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Originally Posted by Lincoln6Echo
Yeah, because we all know that all movies , young and old, were originally theatrically presented with DTS HD Master Audio.... 
NOT!!!
Ya see, these are the kin d of arguments that I have to roll my eyes on when it comes to the purists.
The ONLY way one could ever watch their favorite films as they were originallly intended would be to have the exact same set-up used in the theater at the time. Presuming that the equipment is top-of-the-line for the time period. But that can never be the case. We live in a digital age now...we don't have reel-to-reel projectors in our house, we don't have mono speaker boxes behind the screen. You can't compare the analog age to the digital age.
Trust me, if I was a purist as such and wanted to watch films today in the way I remembered them in the theater back in the day, I'd shoot myself. My local theater has always been out of date. I don't even think they have a full surround sound theater. I don't know, I haven't been in years. Movies used to be a big thing in our town...lines galor going in for the 7:00 showing during the summer weekends...not now...I haven't seen lines there in years.
Most people in our area now, drive to the next town over where they do have good theaters, and then over in the next town after that, a University town, they have an IMAX theater. |
Wrong, and wrong. Sorry.
My analogy still stands. Would you remove brush strokes from the Mona Lisa just because you can? Nope.
Apparently you've never created anything artistic in your life, or you would understand about the preservation of someone else's WORK. Maybe I'll repost your above "rant" and change the words I don't like and re-write some sentences to cater to my needs, but still put your name on it. Let's see how happy you'd be then with your words misrepresented.
Same case here. The film is being mis-represented form its original, intended vision. That's what's at stake, and it's more important to not only this film but thousands of other films if tactics like this continue to happen. It has nothing to do with the digital age.
I'm sorry you don't respect the integrity of cinema, or the art that countless directors and cinematographers created for you to enjoy. That's precisely what's wrong with people nowadays.. no respect.