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Searching for GREAT transfers of GREAT movies. PLEEEEAASE!!!!

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Yes, I know, "great" is relative, but please, I am hoping to find some DVD's that manage to capture both. My personnal list of what is palatable to me is too short at this point. Run Lola Run is the leader there with 9 for quality, and 7 for the movie part.

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how about "Oxbow Incident" & "Dance w/ Wolves" Mart 12:05:48 03/24/00 (2)
these are cinematic giants. hopefully they transfered well.
- Re: how about "Oxbow Incident" & "Dance w/ Wolves" Victor Khomenko 15:01:26 03/24/00 (1)
  The incidents I will check out. But there is no Kevin in my life, sorry. Can't stand him.
  - you must have mixed feelings about Mart 19:51:37 03/24/00 (0)
    him drinking his own filtered urine in "Waterworld".
    ... just desserts, as it were ....
    CHEERS
Some movies with good image quality. Tom �. 07:53:19 03/22/00 (0)
The star trek movies (esp the ones with next generation cast members) all have great image quality.
Contact has a pretty good picture. Apocalypse Now's picture is very nice. Saving Private Ryan (hahahahahahahah) has the crispest picture I've seen.
Two movies that suprised me with image quality was The Outlaw Josey Wales and High Plains Drifter.
Tom �.
Re: Searching for GREAT transfers of GREAT movies. PLEEEEAASE!!!! Rich Jura 05:21:39 03/22/00 (0)
Hello Victor
Don't know if it's your cupof tea but I really enjoyed "Goldeneye"
the tank chase seen is wonderful. The ultimate solution to traffic jams?
For that seen I always imagine a dollar count like on a gas pump running
from the beginning till the end, had to be costly.
Good Hunting
Rich
Thank you, Gentlemen... Victor Khomenko 05:09:05 03/22/00 (4)
It appears that the task might be harder than I expected. I have not given up yet, so please keep them coming - I do want more well-recorded DVD's.
And true, the Bug's Life is not really my cup of tea - I once sat through about 15 minutes of it and that was enough. Beautiful pictuers, though.
- Re: Thank you, Gentlemen... Bob Wanamaker 06:22:46 03/22/00 (3)
  any of my recommendations sound interesting? Want more?
  - By all means Victor Khomenko 06:32:47 03/22/00 (2)
    By all means - keep mentioning those you liked. While generally my taste is more oriented towards the classics and what you might call "art" movies, I am not against some raw fun either. I am familiar with some films on your list and am invesigating a couple of others.
    BTW, you were kidding about the M-16, weren't you? - that is a Class III weapon. Perhaps the AR-15?
    Amy I humbly suggest a flame thrower? Clears room full of perpetrators in no time at all.
    - Here's a couple more we've enjoyed... Bob Wanamaker 18:00:10 03/22/00 (1)
      Existenz
      Dead Man Walking
      Eve's Bayou
      Elizabeth
      Meet Joe Black
      Thin Red Line
      all great transfers.
      Bushmaster, civilian model. What kind of control do you get with the flamethrower? Could I, for example, toast the bad guy and not melt the big screen?
      - Re: Here's a couple more we've enjoyed... Victor Khomenko 05:21:20 03/23/00 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Here's a couple more we've enjoyed... posted by Bob Wanamaker on March 22, 2000 at 18:00:10:
        
        I liked the Elizabeth a lot - Cate certainly deserved the Oscar, not that pathetic heavily-promoted industry darling. Her work was head and shoulders above the rest in complexity and depth. Too bad she didn't come from a Hollywood family...
        Need to check couple more tites on your list.
        With flamethrower, practice is the key. Get some dummies (can be live dummies) in your living room and practice until you can reliably hit them. It might take you fifty or so hits before you get the gist of it. Disregard the minor collateral damage - cats, carpets, etc.
No telecine involved. T. Buns 21:15:05 03/21/00 (0)
Both "Casablanca" and "The Searchers" (if you're into technicolor) look great. I seem to remember "Fargo" looking really nice too, albeit, perhaps a bit crisp. The best transfer I've yet seen goes to "A Bug's Life", while it's fun, I can tell by previous posts that you probably wouldn't be able to sit through this one multiple times. BTW the standard edition of the film, for some odd reason or another, looks better than the special edition
DVD is still pretty new, so... late 06:16:16 03/21/00 (4)
hi Victor,
the good stuff is coming, personally i am still waiting for
DVD's of Babylon5 to be released, which is my favorite trashy scifi series.
Have you ever seen B5? One of the big appeals of it, for me, is that it has a distinctly Russian flavor.
i am pretty sure that when something good comes along, we will
be in competition to see who can grab the "headline".
- No, haven't seen B5, don't even know what it is Victor Khomenko 07:16:48 03/21/00 (3)
  Ant you are right, the DVD is still new, and I hope more good movies will be released. It seems, however, that money talks big time here and most great movies never produce anything even remotely close the revenue of Titanic or SPR. So we are probably going to be largely limited to commercially successful ones, (that does actually include some good ones too), plus perhaps some lousy transfers of the great classics - I have the Ran on DVD and its quality is below what is avaialble from a good VHS tape.
  - B5 is short for Babylon 5 late 14:14:22 03/21/00 (2)
    hi,
    thats a shame about Ran, been many years, but as i remember it had very nice cinematography. Been debating whether to rent or buy Wizard of Oz- it is out on DVD, and SGHT (Stereophile's Guide to Home Theater) gave it a rave review.
    - Is Kagemusha available on DVD? Victor Khomenko 06:35:27 03/22/00 (1)
      ***thats a shame about Ran, been many years, but as i remember it had very nice cinematography
      Yes, both Ran and Kagemusha have wonderful battle scenes too - it would be really nice to see them well transfered.
      - Re: Is Kagemusha available on DVD? plus more recommendat Ran 13:40:27 03/22/00 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Is Kagemusha available on DVD? posted by Victor Khomenko on March 22, 2000 at 06:35:27:
        
        No, Kagemusha is not available on DVD. Ran is available and I have not yet seen it though I purchased it last week.
        BUT, 2001 Space is great on DVD at least for me.
        Am going to watch 2010 tonight on DVD.
        And I bought a few more - whoops I think I forgot what...
        but if you are interested I will let you know.
        Enjoy Victor
        Good DVD movies - Bought 2001Space, Ran, (more)
Try the DVD of "Vertigo". TAFKA Steve 22:31:17 03/20/00 (0)
Also, for opulent visuals, try "Restoration" (Robert Downey Jr., Meg Ryan, Polly Walker). Not a great film, but a good one.
Re: Criterion Edition of Armageddon is fantastic <more> Bob Wanamaker 17:37:18 03/20/00 (3)
Well, without knowing more about your tastes, that's hard. Since you mentioned Run Lola Run, I'll take a stab:
The Exorcist 25th Anniversary Edition. The audio is not overwhelming, but well done. Video is excellent.
Funny Games. My wife and I found this to be most disturbing. Forget special effects; forget Hollywood, forget blood-and-gore. A great movie, well transferred. BTW, we now sleep with an M-16 under the bed and various other weapons stashed about the house.
Zero Effect. Off-beat detective flick.
Bound. The brothers Wachowski. Although there's nothing wrong with the thought of Gina Gershon doing Meg Tilly , it's really a good suspense flick.
Dracula (Coppola). Excellent video; audio is well done, not overwhelming.
Heat. One of the best shoot-em-ups, IMO.
8MM. I found this to be a superbly dark film about the underground porno world.
Very Bad Things. One of the only comedies that I can watch repeatedly and geniunely laugh over.
These have all been viewed over 16:9 HDTV with a doubler. Let me know if any of this is to your taste, I can either recommend more xor shut up.
- Armageddon is a GREAT movie? Scott 12:00:54 03/21/00 (2)
  Gee, I better try to sit thru it again, I must have missed that part.
  - RE: Sarcasm Intended, Not Conveyed ... Bob Wanamaker 15:50:13 03/21/00 (1)
    I thought that if anybody took the time to read my post, they would see the sarcasm plainly enough.
    My apologies for not accurately conveying my semantic intension.
    For the record, I don't think Armageddon is a great movie. It's an OK movie. There, I've said it.
    Enjoy!
    - Re: RE: Sarcasm Intended, Not Conveyed ... Scott 07:48:14 03/22/00 (0)
      Oh. Didn't get the sarcasm.....
      ***For the record, I don't think Armageddon is a great movie. It's an OK movie***
      How about we just say Armageddon is "a movie" and leave it at that...
Re: Searching for GREAT transfers of GREAT movies. PLEEEEAASE!!!! Bob Casner 17:31:42 03/20/00 (4)
I don't know if it's on DVD, or if so how well it's transferred, but since you loved "Barry Lyndon" I think you'll also like Roman Polanski's "Tess". More beautiful films especially for quality of cinematography: "The Black Stallion" and "Days of Heaven".
- My special relationship with Tess... Victor Khomenko 05:05:15 03/22/00 (3)
  Thank you, Bob. I think I am ready to get it now. For a long time I have been pushing it back for a fear that it was not going to live up to my expectations. That novel occupies a special place in my memory.
  Many years ago, I just got married. It didn't take my wife long to discover that I was not familiar with that work - a sin completely unforgivable for a young aspiring member of the Leningrad technical intelligencia. She set up to correct that. That summer we were spending in a tiny wagon that we rented from a circus artist - 7' by 9', bedroom, kitchen and all. That was a good summer and I still vividly remember my young and beautiful wife reading that novel to me aloud.
  I think I will take a plunge today and check the local Best Buy shelves.
  - defiling Tess? Stephen Hayes 07:51:05 03/22/00 (0)
    Victor,
    I think you'll like Tess, the film. Just keep in mind that Polanski, like many a good director, puts a strong authorial "stamp" on his films. (Is it apparent yet that I adore Polanski?) But in no way does he violate the novel.
    Which reminds me: Has anyone seen the musical version of Tess now playing in London? Yes, that's right, a musical Tess! I paused awhile outside the Strand where it was playing, but couldn't bring myself to buy a ticket and opted for a nice jazz club down the street instead.
  - Victor, I think there's a movie in your summer in the circus wagon...sounds very romantic in a claustrophobic sort of way...(nt) Bill Leebens 06:42:41 03/22/00 (1)
    nt
    - Cozy is more like it.. Victor Khomenko 07:32:07 03/22/00 (0)
      After I was born, our family of four occupied for ten years a room in a horrible communal apartment. That room was about 10' by 11' size. That, I guess, was a fair reward for both of my parents spending years in the Soviet Army defending Leningrad during the 900 day siege.
      So, two people in a wagon - that, my friend, borders on luxury...

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