Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Netflix notes


"The Interpreter" dir. Sydney Pollack

Listed as a thriller and staring Nichole Kidman and Sean Penn. Great stuff shot in the UN General assembly and the Security counsel chanmber...good movie but not edge of your seat great. Kept waiting for it to really kick in but it just sort of just marched forward with solid acting and decent story.

Loved Pollack's extra feature where he educates the masses about the wide screen v. pan and scan process and tells how p&s kills story telling.

"Wedding Crashers" arriving tonight.

bunny out

5 comments:

Kern said...

I'm quite glad he's doing that thing about Widescreen. It's still shocking to me that people actually manufacture anything in P & S, let alone people buying it.

Perhaps they should be "educated" with a car battery hooked up to their genitals. Then we'll see how much they wrongly complain of not getting to see everything. Those fucking Luddites...

krysta jo said...

Wow Kern....that was harsh. Some of us enjoy watching full screen movies from time to time. Wide screen is ok if you are rich enough to afford a television which makes it worthwhile, but some of us (still in school) have tvs too small to fully enjoy the wide screen-ness of movies. Sooo...I guess you should bring on the car battery....

Kern said...

KJ-Sorry, it isn't so much people who watch them out of neccesity, but more so people who refuse to concede that there is a difference, and that widescreen is not robbing them of the picture, when it's exactly the opposite that is true. It just bothers me when people so vehemently defend pan and scan not as an alternative for situations such as you mentioned, but as a superior format.

Apologies for the rhetoric. I've been very hyperbolic in my writing style recently...

Kern said...

KJ-I thought the use of the term widescreen-ness was kind of cute.

FlopTheNuts said...

We got our first batch of Netflix disks: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sideways (both from Trish's queue). Bummer, my 24: Season 1, disc 1 didn't arrive today. WTF?!!?!?!!!! It should (read as: it damn well better be!) here tomorrow.

I'm still working on getting my family and just a couple of Trish's side (and you know who you are, ehem, Don) to buy widescreen/letterbox DVDs. We're getting there! I know I've had some help from Sheriff getting all of Trish's side converted from "the dark side". (If we could just get Patty to pay attention... *Sigh*. :) Oh!)