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Xenole
07-02-2002, 17:19
.......even after hearing how bad a disc is (eg layer change, picture quality, sound dropouts etc) still go and buy the disc?
eg Highlander, Robocop, RCE discs, Battlefield Earth etc
kcxdev
07-02-2002, 17:21
cos they want to watch (or like) the movie?
john316
07-02-2002, 18:31
Originally posted by kcxdev
cos they want to watch (or like) the movie?

:rolleyes: :D :D
Jimmyboy
07-02-2002, 18:39
and the award for the forums most stupid question goes to...........


Robocop is the best version available and good value for money when compared with the R1 as you get all 3 films for less than the price of the single CC.
and I doubt many people would buy an RCE disc if there unable to actually play it. :rolleyes:
Confucius
07-02-2002, 18:43
One cannot tell if one will enjoy a movie unless one watches it oneself.

I'd rather watch Battlefield Earth than some Honkers kung-fu rubbish! But I wouldn't expect some nunchaka (sp? who cares..) fixated teeny to agree. So what?
kcxdev
07-02-2002, 19:23
can't really compare the robocop boxset with the CC like that, afterall, the r2 is only just released and many would have bought the CC way before it was even anounched
kanedaa
07-02-2002, 20:14
Originally posted by Confucius
One cannot tell if one will enjoy a movie unless one watches it oneself.

I'd rather watch Battlefield Earth than some Honkers kung-fu rubbish! But I wouldn't expect some nunchaka (sp? who cares..) fixated teeny to agree. So what?

:rolleyes: its not every day one finds oneself dubbed as a nunchuku fixated teeny :D
Tob
07-02-2002, 20:32
I'd rather be "nuchaka fixated" ( I can't be a teeny), then have a closed mind and incredibly poor taste.
Confucius
07-02-2002, 20:37
"closed mind"

"incredibly poor taste"

A matter of opinion surely? I don't like what you like and you don't like what I like. What is closed minded about that.
Tob
07-02-2002, 20:58
Originally posted by Confucius
"closed mind"

"incredibly poor taste"

A matter of opinion surely? I don't like what you like and you don't like what I like. What is closed minded about that.

Yeah, but my opinion was on one film, not an entire countries output.
deftone666
07-02-2002, 21:04
lighten up :)
Arch Stanton
07-02-2002, 21:10
Originally posted by Confucius
One cannot tell if one will enjoy a movie unless one watches it oneself.

I'd rather watch Battlefield Earth than some Honkers kung-fu rubbish! But I wouldn't expect some nunchaka (sp? who cares..) fixated teeny to agree. So what?


Oi Mr Stanton is well past his teens and there a many Kung Fu movies he'd sooner watch than Battlefield Earth.
Tob
07-02-2002, 21:14
Originally posted by deftone666
lighten up :)
:) Each to their own. :)
SqueakyG
07-02-2002, 21:40
Originally posted by Xenole
.......even after hearing how bad a disc is (eg layer change, picture quality, sound dropouts etc) still go and buy the disc?
eg Highlander, Robocop, RCE discs, Battlefield Earth etc


Well, i don't think my DVD player is multi-region, so I never got into buying DVDs from other regions, so I don't have the Robocop Criterion... plus it is rare and expensive, and apparently the picture quality ain't so great. So because Robocop is one of my favourite films of all time, I'd rather have the new R2 release, than the VHS version I taped off TV 8 years ago.

For my 15 or 20 very favourite films, I will buy whatever DVD is available to me, even if the DVD sucks. Beyond my 15-20 favourite films, I would probably have reservations about buying a bad disc.
Michael Brooke
08-02-2002, 08:41
The Criterion isn’t region-coded, so it should play perfectly on virtually all current British DVD setups. The only potential problem is the NTSC picture format, but in practice this will only affect the tiniest minority of UK buyers.

On a more general note, I agree that you cannot know for certain whether will enjoy a film unless one samples it for yourself… but as it’s simply not possible to watch everything, so in practice you have to rely on recommendations from others to a great extent.

I have a pretty good idea, for instance, that I wouldn’t much enjoy <I>What Women Want, Tomb Raider</I> or <I>The Phantom Menace</I>, so I haven’t bothered seeing them – but I certainly wouldn’t slag them off or indeed condemn the entire output of that particular genre or country in the way Confucius has been doing!

Just out of interest, are the near universally-acclaimed likes of King Hu’s <I>A Touch of Zen</I> and Kurosawa’s samurai films included in this blanket condemnation? And if not, what’s the difference?
Dagada
08-02-2002, 09:15
Well - Kurosawa's films are Japanese for a start. ;)

I know it comes down to personal taste - but really, I can't see why anyone would choose BFE over a "poor" HK film, as you'll have the interesting dubbing to laugh at at the very least.
Jimmyboy
08-02-2002, 16:36
Originally posted by Dagada
Well - Kurosawa's films are Japanese for a start. ;)

Confucius slated the Kung-fu genre not Hong Kong films.

By kung-fu I assume he meant any eastern martial arts film.
Ol' Blue Eyes
08-02-2002, 17:07
"Problem discs" often depend on the player you play them on. The Robocop branching works beautifully on my player and I'm not troubled by RCE problems because I switch between regions.