"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by tvted

I guess folks aren't familiar with the Doris Day catalogue and the behind the scenes intrigue.

Currently the hole-in-the-wall I work in, is transitioning our presentation to Hi Def. The make-up folk are all in a tizzy about how they are going to deal with the "pore" reality a ccd can bring................................

lol, well at least your little “hole-in-the-wall” has make-up artists.
From reading this, one wonders if WPTV does (or how many), as it appears that it’s every anchorman or anchorwomen for his/herself……………

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2007/oct/...heir-close-up/

Plus, I’ll never forget reading about this last Jan.-
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35809/118/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Penton, check your PMs, I'm sending you additional info on how we're going about this.

Suffice to say, we're confident in our methodology to find real culprits of post-DI DNR

My, my you boys have been busy.
Sounds good to me.
That name is a blast from the past, btw.

[Penton-Man]

I would like to give a tip of the hat to our Blu-ray movie reviewers (as well as the attached user reviews).
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/revie...how=newreviews

I normally don’t read movie reviews (for purely personal reasons).
However, I clicked on a couple of the titles just to see how astute our reviewers are [I’ve had cabin fever the past couple days as temps in SoCal have flirted with the 100 degree mark, which even my coyotes find ugly] and I was truly impressed with the quality of the reviews.
Is there any list of all our movie reviewers, i.e. all the people’s names who do this fine service ?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

The weather's been great actually!!
Well great for us, maybe hitting mid-70s of your crazy fahrenheit degrees (at a push). Probably quite chilly to you, LOL

I remember there sometimes seemed to be a disproportionately high number of Irish posters in the HD section (that I was eventually banned from for stating the, to me, obvious opinion that Blu-ray was going to win the "format war") of a UK forum too.

The pubs re-opened 15 minutes ago.

Horseflesh,
I just couldn’t resist once I typed the post above and thought about two words……….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHir5...eature=related

^
Hey ~Alan, what’s the name of the song at the end of the clip?

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I would like to give a tip of the hat to our Blu-ray movie reviewers (as well as the attached user reviews).
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/revie...how=newreviews

I normally don’t read movie reviews (for purely personal reasons).
However, I clicked on a couple of the titles just to see how astute our reviewers are [I’ve had cabin fever the past couple days as temps in SoCal have flirted with the 100 degree mark, which even my coyotes find ugly] and I was truly impressed with the quality of the reviews.
Is there any list of all our movie reviewers, i.e. all the people’s names who do this fine service ?

Hi Penton!

PMing you now

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

^
Hey ~Alan, what’s the name of the song at the end of the clip?

Actually, I think you can hear the song better on this clip…………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkS0l6GFOY8

If you really need translation of the dialog then perhaps this forum member can help………
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...&postcount=687

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Hi Penton!

PMing you now

Received and responded!
That's probably a record for me in terms of a quick response.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Hey ~Alan, what’s the name of the song at the end of the clip?

Since I own the film, own the soundtrack, as well as being an off/on Country music fan, I have no problem picking out the song as "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" by the The Charlie Daniels Band. I've often said (joking) regarding the song that the devil never went down to Georgia, he's had a Summer home down here since the beginning! But then, look who I am talking to! Didn't you say you grew up some in Atlanta?

In fact, the devil probably prefers it now, because not only have temperatures been hotter (growing up, we generally had maybe one or two days over 100 a year, but last year, we had 7-10 days at least), and the drought makes it seem hotter (one good thing about the grass turning brown and dying, you don't have to buy gas to mow the lawn... which is a nice thing when you live on 20 acres)...

Yeah, I would have a hard time understanding "Coyote Ugly" in Russian as I can only speak about three words of it...

~Alan<~~~~~~~~Who wasn't aware that Bridget Moynahan was in CU until he got the Blu-ray several months back...

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I would like to give a tip of the hat to our Blu-ray movie reviewers (as well as the attached user reviews).
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/revie...how=newreviews

I normally don’t read movie reviews (for purely personal reasons).
However, I clicked on a couple of the titles just to see how astute our reviewers are [I’ve had cabin fever the past couple days as temps in SoCal have flirted with the 100 degree mark, which even my coyotes find ugly] and I was truly impressed with the quality of the reviews.
Is there any list of all our movie reviewers, i.e. all the people’s names who do this fine service ?

Out of curiosity, are you referring to their reviews on the films, the quality of the release, or both?

Though I don't always agree with the assessments on the films, I do find the reviewers on this site to have a VERY good track record as far as PQ/AQ reviews go!

~Alan

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

Out of curiosity, are you referring to their reviews on the films, the quality of the release, or both?

Both!........of the admittedly limited number of reviews I’ve read.
The reviewers nailed it perfectly.

[Penton-Man]

A movie that I’m looking forward to seeing on the big screen this coming fall is probably one that you’ve never heard of.
Namely……Righteous Kill.

Why?
I’ve been waiting awhile for Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino to work together again!
I just hope the screenplay is worthy of these two acting legends.

[mhafner]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Both!........of the admittedly limited number of reviews I’ve read.
The reviewers nailed it perfectly.

Twister: They notice lack of detail. Hint: DNRed...

[aygie]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

A movie that I’m looking forward to seeing on the big screen this coming fall is probably one that you’ve never heard of.
Namely……Righteous Kill.

Why?
I’ve been waiting awhile for Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino to work together again!
I just hope the screenplay is worthy of these two acting legends.

Righteous Kill should be good ,but will never beat both of them in Heat (even though they only had like 4 minutes in the same scene together!)

Speaking of Heat, Penton has the new transfer started? (I think it was being overlooked by Mann himself?)

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Horseflesh,
I just couldn’t resist once I typed the post above and thought about two words……….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHir5...eature=related

^
Hey ~Alan, what’s the name of the song at the end of the clip?

The pubs in Ireland are definitely not like that!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Aygie

Righteous Kill should be good ,but will never beat both of them in Heat (even though they only had like 4 minutes in the same scene together!)

Speaking of Heat, Penton has the new transfer started? (I think it was being overlooked by Mann himself?)

Wow,
Heat also had a wealth of supporting talent. I have no information on that title at this time but, just remember (or a heads-up to those that have never seen the film), it is a stylistic movie and many of the backgrounds are intentionally, out of focus as Spinotti if I recall correctly, used anamorphic zooms.
The appearance is almost the exact opposite of Speed Racer in which the foreground as well as the backgrounds are in perfect focus (also not natural but stylistic).

[Penton-Man]

^
P.S.
btw, Spinotti is also the DP that originally came up with the idea of the wedding scene for the StEM material……………………
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...593#post690593

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

The pubs in Ireland are definitely not like that!

I know, I know, they’re more like this…………

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

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I know, I know, they’re more like this…………

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

We have a bad enough drinking problem lol

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by saprano

So what are you saying? that we should stop worrying about DNR................

See,
I do support grain ..................................
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...d=1#post892043

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by mhafner

Twister: They notice lack of detail. Hint: DNRed...

You do realize that …………..that is yet another WB title.
Do you see a pattern here ?