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Post by smkndofpnutdssrt on Aug 28, 2008 0:27:35 GMT -5
so you need a to get a brand new TV to go with it? blaaaaaaah....
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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 28, 2008 0:27:43 GMT -5
I'm willing to wait until they come down in price and just save it to watch until then. I'm assuming that will happen because it always seems to with stuff like this. (I remember when a VCR was $2,000.)
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Post by smkndofpnutdssrt on Aug 28, 2008 0:29:43 GMT -5
That's probably a good plan.
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Post by MidgardDragon on Aug 28, 2008 0:30:35 GMT -5
so you need a to get a brand new TV to go with it? blaaaaaaah.... Basically, if you have a regular TV, there's not much point in a Blu-ray player. Those old box sets aren't displaying "HD" images no matter what kind of player you've got.  There's always the cheap option of buying a Blu-ray drive for your computer, though, if you're geeky or have a geek friend who can install it. At least then it'd actually be in HD. |
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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 28, 2008 0:34:38 GMT -5
It's not so much the quality I'm interested in, it's the features that will only be on the Blu-ray. Or will the features also be of no real value if I don't have HD? (That I don't plan to get in the near future. We just don't watch TV enough anymore to make it worth our time.)
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Post by smkndofpnutdssrt on Aug 28, 2008 0:49:26 GMT -5
No, I think they will work. It's just games and things, I think. I wasn't entirely sure what they were when I heard about them. But I'm just really interested in the commentaries, behind the scenes, deleted scenes, etc.
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Post by MidgardDragon on Aug 28, 2008 12:11:28 GMT -5
They'll work, the picture quality will just be bad. I think I read once (and I'm not big into Blu-ray so I coudl be wrong), that if you use Blu-ray with a non-HD-TV you might end up having even worse picture than just playing a regular DVD on that TV. But I think the picture will probably be "tolerable" no matter what, so if ya got the cash I say go for it, you can always upgrade the TV set later> |
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Post by smkndofpnutdssrt on Aug 28, 2008 21:26:01 GMT -5
Stupid Blu-ray. Taking over the world. Taking all our monies.
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Post by Viva la Vida on Aug 28, 2008 23:12:29 GMT -5
I've never cried watching WALL-E or any other movie. That doesn't mean that I wasn't emotionally affected at all; my way of reacting to emotionally powerful stories(and I'm NOT being sarcastic at all) is if my face gets screwy and twitchy. Which it was during much of this movie.
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Post by bkim on Aug 29, 2008 0:00:09 GMT -5
I actually feel that the most depressing part of the film is in the first five minutes when WALL-E is about to go into hibernation for the night, then reaches his arm out to rock the shelf he's resting on. I blame the allegedly happy and carefree Hello, Dolly! soundtrack, which ironically has the effect of making me feel more depressed whenever it is used within the context of the film.
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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 29, 2008 0:08:48 GMT -5
You felt that too, bkim? I felt the same way. That whole "happy Broadway melody" sound against this stark, monochromatic world was just so dramatic. I think that was something that actually hit me hard when I first saw the film, because all of my personal experiences with "Hello, Dolly!" have been in seeing it in musical productions and in the movie version, not superimposed on another, dramatically different context.
And also that his audio equipment plays the music in a mono sound . . . that also contrasted with the "happiness" and "brightness" that the melodies imply.
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Post by bima on Aug 29, 2008 7:58:11 GMT -5
Vanessa, are you familiar with Hello, Dolly before you see Wall-E? It must be amazing to hear "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" against the scary abandoned earth scene.
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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 29, 2008 8:08:19 GMT -5
Yes, my parents took me to a lot of off-Broadway productions and local theatre when I was young, so I had seen a few productions of "Hello, Dolly" before the film. I actually had never seen the movie version though -- I just saw it for the first time a couple weeks ago. I was so stupid not to have seen it before -- it was directed by Gene Kelly who was just a fantastic dancer and director. It's really an amazing film.
Ironically, about five months before the film came out here in North America, I went to a local production with a friend who has a very emotional attachment to the play because her grandmother loved it so much and her grandmother had just recently passed away. So, I had just gained a new appreciation for the play before I saw WALL-E. Again, just hit me hard because of the emotional context I had just experienced through my friend's eyes.
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Post by bima on Aug 29, 2008 8:22:16 GMT -5
God, it must be cool! (So sorry for your friends loss, though). I mean, I never in my life hearing or watching Hello, Dolly. But my father and my mother know the movie and they like it. They told me Hello, Dolly was very popular back then.
Still, when I saw the opening scene it gave such a chill. And I really want to check out Hello, Dolly.
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