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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Kathy A - Jul 15, 2011 6:05:27 am PDT #15447 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

If she says Neville will marry Hannah Abbott that's good enough for me.

I'm currently rereading one of my favorite HP fics that features this pairing, called "The Colors of Fire" by Sher. Really well done.


Vonnie K - Jul 15, 2011 6:45:32 am PDT #15448 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

My local movie theater is running HP7.2 in 3D, 3D IMAX, 2D, and "digital projection". Is there an appreciable difference between the regular projection (with film, one imagine) compared to digital projection?


Laga - Jul 15, 2011 6:57:44 am PDT #15449 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Some people say film is "warmer" than digital but I can't tell. Digital projectors are quieter so you don't get the projector noise but that also means the rustlings of your fellow patrons are more obvious. After opening weekend, film begins to show wear.


Jessica - Jul 15, 2011 7:01:00 am PDT #15450 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'd go with digital projection and skip the 3D. (I saw it in 3D and the conversion was pretty obvious. Not as bad as Clash of the Titans, but dark and muddy in that way that all 3D conversion jobs are.)

I'd pick digital over film because (a) film wears out, and this will be showing round the clock, and (b) it's such an effects-heavy movie that the digital print is closer to the "original" format anyway.


Laga - Jul 15, 2011 7:06:49 am PDT #15451 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I liked that I knew exactly who McGonagall was thinking of when she asked Neville to find someone who was good with explosives

I hated that Harry didn't fix his wand. Good going, wizard, now you have NO wands.

I missed Grawp and the centaurs.

Damn Lav-lav. Not sure why that one really made my guts churn.

I cried pretty steadily from the scene in the boathouse on. Hey, boathouse !


§ ita § - Jul 15, 2011 7:11:03 am PDT #15452 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

(It occurs to me when the showrunner says Castiel is millions of years old, I cheer, because that's what I've always thought--but it's grey canon too--just completely unaddressed on the show, and people keep assuming 2K years for characterisation choices I think are completely unnecessary. So I guess it depends on what your preference was beforehand, or how much it snaps into place for you when you hear it. But I wouldn't try and win an argument with it, other than to say "the writers think of him that way, and nothing on the show contradicts it)

(If it had been an action taken that was later untaken after the film stopped rolling, that's a bit different. That lives in the headcanon world. Dean is doing things to Castiel right now that might not turn out to actually happen by the start of the next season, or ever)

I will go search for the site I found that questioned whether you should see any given 3D version of new movies.


§ ita § - Jul 15, 2011 7:23:18 am PDT #15453 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

To 3D or not to 3D HP7 II.


Scrappy - Jul 15, 2011 7:32:08 am PDT #15454 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

We are going to 2D. 3D always gives DH a headache. And we are going to the Arclight, which means we chose our seats when we bought our tix online and can stroll in right before the movie starts which is totally worth a higher price. Lines? We don't need no stinking lines.


Amy - Jul 15, 2011 7:37:57 am PDT #15455 of 30000
Because books.

The last movie I saw in 3D was Coraline, because I didn't have a choice at the time. There was a horrible acrid smell in the theater, which turned out to be from a fire in the TGI Friday's on the lower level of the mall, and we all got free tickets when we walked out (it was really that bad).

So I had a horrible headache from the smell, and then went home and started puking (which turned out to be a stomach bug, and unrelated to the smell, since Sara was fine), but my last association with a 3D movie is pretty bad. The thought of another one makes me run screaming.


§ ita § - Jul 15, 2011 7:39:32 am PDT #15456 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think I'm going to 3D Conan for sure, as long as it's not an upconversion.