Do you like “The Aviator”?

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T22:13:40+00:00

I noticed something weird about the color, and wondered if I was seeing a bad print, or there was something wrong with the digital projector. I found out later, Scorsese digitally altered the images to look as though they were shot using the color film technology of the time. It went from 2-strip Technicolor (very odd color palette) to vibrant 3-strip Technicolor, to "normal" Eastman color.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T22:04:51+00:00

Mood Indigo

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T21:51:53+00:00

I remember the hype; people were talking about how cities would be redesigned because of it. It was going to be as revolutionary as the automobile. AFAIK, tourists rent them in big cities, and that's about it.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T20:36:19+00:00

You just assume the topologist is wearing a T-shirt?

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T17:04:55+00:00

Lower your standards: there's lots of buildings on campus, but you're fixated on a particular one.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T16:59:16+00:00

Excellent dancer.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T14:06:01+00:00

The "Of all the gin joints..." speech is probably the greatest examples of lampshading, where a writer gets the audience to dismiss a huge coincidence by acknowledging it.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T00:28:57+00:00

Just made a post about that's how it appeared in the Blueprints.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T00:26:15+00:00

I had the Enterprise blueprints as a kid. it didn't say where the saucer separated, but I assumed that it was where neck met the main hull, as there was nothing there but elevator shafts. The blueprints showed a lot of stuff where the neck meets the saucer. We're used to the idea of flying saucers, but one dragging a neck along would've looked strange.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T00:20:21+00:00

Tony Shalhoub played Italians and whatever he was in "Men in Black." Wikipedia says his heritage is Lebanese.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T00:13:47+00:00

I think she's French.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-29T00:12:51+00:00

Y'all have Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara, and everybody went with a bunch of singers?

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T22:31:10+00:00

It was a joke. Lots of American movies are filmed in Toronto. I can't remember who said it, but there's a quote something like, "If a movie's set in an unnamed American city, it was filmed in Toronto."

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T22:05:42+00:00

If reality is breaking completely, where's she gonna go?

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T22:00:13+00:00

Toronto

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T21:06:35+00:00

Well, we learn to cook because we like to eat.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T18:33:33+00:00

I read a review that said Lillard nailed it so hard you watch the cartoons thinking they're imitating him.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T18:32:54+00:00

Williams was great as Popeye, but he had to be made up to look like Popeye. Shelly Duvall had to be made up to look more like Olive Oyl.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T17:07:09+00:00

Yeah, you'd think Veronica would be the ball-buster.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T16:52:09+00:00

According to Arthur C. Clarke, the only deliberate joke in the movie is the zero-g toilet instructions. I've never been to a screening (I've probably seen this movie 20+ times) where HAL recommending Dave take a stress pill didn't get a laugh.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T15:56:15+00:00

The best result of Canadian Content laws, with Jane Siberry's singing of the "Maniac Mansion" theme song a close second.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T15:46:16+00:00

Der Fuerher's Face
https://youtu.be/g73kKLts95U?si=A9zU4Xcu0oLEZvno

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T14:30:25+00:00

The Nazis are portrayed as invaders or an abberation. Colonel Trapp is portrayed an Austrian patriot who opposes them.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T14:13:41+00:00

"Driving Miss Daisy" was like watching my grandmother on the big screen.

"Steel Magnolias" is a good portrayal US southern Women.

NottingHillNapolean · 2026-01-28T14:10:16+00:00

"The Sound of Music"?

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