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Posted by POD {ҿ} on 05/20/07 16:50
"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.
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Thank you kindly
POD {ҿ}
.`..`..`..`..`..`..`.
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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