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Skriven 2007-07-28 17:06:09 av Matt Ion (2657.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 16180 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (2653.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: 2 Days Til Comic-con and 1 week until TLT! (Rant/Blog-typethinking 
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Amy Guskin wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:45:01 -0400, Matt Ion wrote
> (in article <xLHqi.11039$_d2.686@pd7urf3no>):
> 
>> Jon wrote:
>>
>>> Sure, we get more Babylon 5 in a week. 
>> Amazon.ca shows my expected delivery date as "August 3 - August 8". 
>> Woot woot!
>>
>>> These are very exciting times, and Babylon 5 is leading the way again
>>> to revolutioninze the way we see media.  I honestly think that
>>> television and "the movies" are pretty dead as formats.  No one wants
>>> to watch commercials anymore, and no one goes to see movies.  
>> I must beg to differ there.  Until I can put a 60-foot-wide screen and 
>> full THX/DTS sound system in my basement, "going to the movies" will 
>> still hold the advantage of completely wrapping yourself in the experience. 
> <<
> 
> I'm going to agree, and add a few things.  For me, it isn't just the 
> experience of being able to see a film huge and with a theater-quality sound 
> system; it's also the communal experience of being in a theater with other 
> people of a similar mind.  I saw "The Simpsons" last night, and it was 
> _great_ to be there on opening night with what was obviously a bunch of other

> serious Simpsons fans, who got all of the little in jokes and references, and

> laughed at all the same parts.

Yes, that too... we saw the South Park movie on opening night, and it 
was the same experience - laughing along with a couple hundred other 
like-minded individuals just has that extra... something.  (The 
spontaneous applause when Bill Gates was shot was truly the icing on the 
proverbial cake!)

>> For your average chick flick or dramady, this may not be such a big 
>> deal... for the big-action blockbusters, there's simply no equal.  Yeah, 
>> I'll be buying Transformers and Live Free Or Die Hard when they come out 
>> on DVD too, but I still have to see each of them AT LEAST a second time 
>> on the *BIG* SCREEN. <<
> 
> Honestly, I wouldn't even enjoy a chick flick or a dramedy on an iPod screen,

> while we're talking about sf fans and their embracing of cutting edge 
> technology.  I mean, more power to WB and Joe for getting B5 onto people's 
> phones, but, me?  Nah, not interested in viewing a film like that.  I read a 
> New Yorker article on the phenomenon of changing formats, and the writer 
> talked about trying to imagine watching a film like "Lawrence of Arabia" 
> (with its sweeping vistas) on a cell phone or an iPod.  

Well, not even that... even if I had a 60" plasma screen at home for 
viewing a DVD or a movie, it's still just not the same as that first 
viewing in the theater.  Always great to be able to continue to enjoy it 
after it's left the theater - heck, I've re-enjoyed a couple movies on 
my Palm Treo's little screen while sitting in the ferry lineups - but 
for so many films, a lot is lost without at least that one initial 
viewing on the big screen.

> because I wonder if it will change the artistry of film in the same way that 
> the decline of the LP and the rise of CD changed the artistry of album art.  
> You'd never have had a cover like "Sgt. Pepper" in the age of CD.  

Well, that's as much the decline of the drug-inspired culture as it is 
the shape and size of the media ;)

> what would all of us Baby Boomers have decorated our dorm rooms with if the 
> White Album only came with passport-sized photos of the four Beatles??  ;-)

Today, we'd just scan them and re-print them large-sized :)
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