A Return to the Movies

[mishalak]

I didn't care for The Return of the King. Not that it is bad; it just isn't my cup of tea. It is a very action hero sort of a movie broken up with some dreadful speeches. I'm going to have to go back and read the book again to see how much of that is from book. I do remember quite a few bits of purple speechifying in the book, but it didn't seem that bad. Maybe it is easier to put a good cast on it when it is my head. But it does seem that The Fellowship of the Ring was the most faithful to the book and had the least number of action hero type stunts and that's why I liked it better.

I might have been more satisfied with a tour of the sets set to traditional music. I thought this because of the scene where Denathor asks Pippin to sing for him. Billy Boyd has a nice voice for a folk tune, if he's on the soundtrack I want it, if not I'll skip. Interspersed with scenes of the hopeless charge on the Pellanor Fields it was beautiful. Next favorite: Shelob. I'm surprised that I didn't have nightmares from that.

Before and after the movie we talked about things related to the movie business. Rose mentioned the funny screen stuff they did in Master and Commander to somehow prevent piracy (heh, funny) by people bringing in camcorders to a screening. She's of the opinion that the movie houses are conducting an experiment to see how much the public will take. Raise the prices, add commercials before them, do funny things to the print, next will be putting ads in the film and strip-searching people.

For myself I don't know how many more opening nights I'll be going to. There are some movies on the horizon I would like to see, but given the price and the trouble going to a theater I suspect I'll wait for most of them to come out on Disc. There are already dozens for movies I sort of wanted to see that I skipped in the theater, so it isn't like I won't have anything to see over the next year.

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[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Rose mentioned the funny screen stuff they did in Master and Commander to somehow prevent piracy (heh, funny) by people bringing in camcorders to a screening.

What stuff? I haven't seen the film yet, but I plan to soon.

Does this explain the funny configuration of four ovals that kept popping up during the moviehouse showings of FOTR EE and TTT EE?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

That would be them, I think. They're called cap codes from my reasearch. Now if it was an oval at the top corner of the film then it is just the standard change in reel thing. But cap codes appear elsewhere on the screen.

Yep

[heck1701.livejournal.com]

Here's a link with some further info, courtesy of /. (http://slashdot.org): Foiling Cinema Pirates (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/137230&mode=thread&tid=97)

Cap (Crap) Codes

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a bit in Roger Ebert's column on the new and improved Cap Codes in movies :

http://www.suntimes.com/output/answ-man/sho-sunday-ebert05.html.

It's the second question/answer just past the ad.
Kinmare

Re: Cap (Crap) Codes

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the information!

A Return to the Movies

[vincent-d.livejournal.com]

Yes, Billy Boyd's song is on the soundtrack. Very nice voice too, for a Glaswegian! :-)

V

Re: A Return to the Movies

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I'm updating my memories tonight and I find I have not replied to you. I guess I'll be getting the CD eventually. Thanks for the informantion. So where in Scotland are you from anyways?