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Posted by POD {ҿ} on 05/20/07 18:47
"ThePunisher" <thepunisher@ntlworld.com> once tried to test me. I ate
their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
> POD {ҿ} wrote:
>> "ThePunisher" <thepunisher@ntlworld.com> once tried to test me. I ate
>> their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
>>
>>> kim wrote:
>>>> "POD {ҿ}" <DONT.EVEN.TRY.IT@DEADSPAM.COM> wrote in message
>>>> news:Xns9935E7EB66987WeLovePOD@195.188.240.200...
>>>>> Just looking at a website that just deals in Criterion titles, and
>>>>> it took me back. I'm no big collector of their works, not being
>>>>> into many foreign or art house films, but I do have Silence of the
>>>>> Lambs, The Rock, Robocop and the Unbearable Likeness of Being.
>>>>
>>>> I think Criterion's "RoboCop" sucks. The picture is letterboxed
>>>> instead of anamorphic and the audio is feeble even by DD 2.0
>>>> standards. I've had a budget VHS copy from Woolworths which played
>>>> better though it wasn't the director's cut.
>>>>
>>>> Also had the Fassbinder trilogy with pompous, irelevant political
>>>> commentary and interview with worn out old bag of an actress nobody
>>>> cares about.
>>>> Even their seminal version of "Forbidden Planet"" has now been
>>>> overtaken by the Warner Bros Special Edition though the deleted
>>>> footage on Criterion's laserdisc is better quality.
>>>>
>>>> Jean Renoir's "Can-Can" is good though seriously lacking in extras
>>>> and not available separately.
>>>>
>>>> (kim)
>>>
>>> Agree, just because they were the first doesn't make them the best.
>>>
>>
>> The point is, without Criterion, none of the big studios would have
>> bothered with extras. True there discs now don't stand up against
>> modern anamorphic releases, but remember, these releases predated
>> widescreen TVs.
>
> The dvd ones didn't.
>
Most of them did. Remember 16:9 didn't happen in the US until HDTV came
about.
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Thank you kindly
POD {ҿ}
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Oh people, know that you have committed great sins.
If you ask me what proof I have for these words,
I say it is because I am the punishment of God.
If you had not committed great sins,
God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
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