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Doctor Submarine wrote:

I'm starting a petition for some foreign language films!

If so, how about the Soviet Solaris movie? Someone brought it up 2 years ago...

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I'd love some Star Wars posters on my wall, the SW artwork is absolutely awesome smile For now, I have to make do with a Mona Lisa reproduction (I guess that makes me a geek and an art fag big_smile ).

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Jimmy B wrote:

I don't think any film in her collection would cause me to leave. Everyone has different tastes and I accept that.

Ditto. She can have anything in her collection (even The Human Centipede or Twilight) as long as she doesn't force me to watch it with her. big_smile And I hope she won't be freaked out by my sci-fi and Winnie the Pooh DVDs either (some women are  wink ).

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In Europe, almost all homophobic right-wingers hate Israel with a passion. sad And Creationism is pretty unpopular on the Old Continent, even among nuts. big_smile

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Nice cool I remembered his name from the ST-ENT credits (that's how big of a nerd I am).

You're telling me that movies are made by real people? Now that's just crazy big_smile

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Actually some of the heavy-handed messages annoy me as well. big_smile But the best ST-TNG episodes don't have them - they're just pure and awesome fun.

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Darth Praxus wrote:

I hate TNG with a passion.

You deserve to be eaten.

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(991 replies, posted in Off Topic)

It's the one where Jesus is a talking lion.

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(80 replies, posted in Episodes)

The same Terry Matalas that worked on Star Trek: Enterprise? Wow, Hollywood is a small town...  smile

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I can't believe nobody mentioned Free Enterprise.

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(473 replies, posted in Episodes)

It's described here

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avatar wrote:

old TV shows that I loved when a kid e.g. Space 1999

It was one of the few Western shows that were aired in Poland during the Communist era. I used to love it... and now it's just a strange 1970s artifact to me. Star Trek and The Twilight Zone still work for me, though (we got those two in Poland as late as 1990s).

avatar wrote:

What seemed awesome at the time is now riddled with obvious composits, grain differences, etc. The 1980s were full of blue-screen composits and stop-motion that don't date well and take you right out.

Dated visual effects can be considered a part of the charm of old movies. What really takes me out is the CGI added to the original Star Wars Trilogy. I would rather see some matte lines  wink

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redxavier wrote:

It's why I'm reticent to watch Avengers again

It holds up to a second viewing really well.

On the other hand, I revisited The Goonies (a movie I grew up with) and it wasn't nearly as great as I remembered it.

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avatar wrote:

6. Have you overdosed on the movie/song/album/band/TV show? After binging on Jim Beam or chocolate cake, it may turn you off them for life. Why wouldn't it be the same for a movie? You can have too much of a good thing.

I've seen Die Hard and Aliens too many times. I still can see why they're very good movies, but I can't be genuinely entertained by them anymore  hmm

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I forgot to mention my dirtiest secret: I'm not too crazy about The Hurt Locker. It feels too dry. I have to admit it's still a better movie than Avatar (which totally relies on the 3D gimmick - the whole plot is recycled from old classics).

Dave wrote:

Lord of the Rings, be it books or films, bores me.

The movies (even the Extended Editions) don't bore me at all despite their length. I'd say they're much better than the books (Tolkien was not a great writer - he was simply a linguist who thought it was necessary to develop a mythology for his languages).

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Jimmy B wrote:

I think Timecop is awesome fun

I always liked it  big_smile

Jimmy B wrote:

The Running Man, Big Trouble In Little China, Demolition Man, Tango & Cash

They're somewhat campy, but likeable. I would also put Stargate into the same category.

drewjmore wrote:

I liked all 3 Transformers movies, they deliver exactly what they promise.

I still like the first one. The two others can be a little exhausting.

I think the Bad Boys movies are Michael Bay's most watchable works.

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I still like the Shrek series, although most people seem to think that it has become passé (it probably depends on quality of the local dub - our Polish dub is hilarious).

Fargo isn't bad, but I find it slightly overrated. The Big Lebowski is my favorite Coen brothers film.

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8. Blade Runner is good, a real film noir classic. It simply came too late (people were already spoiled by action-oriented sci-fi like Star Wars).
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey was the best sci-fi movie of its time. Even classics like The Day The Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet and Planet Of The Apes pale in comparison. And almost all other sci-fi movies of that era were just B-movies.
10. The Core is incredibly campy, but I can enjoy it (especially Stanley Tucci's performance).

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Darth Praxus wrote:

and *much* prefer it to The Motion Picture

The “Director's Cut” of ST-TMP is much better than the theatrical one (which was basically a rough cut).

On Firefly...while it remains my *favorite* television series, and *one* of the greatest sci-fi series, I'll concede it's not the greatest. That honor goes to either the original Star Trek series or The Twilight Zone.

Both Star Trek and The Twilight Zone were groundbreaking (although they had some really bad episodes). And Firefly's cancellation was premature, it deserved some more episodes (remember Star Trek: The Next Generation? it became really good in the third season...).

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1. Star Trek V is not that awful. It's pretty bad, but I can enjoy parts of it (although the slapstick humor usually makes me cringe).
2. Star Trek (2009) is enjoyable (much better than Insurrection and Nemesis), but it has serious issues (like Nero's motivation and unnecessary violations of ST canon). Brian really has a point, guys.
3. X2 is not great (discussed recently in the “X-Men” thread).
4. Why do some people hate Spaceballs so fucking much? There's nothing inherently wrong with that kind of farce (although it probably could've been executed better).
5. The best Kevin Smith movie? I'd go with Clerks or Dogma.
6. I love Donnie Darko. I guess it's an European thing...
7. Firefly is not the greatest sci-fi TV show ever. That said, some episodes are really well written (e.g. “Our Mrs. Reynolds”).

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The NTSC/PAL frame rate difference should be the same for all "properly" converted (i.e. sped up) movies. When there's no PAL version of the DIF commentary available (my DVDs are PAL), I simply use Audacity's Effect -> Change Tempo function (described here). The "Percent Change" parameter should be set to 4.27083. I never had any sync issues with this method.

While I'm at it, I also like to compress the dynamics a bit with Effect -> Compressor.

Some (pretty rare) DVD movies were converted to PAL without the speedup (by video converter boxes that blend individual fields, which looks pretty horrible). The NTSC commentary should be in sync with them (no conversion required).

I have trouble with insomnia, and I listen to DiF to relax. And it actually helps!

In my case, it doesn't cure insomnia... but it's the best way to spend the extra time at night  tongue

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Space taxes and trade embargoes were probably a part of George's concept...

(Not to mention Jar Jar and the whole "kid appeal" thing.)

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Unfortunately lots of people (especially the young ones, at which SW is supposedly targeted) are perfectly happy with the SE Blu-Rays.

At least we can count on all the people from originaltrilogy.com to shell out. After all, the lousy LaserDisc-quality 2006 DVD release was a result of their petition (but that was an easy-to-make, low-cost edition).

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You can expect lovingly restored prints of the original trilogy to surface in the near future.

All those people demanding a proper release of the OOT are basically a niche market (it's a pretty large niche, but still...).

I'd be really happy to see the OOT on Blu-Ray, but how many people are ready to buy "Star Wars" again (many of us have more than one copy already)? I kinda worry that the market may not be big enough to warrant a thorough (= expensive) restoration job.

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PJ could've simply asked Christopher Lee about that.