I saw the Purge and I thought I'd try my hand as a movie critic. I've always admired Roger Ebert and thought I'd give it my best so here goes.
IT WAS GOD DAMNED AWFUL.
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IMADreamer
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JackofDiamonds
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I still read Calvin & Hobbes every day.
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The Third Man
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Finally seeing the movie I've been hyping more than anything since The Tree of Life tomorrow night at the Drafthouse. Even the negative reviews make it sound awesome.
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redbirdjazzz
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Glad I don't have epilepsy, Third Man.
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I'm about to namedrop and do a plug here, so be warned.
"The To-Do List" is coming out July 26th (might be limited release at first) and is written and directed by an old friend of mine from Austin, Maggie Carey. I haven't talked to her for about 10 years, except a few messages back and forth on Facebook. Anyway, she's got her [expletive] together and always did. She's married to Bill Hader now. Smart, cute, funny and motivated. The script for this was on the list of best unproduced screenplays for a few years.
While I'm at it, her boyfriend in Austin was also a good friend of mine and is really funny in person. Chris Fairbanks - you can find him on Pandora and elsewhere. I don't think his album ended up capturing him that well, because he's a very physical performer. But I'd still recommend checking him out if you get the chance.
"The To-Do List" is coming out July 26th (might be limited release at first) and is written and directed by an old friend of mine from Austin, Maggie Carey. I haven't talked to her for about 10 years, except a few messages back and forth on Facebook. Anyway, she's got her [expletive] together and always did. She's married to Bill Hader now. Smart, cute, funny and motivated. The script for this was on the list of best unproduced screenplays for a few years.
While I'm at it, her boyfriend in Austin was also a good friend of mine and is really funny in person. Chris Fairbanks - you can find him on Pandora and elsewhere. I don't think his album ended up capturing him that well, because he's a very physical performer. But I'd still recommend checking him out if you get the chance.
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thrill
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Chris Fairbanks is a delightful podcast guest on various podcasts I listen to.
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JackofDiamonds
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She's married to Bill Hader and is dating Chris Fairbanks?
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ghostrunner
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was datingJackofDiamonds wrote:She's married to Bill Hader and is dating Chris Fairbanks?
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ghostrunner
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Netflix has been showing cropped/pan and scan movies on it's streaming service apparently:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/18/f ... ct-ratios/
I did a search on some titles people had noticed this with, and one was Miller's Crossing. I brought it up on Netflix and Netflix has it in almost a 4:3 ratio, which is the proportion of pre-widescreen televisions. However, they apparently are using an "open matte" version, which has more information than was shown originally. Many movie cameras actually film a larger image than is shown in the theater, and they have a viewer that the director and everyone else on set sees. The viewer has crop marks to indicate different ratios, so they can see how it will look on TVs and movie theaters all at once.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte - there's a good illustration there of how it works.
So Netflix isn't cutting out information in this case, they're showing more. But they're not showing the image that was intended.
Amazon Video has Miller's Crossing too, and when I brought it up there it had the normal widescreen version the Coen's put in theaters.
It sounds like Netflix and Amazon are likely just given these versions by the studios, and are none the wiser until someone brings it up. I read a related story where a director got it fixed.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/18/f ... ct-ratios/
I did a search on some titles people had noticed this with, and one was Miller's Crossing. I brought it up on Netflix and Netflix has it in almost a 4:3 ratio, which is the proportion of pre-widescreen televisions. However, they apparently are using an "open matte" version, which has more information than was shown originally. Many movie cameras actually film a larger image than is shown in the theater, and they have a viewer that the director and everyone else on set sees. The viewer has crop marks to indicate different ratios, so they can see how it will look on TVs and movie theaters all at once.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte - there's a good illustration there of how it works.
So Netflix isn't cutting out information in this case, they're showing more. But they're not showing the image that was intended.
Amazon Video has Miller's Crossing too, and when I brought it up there it had the normal widescreen version the Coen's put in theaters.
It sounds like Netflix and Amazon are likely just given these versions by the studios, and are none the wiser until someone brings it up. I read a related story where a director got it fixed.