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  1. jcroy

    Foreign language films directed by American or British directors

    Another stretching of the definition of "American" and/or "British". Ronny Yu directed films like Bride of Chucky, Freddy vs. Jason, etc ... He initially cut his teeth on directing low budget films in Hong Kong, and later directed a bigger budget film "Fearless" from 2006 (with Jet Li) which...
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    Foreign language films directed by American or British directors

    This may be stretching the definition of "American". Before Denis Villeneuve directed the recent Dune and Blade Runner 2049 films, he cut his teeth on French language films in his home province of Quebec in Canada.
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    Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "More Efficient Ways" Moving Forward

    Heh. Wonder how soon we will see an AI conjuring up the next "Snakes on a Plane" type experimental failures. :rolling-smiley:
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    Name some perfect film trilogies

    Cheech and Chong - Up In Smoke - Next Movie - Nice Dreams
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    Press Release PHE Press Release: NCIS: The Twenty-First Season (DVD)

    Heh. Not something I would have expected at this point for NCIS proper. Interesting that Viacom/Paramount is starting to do these multiseason packs, where an ongoing tv shows' most current (or recent) full season set being included in such multiseason packs. In the next few months, wonder if...
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    The Midnight Special is posting their archive on YouTube and it looks/sounds amazing!

    Steppenwolf 1975 born to be wild
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    The Midnight Special is posting their archive on YouTube and it looks/sounds amazing!

    REO Speedwagon 1980 keep on loving you
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    The Midnight Special is posting their archive on YouTube and it looks/sounds amazing!

    Alice Cooper 1979 billion dollar babies I'm 18 only women bleed
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    The Midnight Special is posting their archive on YouTube and it looks/sounds amazing!

    KISS 1975 https://kisstimeline.com/timeline/kiss-filming-the-midnight-special-at-nbc-studios/ black diamond she deuce
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    4k drive for my pc that's blu-ray and dvd region free

    4Kbluray/UHD has always been region-free from the start. The issue with 4Kbluray, is finding (or modifying) a "friendly" drive which unofficial ripping programs (such as makemkv) can deal with. Generic bluray's region restrictions is done at the software level. Unofficial bluray...
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    The Great HTF Music Challenge

    It seems like by the time vinyl versions were discontinued as a mass market product, there was no more popular second spot to dump the "big hits" into after the first track on a then-newly released cd.
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    The Great HTF Music Challenge

    Interesting. Never knew that "Youth Gone Wild" was the first song on side2. It appears back in 1988-1989, the record companies were still thinking of vinyl in regard to the track ordering. IIRC, it was usually the big "hits" songs which were placed as the first songs on side1 and side2...
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    The Great HTF Music Challenge

    An acoustic cover of Gary Moore's "Over The Hills and Far Away", played with a drehleier (ie. hurdy gurdy) and cello. Without any electric guitars, it sounds almost like an Irish folk song. - Gary Moore version live in 2010. (Shortly before he passed away). - A very differerent cover...
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    Paramount in merger talks

    On the surface, this sounds like a plausible "cover story". Though looking deeper into that linked sec/edgar document in my previous post, there is another issue which might be more prominent. On page 23, it is disclosed in footnote (7) that Redstone's National Amusements has a significant...
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    Paramount in merger talks

    Paramount has a strange equity structure, where out of the 665 million outstanding common stock shares, only 41 million are "class A" with voting rights and the rest are "class B" with no voting rights. (scroll down to page 5 in the following sec/edgar link)...
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    The Great HTF Music Challenge

    A cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama" done in an Irish folk music style. A cover of Free Bird played on a violin with bagpipes.
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    Universal Studios & Warner Brothers Reissued DVD Sets

    From examining the episode list of Welcome Back Kotter, season 3 had 27 episodes which would take four discs even if the first three discs had eight episodes per disc. If Warner is only making season 3 into three discs, then I have to wonder if Warner is reauthoring the entire series where the...
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    Is it ok to make a fictional movie about school violence?

    In a more general sense independent of "autism" issues, this has always been true in a (relatively) open society for anybody who is a public figure (ie. actors, rockstars, writers, politicians, celebrities, royalty, etc ....). One should not be in the public sphere if one cannot handle...
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    Is it ok to make a fictional movie about school violence?

    What is your starting point ? For example, is the underlying themes loosely resembling something like "catcher in the rye" or The Joker ? For a wide audience outside of the hardcore nerdy/geeky crowd, such a film would have to appeal to "normal" people who do not care about about the plight...
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    McMillan & Wife complete series question

    The only way to know for sure, is to read the information in the *.ifo files. (Makemkv parses and processes the *.ifo files as part of its standard startup procedure every time a new dvd disc is loaded). For a quick read, I use the old IfoEdit program which reads particular ifo files...
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    Is it ok to make a fictional movie about school violence?

    There certainly exists school shooting movies which are not based on Columbine. For example, there is a Quebecois french language film "Polytechnique" from 2009, which was about the 1989 Montreal massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnique_(film)...
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    New version of Emergency! all-in-one

    For this set, a $29.99 price smells like a counterfeit on ebay. Though with the being said, I would only believe a $29.99 price if I could see the actual dvd set I'm buying in person at an actual offline retail record/video store or wallymart. As an extreme example of this, I saw the Cheers...
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    What's the last TV DVD/Blu-ray you bought?

    So far amazon has accepted all my returns of suspected bootlegs with a full refund. In the return procedure, I explain in detail why it is a bootleg such as single-layer discs (ie. less than 5 gigabytes) with no encryption. In the return package, I also include a handwritten note outlining...
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    What's the last TV DVD/Blu-ray you bought?

    I posted a recent rant about this issue on another thread on here. https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/whats-left-unreleased-on-4k-that-you-would-pay-50-to-own-on-day-one.382477/page-3#post-5323699 Apparently bootleggers have become problematic where the counterfeit copies...
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    What's left, unreleased on 4k, that you would pay $50 to own on day one?

    If you're asking for reasons which are completely unrelated to making silly wishlists, I do have a second big reason for doing preorders. Though this is more applicable to tv show season dvd sets (or complete series), and not so much to bluray yet (or 4Kbluray for that matter). I've been...
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    Universal Studios & Warner Brothers Reissued DVD Sets

    Hmmm ..... The Welcome Back Kotter complete series set is being re-released this time by Warner on June 11, 2024. The amazon listing asserts this upcoming Warner released set will be a 12 disc set. https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Back-Kotter-Complete-DVD/dp/B0D1W2DFP7/ In contrast, the...
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    What's left, unreleased on 4k, that you would pay $50 to own on day one?

    For myself as mentioned in other recent threads on here, I currently don't own a standalone 4Kbluray player. So if there is a "must buy" title I am inclined to purchase at $50 or higher, my purchasing decision will also include the cost of buying a new standalone 4Kbluray player. (ie. At least...
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    The Prices of New 4k/UHD Releases...

    Not quite $100, but I did purchase the Criterion laserdic variant of Blade Runner for around $60 to $70 back in the early-mid 1990s. In those days, that was actually considered a decent discount for that title. In those days, all the domestic VHS versions of Blade Runner I had come across...
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