movies

[MrSaigon]

If I was potus and had a blanket over my lap all the time I'd be getting all sorts of hjs.

[Richie Allen]

For me, Ikiru is the one with the biggest gap between expectations and reality. Not that it's not really good - like you said, it's relative - but I wouldn't put it anywhere close to his best. The way the second half is structured, with those histrionic businessmen narrating the story, hurts it for me.

Same and same. Still great, just not among his greatest, in my opinion. Didn't help that, for some reason, I was convinced it was around a 90 minute film and thought it would be over a few minutes after his death. The second half, as you put it, seemed to go on forever with only a few payoffs. The swing scene was fabulous but probably should have gone on longer and ended right there. Having only given it a few minutes to digest, I'm thinking **** out of *****.

[Vidor]

Just saw a commercial for the release of "Ted" on DVD, and it was a 2-pack with a regular DVD and a Blu-Ray. See this a lot nowadays. Why do people do this? If you have a regular player you can't play the Blu-Ray and if you have the Blu-Ray you don't need the regular DVD.

[cardsfantx]

I understand why they do it for kids movies, since most car/portable players are only DVD...so we watch the blu ray at home and pop the DVD version in the car.

But for adult movies...I dunno. Most times if it comes with it, I just give it to the inlaws as they still only use a DVD player.

[Jocephus]

yeah i got one of those double discs for the avengers. i bought my blu ray player this year and it plays both formats so it's moot, but it does seem a bit odd. i'd rather just have the one disc, especially *if* it saved me a few bucks. oh well.

[Radbird]

We saw Argo last night and it lived up to expectations. Good flick.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Just saw a commercial for the release of "Ted" on DVD, and it was a 2-pack with a regular DVD and a Blu-Ray. See this a lot nowadays. Why do people do this? If you have a regular player you can't play the Blu-Ray and if you have the Blu-Ray you don't need the regular DVD.

I have a Blu-Ray player, but my parents don't. Sometimes when I buy a new movie, they'll ask me to bring it over, so it comes in handy here.

Also, I suppose it's possible for people to have a blu-ray player in their living room and a regular dvd player in the bedroom. If you want to watch a movie in bed, you'll need the regular dvd.

[redbirdjazzz]

Just saw a commercial for the release of "Ted" on DVD, and it was a 2-pack with a regular DVD and a Blu-Ray. See this a lot nowadays. Why do people do this? If you have a regular player you can't play the Blu-Ray and if you have the Blu-Ray you don't need the regular DVD.

I have a Blu-Ray player, but my parents don't. Sometimes when I buy a new movie, they'll ask me to bring it over, so it comes in handy here.

Also, I suppose it's possible for people to have a blu-ray player in their living room and a regular dvd player in the bedroom. If you want to watch a movie in bed, you'll need the regular dvd.

I'm sure there are some people who don't yet have a Blu-Ray, but plan to get one and don't want to buy the movie twice.

[Maclowery]

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Best sci-fi trailer since Prometheus. I want to make babies with Olga Kurylenko very much.

[MrSaigon]

Just watched Ted last night. I didn't really like it. I was hoping for some of that early Family Guy charm ( you know, when they were going through their limited catalog of jokes for the first time) but there was very little and plenty of that gross out stuff that seems extra lazy when McFarlane does it for some reason. The Flash Gordon stuff was fun. That's about it. I guess it didn't really feel like an extra long episode of fg either which is why I didn't want to see it in the first place.