Ah, and I loved Planet Terror ! Sounds like fun.

Strange Days was great! I bumped it up a star on rewatch. The first-person POV sequences are excellent. Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett are great together. It's never boring, and it has a great soundtrack. Definite thumbs up. Out of all Bigelow's movies I've seen, this one is the most My Thing, anyway. Didn't know it was written by James Cameron till now, though.

And I just learned some fun trivia from IMDb. The Fatboy Slim song "Right Here, Right Now"? The titular phrase is courtesy of Mace.

Digital Video Disc? That's the only one I can even guess on.

HBO? Sometime in the seventies, but without shows, just movies and boxing.

5. Which was the first movie to use the revolutionary Steadicam?

I'd heard it was first used for The Shining (for the scene where the camera is following the kid on the Big Wheel). But that was 1980, and the whitefonted answer is earlier.

I always thought the first film to use it was Rocky.

OK, which movie was the first to use the not-quite-as-revolutionary Wobblycam?

A: Evil Dead

Digital Video Disc? That's the only one I can even guess on.

You'd think, right? But no.

HBO? Sometime in the seventies, but without shows, just movies and boxing.

You're right. 1972. So early.

I'd heard it was first used for The Shining (for the scene where the camera is following the kid on the Big Wheel). But that was 1980, and the whitefonted answer is earlier.

My favorite steadicam shot of all time is the Huggies chase in Raising Arizona, though there's another good back yard chase in Point Break.

Raising Arizona! The first movie where I literally fell out of my movie seat from laughing.

Also, quoted heavily when my friends had triplets.

Dag...I don't think I met anyone who had it till, say, 1980. I still remember my mind being blown that this guy my dad knew *played movies* in *his house*...I think he got indicted for fraud eventually(not for cable theft, but because things that later became known as the "subprime mortgage crisis" used to be known as "selling real estate in Arizona in the eighties") My dad can really pick an awesome mentor, huh? But he had the Chris Reeve Superman in his house.

Dag...I don't think I met anyone who had it till, say, 1980.

Ditto. I think I remember being conscious of it in the late seventies because of major boxing matches, but in my mind it's an 80s thing. I'm just boggled that they had the financing to survive for so long before they took off.

I'd be interested in a history of HBO, particularly the era when they went to the challenging shows starting with Oz. They really reinvented TV with that stretch: Oz, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Sex in the City. But I don't really know who was responsible for that or HBO's process.