I also blame Lucas for what's happening in Burma. And cancer.

P.S. Alexander Skaarsgard is indeed awesome in Generation Kill. Big Future for that one.

Curly was the goofiest motherfucker EVER, and God love him for it. He was testament to the notion of "Can't keep a good man down".

Previous copies i've had simply show it full screen (4:3). But this is shit, as you lose the edges (about a 3rd of the picture) in the widescreen parts of the movie... It also looks crap on modern 16:9 TVs.

With this version, apparently, they do the opposite - they crop the top and bottom in the 4:3 parts of the movie.

Either way, the film is being severely screwed over, so there's not much point in buying this version?

It's possible to have the disc change aspect ratio throughout the movie, since The Dark Knight BD does this for it's IMAX sections... So why the hell can't they do that for Dr Strangelove???

Does the BluRay of Spaceballs offer any NEW commentary from Mr. Brooks? And those awful G4 cartoons are available today also, are they not??

You know they're gonna come out with some badass complete series box set in the shape of a fuselage or Dharma Station with all sorts of exclusive bonus features and such.

In an accurate transfer Film grain is supposed to be there. The whole point of DVD and now HD was to better replicate the original picture. All film is grainy this is what helps the image look more organic and less artificial - like a typical TV show. Depending on the budget/artistic choices the amount of grain varies greatly even in modern films.

Nu-Hollywood seems to be moving towards a trend of homogenous plasticky looking imagery probably due to the cost saving of digital cameras and the gimmickery of most current DoPs raised on MTV.

This is evident with more and more Blu-Ray releases which have scrubbed away all the grain (see Patton/Star Trek box set for results of this - truly shite). It's also possible that this is due to ignorance about film grain in the wider public where customers are complaining there's something wrong with grainy films..

If we're not careful, gone will be the days when you can distinguish between an average TV show and a well produced bit of cinema. Everything will be digital, flat and lifeless. Casablanca in colour, with added CGI, and probably in 3D!

Corrolary: drives me absolutely insane when I tell someone to "click" and they say "left click or right click?"

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And Der langy, NTSC is done, old news. Digital HD has nothing to do with combined analogue luma and chroma signals (hence the joke about NTSC standing for Never The Same Colour) and HD 1080p 24p is the same wherever you go in the world, so if you're watching a flick on BD there's no difference (they keep muddying the waters by including lazy-arse analogue sd extras though). Finally. Although for some reason (probably licensing regions) different masters still get made.

The arguments about Kubrick's "preferred" aspect ratios will go on forever, but there ARE definitely instances where he went a certain way as I've noted above. Now that tellies aren't teeny tiny boxes (and remember they were 1.33 because that was the original cinema aspect) I don't understand why anyone would want anything BUT the O.A.R. (whether you have a 1.33 OR a 1.78 set).

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I picked up the game and aside from some install issues and a bit of repetitious action, I'm extremely impressed with it. It's like a fanboys wet dream, the kind of thing that is beyond what I used to fantasize as a young kid obseessed with both games and Ghostbusters.

"What is my motivation in this scene?"... to get bitchslapped by Moe, you dunce.

Oh, and please take note that the Three Stooges movie deals with Moe, Larry, and Curly. NOT SHEMP. Why? Because Shemp was a worthless, unfunny bitch whose only contribution to modern culture was a hairstyle that would be inadvertantly mimicked by hippies a generation later.

I'm sure they could re-submit the new version for the DVD to the MPAA to get a rating for it. However, why would they? Instead they can slap the word "unrated" on the cover to make people think they will be getting something that is beyond "R".

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Well it looks like shit, but at least I got it on Bluray!

Until you can get the complete upgrade to high def (tv, components, sound system) for under $1000 don't expect people to fully give into Blu-Ray. Most folks don't see the point.

Besides, people are still waiting for Blu-Ray to have an HD-DVD-like implosion.

I went to my local Wal-Mart today and their Blu-Ray section had not only shrunk, it had been moved to a lower traffic area of the store. Meanwhile, they had gotten rid of their $5 bins and replaced them with a tower set up, with the $5 DVDs spined out, making the perusal of that product much more customer friendly. So, from a customer stand point it looks like Wal-Mart is focused more on selling quantity of lower priced DVDs then in increasing their stock of Blu-Rays

Don't get me wrong, I'm on board the Blu-Ray upgrade (I believe this record is skipping), I'm just not convinced the average consumer, or even the retailers where those consumers shop, are fully on board the Blu-Ray bandwagon.

It's an observation folks, that's all.

You pretty much conceded my earlier point of Blu-ray being a niche product with your enlightened statement of "And re: "most folks". Who gives a F, really?".

If you're a fan of Blu-ray you might want to consider the opinions (and wallets) of "most folks". Why would you want to do that? Well, because if most folks view your beloved product as something marketed toward a smaller, different demographic they might feel inclined to ignore it. Turn their noses up at it. Refuse to upgrade.

It is in Blu-Ray's best interest to distance itself from this notion of being a niche item.

Maybe you remember the advent of DVD and how people were reluctant to upgrade to a DVD player from VHS. Back then I convinced a lot of people to upgrade simply by informing them that they would no longer have to rewind their movies.

That was an easy sell.

Now you have to convince people to not only upgrade their video players, but their televisions and sound equipment as well. A little bit harder.

And then there's those people who remember what happened to HD-DVD...

Bye bye!

Oh, and yes, no we do have wide tvs (no apostrophe needed there pal, it's called grammar).

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