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Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned

A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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§ ita § - Dec 01, 2004 8:55:38 am PST #6478 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is weird:

Although Oliver Stone's 19-year-old son Sean has shot the behind-the-scenes documentary for Alexander and while the video package is likely to include an examination of the actual life of the Greek conqueror and other informative material, Stone himself has indicated that he is not at all enthusiastic about the coming of age of DVDs. Video Store magazine quotes him as saying during a recent press event, "It's the end of movie-movies the way we know them. ... If you walk into a room with 5,000 DVDs, how are you going to respect movies? How do you know the good ones?," Stone asked. "It's going to the LCD -- the lowest common denominator. It's making movies into supermarket-shelf items, which is probably the best you can get at Wal-Mart. ... It's hopeless."

Have DVDs resulted in there being more movies? More movies available? Isn't it the director's job to instill respect?

Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 01, 2004 8:59:17 am PST #6479 of 10001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Has he never walked into a Wal-Mart or video store and seen racks and racks of VHS tapes?

Calli - Dec 01, 2004 9:02:04 am PST #6480 of 10001

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Poor Oliver Stone. He can only produce one ~~pile of steaming crap~~ movie every year or so, and DVDs show people how many other movies there are out there. Good movies. Movies that OS had nothing to do with. But I repeat myself.

Tom Scola - Dec 01, 2004 9:04:16 am PST #6481 of 10001

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Stone believes that even though there will be more movies, there won't be more auteurs, like himself, hence an overall drop in quality.

§ ita § - Dec 01, 2004 9:05:53 am PST #6482 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But how is the DVD format responsible for being more movies? I imagine it's easier for me to make crap and put it on a DVD, but you have to be higher profile thna li'l ol' me to get your shit on Blockbuster's shelves.

Tom Scola - Dec 01, 2004 9:18:51 am PST #6483 of 10001

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

There's more room for new movies on the shelves of Blockbuster than there's room for new movies at the multiplex. If there are people who will want to buy them, then that space will get filled.

§ ita § - Dec 01, 2004 9:21:11 am PST #6484 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's more room for new movies on the shelves of Blockbuster than there's room for new movies at the multiplex.

Maybe that's it. DVD packaging is smaller, therefore you can have more movies per shelf. Is that what you meant? Otherwise I don't see what DVDs have done that videos haven't.

Tom Scola - Dec 01, 2004 9:22:37 am PST #6485 of 10001

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

DVDs have generally been priced cheaper than VHS.

§ ita § - Dec 01, 2004 9:28:05 am PST #6486 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does that mean more of them are stocked? Is DVD actually making a larger proportion of movies available to me?

I honestly have no idea of the shifting home movie market -- I'm not trying to attack or disprove a point.

Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 01, 2004 9:30:34 am PST #6487 of 10001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

So far as I can tell, that just means stores can stock 500 of the latest Tim Allen "comedy" instead of 100.

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