Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by JWBear

We finally saw Deathly Hallows I last night. When people said that it was a dark movie I didn't realize they meant it so literally! Most of the movie was so dimly lit that while watching it at night with all the lights out we still couldn’t make out what was happening in half the movie! A lot of scenes were just vague moving shapes.

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Deathly Hallows looks great on a properly calibrated screen. Now even the movie theaters can't get that right.

Originally Posted by flippyshark

But shouldn't it look great on a hi-def monitor? It's a real chore to watch, and no projectionist to blame. (see my post a page or so back.)

We watched on a 65" Mitsubishi DLP and didn't have any problems. Ours is a little more bright than most (part of why we chose this model), so that may have something to do with it.

[Kevy Baby]

Along those lines, see if you can guess who this is in the picture below (met him over the weekend)

Hint/Trivia:

Spoiler:

While hs is probably better known as Neidermeir in Animal House along with a reprisal of the character in a couple of Twister Sister videos, I was surprised to learn he also played The Master on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Still don't know?

Spoiler:

Mark Metcalf

[Alex]

Still don't know.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

Still don't know.

Something tells me you probably never will, Which is fine.

[CoasterMatt]

Hi-def monitors still need to be calibrated to look their best - CRT, DLP, LCD or LED.

Some of the best "looking" displays in the store, look absolutely hideous in normal home viewing conditions.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Hi-def monitors still need to be calibrated to look their best - CRT, DLP, LCD or LED.

Some of the best "looking" displays in the store, look absolutely hideous in normal home viewing conditions.

Believe me, I played with adjustments like crazy on HP7a, and it stayed dank and dark. (Though it was WAAAY worse when I tried it on my DLP projection system) Mind you, I dislike the desaturated or hue-shifted look of so much current summer blockbuster cinema. It doesn't heighten mood for me. It just seems like lazy post production fiddling. Real cinematography should involve how the set was lit, not Adobe filters. Getting old and cranky.

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Believe me, I played with adjustments like crazy on HP7a, and it stayed dank and dark. (Though it was WAAAY worse when I tried it on my DLP projection system) Mind you, I dislike the desaturated or hue-shifted look of so much current summer blockbuster cinema. It doesn't heighten mood for me. It just seems like lazy post production fiddling. Real cinematography should involve how the set was lit, not Adobe filters. Getting old and cranky.

Not getting old and cranky at all - it's like suddenly they have a huge color gamut, but to be "edgy" or "moody" they desaturate to the point of hardly being color at all. HP7 though, is a "challenging" film for DLP systems - it looked great here, but we have a really controlled light environment.

[Strangler Lewis]

Indeed. That's what the hue knob is for.

[innerSpaceman]

I finally saw Prince of Persia ... wasn't very high on my must-see list, obviously.


Not as awful as I was generally led to believe. Yeah, did not deserve to become a franchise or anything, but it was a fine bit of Arabian Adventure. Perfectly serviceable. Jake is appealing, as always. You could do worse for a villain than, um, Ben Kingsley. Alfred Molina got critical praise for his comic-relief performance, well-deserved.

It was by-the-numbers and nothing special, nothing terrible. I find it hard, though, to fault movies that - if they'd only been made in a previous era, would have been fantastic. This is an old-schooler harkening back to the Errol Flynn genre. Sadly not suitable for the 21st century, but a fine mid-20th movie. Tsk, tsk, all that beautiful body building Jake went through for just the one picture. The least I could do was drool.

[alphabassettgrrl]

X-Men prelude and Hot Tub Time Machine.

Highly recommend both.