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[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

... the movie in question being... ?

It would appear that Jeff was referring to the thriller Alien.

[chris0]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

It's only a model

It is a silly place.

[KubrickFan]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

It's only a model

Thanks, that gave me the perfect opportunity to post this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc

[MerrickG]

Road to Perdition (WAY overrated film IMO) has been announced for bluray.

Does that give hope that American Beauty could come to bluray sooner rather later?

[KubrickFan]

Originally Posted by merrick97

Road to Perdition (WAY overrated film IMO) has been announced for bluray.

Does that give hope that American Beauty could come to bluray sooner rather later?

You mean 'underrated' right? I've never heard anyone say Road to Perdition is overrated? Anyway, American Beauty is said to get a Sapphire release soon.

[captveg]

I've always found that Road to Perdition is LOVED by few, and essentially ignored by others. Overall it's underrated, but those that love it probably "overrate" it.

I, personally, LOVE the movie. Glad to see one of my favorites make it it to Blu.

I will also buy American Beauty when it arrives, which is an excellent film in its own right.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by KubrickFan

You mean 'underrated' right? I've never heard anyone say Road to Perdition is overrated? Anyway, American Beauty is said to get a Sapphire release soon.

I feel it is overrated. It got a lot of praise (ala many people saying it should win best picture), but I got very annoyed while watching the film because I felt that while watching that all it did was scream for an oscar. It was a film that was just begging to win the best picture award.

A Beautiful Mind is also a film that was made for the sole purpose of winning an oscar. Many people actually fell for it. However, I was happy for Ron Howard for getting it, since he did deserve to win for Apollo 13, which lost to Braveheart.

Was RtP a bad film? Not at all, I was just negatively rubbed by that impression I got while watching it.

It did deserve the award for best cinematography. I will say that.

I haven't seen it in quite some time so maybe my opinion will have changed.

[Mr. Cinema]

Word is out that Saving Private Ryan has a few lip-synch issues. Of all the movies to have an error. My copy arrives from Amazon tomorrow, but I may return it and hope they send out replacement versions.

[Mr. Cinema]

Originally Posted by merrick97

Does that give hope that American Beauty could come to bluray sooner rather later?

I'd much rather have The Insider, which I think is a far superior film and the best of 1999.

But I'd still take American Beauty.

[phansson]

Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema

Word is out that Saving Private Ryan has a few lip-synch issues. Of all the movies to have an error. My copy arrives from Amazon tomorrow, but I may return it and hope they send out replacement versions.

Link???

[Q?]

Originally Posted by phansson

Link???

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Savin...y-Review/8683/

[phansson]

So it is exagerated by the reviewers setup or is it an honest issue?

If there's a misstep in the track, there appears to be a slight lip synch issue before the battle of Ramelle, found around the 2:06 mark in the film as a character shares a story about one of his brothers' girlfriends and their encounter in a barn. The effect was blatantly obvious when viewing the film with a combination of a Panasonic DMP-BDT300 Blu-ray player and Denon AVR-3808 audio receiver connected via HDMI (with the audio stream sent through a separate HDMI cable from the video stream), but seemed to be less of an issue when the Denon was paired with a PlayStation 3, also connected via HDMI.

[Q?]

Originally Posted by phansson

So it is exagerated by the reviewers setup or is it an honest issue?

Our UK bro's seems to have it worse.
https://forum.blu-ray.com/united-kin...c-problem.html

[garyrc]

Originally Posted by wallendo

I think you are describing a prism effect. Light of different wavelengths is not defracted the same when passing through a lens, the example of a prism is well known. This is what gives you the sense of different colors and a fake sense of depth. This phenomenon is also one of the causes of 3D headaches with red/green or red/blue anaglyph 3D. Light from the two images is not refracted identically passing through the colored lenses.

I doubt this could be used to create a sense of depth with a display, as I suspect it would be annoying to many viewers.

Originally Posted by Anthony P

you look at the bricks but your brain is assuming depth (i.e. one ball is closer then the the other) which is why when they are the same size your brain assumes tsince the second one is farther it must be bigger. And that has been used in movies a lot, right paint a small castle on a wall in the background and your brain assumes it is a big castle far far away

Thanks, everyone.

I heard a rumor earlier this year that some one was working on a way to get stereoscopic 3D without glasses ... trouble is, I heard that same rumor over 40 years ago! The only truly comfortable 3D glasses I've used were the ones with very large lenses and soft rubber (but not foam) standoffs that they used to use in Disneyland.

Do any of you know if anyone in the industry is working on glasses-free 3D, and, indeed, if there is any way this can be done practically?

There is one, impractical (for financial reasons), way to get stereoscopic 3D without glasses .. but it would require people to sit dead center (so the seating area would have to be very small in either a commercial cinema or in a Home Theater). That way would be to have the screen composed of very fine ridges, and put the right eye info on the right side of each ridge, and the left eye info on the left side of each ridge --either using two projectors on the extreme right and left side of the screening room, so each projector would throw an image only on the sides of the ridges aimed at that particular projector, OR send the info to the screen ridges digitally, through a fine network of fiber optics, or _____? If they used the fiber optics method, they could use a very large screen and curve it a bit. Then the image straight ahead would be stereoscopic, but not the images to the side -- until you turned to look at them, then they would pop into 3D. This is more or less the way it is with our eyes, although we get the two images needed for 3D or so up to about 100 degrees (a guess) out of our > 180 degree angle of vision (the 165 degrees that got included in a lot of film books and articles is wrong.). None of these angles is within the arc of sharp vision, however, which is one of the reasons we turn to look at things. Back to the ridges ...unlike the 3D cardboard photos that are done this way, the ridges would be quite small compared to the width of the image, so they might not show as ridges. THe viewers would have to be centered enough so each pair of eyes could see each side of each ridge (when looking at it), discretely.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by merrick97

Road to Perdition (WAY overrated film IMO) has been announced for bluray.

Does that give hope that American Beauty could come to bluray sooner rather later?

Originally Posted by KubrickFan

You mean 'underrated' right? I've never heard anyone say Road to Perdition is overrated? Anyway, American Beauty is said to get a Sapphire release soon.

Another here who thinks Road To Perdition was underrated.

I also think it's a crime Shakespeare In Love won Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan. Another one of those "What were they thinking" moments that people think about years down the road.

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

I also think it's a crime American Beauty won Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan. Another one of those "What were they thinking" moments that people think about years down the road.

I think they're both pretty dang overrated.

[Jeff Kleist]

Do any of you know if anyone in the industry is working on glasses-free 3D, and, indeed, if there is any way this can be done practically?

Yes it's being worked on, no there is no way this can be done practically and work for everyone in the room in a reasonably priced consumer product for a bare minimum of ten years, and I'd say closer to 20.

There will be plentiful third party glasses out there, one of which should meet your needs sooner rather than later

[garyrc]

I thought that Saving Private Ryan was the same year as Shakespeare in Love, and the latter won Best Picture, while Ryan got Director. American Beauty was another year, I think. I think the Academy got it about right by rewarding the director for incredible battle scenes in Ryan, but giving Best Picture to Shakespeare, which was a masterpiece.

[Mr. Cinema]

Shakespeare in Love won over Saving Private Ryan.

American Beauty won over The Insider. Sadly, the latter was 0 for 7 on Oscar night. A real shame.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema

Shakespeare in Love won over Saving Private Ryan.

American Beauty won over The Insider. Sadly, the latter was 0 for 7 on Oscar night. A real shame.

I never saw that film. Im a big fan of Michael Mann, eventhough I felt Public Enemies wasnt very good. Obviously I need to see The Insiders.