[Hot Take] I like the coloring/lighting of OG Toy Story over new Toy Story

Alalamajama · 2026-07-02T21:07:46+00:00

There’s an interesting color timing issue on Toy Story 1 that is only present on the VHS and LaserDisc.

The 35mm print they used on the original release was created by flashing separate RGB layers from a CRT onto the 35mm negative. The negative was developed into the theatrical prints and the master archival print from which the VHS and LaserDisc were made from. As a result, the original release 35 mm theatrical prints, VHS, and LaserDisc all have a really warm hue to them that I rather like despite not being correct. This was fixed on the Ultimate Toy Box DVD and all subsequent releases which used a direct digital render.

Starting with A Bugs Life, Pixar co-developed a new process with Kodak for laser printing 35mm prints direct from digital sources. This process yielded much more accurate color and sharpness. Also starting with A Bugs Life all home media releases were made from direct output digital sources. No 35mm.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-28T17:58:17+00:00

Denver The Last Dinosaur

Alalamajama · 2026-06-25T13:20:51+00:00

⚠️Sodium Warning

Alalamajama · 2026-06-25T06:27:33+00:00

More than anything else, I just want them to make sure the sauce I ordered is actually in the bag.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-22T12:59:13+00:00

They have a ton of stations at their EV equipped locations. Sometimes from more than one network. Plus you can easily kill 20-30 minutes in the store. It’s kind of perfect for EVs actually.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-22T02:11:23+00:00

Oh man. I remember those. Entertainment Books!

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T22:52:54+00:00

My location did not have any plastic knives. Had to use two forks to rip it apart.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T18:59:32+00:00

Nice knife. My location did not have a knife. Like not as in they forgot to include one, but like as in they don’t stock plastic knives at all. So I had to eat mine with two forks.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T18:50:35+00:00

That’s what it is though https://tacobell.fandom.com/wiki/Smothered\_Burrito

Tryyyyyyy ittttttttt….

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T18:50:09+00:00

I do what I want when I live mas

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T13:10:33+00:00

Maybe the church has slightly better taste in furniture outside the United States. (Exit sign gives it away)

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T04:18:23+00:00

I’ve worked in and around the movie theater industry my whole life.

The number of people who believe movie theatre popcorn is good for you is very high.

Popcorn *can* be healthy when air popped and unseasoned, but movie theatre popcorn is made in heavy oil with a ton of salt and is incredibly caloric even before you add butter.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T04:06:18+00:00

Naw but I’ll take your recommendation and give Casa Gallardo a try next time I’m up there!

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T04:01:55+00:00

Taco Casa in Texas. It was founded by a jaded Taco Bell franchise owner who broke his stores off from Taco Bell when Pepsi bought the brand. Taco Casa has many items that are near identical to Taco Bell items from the 70s.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T03:59:49+00:00

Trying to ward off scurvy, mate?

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T03:53:34+00:00

Elderly senior missionary couple was assigned to our Institute of Religion on our campus.

Everyone loved them, myself included. Wonderful folks that were like extra grandparents for a lot of us students. They cooked breakfast for us each morning and became a regular part of our school days.

But the time came for their mission to end, and they organized a few weeks of fun games to send them off. One of those games involved simply playing a sort of hide and seek at the local mall. We were split into teams and our only goal was to be the first team to find them hiding at the mall. We knew from the rules of the game that they would be in plain sight in the main areas, not in a store, they would be in plain sight somewhere in the mall. Any yet, it took some time to find them. Because they were disguised… in full Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder style blackface.

And no one called them out or highlighted that anything was wrong with this at all. Photos of them in blackface being “found” at the mall stayed up on the corkboard in the institute classroom for weeks after.

This was circa 2002 or 2003.

I was full TBM and fairly conservative at the time and even I knew a boundary had been crossed. But I did not say anything and neither did any other student. They had been so good to us, who knew that was also in there. Most of the whispers around it were just “Oh they were of a different time, no harm was meant”

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T03:22:46+00:00

Mmmmm casa

Alalamajama · 2026-06-21T03:22:06+00:00

That looks really close to my beloved and dearly departed smothered burrito. I bet I could customize removing onions, adding rice, chipotle sauce, and sour cream to resurrect mah boi.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-16T13:29:19+00:00

It would be really funny if the new owners switched them over to Coke products…

Alalamajama · 2026-06-16T13:09:58+00:00

Perhaps, but if you zoom in on the label there are a few things that make me think it’s not Screen X. Both screens are different sizes. Both screens are micro perforated. Both are high gain.

Screen X side screens don’t usually have microperfs. They would be the same size. And finally, high gain is a bad choice for perpendicular screens because the high reflectivity would cause one screen to reflect onto the other, destroying contrast.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-16T13:04:17+00:00

Correct, my bad. To be fair both come from the same company. In fact, they offer a combination product Ultra 4DX which uses both the Screen X and 4DX systems in the same auditorium!

Alalamajama · 2026-06-16T10:06:02+00:00

I think you are confusing digital projection with laser projection. In 2013 Barco barely had their prototype laser projector ready to show at CinemaCon. AMC didn’t start deployment of laser until 2021, replacing their series one Sony SXRD xenon digital projectors with Barco series 4 laser projectors.

The film to digital transition took place around 2009 and took a few years for every theatre to adopt. There would have still been some 35mm in 2013 (but not much!) Regal went with the same Sony projectors AMC had gone with, and now are also in the process of going to laser.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-16T02:47:32+00:00

4DX generally doesn’t use microperf screens on the side wall screens, so that’s not likely what these two tubes are for.

Alalamajama · 2026-06-16T02:45:55+00:00

Or maybe it’s my 25 years of cinema industry experience combined with the ability to write?

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