The RIP thread...

IMAX or GTFO.

Band of Brothers CO Winters dies.

RIP

I love cinema. Sadly, it's an experience that's increasingly disappearing.

It is frustrating that a lot of films today don't demand the cinematic experience for full enjoyment. I really like going to see certain films on the big screen but occasionally I come away thinking that I may as well have seen it on a DVD at home..

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Errr, is this post a wind up?! :-s

.....and it wS over a week ago and had it's own thread!

.....and it wS over a week ago and had it's own thread!

I do not understand any of that, Pistanator.

But I just read the Garry Mason news. Linked to it. And then I saw it had been reported already five days ago.

Superman II spontaneous audience applause, when he got his mojo back and beat 'bad' Superman.....

But that's Superman III.

Unless you mean when returns to the bar at the end of Superman II to beat up the trucker (more of a mojo regaining episode than the Kryp-tar-nite/scrapyard situation)?

It is frustrating that a lot of films today don't demand the cinematic experience for full enjoyment. I really like going to see certain films on the big screen but occasionally I come away thinking that I may as well have seen it on a DVD at home..

That's because they will usually have been made for that very purpose, e.g. no real widescreen compositions but everything taking place in that bit in the middle that will be visible upon conversion to DVD--who knows, with widescreen TVs and computer monitors becoming increasingly common, this might change--and poorly-detailed compositions to be easy to comprehend on a small screen, etc. :(

very sad news...Trish from Broadcast.

http://warp.net/records/broadcast/a-statement

That's awful, not a fan but very sad nonetheless... :[

She can't have been very old?

Swine flu followed by pneumonia... Nasty...

that's terrible, i really like Broadcast

:(

YouTube - BROADCAST- PAPERCUTS

Really, really sad. It's odd as yesterday I did a quick Google check to see what they were up to. Everything they did was brilliant and each new release was better than the last - a hard thing to do.

RIP - Trish you'll be very missed

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Book Lovers is lush. As is America's Boy. Really sad, poor girl.

RIP, fucking tragic.

I've not heard much of Broadcast, but like what I have heard. What a terrible shame. RIP.

The reason I came here was to add an RIP for Peter Post, legendary track rider and cycling team director who sadly died today.

I had never heard Broadcast. I've just listened to them now - they were bloody great!
What a terrible shame. RIP Trish.

It is frustrating that a lot of films today don't demand the cinematic experience for full enjoyment. I really like going to see certain films on the big screen but occasionally I come away thinking that I may as well have seen it on a DVD at home..

Probably because the cinema release is not where a film makes most of its money.
If I was making a film I would want it to look good on DVD.

Going to the cinema isn't a great experience these days. It's expensive, there are always foreigners having a conversation, somebody tall with big hair obscuring the view, You can't drink, smoke or pause the film to have a piss. I'd rather watch something at home.

RIP Peter Post. Read about him in numerous Tom Simpson books. Sounded like a hard, hard rider.

True that. Post was reknowned for burning out riders, the Brits especially.

Whenever I climb a certain hill I think of him.

He used to order his riders to climb hard hills in training, without holding the handlebars. Try it - it's brutal. It increases the core strength something rotten, apparently.

RIP Peter Post

The singer of perhaps Birminghams finest current band died yesterday. Im not going to say who it is though, as the family havent broken it to the press yet.

Great loss.