Something Tracy said...

[Adam Cameron]

But hey, we are film buffs in general,

What was:
1) The last film you saw on TV;
2) at the cinema;
3) on some sort of paid for media (rental, purchase; but not pirate), other
than the above.

Me:
1) Assault on Precinct 13 (new version). On Sky.
2) Inside Man.
3) It Happened One Night.

It embarrasses me how infrequently I make it to the cinema these days.

[Doctor J. Frink]

Post by Adam Cameron

But hey, we are film buffs in general,

1) The last film you saw on TV;

Truman Show.

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2) at the cinema;

Pride And Prejudice.

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3) on some sort of paid for media (rental, purchase; but not pirate), other
than the above.

The Time Machine.

Post by Adam Cameron
It embarrasses me how infrequently I make it to the cinema these days.

Not me. Cinema is extremely expensive, inefficient of time (transport
there and back, ads, trailers, waiting for shows), full of interruptions
from other movie goers, uncomfortable, no PAUSE button for toilet breaks
and quite often poor display quality.

Sure, I want to see a good film on a huge screen, with good sound and an
appreciative audience. But that's the ideal of cinema, not always the
reality. Personally we watch movies mostly on a 12" laptop screen with a
pair of passive computer speakers (for reasons numerous and boring) but
we still enjoy them.

Frink

[Tracy]

Post by Doctor J. Frink

Post by Adam Cameron
It embarrasses me how infrequently I make it to the cinema these days.

Not me. Cinema is extremely expensive, inefficient of time (transport
there and back, ads, trailers, waiting for shows), full of interruptions
from other movie goers, uncomfortable, no PAUSE button for toilet breaks
and quite often poor display quality.

I just find it sad that little, local cinema's (like the one I work at
- about 6 volunteers run the whole place) are forgotten because of the
huge conglomerates like UCI who can afford to have the blockbusters
straight off. Local cinemas, depending on seating and income are told
by the film distributors to wait, maybe a month after release, to show
a blockbuster. By then, everyone has spent £30 (entrance fee,
popcorn, choc and drink) going to the UCI, when they could have spent
£7 (entrance fee, popcorn, choc, drink, crisps, sweets) at the local
fleapit.

The film distributors ask between 35% and 85% of ticket sales back -
the earlier booked and the bigger the film, the higher percentage they
want! It's very difficult for us local independant cinemas - so I
would ask any of you to support your local!! :))))

Our fleapit is amazing!! http://www.crosshands-hall.co.uk/ (when
homepage opens up, click on the animated projector to see whats on at
our local at the mo).

Post by Doctor J. Frink
Sure, I want to see a good film on a huge screen, with good sound and an
appreciative audience. But that's the ideal of cinema, not always the
reality. Personally we watch movies mostly on a 12" laptop screen with a
pair of passive computer speakers (for reasons numerous and boring) but
we still enjoy them.

Yeah, we closed Friday nights a few weeks ago cos the kids are outta
control! Our cinema doubles as a live event place (where I do my
amateur dramatics - darlinks!) and we have to think of the present,
opulent condition of the hall and how kids today love to spit fizzy pop
all over the place, grind popcorn into the carpets, smear chewing gum
all over the seats, wreck said seats by intentionally rocking backwards
and forwards til the moorings come loose and generally abuse the
volunteers who spend alot of time and energy attempting to keep the
place running!

I can see why people would rather stay home and watch a film :))))

[Tracy]

Post by Adam Cameron

But hey, we are film buffs in general,

1) The last film you saw on TV;

I watched Mississippi Burning - a few weeks ago now!

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2) at the cinema;

Final Destination III throughtout; 25 mins of Ice Age II - The Meltdown

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3) on some sort of paid for media (rental, purchase; but not pirate), other
than the above.

The Woodsman - difficult but amazing!

Post by Adam Cameron
It embarrasses me how infrequently I make it to the cinema these days.

It embarrassess me that, considering I volunteer at my local cinema, I
dont get to watch half the films there cos I am too busy doing
usheretting and selling popcorn and things!

[Sandman]

Post by Adam Cameron

But hey, we are film buffs in general,

1) The last film you saw on TV;

I don't watch much movies on TV, but I think the last one was Bad
Company

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2) at the cinema;

X-Men 3 and the Da Vinci Code, which premiered here in sweden this
last week.

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3) on some sort of paid for media (rental, purchase; but not pirate), other
than the above.

Uhm... I rented Flightplan not long ago. It wasn't very good,

Post by Adam Cameron
1) Assault on Precinct 13 (new version). On Sky.
2) Inside Man.
3) It Happened One Night.
It embarrasses me how infrequently I make it to the cinema these days.

With my own home cinema with a 200" screen, I have no real need unless
there is some movie I really can't wait to see .

[Robert]

Post by Adam Cameron
1) The last film you saw on TV;

Ah, err....don't remember.

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2) at the cinema;

That was ages ago, too.

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3) on some sort of paid for media (rental, purchase; but not pirate), other
than the above.

OK, that's easy. :) "The Bat" starring Vincent Price. I just
picked up the 50 Horror Classics, 50 Chillers and 20 Monster Movie
MegaPacks, so....I'm cool. :) There's really some old gems on those
things, and some nicely cheesy cheese - so far I've enjoyed "Last Man
on Earth" (Price again), "House on Haunted Hill", "The Giant Gila
Monster", "Killer Shrews", "Giant Leeches", "The Brain That Wouldn't
Die", "Phantom from 10,000 Leagues", "Horror Express" (Chris Lee AND
Peter Cushing, woohoo!), "Virus", "Panic", "The Alpha Incident", "Track
of the Moon Beast" (hilarious schlock).

Most of those actually have good-excellent transfers, at least on
ordinary television. More of the color films suffer from poor
transfers, from what I've seen so far. "Bat", "Haunted Hill" and
"Killer Shrews" stand out as very crisp and clean. There's been one
(something about Nazi zombies guarding Hitler gold) that was just too
awful to watch...pixelated like a webcast or something. But, at $40 for
120 movies, I'm not complaining.