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[Yespage]

The Sting - A fun romp that got many more Oscar nods than one would have suggested. Redford and Newman had a pretty good connection on film and unlike Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, this one hits it out of the park for a Scam film set up.

Lawrence of Arabia - One of the most visually stunning films ever made. They might have turned hundreds of extras into baked potatoes to do it, but the low aperture filming created a deep landscape that did the film so well for indicating the vastness of the land in Arabia. While the film takes way too many privileges with history for both dramatic and timeline saving benefits (ironic in a film nearly four hours long), the acting is about as good as the cinematography which carries the film through its epic length. There was also the issue of a lot of not Arabs playing the part of Arabs. It isn't like Peter O'Toole was a silver screen heavyweight.

I have no idea what film is next.

 

[dfergie]

Night of the Living Debs - Amazon ZomRomCom... low budget but we haven't Living Dead out in awhile...

 

[telstar_1]

I try to see movies in theater when I can. It's always been a challenge as to the content available, but currently it's a real drought. It's funny, really, how all these exhibitors show exactly the same lineup, virtually in lockstep, and rarely try anything that's not squarely on the beaten path. I certainly saw the original Superman in the 70s, but I don't do any of today's comics flicks, or vampires, etc. Anyway, I about just wasn't going to go, but thought I would see The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, given it's still running, has strong reviews and the local weekly paper editor endorsed it. Just so I could give my own review, if nothing else. The best that I can say is that it is generally watchable.

I'm not big on the sappy "Christmas movie" genre, and this is as treacly as it comes. It's also overtly within the Christian genre, so you really get a twofer here. This seems a trend of late, Christian religious films gaining mainstream placement and apparently mainstream audiences. Perhaps now wedging into the gap created by the industry strikes, these flicks have always been around, but much more at the periphery. I have more to say in a thread in the political forum, as there seem to be right-wing politics in play around this mass proliferation. There have been a LOT of these heavily proselytizing movies out lately, many of which you might well not pick up on as being religious until you're already watching it. Themes skew heavily toward redemption, very didactic. Maybe they just need to change the "G" rating to "God".

 

[Bruce]

Lawrence of Arabia - One of the most visually stunning films ever made. They might have turned hundreds of extras into baked potatoes to do it, but the low aperture filming created a deep landscape that did the film so well for indicating the vastness of the land in Arabia. While the film takes way too many privileges with history for both dramatic and timeline saving benefits (ironic in a film nearly four hours long), the acting is about as good as the cinematography which carries the film through its epic length. There was also the issue of a lot of not Arabs playing the part of Arabs. It isn't like Peter O'Toole was a silver screen heavyweight.

Hopefully you watched this on 4K Disc, looks amazing, they remastered it, first did a 8K scan of the original 65mm negative (at the proper 2.20:1), resulting in a new 4K Digital Transfer, then further remastered for the film’s release on Ultra HD, which included a new high dynamic range grade with both HDR10 and Dolby Vision.