[mrnoodle]

It's kind of tough for me. I don't watch many movies for any reason other than pure slack-jawed entertainment. Don't watch camera angles, colors, any technical stuff. Don't care to find hidden metaphors or foreshadowing or artsy stuff. When I *do* watch from one of those perspectives, the list of favorites is different from the list of popcorn favorites.

Popcorn favorite/childhood-feeling-resurrector: Empire Strikes Back
Popcorn favorite 2: Braveheart (the first and best of the 10000000-acres-of-carnage-in-one-shot movies), followed verrrrry closely by the LoTR trilogy. They'd win, but they're even more pompous and overly long than BH

For sound: Just became acquainted with a guy who records some of our GH shows, went to his house to see his home theater. It's utterly AMAZING. He lives in some suburban little house, but the basement has 200k in surround sound, weird speakers, players for every conceivable format of A/V goodness. It's just sick.

Anyway, he gave me a choice of what movie to experience the surround with, and I picked the digital tape (can't remember what that format is called, but it's apparently 14x clearer than DVD, or some sick number) of Master and Commander.

Holy cow. Just...holy cow. The score alone would bring tears to your eyes, and every footstep on the deck overhead can be heard in perfect relation to the cup that clattered off to the left. With the lights off, and none of the flicker or video noise that you're accustomed to on the big screen or on regular monitors, you truly believe you're there.

we also smoked one and watched a Yes video. Don't even start me on that one. If I win the lottery, I'm hiring this guy to make me one of those theaters.

Yeah. So for sound, Master and Commander.

was gonna do more, but i've used up my line count for one post.