Speaking of Sandler... my guy made me this Bluray for my bootleg collection.




I thought is was amusing and interesting and had great potential, but the end left me a little to hopeful... Hollywoody.
I would have much preferred a bleak and cold reality ending... everything that begins, must end

I imagine it will have softness to it... and ex-machina is already slightly soft in its native resolution. though the article did say that the films were remastered to iMax scale.

Sometimes studios release what is known as 'open gate' versions of their IP's... that is, a non-cropped full frame image that wasn't part of the original film's release. I don't know if that is what is happening here because it is not specified, but I think the sound immersion and image scale will be worth the time...

I made it maybe 20 minutes? Lifes too short!

I have a question. I see people proclaim that a certain film "changed my life." I mean I know that I developed a love for films early on, but changed my life? Do any of you believe a film (or some other artwork)can change your life?

Hell, my love for movies started when I was eight or nine years old. I knew nothing about life.

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I know a book can change a life, why not a film?

I’m not exactly a “film guy” though I watch damn near everything. I’m “in the industry” but not in a particularly noteworthy capacity. Yet lol

That said, Pulp Fiction and NBK did in fact change my life because prior to those 2, I didn’t know anything about indie or underground film. I started to think about ideas for scenes based on those 2, and from the movies I watched after those 2, that I’ve even used recently. PF was the bigger of those 2 in that when it premiered, I saw it in a small shitty art house venue with 30 other people. By the time I took the 4th (of 9) people to see it, it was in the big cinema with packed houses.

I don’t recall having seen a film that changed my outlook or effected the way I live my life, but there are films I can understand why they would have.

I can't think of a book that would have changed my life. Maybe I'm taking "changed my life" too literally?



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If taken extremely literally then every book changes your life.


Playing Starcraft drastically changed my life.
Watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was a major inspiration for me to move to China which drastically changed my life.
Reading the Indian in the Cupboard, Redwall, and Dinotopia series as a child drastically changed my life as well.

I guess that seeing a movie that inspired you to move to China is life changing.

I love reading and movies, and I am fortunate to teach literature and film. But I don't believe a book or a film was life changing.

I could point to life changing events but not life changing films or books.

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I think it is a necessity that art changes life... otherwise, it's barely artistic.
The term is... enrichment, to enrichment.


I didn't say decorate.

Perhaps it is more the frivolous nature and at the constant rate with which people quote 'changed my life' that causes you pause. Seemingly It's become hyperbole much of the time it is used in passing

I think "impacted my life" would be more accurate. Many books and movies both have impacted my life in the way I think about things. Not sure changed is the right word. Impacted, influenced, enhanced, disallusioned would be more accurate in a nuanced way.

I was thinking of a famous essay by James Baldwin where he recounts being a teenager in Harlem reading Dostoevsky and thinking, "Holy ****! There's another person who thinks like I do," and what the discovery that he wasn't alone meant to him. I've had moments like that.

I guess people toss off some phrases without thinking, and I know the changed my life thing is hyperbole. Some think everything happens for a reason. Really?

But I could only think of people who changed my life, and those would be few. Many have made my life better and continue to do so.

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Is anybody working on that MacArthur Genius Grant for Schlitzy's YouTube posts that I ordered? Haven't heard anything...

This. I think it comes down to defining exactly what signifies "changed my life"... For someone who once was seeking the absolute truth through devouring books decades back (and studying in literature), I can clearly assess that quite a few books/movies significantly impacted my life, but none were truly life changing. In fact, the only genuine life changing experiences in my life where one remains forever driven afterwards

it seems many people associate the phrase 'Life Changing' with some form of massive 180º change in direction when it can in fact be something as small as a 'greater appreciation of' or perhaps an 'enlightening'.

Or maybe "inspired me to do something/go somewhere I wouldn't have."

OTOH, I went to the Field of Dreams this summer. While there's pretty close to zero percent chance I would've went to Dyersville otherwise, I wouldn't call that movie life-changing.

I would call it sleep-inducing.

Induction complete.

I've gone to a few places to see where movies were filmed.

Vertigo
Zabriske Point
Moonstruck
When Harry Met Sally
Star Wars
My Architect

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Yeah, I kind of like doing that. Not as a point of the trip, but if I'm in the neighborhood. Just before Field of Dreams last summer, I pulled off at Joliet and saw the prison from the opening scene of The Blues Brothers, for example.

Next time I'm visiting my cousin in Marin, I'm going to Bodega Bay. I think the schoolhouse from The Birds is still there.

I visited a couple other places from Vertigo but can't find the pictures.

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I've been to where the shot most of Water World...

I recognize that place.

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