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Originally posted by Boidiva02:

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Originally posted by Brilliance inmorbid:
Damn all you who live in big cities.

...Actually the only commerical properties in my town are a McDonald's and a Dunkin Donuts! and both proved very controversial when they were built! People acted literally DISGUSTED at the thought of a McDonald's being built in their town, as if it would destroy the small town feel---the ironic thing is that McDonald's and DD both replaced BARS that were closed, it was so odd they were upset about DD or MCD's being open but had no objection to a BAR being opened!

So? Do you really thank your lucky stars you don't have to drive 10 miles to scarf down a big greasy slab of animal flesh and fat, culled from some vast cattle ranch that was formerly a rainforest? You should be grateful that your bucolic little town fought against the horror that is McDonald's...

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Originally posted by Boidiva02:

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Originally posted by Brilliance inmorbid:
Damn all you who live in big cities.

...Actually the only commerical properties in my town are a McDonald's and a Dunkin Donuts! and both proved very controversial when they were built! People acted literally DISGUSTED at the thought of a McDonald's being built in their town, as if it would destroy the small town feel---the ironic thing is that McDonald's and DD both replaced BARS that were closed, it was so odd they were upset about DD or MCD's being open but had no objection to a BAR being opened!

So? Do you really thank your lucky stars you don't have to drive 10 miles to scarf down a big greasy slab of animal flesh and fat, culled from some vast cattle ranch that was formerly a rainforest? You should be grateful that your bucolic little town fought against the horror that is McDonald's...

I have nothing against McDonald's. and honestly my only point was that i live in such a small town that something as wholesome as a McDonald's provided controversy.

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Originally posted by Pucifer:

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Originally posted by Boidiva02:

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Originally posted by Brilliance inmorbid:
Damn all you who live in big cities.

...Actually the only commerical properties in my town are a McDonald's and a Dunkin Donuts! and both proved very controversial when they were built! People acted literally DISGUSTED at the thought of a McDonald's being built in their town, as if it would destroy the small town feel---the ironic thing is that McDonald's and DD both replaced BARS that were closed, it was so odd they were upset about DD or MCD's being open but had no objection to a BAR being opened!

So? Do you really thank your lucky stars you don't have to drive 10 miles to scarf down a big greasy slab of animal flesh and fat, culled from some vast cattle ranch that was formerly a rainforest? You should be grateful that your bucolic little town fought against the horror that is McDonald's...

I have nothing against McDonald's. and honestly my only point was that i live in such a small town that something as wholesome as a McDonald's provided controversy.

I am sorry to learn that you can't quite grasp the fact that McDonald's is anything BUT wholesome.

People freak out at a film "melting", but when that happens, only a few frames (less than half a second) are damaged. A competent theatre staff (harder to find now that professional projectionists have been dumped) should be able to repair that in a couple minutes.

The Salle Lumiere of the Palais in Cannes - where competition films are shown, as well as some press screenigs and a few other highlighted films - has the greatest projection, sightlines and sound I've ever experienced, as well as world-class projectionists. Despite that, I have experienced sound loss, lights going on in the middle of a screening, and print burn.

Prints at theatres are now put together at theatres before showing. But until 20 years ago, individual reels (about 6 for a 100 minute movie) showed on two different projectors, meaning a reel change/switch between projectors every 18 minutes or so.

That meant every reel change was a chance for
1) a missed changeover (meaning screen went dark)
2) possible reel shown out of order.

(Every 35 mm film has a small mark in the upper right corner every 9 minutes to cue the projectionist for the changeover; having projected many times in college days, I never miss the cue marks when I see a movie in a theatre. Most people never notice them).

Anyway, there is a famous story (she told stories well) of Pauline Kael seeing Ingmar Bergman's Brink of Life, about a woman going through pregnancy. The film switched reels; a baby appeared out of nowhere, then a short time later, the woman was pregnant again. She complained to the manager. His response? "Madame, obviously you are not familiar with Bergman's methods."

There are few things worse when watching a movie than realizing the reels are out of order. This is one thing that pretty much no longer happens.

(Apropos of nothing, without credit Apoc Now Red runs about 3:05; with credits 3:22. You clearly saw enough to come to a reasonable opinion. For what it's worth, I find the original quite flawed, Redux to be very close to a masterpiece, and possible Coppola's finest film.)

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Once, in a film festival when I went to see "Vidas Privadas"(starring Cecilia Roth and Gael Garcia Bernal, directed by Fito Paez), during the first screening happens that they cant found the last 10 minutes film reels, so they show the movie without that part. It was like in the middle of one scene close to the climax, suddenly appears the end credits roll and the screening ends. Ofcourse everybody went angry.

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When I saw "Apocalypse Now Redux", the extended version of "Apocalypse Now", which took a 2 hr 45 minute movie to a 3 1/2 hr length the movie melted at about the 3 hour mark. Since the theatre owners knew people were mad as hell they gave out two passes for a free movie. Since I found the directors' cut very pretentious and did not like any of the added scenes, and I love the original version of "Apocalypse Now", there was no chance of me seeing the film again in the theatre. I still have not completely seen the revised version.

I am not a fan of Directors Cuts in general and have only ever seen one, "Almost Famous", that I liked anywhere near as much as the edited version. Except for that rare exception directors' cuts generally seem longer but not at all better and I usually end up agreeing that the cuts were in the best interest of the film. As much as I loved the "Lord of the Rings" films I have never seen any of the extended editions as I think all the films could do with some trims even in their released versions.

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Neither of these films would count as Director's Cuts as the versions I saw no longer exist but I did like long versions of "The New World" and "Boogie Nights". I saw the NY/LA release of "The New World" and that was a beautiful piece of film-making that the general release version could not match. The longer version actually seemed shorter to me and kept me completely enthralled with the physicality of the film-making which was not always the case with the shorter version. In college I went to an early screening of a 3 hour plus version of "Boogie Nights" which played as much more Altmanesque, and was even more shocking in its violence and nudity, than the shorter version. I will agree that the shorter version was more fast moving but that longer, crazier version had more depth and might have been the more impressive film.

Does the longer version of "The New World" have more scenes set in England? I loved the first 2/3 of the film, but the ending on the version I saw was definitely wrapped up far too quickly, esp. considering the languorous pace of the rest of the film.

Everytime I watch Hedwig and the Angry Inch I fall asleep

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Everytime I watch Hedwig and the Angry Inch I fall asleep

Every time I tried to watch "Return of the Jedi" as an adult I would fall asleep.

Note to puxzkkx:
Even in the much longer version of "The New World" the scenes in London are very short. Her romance with Colin Farrell and then with Christian Bale have a lot more screen time.

After Thanksgiving dinner one year, my cousins and I decided to pack off to the theatre to see "The Godfather, Part III."

About an hour into it, I fell asleep. Some time later, a loud noise onscreen woke me. I looked down my row and all of my cousins were sound asleep and snoring.

And not only us; there was a chorus of snores all around me in a theatre that was probably two-thirds full.

I sat and watched most of the rest of the movie as men and women snored around me. Definitely surreal. Then I fell asleep again and to this day haven't seen the full film.

A similar experience occurred years later when I was working as an usher in a second-run movie theatre. After work I fell asleep during a screening of "Chaplin" and woke up to see Anthony Hopkins' face on the screen, who was also onscreen in another movie next door.

For a few confused moments I groggily thought I had gotten up in my sleep and wandered into another theatre or something.

When I first started going to Cannes in the mid 1980s, it was not uncommon for French language films in some of the section to not be subtitled in English.

Though I can read basic French (subtitles usually are OK), my ear has never been great, and it was less so then. So there were a few films I'd stumble into, and then out of curiosity or entropy or whatever, and armed only by a brief synopsis I read earlier and trying to guess from the visuals, I would try to invent my own plot along the way.

It usually was quite a bit different from the actual story, but some of mine were quite interesting, and in a few cases I preferred my own version.

A friend of mine from college loves The Sound of Music, but I had never seen it so we watched it together. Problem was, she shuts the movie off right before the Nazis show up. Though I hadn't seen the movie, I knew it eventually ended happily and told her so. She knew that, but still refused to play the rest of it. I felt like saying, "Are you f***ing nuts?" but held my tongue and was just dumbstruck with disbelief. It's like editing the sinking ship out of "Titanic."

That was several years ago, but I still haven't gotten around to watching the entire film.

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A friend of mine from college loves The Sound of Music, but I had never seen it so we watched it together. Problem was, she shuts the movie off right before the Nazis show up. Though I hadn't seen the movie, I knew it eventually ended happily and told her so. She knew that, but still refused to play the rest of it. I felt like saying, "Are you f***ing nuts?" but held my tongue and was just dumbstruck with disbelief. It's like editing the sinking ship out of "Titanic."

That was several years ago, but I still haven't gotten around to watching the entire film.

At the end of the film The VOn Trapp Family gets kidnapped by aliens and WIll Smith goes and saves them int he sequel

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Originally posted by 742:
A friend of mine from college loves The Sound of Music, but I had never seen it so we watched it together. Problem was, she shuts the movie off right before the Nazis show up. Though I hadn't seen the movie, I knew it eventually ended happily and told her so. She knew that, but still refused to play the rest of it. I felt like saying, "Are you f***ing nuts?" but held my tongue and was just dumbstruck with disbelief. It's like editing the sinking ship out of "Titanic."

That was several years ago, but I still haven't gotten around to watching the entire film.

At the end of the film The VOn Trapp Family gets kidnapped by aliens and WIll Smith goes and saves them int he sequel

The sequel's titled Showgirls by the way.

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After Thanksgiving dinner one year, my cousins and I decided to pack off to the theatre to see "The Godfather, Part III."

About an hour into it, I fell asleep. Some time later, a loud noise onscreen woke me. I looked down my row and all of my cousins were sound asleep and snoring.

And not only us; there was a chorus of snores all around me in a theatre that was probably two-thirds full.

I sat and watched most of the rest of the movie as men and women snored around me. Definitely surreal. Then I fell asleep again and to this day haven't seen the full film.

A similar experience occurred years later when I was working as an usher in a second-run movie theatre. After work I fell asleep during a screening of "Chaplin" and woke up to see Anthony Hopkins' face on the screen, who was also onscreen in another movie next door.

For a few confused moments I groggily thought I had gotten up in my sleep and wandered into another theatre or something.

That's awesome lol. I've only fallen asleep once in a movie theater (that I can remember). It was on Thanksgiving night a few years ago and my family and I went to see The Grinch Who Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey. I'd worked the night shift the night before and stayed up all day for the holiday. Needless to say, I had woken to myself snoring. I've never seen that movie in it's entirety, either.

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Originally posted by Mike:

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Originally posted by 742:
A friend of mine from college loves The Sound of Music, but I had never seen it so we watched it together. Problem was, she shuts the movie off right before the Nazis show up. Though I hadn't seen the movie, I knew it eventually ended happily and told her so. She knew that, but still refused to play the rest of it. I felt like saying, "Are you f***ing nuts?" but held my tongue and was just dumbstruck with disbelief. It's like editing the sinking ship out of "Titanic."

That was several years ago, but I still haven't gotten around to watching the entire film.

At the end of the film The VOn Trapp Family gets kidnapped by aliens and WIll Smith goes and saves them int he sequel

The sequel's titled Showgirls by the way.

Did you hear they are making a third Maria: How To Dance Through The Alps Dressed Just IN Curtain Fabric

They should make a movie where they show how the Van Trapps end up in Germany instead of Switzerland since Salzburg is directly at the German-Austria border while you would probably need a couple of days to walk Switzerland.