--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> TurquoiseB wrote:
> > For your information, the following post is Restricted. No
> > admittance to persons who might be disturbed by graphic
> > images of sex, violence, or other aspects of real life.
> >
> >
> > Well, I finally saw "Grindhouse," and, although I enjoyed
> > it thoroughly, being a big fan of both Tarantino and Robert
> > Rodriguez, my first thought when it was all over was, "Man,
> > I really want to see the flick in the first fake trailer."
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > And a few of the real grindhouse trailers for the 70s films
> > that inspired this one:
> >
> > http://youtube.com/watch?v=sNfNevVeebc
> >
> > And you wonder why I'm so weird. This is the sorta stuff
> > I grew up on. They'd be playing every weekend in a double
> > feature at the local grindhouse theaters. Oh, for the
> > good old days of cinema... :-)
> >
> I think the difference between those days and today is that we are
> overwhelmed with entertainment. We have tons of DVDs to watch and
> theater quality gear to watch them on. But that doesn't mean the
> quality is any better. Flat rate monthly subscriptions from
Netflix,
> Blockbuster and Hollywood Video means that DVD distributors can
put all
> kinds of junk out on DVD just to fill the shelves and if
customers
> don't like the film they don't necessarily feel ripped off. Plus
now I
> notice a trend of studios cutting films to PG-13 which should have
been
> cut for R (and released often on DVD with unrated versions since
they're
> not going to resubmit to have that R). This is apparently to
fill up
> theaters more since the PG-13 rating often means the film
is "softer"
> than it would have been and lacks the substance that adult viewers
would
> expect.
>
> Unlike you I grew up in a small town in the country and the
nearest
> theaters were 20 miles away. Movies were a treat and not
something to
> send the kids to do while shopping. Besides I got more hooked on
the
> Friday night horror movies on TV most of which were old public
domain
> films (so the station didn't have to pay much for the rental).
The town
> where the theaters were had a liberal arts college where the rich
sent
> a lot of their kids and so the theaters would often show some of
the art
> films of the day. Those were my mainstay in high school and
continued
> when I attended went to college in a large city that also had good
> supply of art house theaters.
>
> Like many here I don't particularly like to mingle with the hoards
at a
> theater. In the US too many audiences are still rude, put their
stinky
> tennies up the chair next to you, yap on their cell phone or to
their
> girl friend which is enough to keep many of us away. The local
theater
> is usually pretty good as far as audiences go but they've been on
a
> "money film" run so I haven't seen anything there recently. I
did go
> see "bug" at another local theater and there were initially only
two
> other patrons at the matinée then 3 teenage miscreants came in
after the
> film had stared (apparently having seen another film) and
proceeded to
> chat, take cell calls and be generally obnoxious. I almost kicked
the
> one kid in the head or was tempted to shout in his face "shut the
fuck
> up!" After a while the kid got up (he was with two girls) and
when he
> came back I glared at him and being Asian I think it freaked him
and he
> told the two girls they'd better leave. I would go to evening
> showings at that theater since it is the only one in the area
where
> the senior ticket is 60 and over. The others are 62 or 65 and
probably
> 70 by the time us boomers reach that -- I remember when
the "senior" age
> was 55. But that theater gets too many low lifes whose idea is
to hang
> out there since they don't have dance halls to go to like when we
were kids.
>
> BTW, the winner of the After Dark Horror Fest "The Abandoned" is
being
> released in the US tomorrow. There were 8 winners in the fest and
the
> 1st prize winner got a run in the theaters so is being released
several
> months after the other 7 were released. I'm looking forward to
seeing it.
>
Saw the latest Pirates movie with J. Depp this weekend- completely
great! Perfect special effects, direction, action, acting, set and
costume, design, and script to name a few. With its themes of Death,
life and love it completely transcended the Pirates genre. Wow!:-)
