Sam's Thread of Chattin' w/ Jake & Other Robust Subjects

[Dowdsy McDowds]

£8.90 I was tonight, got to love Orange Wednesdays though. Nearly botched it though when my phone started playing silly buggers and pretended it had lost the entirety of my inbox.

Saw Django, it was good but I wasn't particularly blown away. Maybe watching Once Upon A Time in the West last night wasn't such a good idea after all.

 

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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a453095/dredd-3d-tops-dvd-blu-ray-download-charts.html

How does this make you feel Samuel? I loved this film with all my being and it's application of 3D was top notch. Suppose that like like Pitch Black, this makes up it's budget and more on DVD & Blu-Ray sales, would you welcome a sequel? Would Karl Urban's grimace make you smile?

 

[Uncle Sam]

Dredd didn't give me the tentpole of an erection that it did many others, though I did still quite like it. Hugo is still far away the best use of 3D, with Dredd and Life of Pi on the tier beneath it. If they make a sequel, what it needs is a larger scale - the tone, the writing, the characters were all bang on already, pretty much. Will they give a bigger budget for a bigger scale sequel to the makers of a movie which only made its money back on DVD? I don't know.

 

[Барбоса]

Think there has already been chat about a Dredd sequel featuring the Dark Judges. That could be epic but they definitely need to demonstrate the scale of Mega City One to be able to show the damage that Judge Death does.

All Life is a Crime

 

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I just want me some Judge Cal. The dark judges as a whole are some of the best written Dredd material and they wouldn't need to do much more than lift from what's already there.

 

[Uncle Sam]

1. Django Unchained ★★★★
   [*]Zero Dark Thirty ★★★★
   [*]Lincoln ★★★
2. Les Misérables ★★★
3. Gangster Squad ★★

I said I was going to see Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln and, well, I cannot tell a lie. Because if I tell a lie, the scary American man will waterboard me.

Lincoln nearly has a great ending - concise, poignant, poetic. Then it decides not to, so I'm taking a point off. Daniel Day-Lewis is just showing off at this point, and Tommy Lee Jones has just given up (but I still love him).

Zero Dark Thirty doesn't justify torture. What it does do is suggest that torture is a pretty bloody effective way of getting useful information. There is a difference. And its ending was concise and poignant. Here, have an extra point.

 

[Lee]

Can you text me your number?

 

[Uncle Sam]

Done and done. And I mean done.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Never stop quoting The Simpsons please, even if I can't quite remember who said it. I want to say Hibbert but I wouldn't lock that answer down.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Skinner, re: making a pass at a superior officer.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Ah but of course.

 

[Lee]

Cheers pet.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Movie 43 & The Last Stand tomorrow, Lincoln & Zero Dark Thirty on Wednesday.

I hear Movie 43 is awful. I'll be back with three stars for my list in a day or so.

I also saw Horror Of Dracula on a big screen. I won't add it to the list though. My new criteria for my list is that it isn't a free screening.

 

[Nate DaMac]

That's dignity, Sam. How do you not know dignity when you see it, Sam?!

 

[Nate DaMac]

That post took me nearly twenty minutes to complete. I'm not very good with these touch screen phones. I am ashamed.

 

[Dave]

I believe I now owe you a name change...

 

[Y 2 Jake]

1. Django Unchained ★★★★
2. The Impossible ★★★★
3. End Of Watch ★★★★
4. Gangster Squad ★★★★
5. The Last Stand ★★★
6. Jack Reacher ★★★
7. Pitch Perfect ★★★
8. Les Misérables ★★
9. Movie 43 ★

I can't describle The Last Stand as anything other than enjoyable, I'm thinking of a new word to describe just how awful Movie 43 is. It deserves it.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I believe I now owe you a name change...

The people are currently making their minds up:

http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?t=248541

I can't describle The Last Stand as anything other than enjoyable, I'm thinking of a new word to describe just how awful Movie 43 is. It deserves it.

The bit with the basketball team looked funny. Was it?

 

[Y 2 Jake]

No.

 

[Mitch Henessey]

Sam, I refuse to make the switch to Blu-Ray, and I just purchased more VHS tapes. Is there something wrong with me?

 

[Uncle Sam]

I have grown accustomed to HD quality footage, though there's no denying the charm of shitty VHS tapes. I'm hoping to get a copy of V/H/S on VHS.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

I wonder what the last big film to be released on VHS was. I think I'm right in saying Twister was the first, or at least one of the first, films to be released on DVD. Blu Ray wise I'd guess Troy or Day After Tomorrow or I Robot.

Worst quality film I've seen on Blu Ray would be Leon.

 

[Uncle Sam]

My copy of Leon looks great, far as I remember. Gangs of New York - there's a real piece of shit transfer.

 

[Mitch Henessey]

I'm just too lazy to sell off all my DVDs, and replenish everything with Blu-Ray. And I would do this, because I don't see the point in having identical films on two different forms of media. But man that new Tarantino box set on Blu-Ray is tempting.

And I've heard about the VHS release for V/H/S. But I'm kind of bummed out about it, because I think it's going to be an exclusive UK release.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

There's a few Blu Rays where you can't see a huge difference, but Leon just sticks in my head for being particularly grainy looking at the start. Taxi Driver was a good transfer, but the guy at HMV may have overstated just how good it looked, the swine.

I doubt I will replace all my DVDs and I've been reasonably well disciplined not to double up on films on both formats. I got a De Niro collection of films on BR for £12, mainly just for Goodfellas and Heat but having Once Upon A Time In America and The Mission too isn't so bad.