Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87

[North]

I have a really nice big screen tv at home. But I still love the feeling of the opening night movie. Me and my freinds will get there hours early just to get our favorite spot. I dunno its not just the tv and sound its the whole experience.

[Zar Peter]

I still think a 7m*5m screen (app 30ft*20ft) screen is more impressive than an TV screen.

I agree that watching films at home with the right atmosphere is quite enjoyable but you get never the atmosphere of a cinema (which includes sometimes some nerds munching popcorn as loud as the film is).

[Leather_Book_Wizard]

I don't really care for cinemas. Popcorn gives me stomach aches. And when I went to see Harry Potter 5 the people behind me would not shut up! And they smelled! Bad!

[Dragonrider]

I went to see the Return of the King five times in the theatre. The last one I saw was Pirates 3, which I enjoyed just as a fun movie...except (and this always happens) the 6'4" guy who could have chosen ANY SPOT decided to sit down right in front of me and I was craning my neck the whole time. I'm 5'2". Life isn't fair to short people.

I have an uncle who had a spare room in his house and actually built a theatre. Complete with the chairs and an industrial popcorn machine. Our setup is slightly less expensive - my dad brings home a projector from work, we hook it up to the laptop, and an entire living room wall (with a white sheet tacked to it) becomes a big screen. The only bad part is when the cat walks across in front of the projector and then decides it's a goo spot to lie down for a nap.

[Logic]

Put an open bottle of vinegear near the projector, and that cat won't go near it. This has the downside of possibly making the movie rom smell like vinegear, but you can't win 'em all.

[Leather_Book_Wizard]

The only bad part is when the cat walks across in front of the projector and then decides it's a goo spot to lie down for a nap.

You could just move the cat.

[zeratul]

Hey guys, question time. Did shadow of the sun leave or something? I haven't seen him in a while.

[Lord Herman]

According to his user profile, he's been online today.

[Dragonrider]

So either he's lurking (which I can't see being the case ) or he's taken to frequenting other areas of the 'boards.

[Calamity]

Hey guys, question time. Did shadow of the sun leave or something? I haven't seen him in a while.

Last posted 3 days ago, I don't think that he's left

[Logic]

Ok, I have to admit, for those few avatars that are making it through, Mistaken Identity week is REALLY throwing me off.

For example "Since when is Thes a moderator?"

And ""Yiel isn't acting like herself today..."

Bravo. You have fooled me.

[Calamity]

Ok, I have to admit, for those few avatars that are making it through, Mistaken Identity week is REALLY throwing me off.

For example "Since when is Thes a moderator?"

And ""Yiel isn't acting like herself today..."

Bravo. You have fooled me.

Use logic, Logic! () Look at the username!

[Logic]

Use logic, Logic! () Look at the username!

Well, for those of you that I cannnot see the avatars (which is most), I do. But for the few of you whose avatars are not currently blocked, I just see a picture, and go on assuming...

[Midnight Son]

I find that I watch fewer and fewer movies at the theatre since I upgraded from a 32" tube to a 50" HDTV widescreen DLP. That said, some movies need to be seen on the big screen.

I have a cousin who bought himself a digital projector and a very large white tarp, which he attaches to a framework. Takes a while to put together, but he's got a bigscreen any time he wants.

[Vonriel]

I don't care how big your TV, or how good the sound system, for movies with lots of action you more or less have to go to a theater to see them in all their glory. Take Die Hard 4. Do you think the scene with the helicopter and the police car would be even half as good if you weren't being blasted by theater-sized sound and picture?

[Dragonrider]

I have a cousin who bought himself a digital projector and a very large white tarp, which he attaches to a framework. Takes a while to put together, but he's got a bigscreen any time he wants.

It's the way to go. It only costs about $5.75 for matinee (8-something otherwise) for tickets here, but home video is free!

(well, after you've bought the DVD )

[Lucky]

I don't care how big your TV, or how good the sound system, for movies with lots of action you more or less have to go to a theater to see them in all their glory. Take Die Hard 4. Do you think the scene with the helicopter and the police car would be even half as good if you weren't being blasted by theater-sized sound and picture?

I saw 300 in an IMax theatre. That was truly epic.

DVD could not compete.

[Logic]

I think most action movies are bad in theatres. Mostly because the noise is too loud. If I wanted to go deaf hearing a jet engine, I would take out my earplugs at work.

[Calamity]

I think most action movies are bad in theatres. Mostly because the noise is too loud. If I wanted to go deaf hearing a jet engine, I would take out my earplugs at work.

Action movies are actually my prefrered choice if I go to the cinema, either action or sci-fi, I always find those to give the best 'cinema experience.

Comedy is one of my favourite genres, that said, I prefer watching comedy movies on the TV. Most don't have that....hmmm...epicness about them. Maybe martial art parodies are an exception to that though.

[Lucky]

Comedy is one of my favourite genres, that said, I prefer watching comedy movies on the TV. Most don't have that....hmmm...epicness about them. Maybe martial art parodies are an exception to that though.

I must agree. I will never watch a comedy in the theatres.

[FdL]

I don't really like going to the cinema. I only go to the cinema if there's a movie I really can't wait to see (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars: Episode III). I'd much rather watch a movie at home, without all those annoying talking people and crying babies and ringing cell phones you get at the cinema.

QFT. I like going to the movies, but usually it's too much of a bother. I hate schedules, and people usually annoy me. Most of the movies I want to see are also preferred by the most stupid teenagers around. So it's really not very nice to have to share a room with morons who don't let you enjoy the movie.

Still, I agree in that there's films that are best enjoyed in a theatre. Generally those epic, earth shattering movies with lots of action and drama.

BTW, regarding movie at the theatre vs. DVD, I think in fact that the advent of DVD and "home theatre" technology has done wonders for the enjoyment of films at home. The video and sound quality are great, and that's what takes away some of the side effect of watching movies in the TV: it's too trivial. Especially if you watch them in a cable channel. They are stripped of all the drama and grandiosity this art form deserves. They are trivialized.


Point 2: I still can't understand why someone would choose to bring a baby to the cinema. It's loud and scary.

If I ever have children,I make a vow to never take them to the movies until they are no longer babies. It's a matter of principles.

Once I went to a rock concert. It was a small outdoors place, but it was still loud because we were forced to be pretty close. I saw a woman who parked her baby's chair a few metres away from me...incidentally, a few metres away from one of the big speakers. Then she peacefully sat down to watch the show. MY ears were ringing, go figure. Did she want her baby disintegrated from the inside out? You couldn't believe the look I gave that crazy woman.

[Leather_Book_Wizard]

QFT. I still can't understand why someone would choose to bring a baby to the cinema. It's loud and scary.

:

The baby or the cinema?

[Calamity]

The baby of the cinema?

That made my day night

[FdL]

LOL!

Indeed, both are.

[Logic]

Ok, everyone knows those motivational posters, and the de-motivational posters, the ones with a picture, a short title in big bold font, and a small description that follows? Imagine this as one (I can't make it myself, or I would)

Picture!
Narnia
Where it is ok to take candy from and visit the house of a half-naked stranger you met five minutes ago.

EDIT: Hmmm... Doesn't seem to work as advertised...
EDIT II: Better!

[FdL]

Ok, everyone knows those motivational posters, and the de-motivational posters, the ones with a picture, a short title in big bold font, and a small description that follows? Imagine this as one (I can't make it myself, or I would)

Picture!
Narnia
Where it is ok to take candy from and visit the house of a half-naked stranger you met five minutes ago.

EDIT: Hmmm... Doesn't seem to work as advertised...
EDIT II: Better!

Duuuuuude :S
I've read the book but haven't seen the movie. It sure looks creepy. Somehow in the book it didn't...

It's interesting how movie adaptations always kill their subject matter. This is more apparent with pure fantasy works like this. They bring it too much into the literal, physical side of things :s I don't know what a faun looks like, but that bare chested geezer wasn't in my Narnia :S

[Dragonrider]

yeah, somehow it sounds better on paper.

On the subject of kids in the theatre...when I went to see "The Return of the King" (the 5th time ), I was shocked to see that someone had brought a three-year-old AND an infant.

That was a weird showing anyway. There were four middle schoolers in the front row who seemed to have come to the movie just so they could squeal like pigs every time Orlando Bloom appeared on screen. It was funny at first, but after a while I felt like going down and throttling them. They stayed until his name came up in the credits - then they screamed their heads off for a few moments, got up, and left.

I don't think they could have been more obnoxious if they'd tried.

[Sean92k]

Ok, everyone knows those motivational posters, and the de-motivational posters, the ones with a picture, a short title in big bold font, and a small description that follows? Imagine this as one (I can't make it myself, or I would)

Picture!
Narnia
Where it is ok to take candy from and visit the house of a half-naked stranger you met five minutes ago.

EDIT: Hmmm... Doesn't seem to work as advertised...
EDIT II: Better!

I can make that, if you want?

Edit: I did

Spoiler

Show

[Eldpollard]

Ah yes, small children in theatres, full of sugar what joy. My local cinema is the old style one screen affair, with a gentle slope at the sides of the seats. Some children kept running up and down making thudding noises. So I conveniently got leg cramp and had to stretch my leg out, and suddenly a child fell over. Needless to say I was shocked.

EDIT: @^Impressive.

[Lord Herman]

I say, what an unfortunate accident.