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jaklumen
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response 50 of 77:
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Jul 8 06:42 UTC 2002 |
are you saying, then, Ken, that "O Brother.." is best viewed with an
audience? Quite a few of the movies I've enjoyed were in virtually
empty theatres..
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other
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response 51 of 77:
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Jul 8 07:18 UTC 2002 |
Correction: Whit Hill is Al Hill's wife, a fine musician and dancer/
choreographer in her own right -- formerly known as Whitley Setrakian.
The keyboardist sitting in with the Kingpins was Al Hill.
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brighn
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response 52 of 77:
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Jul 8 13:23 UTC 2002 |
#50> "O Brother" does strike me as the sort of movie I'd enjoy more with a
crowd. There are definitely movies where you want to see the movie, and any
interruptions from the audience are a distraction; there are other movies that
are weak on their own, and stand better as interactional experiences. I think
the latter are usually movies that don't take themselves too seriously, and
"O Brother" is definitely one of those.
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orinoco
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response 53 of 77:
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Jul 8 15:07 UTC 2002 |
The audience's reactions were interesting. The scene at the KKK rally is a
pretty minor plot point -- ho hum, yet another death-defying escape -- but
it got a much bigger round of applause than anything else. I suppose this
is Ann Arbor, after all...
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dbratman
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response 54 of 77:
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Jul 8 16:39 UTC 2002 |
I liked "O Brother" as a movie; I liked the music _in_ the movie. But
when I listened to the soundtrack album I didn't like it particularly
at all. I think the visuals were a large part of the enjoyment.
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mcnally
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response 55 of 77:
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Jul 8 17:28 UTC 2002 |
I tend to agree. I should be wild about the "O Brother" soundtrack --
I like that kind of music in general and have a number of full-length
recordings from several of the contributors that I really like. But
for whatever reason the soundtrack doesn't do much for me, except in
conjunction with the film.
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gelinas
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response 56 of 77:
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Jul 9 01:11 UTC 2002 |
I put the soundtrack on today, to listen to while tooling around town (when
not listening to the news, that is). My memory for such things isn't very
good, but I *think* it's in a slightly different order than the movie. I'm
going to have to see the movie again, just to check. (Of course, we've
already put it on the "must buy" list, just because we liked it.)
Listening to the soundtrack, I figured out why "You are my sunshine" was in
it, where it was. And "Big Rock Candy Mountains."
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carson
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response 57 of 77:
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Jul 11 21:06 UTC 2002 |
re #48: (if you look at a good majority of the shots, near the top of
the screen, boom mics are *clearly* visible. when I saw the
movie in theatres, my enjoyment came from spotting the mics.)
(simply put, the production was sloppy.)
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micklpkl
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response 58 of 77:
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Jul 12 14:29 UTC 2002 |
re resp:48 & resp:57 - I saw this, too, carson! (and I thought I was
the only one) It was very distracting --- for the first half of the movie, I
was wondering if showing the mics and booms was intentional and/or related to
the plot, at all. Finally, I had just decided that it was the sub-standard
theatre in which I had seen the movie. Very, very sloppy.
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carson
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response 59 of 77:
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Jul 12 17:30 UTC 2002 |
(I have a conspiracy theory about the whole thing: "The Others" was
executively produced by Tom Cruise, who *just* happened to be in the
midst of divorcing the movie's star, Nicole Kidman, when the movie
was released to theatres. you do the math.)
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polytarp
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response 60 of 77:
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Jul 13 22:34 UTC 2002 |
Where's a "Grexpidition" item devoted to oval and her trip?
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carson
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response 61 of 77:
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Jul 13 22:47 UTC 2002 |
("Grexpedition." the word is a contraction of "Grex" and "expedition.")
(you might ask oval, btw.)
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polytarp
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response 62 of 77:
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Jul 13 23:45 UTC 2002 |
What the hell are you talking about? Do you think I'm a total idiot? Answer
the questions, not stupid things which I'm not sure where you got them from.
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carson
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response 63 of 77:
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Jul 14 01:03 UTC 2002 |
(see first sentence. nearly. no.)
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mdw
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response 64 of 77:
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Jul 14 06:08 UTC 2002 |
I think polytarp was looking for the "grex perdition" item on oval's
travels, which might detail her experience with customs, amsterdam
police, her opinions regarding the dutch sex trade, any unsuccessful
efforts to fight off polyglot beggars, etc.
I don't know that oval's actual dutch experiences are anywhere near as
colorful or likely to be at all interesting to polytarp.
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oval
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response 65 of 77:
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Jul 14 10:13 UTC 2002 |
'anywhere near as .....?)
okay this is the second post that seems to be cut off for me, and i'm
wondering if it's this damn stoned M$ pos i'm using.
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carson
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response 66 of 77:
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Jul 14 16:54 UTC 2002 |
(I vote "yea." I suspect there's a terminal setting you could put
in a file somewhere to correct it, but heck if I know what either is.)
<blank space below for oval's benefit>
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oval
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response 67 of 77:
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Jul 15 14:23 UTC 2002 |
lol thanks. i've retreated back to backtalk...
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other
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response 68 of 77:
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Jul 16 16:30 UTC 2002 |
Well, hopefully, by the end of this week, TOP will be done for another
year. We're still wrangling with storage issues. Actually, though, I've
been asked to sit in on the periodic meetings of the Summer Festival
board's Operations Committee, since I seem to best equipped of all
available people to provide the board some measure of depth and meaning
to the numbers they shuffle around.
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jaklumen
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response 69 of 77:
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Jul 17 01:21 UTC 2002 |
resp:65 HyperTerminal probs?
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dbratman
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response 70 of 77:
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Jul 31 00:49 UTC 2002 |
carson wrote: "if you look at a good majority of the shots, near the
top of the screen, boom mics are *clearly* visible."
If you see boom mikes in a theatrical film, chances are overwhelming
that the projector wasn't centered properly. The sloppiness isn't on
the part of the filmmaker, but on the part of the theatre. It's
regular practice to photograph films taller than they're intended to be
shown (and thus including the booms), and have the projector grate cut
off the part you're not supposed to see.
So sayeth Ebert.
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carson
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response 71 of 77:
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Jul 31 01:09 UTC 2002 |
(hmm. does that explain the network television premiere of Rounders?
boom mics were clearly visible there, too.)
([fwiw, _Washington Post_ film critic Desson Howe agrees that if boom mics
are visible in a shot, it's the theatre's fault. I'm just not ready to
accept that as 100% true in all cases.])
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brighn
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response 72 of 77:
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Jul 31 02:08 UTC 2002 |
The TV screen is at a different ratio. Obviously, if the boom mike is visible
there, it's because whoever transferred it into pan-and-scan messed up...
presumably somehow related to the film distribution company.
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gelinas
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response 73 of 77:
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Jul 31 03:05 UTC 2002 |
I've heard that movies are now shot in an aspect suitable for television, with
excess background at the top and bottom to be cropped for wide-screen.
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carson
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response 74 of 77:
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Jul 31 03:33 UTC 2002 |
(you know, you guys are REALLY screwing up my "`The Others' was sloppily
produced because it was executively produced by Tom Cruise, who wanted to
ruin his [at the time soon-to-be] ex-wife, Nicole Kidman's, movie career
as spectacularly as possible" conspiracy theory.)
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