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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:43 am
by Escapay
pap64 wrote:And talk about de-railing a thread...
De-railing a thread is what I do best!
I once turned the Secret Santa Wish List thread into a discussion about mashed potatoes!
But back to the weather store, I'd stock up on the Singing Rain (I love rain, especially singing rain), but also get some Sunset Beach Breeze, a few cases of Mid-September Sun, and perhaps some Cool Desert Night.
albert
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:34 am
by Jules
musicradio77 wrote:The 2003 DVD that I've mentioned about two years ago that I posted that it was out of print according to an old thread since I started.
Wow. You need like ... an oxygen mask to say that.
Scaps wrote:The Rocketeer is quite significant in Disney history as it's my favorite live-action film in their canon.
Oh!
By the way, I watched it.
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:29 am
by Escapay
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:30 pm
by Jules
Albert wrote:Whadja think of it???
It's been about two months since I've watched it (off the DVD I bought online, remember?) and I can sincerely say I liked it!
Even a mere two months makes the memory of the film rather fuzzy, but I clearly recall enjoying Timothy Dalton's performance as the villian. It's a shame his two Bond movies (which I've never watched) were failures, because he looks like a natural James Bond. Seems Brosnan continued in his elegant, charming style. I think I found the protagonist's girlfriend to be slightly artificial, whereas I was satisfied with the lead actor (where did I read that he screwed up the part? Was it UD's review of the film? ... if so I don't think I agree).
I believe the UD review calls the special effects "primitive" or "crude", which I find a trifle harsh. Though not mind-blowing, I thought the jet-pack effects were perfectly adequate. Moreover, the climactic Zeppelin-type airship scene was pretty awesome-looking.
I'll just say though that the DVD simply doesn't do the movie justice. The greatest offender is sharpness, which in this case has the consistency of butter. I'm surprised the Rocketeer himself didn't fly into an estranged mass of blurry pixels and never found his way out. I also got the strange sensation that I was viewing the film through multiple layers of transparent plastic. In general the picture was muddy, murky and unappealing. I'm a person who believes that video quality is very important when it comes to enjoying a film, so this disappointed me. At least it was anamorphic though. I don't even want to imagine what the non-anamorphic Region 1 DVD looks like.
I wish I remembered more ...
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:16 pm
by Widdi
Glad to see The Rocketeer getting some love. Always loved that movie, but I've yet to buy it due to the... erm I suppose you could call it a DVD, but it really isn't worthy of that title due to it's horribleness.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:15 am
by musicradio77
A few days ago, I got the Platinum Edition DVD, and I was checking the movie that at the very beginning, it shows only the Buena Vista logo, but this film did not have the Walt Disney Pictures new logo at the beginning except the end of the film where it does featured a cut-short version of the new logo after the end title.
the "101 Dalmatians" Platinum Edition did have the new logo at the very beginning and the "Sleeping Beauty" Platinum Edition does not. Just what I expected.
