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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:42 am Post subject:
EstherM
Re: "Confessions".
I am a Matsu Takako fan. And a Kimura Yoshino fan, and I'd been planning on watching the movie... until I read the synopsis. After that I decided to just give it a pass and watch the grass grow.
But you got me thinking about it again, so I figured... if it could keep you away from the laundry... maybe the grass could get along without me for a bit.
The long and the short is... What an nteresting movie! And I hesitate to say it, because there weren't a lot of laughs in it, but... What a good movie!
Like everyone who goes to movies, or watches tv, I've seen a million "revenge" based stories. But this was an original, and once I started I couldn't stop.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:42 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
For anime, I don't know if having it on Blu-Ray buys you any marked improvement...
Even for live action, you really need some rather high-end equipment to see a real Blu-Ray to DVD difference...
Indeed. I guess you'd have to be a serious audio/videophile with some a small fortune invested in your home theater equipment.
I have a very basic setup....flat panel LED LCD, blu-ray player with a sound bar and powered subwoofer. It suits me well enough. The gyabo's and mukyaa's come across vividly enough.
Indeed. I guess you'd have to be a serious audio/videophile with some a small fortune invested in your home theater equipment.
I have a very basic setup....flat panel LED LCD, blu-ray player with a sound bar and powered subwoofer. It suits me well enough. The gyabo's and mukyaa's come across vividly enough.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:48 pm Post subject:
Geezer wrote:
EstherM
Re: "Confessions".
I am a Matsu Takako fan. And a Kimura Yoshino fan, and I'd been planning on watching the movie... until I read the synopsis. After that I decided to just give it a pass and watch the grass grow.
But you got me thinking about it again, so I figured... if it could keep you away from the laundry... maybe the grass could get along without me for a bit.
The long and the short is... What an nteresting movie! And I hesitate to say it, because there weren't a lot of laughs in it, but... What a good movie!
Like everyone who goes to movies, or watches tv, I've seen a million "revenge" based stories. But this was an original, and once I started I couldn't stop.
Thanks for mentioning it.
glad you went ahead and watch it after all. I agree with you too. Definitely an original. It's sooo good. Just when i thought it ended with the milk cartons, more and more just keep coming. The end was fabulous.all the slow motion scenes were perfect too. I hope it'll win some awards.
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:31 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Wow, you upgraded to a Blu-Ray, huh?
Well I ended up doing so redundantly. When I bought a new panel to replace a CRT set that was actually damaged by carpet cleaning morons <don't ask> I decided to get a new BD player at the same time since the new TV was an HD set. Didn't forsee buying a PS3, which also has a BD player.
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Oppo?
Nah, I wish! Those cost a mint. Just a Samsung, same brand as the panel. At least I can take advantage of high definition Japanese drama and film files, as with the Nodame Cantabile films.
Nah, I wish! Those cost a mint. Just a Samsung, same brand as the panel. At least I can take advantage of high definition Japanese drama and film files, as with the Nodame Cantabile films.
Yeah, the Oppo is a pricey unit... Around $600, I think.
I'm dating myself (yet again), but I remember paying $800+ for my first VCR.
Synopsis:
Underneath the veneer of orderly lives, frozen smiles and awkward averted glances, SWEET LITTLE LIES is a cold-as-steel clinical study of a couple. Married for three years, the couple keeps up the apparently tender rituals of newlyweds, but all is not as bright and beautiful as it would seem. Miki Nakatani, �gthe best Japanese actress of her generation�h (Mark Schilling, Japan Times) plays the emotionally and sexually starved wife in Hitoshi Yazaki�fs anti-melodramatic chronicle of the disintegration of a marriage. Even the most seasoned viewers will be struck by the menacing calm of Yazaki�fs compositions, and his unveiling of lives made from lies.
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When would it be released outside Japan.....
)... Really really good. 
