Cinemascope
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Well, it's great to know that you were sooooo sincere with that stuff you said in your PM...
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> Anne, I believe it was Rob Lowe who was featured in
> the Snow White number.
Well, there you go... it really could be a lot worse!
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Yeah, that's better.
Look, Anne, it really all comes down to expectations. At this point, I'm not really particularly interested in anything the Oscar ceremony has to offer. I prefer knowing the winners IRT and if there's a good montage that includes classic movies, I'll watch that. Everything else, I can just tune out and keep chatting online. If something good comes up and I wasn't paying attention, it's not a problem, I rewind the TiVo.
This is really the perfect arrangement as far as I am concerned, I get what I want out of it and the silly stuff doesn't bother me none, I turn the volume down and tune it out.
As for prices of senior tickets, yes I do believe they can be quite a break, but of course it depends on the theater chain and the restrictions. Having said that, a lot of theaters have matinee prices that are almost as cheap as senior tickets, so I'm not complaining, either!
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*double post*
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np Anne
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Oh, and the popularity of the banjo I think would have been confined to American, no?
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LOL, that's a very ominous sounding "Don't make me do it!!!!"
Tell you what -- I'll save you the trouble:
Casablanca - 17
Citizen Kane -16
Gone with the Wind- 7
2001: A Space Odyssey - 6
It's a Wondeful Life ? 6
Sleepless in Seattle - 5
The English Patient - 4
Titanic - 4
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 3
The Graduate - 3
The Philadelphia Story ? 3
American Beauty 2
Crash - 2
The Godfather -2
Going My Way - 2
Last Tango in Paris - 2
Lawrence of Arabia ? 2
The Magnificent Ambersons - 2
Nashville - 2
Psycho - 2
Some Like it Hot - 2
The Sound of Music - 2
Streetcar Named Desire ? 2
The Uninvited - 2
Vertigo - 2
The Godfather -2
A Face in the Crowd
An American In Paris
Animal Crackers
The African Queen
Awakenings
The Bad News Bears
The Bad Seed
The Bandwagon
The Big Chill
Bonnie and Clyde
Bugsy
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Camille
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Conversation
Dark Victory
Dirty Dancing
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
Forrest Gump
From Here to Eternity
The Greatest Show on Earth
Harold and Maude
In Cold Blood
In Which We Serve
It?s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Kramer vs. Kramer
Lady in the Lake
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Magnificent Obsession
The Magnificent Seven
MASH
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Midnight Cowboy
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Network
Night of the Hunter
Now Voyager
Paper Moon
Picnic
Platoon
The Quiet Man
Rambo
Rocky
Shaft
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Singin? In The Rain
The Sound of Music
Soylent Green
Star Wars
The Sting
Suddenly Last Summer
The Thin Man
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Touch of Evil
Unforgiven
Valley of the Dolls
Vertigo
The Wizard of Oz
The Women
Written on the Wind
Dishonorable mentions of: Abbott & Costello, Woody Allen, the Andy Hardy series, Robert Altman, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery's Bond, erectile dysfunction, John Ford's Westerns, Great Garbo, Dustin Hoffman, all modern crap, the Star Wars series, Shirley Temple, John Wayne and Tennessee Williams,
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But wasn't there a time when pianists were more popular?
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lol, that sounds like the musical chairs of the Oscars!
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Yes, but the point is that I wouldn't want to simply learn for the sake of learning to play. I'd want to be able to play an old-fashioned piano. If there aren't any old-fashioned pianos nearby that I could play, then I have no interest in playing.
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Well then once again we would have to agree to disagree, because I do think that some of your posts are a form of trolling.
So are we going to agree to disagree? Or you just going to keep replying to every single post? Cause frankly if you were to stop replying, there's a lot more interesting conversations going on in the boards!
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Heh, good ol' times, heh?
I kept wandering why everyone was complaining about this year's telecast being too long... then realized *they* probably weren't multi-tasking, I had stuff going on online and just didn't pay attention whenever something didn't seem interesting. Time went by just as it always does!
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Yes, I should think if I were to have any piano at all, I'd want a "real" piano, even if nothing fancy!
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So.... you get to use the computer in the library because yours is broken... and when you get online... you just want to settle old scores on the TCM forums?
Go on and keep posting reply after reply, you're the only one who is interested in keeping old arguments going.
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I never said *you* were a Joe Six Pack... I was just referring to an average viewer who doesn't care particularly about classics. Why you chose to take it personally I honestly do not know.
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Outlaw it altogether? Kind of like prohibition, huh?
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Maybe you're insulted by the mere fact that someone should disagree with you?
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No, I was not determined to "browbeat" anybody. You'd implied that the movie shouldn't be shown as part of the "Essentials" and I disagreed with that.
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If you have a LD player, tho, much better to have the actual LD.
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> I have to say, if viewing classics openly with other
> folks got to be like that letter you posted - I'm
> afraid I wouldn't want to go to the theatre to see
> any of these movies.
Afraid that's the case, indeed! I watched Lawrence of Arabia at the Castro last year, when it was shown in 70mm. Good projection, but some stupid hyenas kept laughing for the stupidest reasons....
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Well I meant the theater that is near your town...
Maybe the size of the city no longer matters that much. Maybe a lot of people just have really nice home theater systems in their houses and enjoy that more than a nice, crisp, 35mm projection in a theater where they can share the experience.
Who'd have thought, huh?
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Claude's the man!
If he can't do it, no one can!
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Same thing happened to the Neptune in Seattle, I guess.
Part of the problem (at least in *some* theaters) is that occasionally modern movie goers will laugh in all the wrong places or for the wrong reasons whenever they see something that reflects an earlier era. There was a letter about it in last Sunday's Chronicle:
Dear Mick LaSalle: Why are people who purport to love old films so merciless and unforgiving of them? During a viewing of "99 River Street" at the Castro Theatre, people laughed at dramatic plot points, factual anachronisms (such as there only being 48 states in the union, true at the time) and violence. There's a sanctimonious snarkiness. How do we get people to take themselves out of their lives and into another time?
Kent Hall, San Francisco
Dear Kent Hall: It's ridiculous. People sit there scoffing, as if history has just stopped, as if the attitudes, mores and customs that they live by aren't also in flux. I have no patience for it, no impulse to indulge it and no feeling of generosity toward it. I think it's idiocy, and, for that reason, I stopped going to the Castro Theatre to see old movies. It doesn't happen at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto. David Packard, though probably one of the least pleasant men I've ever met, at least puts his surliness to good use by telling audiences to shut up when they're acting like imbeciles, and so I like going to his theater. The only way the Castro will change is if management decides it wants to change the culture of its moviegoing experience -- and then enforces that change. I suspect about 90 percent of the regular patrons would be relieved.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/25/PKGRJN85DS1.DTL&type=movies
Hope this isn't what happens in your town.
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Actually, The Flame and the Arrow is available on VHS *and* laserdisc. Still, a nice DVD is probably long overdue!
For many movie buffs, hoping a movie is released on DVD doesn't mean we aren't aware of earlier releases in earlier formats... we'd just like to be able to watch it with the best transfer technology can deliver!
Not to mention that there's more of a chance of getting bonus features on DVDs, even if it doesn't always happen!
Your candidate for most over-rated movie?
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Well I don't know if the banjo was ever really very popular outside of the U.S.