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• The Asylum harbingers of good taste have spoken....everyone take note! - TWB 12:49:27 03/01/06 (5)
  In Reply to: Re: That has tradition--- posted by patrickU on March 1, 2006 at 01:57:20:

  Sorry...I like the movie...mindless entertainment on a Sat. afternoon with my son...the Jean-Paul Gaultier costumes are great as are the special effects and some of the dialogue is a riot...BIG BADDA BOOM....not all films are to be taken seriously, some are for pure entertainment value! Get over it!
  
  

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  • Re: What should I answer to that?---- - patrickU 01:10:23 03/02/06 (0)
    In Reply to: The Asylum harbingers of good taste have spoken....everyone take note! posted by TWB on March 1, 2006 at 12:49:27:

    That YOU did not wrote down below?
    In one word, you missed a good occasion to stay quite.....
    
    

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  • Problem is NOT that you enjoy crap... we all do... it is... - Victor Khomenko 12:53:03 03/01/06 (3)
    In Reply to: The Asylum harbingers of good taste have spoken....everyone take note! posted by TWB on March 1, 2006 at 12:49:27:

    ...that you don't realize it is crap.

    Nothing wrong with some mindless entertainment, and no matter the volume of your red herring no one ever suggested otherwise.

    But crap remains crap, even if we sometimes like it. There are many crappy movies which I enjoyed, and some of them - more than once.
    

    
    
    
    

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    • such as "Wild Things" - will buy on HD DVD!!! - EdM 15:32:21 03/01/06 (0)
      In Reply to: Problem is NOT that you enjoy crap... we all do... it is... posted by Victor Khomenko on March 1, 2006 at 12:53:03:

      along with Fifth Element I might add.
      Music is Emotion
      
      

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    • Sorry but I disagree...everything in perspective and everything has it's purpose... - TWB 13:54:19 03/01/06 (1)
      In Reply to: Problem is NOT that you enjoy crap... we all do... it is... posted by Victor Khomenko on March 1, 2006 at 12:53:03:

      I won't say that it's crap...because I don't think so... it does IMO have redeeming qualities which sets it above say something like Planet of the Apes (the remake) which I do think was crap... now I'm sure someone will dogpile on me and tell me I'm full of it...that they like that movie...but IMO it was crap and I (as a rule) like Tim Burton's movies....You see what I mean, everyone's mileage will vary....
      
      

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      • That is totally unimportant - Victor Khomenko 14:16:14 03/01/06 (0)
        In Reply to: Sorry but I disagree...everything in perspective and everything has it's purpose... posted by TWB on March 1, 2006 at 13:54:19:

        That you like a movie someone else doesn't should not bother you, or me... or anyone else. Heck, there is someone who claimed the 8 1/2 was crap... so what? I still love that film. Only fools get defensive when someone doesn't share their choices.

        But that was not my point. It was, rather, that we all can enjoy the lowly entertainment, like we can enjoy Coca Cola now and then, knowing full well it is not good in any sense and we should drink something wholesome instead.

        
        

        
        
        
        

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• When will Criterion move its collection to HD? - Victor Khomenko 06:26:50 03/01/06 (5)
  In Reply to: Re: That has tradition--- posted by patrickU on March 1, 2006 at 01:57:20:

  I also often wondered... what caused so many to fall in love with that atrocious diva scene? Good music? Lack of exposure to classical opera?

  It sounds to me one could get any number of Franco Zeffirelli opera films and get the REAL thing... "Callas Forever"... Don Carlo... Otello... Pagliacci... La Traviata... this is just scratching the surface.

  
  

  
  
  
  

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  • Re: When will Criterion move its collection to HD? - patrickU 06:34:42 03/01/06 (4)
    In Reply to: When will Criterion move its collection to HD? posted by Victor Khomenko on March 1, 2006 at 06:26:50:

    This pure half way synthetic voice makes me shivering, a kind of anti climax down my spine...
    And worse, it was on all Hi-fi shows for years in Germany...

    And much " boum-boum ". And what a bad playing.
    A nightmare.
    A living one.

    When you compare it( can we ) to " Blade runner " there is such a difference!
    
    

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    • It was the same horror story here in the US - Victor Khomenko 06:43:26 03/01/06 (3)
      In Reply to: Re: When will Criterion move its collection to HD? posted by patrickU on March 1, 2006 at 06:34:42:

      Sometimes I wonder... what is all that flock mentality?

      About ten years ago you could not walk through the Hi-Fi show without hearing Spanish Harlem play in every room. Five years ago it was that dumb diva everywhere.

      I recall how, years ago, in the middle of that that crap I stumbled over the Shun Mook room, and there the monk was playing Mozart's 17th piano concerto - one of my favorites... I can't express how grateful I was for those minutes of refuge...

      And if that makes me not a videophile... or audiophile, for that matter, then so be it!
      

      
      
      
      

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      • Re: It was the same horror story here in the US - patrickU 06:53:02 03/01/06 (2)
        In Reply to: It was the same horror story here in the US posted by Victor Khomenko on March 1, 2006 at 06:43:26:

        It was the celebration of "video meets pseudo Hi-Fi ".
        Spanish Harlem was cool when compared to that crap! At least it was some kind of moderate...
        Like jazz at the Pawshop another anti-musical anti-climax...

        Refuge? That is in truth the right word.
        Like escaping....Ha-ha!
        
        

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        • Right about the Harlem - there was soul to it... the first ten times you heard it - Victor Khomenko 07:01:03 03/01/06 (1)
          In Reply to: Re: It was the same horror story here in the US posted by patrickU on March 1, 2006 at 06:53:02:

          Too bad the industry had to kill its delicate soul.

          Years ago one reviewer said about "audiophile" recordings something like "good recordings of something I don't want to hear"... so true.

          And now we are going through the same with all that HD DVD hoopla...
          

          
          
          
          

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          • Re: Right about the Harlem - there was soul to it... the first ten times you heard it - patrickU 07:06:30 03/01/06 (0)
            In Reply to: Right about the Harlem - there was soul to it... the first ten times you heard it posted by Victor Khomenko on March 1, 2006 at 07:01:03:

            Last page of the last TAS...Many truths...
            
            

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