I’ve always enjoyed going to the movies. Well, not so much anymore, because it’s expensive. Still, there is something to be said with going out to the movies and watching something really entertaining on a big screen.
I have several hundred movies available for streaming, or ripped from DVD onto a local server, meaning that I don’t need to go out to the movies. I can watch a movie any time I want.
It’s the middle of the week, and it’s Wednesday Night Open Thread time. What’s on your mind? Got a topic to discuss? The floor is wide open.
Who wants to start?
I vote for DamnCat or Oppo to start.
I vote for Jimmy to start. Winna!
Oh, wait: “It’s my turn!!” Waah.
Jimmy is Not My First Commenter!!!!
Getting back to Basil’s opening, it is true that a movie looks 100% different on a big screen than it does on a home TV, no matter how large.
That’s true because in the movie theater they pass the movie through a big de-pixelating machine making it look like the old days of celluloid.
Here’s something one used to see before the movie started. It’s called a cartoon and it’s from back before cartoons became bland and boring and politicaly correct. Hey, I can see where this moron is gonna give Daffy Duck trouble… https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&p=daffy+duck+cracked+quack#id=1&vid=527b3ba5188cb10e9fafd76500c22ba5&action=click
The thing that’s always bugged me about The Matrix’s giant logic problem is that there is a simple, reasonable, and obvious solution: Humans are used not as batteries but as CPUs.
It is often said that people use only 10% of their brain (I have my own theory on that but that’s another discussion).
So The Matrix creates a virtual world to keep the humans’ 10% conscious/subconscious busy while using the remaining 90% of their brains for data processing. It’s perfect.
One movie that really made me mad was the first Mission Impossible – specifically the big twist/reveal at the end.
Jim Phelps is the traitor? Seriously? So bogus! I’ve known Jim Phelps since the 60s – there is no way on God’s green Earth.
And why? For money? Seriously? The guy could knock over a casino, a diamond exchange, or freaking Fort Know with his skills. Instead he sells out government agents? Stupid – ruined the entire movie.
If the producers were really, really determined to make Jim the bad guy they could have at least given him a rational motive.
Here’s one: years ago Jim married one of his IM force operatives. She was captured by the North Koreans. “The Secretary” disavowed any knowledge of her actions – fair enough everyone knew the rules going in. So Jim and a few of is loyal IM pals started working on a plan to get her out – on their own dime, their own time. But the agency didn’t want them to – so they threw Jim in prison for 5 months – until the Norks tortured her to death. So that was Jim’s motive – revenge for the agency stopping him from saving the woman he loved. I don’t really like it – I don’t believe Jim Phelps would do such a thing – but at least it males sense.
What I didn’t like about the first Mission Impossible was the team getting killed off. The whole point of MI for me was the team each having their own role in order for the plan to work.
That is why I never saw any of the follow up films. It is as close to TV blasphemy as one can get.
Question, why would the Nazis honor a letter of transit signed by Charles DeGaulle?
Because MacGuffin, that’s why!
MacGuffin. Still, it is a huge plot hole for such a great picture otherwise.