(How to fit a Ron Smiths Galaxy 17)

Hog Wild
computor colour version

Dirty Work 1933
restored black and white version
(Professor Noodle hires two chimney sweeps)

Dirty Work
computor colour version

The Finishing touch 1928
restored black and white (silent with music)
(Builders Stan and Ollie finish off a house)

The Music Box 1932
restored black and white version
(One of the funniest ever L&H classic short films:
Starring Professor Theordore Von Schwarzenhoffen M.D., A.D., D.D.S., F.L.D., F.F.F and F.)

The Music Box
computor colour version

Hats Off
stills gallery

~<>~

4:3 Aspect-Ratio ~ purfect for my old telly!
The restoration work is excellent, very recommended! : )

Debs

My sister bought me the complete boxed set for my birthday!

Saw this last night. Superb. It's about a doctor from a rich but decadent family with a checkered past. He joins the Italian Fascists Secret Police in order to become a normal member of society. He marries a member of the Petit Bourgeois to complete the picture.

Not top give the ending away, but he finally discovers that his quest for normalcy is a farce. As Fascist Italy falls he realizes that his reasons for joining, like the farcical ideology he pretended to believe in, have led him to murder, betrayal, and in the end a hint of latent homosexuality, which once suppressed, now comes to the fore in the closing scene.

Stunning cinematography and superb acting all around.


Bro

Watched Blade Runner ,Final Cut, I'd forgotten how slow and dark it was, the sight of Joanna Cassidys' tits brightened things up, oh and the music.

Hi Bro. Aren't you telling us a bit too much in case we wanna watch the movie ?

Regards...

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Originally posted by Flame:
Hi Bro. Aren't you telling us a bit too much in case we wanna watch the movie ?

Regards...

It's a rather difficult movie. It's very likely that people viewing for the first time might not understand it very well, ending or no. The time frame and context are constantly changing (the film begins near the middle and then flashes back before beginning all over again). At any rate, the ending is ambiguous, so my telling it is just my interpretation. You can make of it what you will.



Bro

Magazine live at manchester - excellent of course

Misja and Trafiic

Both too crqzy to comment on withou a secong vieew

Just watched this.....I'm sure George would approve..superb

Jim