Loving the Silver Screen

[JPSmit]

I must confess I am not a huge movie aficionado - I have no idea what most of the Golden Globe/ Academy Award movies even are.

However, there are some movies that I think just need to be seen on the big screen - Rogue One/ Guardians of the Galaxy - adventure & sci fi genre springs to mind.

That said the other is classics. - our local theatre occasionally shows (restored) classic movies that I would never have had the chance to see on the big screen originally - or to re-see movies that I saw years ago.

Yesterday we saw Breakfast at Tiffanys - I am not sure I had even seen it in its entirety before (TBH until the movie started I mentally thought I was watching Roman Holiday ) that said, what a great afternoon! I love the richness of the colour, the details (the cars!) It is just so great to see them on a big screen! (as an aside, years ago we went to a rep theatre and watched an afternoon of Bugs Bunny on the big screen - awesome!) BTW Breakfast at Tiffanys came out the year I was born!

The same theatres run things like White Christmas - at Christmas - fabulous!

Every February they run a "Digital Film Festival" (now called the Flashback Film Festival) - this year hoping to see

Blade Runner/ Groundhog Day/ Starship Troopers/ Fifth Element/ Princess Bride and Running Man - my true favourites though are old Bond flicks - (the really old ones) none of which are showing this year.

 

[Basil]

Speaking of Bond flicks, we just watched "Live and Let Die" last night (I own most of the Bond movies on DVD and/or from iTunes.

 

[PAUL161]

I remember, when I was a little younger, the only time I saw Cleopatra in Panavision, what a thrill that was. The screen wrapped around the theater quite a ways and the sound seemed to follow the action. It was like setting in the middle of the set. Probably none of those theaters left by now. Star Wars would have been quite awesome in one of those theaters. PJ

 

[NutmegCT]

One of my young (age 20) interns says he likes classic films. Yeehaa!

So I asked him if he'd ever seen Lawrence of Arabia. He hadn't but told me he'd rent it and watch that night.

Next day I asked him what he thought. He said "really slow and boring, and hard to tell what was going on".

I said - but what about all those desert scenes, the battles, charging of the troops on horseback, etc.

He said ... and I quote: "that's hard to see on an iphone".

oy

 

[Mickey Richaud]

He said ... and I quote: "that's hard to see on an iphone".

oy

OY, indeed!

He should've used an iPad...

 

[Basil]

He said ... and I quote: "that's hard to see on an iphone".

oy

I watch movies all the time on my iPad. Some things I watch on my iPhone, but depends on how close the screen is.

 

[catfood]

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