A 3 hour movie is nothing after you've seen a 12 hour play where the actors can see you squirm!
Don't worry, I'm not gonna start any sword fights. I'm over that phase.
Mal ,'War Stories'
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aurelia - Mar 26, 2019 5:41:20 pm PDT #2570 of 4006
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Jessica - Mar 27, 2019 5:18:06 am PDT #2571 of 4006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ethan beat The Mary Sue to that article by almost a week. [link]
(But the comments on theirs are better.)
Zenkitty - Mar 27, 2019 9:43:28 am PDT #2572 of 4006
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm not missing a moment of Endgame no matter how long it is. I'm like a camel. A camel who is very invested in this disaster fire of a movie universe.
Vonnie K - Mar 27, 2019 10:54:42 am PDT #2573 of 4006
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Guess what! Just learned that my local AMC is screening Lawrence of Arabia tonight for their Wednesday Classics program. I've only seen it in piecemeal on tiny screens. Looking forward to watching the whole thing in one sitting in all of its... *looks up* 3h and 48m runtime glory.
They better fucking have an intermission.
Tom Scola - Mar 27, 2019 11:14:18 am PDT #2574 of 4006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Is it in 70mm?
Vonnie K - Mar 27, 2019 11:20:24 am PDT #2575 of 4006
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Ehh, probably not? I remember they made a big to-do about showing Dunkirk in 70mm when it came out and the website doesn't mention anything like that. I think LoA was remastered in 4K a few years ago? Hopefully they're at least showing that version.
Fred Pete - Mar 27, 2019 11:22:08 am PDT #2576 of 4006
Ann, that's a ferret.
I saw Lawrence of Arabia in a theater many years ago. TV doesn't do it justice. In particular, the desert panoramas demand a big screen,
Jessica - Mar 27, 2019 11:25:25 am PDT #2577 of 4006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
4k is equivalent to 35mm, more or less. (But it's not an exact comparison since digital prints don't wear out like film, so if you're going to show the movie more than once, the digital print will look better.)
Toddson - Mar 27, 2019 12:29:01 pm PDT #2578 of 4006
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I saw Lawrence of Arabia when it was new, in a theater. It turned up on the PBS weekly classic movie ... I'd forgotten how good it was, how magnificent the panoramas were ... and how good Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif looked (maybe I can appreciate them more now that I'm older).
DavidS - Mar 27, 2019 4:03:32 pm PDT #2579 of 4006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've seen Lawrence of Arabia in 70 MM at a revival house with a newly struck print.
Pretty freakin' amazing.
Of all the movies I've seen, it is easily the one that most needs to be seen on a big screen.
Scale is so important to the whole production.