Lawrence of Arabia

[TE]

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can really chew the scenery.

-TE

[Ted Heise]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:09:24 -0800 (PST),

Post by TE
Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can
really chew the scenery.

True, But what a great movie! I saw the 70 mm film at an amazing
theater in Omaha back in the mid 70s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Hills_Theater

The theater almost rumbled with the intensity of sound in the
scenes with the sun coming up on the desert.

There were maybe three other people in that magnificent place.
Unfortunately, it's no longer there.

[TE]

Post by Ted Heise
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:09:24 -0800 (PST),

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can
really chew the scenery.

True, But what a great movie! I saw the 70 mm film at an amazing
theater in Omaha back in the mid 70s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Hills_Theater
The theater almost rumbled with the intensity of sound in the
scenes with the sun coming up on the desert.
There were maybe three other people in that magnificent place.
Unfortunately, it's no longer there.

Cool. Reminds me a bit of the old Mai Kai theater in Livonia Michigan,
built a year later. Not as notable though, I believe I saw the original
Jaws there.

-TE

Post by Ted Heise
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[mercellusb]

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can really chew the scenery.
-TE

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[TE]

Post by mercellusb

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can really chew the scenery.
-TE

H3'S n07 4n 4c70r, H3'S 4 m0v13 S74r!!!11
http://youtu.be/eTbLkYmWZJo

tmml

1982 Was one of my favorite years.

-TE

[Some dued]

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can really chew the scenery.
-TE

I rented that movie in college, came on 2 VHS tapes. I came home drunk and watched it real confused until the "first" tape ended up with him dying.

[TE]

Post by Some dued

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can really chew the scenery.
-TE

I rented that movie in college, came on 2 VHS tapes. I came home drunk and watched it real confused until the "first" tape ended up with him dying.

tmml American Beauty says hi!

Couldn't have been that drunk to make it that far.

-TE

[unclejr]

Post by Some dued

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can really chew the scenery.
-TE

I rented that movie in college, came on 2 VHS tapes. I came home drunk and watched it real confused until the "first" tape ended up with him dying.

I did something similar the first time I saw Goodfellas. It was a "flipper" DVD that I borrowed from the library. I played the wrong side of the disc first. Very disorienting.

[Ted Heise]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:40:16 -0800 (PST),

Post by Some dued

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can
really chew the scenery.

I rented that movie in college, came on 2 VHS tapes. I came
home drunk and watched it real confused until the "first" tape
ended up with him dying.

Oh my. Being drunk it probably didn't matter much, but that's a
movie that really needs to be seen on a big screen.

[Con Reeder, unhyphenated American]

Post by Ted Heise
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:40:16 -0800 (PST),

Post by Some dued

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can really chew the scenery.

I rented that movie in college, came on 2 VHS tapes. I came
home drunk and watched it real confused until the "first" tape
ended up with him dying.

Oh my. Being drunk it probably didn't matter much, but that's a
movie that really needs to be seen on a big screen.

That's a modern question -- is an at-home 70" DVD play the equivalent
of seeing on a big screen?

[Tim VanWagoner]

Post by Con Reeder, unhyphenated American

Post by Ted Heise
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:40:16 -0800 (PST),

Post by Some dued

Wow...I don't remember O'Toole being such a ham. Man, he can
really chew the scenery.

I rented that movie in college, came on 2 VHS tapes. I came
home drunk and watched it real confused until the "first" tape
ended up with him dying.

Oh my. Being drunk it probably didn't matter much, but that's a
movie that really needs to be seen on a big screen.

That's a modern question -- is an at-home 70" DVD play the equivalent
of seeing on a big screen?
--
Making the simple complex, that is easy -- anyone can do that.
But to make the complex simple, awesomely simple, that is
true creativity. -- Charles Mingus

If sized correctly, it’s roughly equivalent to being in the far back seats in the auditorium. So not as impressive as seeing it from the middle of an auditorium.

This is assuming watching on 4K non-streaming, and with something equivalent to Dolby Atmos.

I don’t dip into the old movies as much as I used to, but one thing that is obvious when you watch even the best of the classics - production values and acting are much poorer than the great movies of today. On the production values, part of that is that film is extremely expensive and must be developed before viewing, whereas digital is cheap and you can see how something looks immediately in playback. If you need to do 50 takes to get it right, you’ll annoy people but you’re not going to break the bank. The other aspect is that most of the first half century of film actors cut their teeth in either vaudeville, theater, or silent films, where overacting is necessary. Today’s serious acting seems much more naturalistic.

My thoughts as a film buff but not expert.