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... Just saw Matrix for the first time and it was rather kickassish as well... but there are many. |
I had a problem with Matrix. I worked for so long printing photos I was VERY distracted by the green cast in the matrix world scenes. I tried to change the tint since nothing told me it was deliberate. Turns out I can't change the color on my Toshiba when I am using the component inputs.
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I just checked on the Netflix site. No Solaris. |
According to IMDB there is no DVD. I checked that last night.
Jurasic Park IS SF as no one has found any dino DNA at all.
Dr. Strangelove isn't really SF. I don't think the Doomsday Bomb should count as a science fiction device. The rest was pretty much real technology.
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Ethelred
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Well that is for Europe. The US market has region one. That is region two I think. It won't play in US DVD players.
Edition Details:
• Region 2 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan only)
So Ned can't use it. He lives in California same as me.
Here is what I saw on IMDB for the US DVD
Solaris
Image Entertainment ID 4581 CODVD
Certificate: Not Rated
Color - 166 minutes
Released: 29 December 1998
Cancelled
List Price: $34.99
Snap Case
It was cancelled. Which means they never actually sold it. IMDB has a lot of non-americans on it but it is a US site.
However if Ned really wants it Amazon does have an all region version for auction.
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts...8721106-7807247
The price is a little high for a DVD and shipping is really stiff at seven bucks. It does have English subtitle which is the way to go for foreign films in my view. I like to hear the actual actors instead of the dubbing. Dubbing loses so much nuance in tone unless the original actors do the dubbing.
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Originally posted by Ethelred
According to IMDB there is no DVD. I checked that last night.
Jurasic Park IS SF as no one has found any dino DNA at all.
Dr. Strangelove isn't really SF. I don't think the Doomsday Bomb should count as a science fiction device. The rest was pretty much real technology. |
Stalin's Soviet Union actually planned the construction of such a device. They were going to fill a freighter docked in the Artic ocean with nuclear bombs. When Stalin died the plan was cancelled. If you think about it the doomsday bomb plan was sufficient reason to quietly terminate the aging dictator in and of itself.
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Originally posted by Wraith
--"And how can we possibly exclude "Enemy Mine""
That was an interesting one, although the science-fiction portions weren't the central focus. They could have made basically the same movie without it.
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One of the great American sci-fi writers once said something to the effect that science fiction is never really written about science, but is instead merely a vehicle to tell a human story.
Considering that idea then "Enemy Mine" is certainly as much sci-fi as anything ever written.
Can someone provide the exact quote and the name of the author who said it?
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Ethelred
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Originally posted by Snapcase
Most DVD players nowadays are multi-region, or can be made multi-region by changing a chip. Certainly on this side of the atlantic a lot of people order american DVDs that otherwise would not be available... |
This is true in Europe. That is because a lot of DVD's are released in the US first since they are Hollywood films. The US market hasn't developed that way. There is little call for Region 2 DVDs here. I think I could get a hacked firmware for some DVD roms anyway. I just haven't ever seen the need.
For one thing many European TVs can handle NTSC signals. Very few US TVs can handle PAL. I learned about the differences back when I still used my Amiga. You have 25 frames a second. We have 30.
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Austin, Texas, USA
Aug 1999
time: 23:19
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--"It was really good, but not as much as I had expected it to be"
Akira does suffer from overhyping in the US. It's been around so long, and has an important historical place for anime in the US, so that's only natural.
Which version did you watch? The new sub/dub or the old Streamline dub?
--"I also watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion series, which I have very mixed feeling about."
Yeah, a lot of people react that way  If your problem is the last two episodes, they were done that way due to budget problems at Gainax. End of Evangelion is basically the last two episodes the way they were originally meant to be done.
End of Evangelion includes one of the best action sequences of all time. You will know it when you get to it.
If we're going to count alternate history stuff as sci-fi, then I have to add Jin-Roh. One of the best movies I've seen recently.
--"So Ned can't use it. He lives in California same as me."
He might be able to use it. Region free DVD players are getting more common.
Wraith
"Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire."
-- Rei Ayanami
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