Saving Private Ryan
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In the case of the Niland brothers, it was believed that 3 of 4 brothers were killed (two in Normandy, one in Burma) leaving Fritz as sole survivor. However, the location of his paratroop regiment in Normandy was unknown after they were forced to jump away from the intended drop zone. So Fritz, like Ryan, had to be found to be removed from combat. The twist is that the brother Edward, presumed by the military to have been killed in a plane crash in the Burmese jungle, actually survived the crash and was imprisoned and tortured for more than a year until the end of the war when he was released.
Still,groundbreaking and audacious cinema that continues to influence to this day.
In particular, the production design has been 'replicated' in pretty much every single sci-fi film since it's release.
As important and influential as they come.
Admittedly I am very biased against 2001. I reckon Stanley Kubrick was a great director.
If there is a movie I have to watch 15 times without getting bored it'll be Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.
With 2001 the thing that bothers me most is his use of Blue Danube as the background music
for the spaceship docking sequence which I foundas distracting as it is corny. This is just my
personal bias as I understand that 2001 boosted the popularity of Blue Danube and Also sprach
Zarathustra. I am of the view that the film's artistry would have been elevated by the use of
Alex North's original score.
If there is a movie I have to watch 15 times without getting bored it'll be Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.
With 2001 the thing that bothers me most is his use of Blue Danube as the background music
for the spaceship docking sequence which I foundas distracting as it is corny. This is just my
personal bias as I understand that 2001 boosted the popularity of Blue Danube and Also sprach
Zarathustra. I am of the view that the film's artistry would have been elevated by the use of
Alex North's original score.
Don't forget 1994. Forrest Gump is admittedly a fantastic movie and one of my favs. But Pulp Fiction is on another level, it changed moviemaking for a generation.
...and from that particular year - 1994 - I still maintain that The Shawshank Redemption is the classic to beat.
I wondered about that also, since every CSI type show that does ballistic testing uses a relatively small water tank.
Still, the audio in the landing battle is absolutely amazing. The lossless DTS-HD MA track is state of the art and so much better than the standard DTS 5.1 1509kbps track.
Still, the audio in the landing battle is absolutely amazing. The lossless DTS-HD MA track is state of the art and so much better than the standard DTS 5.1 1509kbps track.
the symbolism is none ending
i see the black monolith representing beauty and art
it is the same dimension as a theatre screen
so the screen is the monolith and it is the viewer that falls into it and becomes rebirthed into a higher form through art(the movie is the art)
ordered it played at a truck stop
in a few minutes the theatre had cleared
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same dimensions as a movie screen?
All the monoliths are black, extremely flat, non-reflective rectangular solids whose dimensions are in the precise ratio of 1 : 4 : 9 (the squares of the first three integers). These dimensions are the main source of debate about the simple external design of the monoliths. It is suggested in the novel 2001 that this number series does not stop at three dimensions.[1]
The monoliths are observed in several different sizes - TMA-0 and TMA-1 are both about 11 feet long and TMA-2 is two kilometers long on its longest axis, whereas the monolith that appears on Europa is considerably larger. They may be able to assume any size, because in 2010: Odyssey Two, the Star Child, created from the astronaut Dave Bowman, cryptically notes that the monolith is actually one size - "as large as necessary".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(Space_Odyssey)
This was done for cinematic effect.
The TV show Mythbusters experimented with this and showed how bullets tumble and are almost completely ineffective after only a minimal amount of distance underwater.
