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The Graduate, 1967... Criterion Bluray remaster.. A wonderful film. Hoffman didnt want a 6 film contract so was only paid 17k for the whole shoot. It made him in the buisness tho,


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When Elaine tracks down Ben in his gloomy room and he causes her to scream, several other tenants gather behind the landlord in the doorway. One says, "Shall I get the cops? I'll get the cops." It's Richard Dreyfuss in one of his earliest film roles.

During rehearsals of Dustin Hoffman's and Anne Bancroft's first encounter in the hotel room, Bancroft did not know that Hoffman was going to grab her breast. Hoffman decided to do it because it reminded him of schoolboys trying to nonchalantly grab girls' breasts in the hall by pretending to put their jackets on. When Hoffman did it, director Mike Nichols began laughing loudly. Hoffman began to laugh as well, so rather than stop the scene, he turned away and walked to the wall. Hoffman banged his head on the wall, trying to stop laughing, and Nichols thought it was so funny, it stayed in the finished film. Anne Bancroft said that for many years after doing this movie, young men would tell her that she was the first woman they had sexual fantasies about.

Although Mrs. Robinson is supposed to be much older than Benjamin, Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman were just under six years apart in age. He looked naturally boyish, and she, a longtime smoker and drinker, look older than her age. Bancroft was only eight years older than her "daughter" Katharine Ross. William Daniels (Mr. Braddock) only ten years older than his "son" Hoffman.

Anne Bancroft loved Mike Nichols' description of Mrs. Robinson as someone who was angry with herself for giving up on who she really was in exchange for wealth and security. This was the aspect of the book that really captured his interest. When they shot the scene where Mrs. Robinson and Ben discuss art in the hotel room, Bancroft had forgotten Nichols' initial revelation about the character, but she managed to capture that anger and regret on subsequent takes. Nichols thought this was very important because she really wanted to drive home the point about the character having bargained away her life. "That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it."

The Dogs of War, 1980. Bluray ... Chris Walken was relatively unknown and the studio were unimpresse by the Director's choice of lead; but it worked well.


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John Irvin had previously shot footage in the middle of real-life battles when he worked in a television news crew in Vietnam during the 1960s. Irvin once said: "Unlike most young film directors, I've been in battle. Throughout the '60s I went to various war zones and I met numerous mercenaries in Algeria and South East Asia, so I had my own personal strings to draw on. I would say our depiction of mercenaries is pretty accurate. We talked to a lot of mercenaries and were able to get a lot of information from them about how they would have handled the operation."

When the team is discussing the weapons they will need for their attack, Shannon mentions their requirement for "9 Millimeter Quad" ammunition. "Quad" version of 9mm ammunition goes back to the development of a special 9mm Load by Speer ammunition Co. called the, "9mm +P Gold Dot JHP (Jacketed Hollow Point) 124 Gr". Which has a muzzle velocity of 400 Meters per second (1,300 Ft/s). It received its Nickname "9mm Quad", from its Major Parameter: (9mm @ 400 m/s).

The "XM-18" grenade launcher used in the movie is a real-life weapon. It is called the Manville Gun. It was named after its inventor, Charles Manville, who designed the gun in 1935.

Spartacus,1960.. 4k Bluray... This 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD is unquestionably the ultimate version of the film which probably looks better than when the film was theatrically projected upon release. The image's excellence is immediately in evidence during the opening titles as the black backgrounds appear significantly more rich and true and the white titles more intensely luminous and accurate.



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Sir Peter Ustinov joked about his daughter, born at the beginning of production, being in kindergarten by the time this movie was finished. When asked what her father did for a living, she would answer, "Spartacus".

The original version included a scene where Marcus Licinius Crassus (Sir Laurence Olivier) attempts to seduce Antoninus (Tony Curtis). The Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency both objected. At one point Geoffrey Shurlock, representing the censors, suggested it would help if the reference in the scene to a preference for oysters or snails was changed to truffles and artichokes. In the end the scene was cut, but it was put back in for the 1991 restoration. However, the soundtrack had been lost in the meantime and the dialogue had to be dubbed. Curtis was able to redo his lines, but Olivier had died. Dame Joan Plowright, his widow, remembered that Sir Anthony Hopkins had done a dead-on impression of Olivier and she mentioned this to the restoration team. They approached Hopkins and he agreed to voice Olivier's lines in that scene. Hopkins is thanked in the credits for the restored version.

Cinematographer Russell Metty walked off the set, complaining that director Stanley Kubrick was not letting him do his job. Metty was used to directors allowing him to call his own shots with little oversight, while Kubrick was a professional photographer who had shot some of his previous movies by himself. Subsequently, Kubrick did the majority of the cinematography work. Metty complained about this up until the release of the movie and even, at one point, asked to have his name removed from the credits. However, because his name was in the credits, when this movie won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, it was given to Metty, although he actually didn't shoot most of it.

I''m Spartacus!!


....yeah, in your dreams mate.....


naw i really am... :D

Midway, 1976.. Bluray.



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Most the Japanese air raid sequences are from Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970).

Scenes of Lieutenant Colonel James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle's Tokyo raid at the beginning are from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). Robert Mitchum played pilot Bob Gray in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and Admiral William Halsey in this movie.

Almost all the on-board scenes were filmed on the U.S.S. Lexington, an Essex-class "fast carrier" commissioned in February, 1943. Even some of the Japanese carriers shown in birds-eye views were actually the Lexington, with the film reversed to put the island superstructure on the port side (all U.S. carriers had it on the starboard side). Decommissioned in 1991, the Lexington was the longest serving carrier in history. It is now a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Most dogfight sequences come from 1942 newsreels, with considerable cropping to adapt the image to the Panavision framing.

Several action scenes, including the one where a Zero slams into the Yorktown's bridge, were taken from Away All Boats (1956).

Other than that its all original;) still its not a bad film at all.

Have you seen the remake of 'Midway'?

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Have you seen the remake of 'Midway'?

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no ive not seen it yet. didnt do too badly at box office but reviews were not great.
edit. ive managed to buy the file for a fiver in uhd so will wath it later

Murder on the Orient Express, 2017...uhd file.



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The Fragilite cake scene, the exchange between Hercule Poirot and Edward Ratchett was filmed over a day and a half, and in addition to improvisation, the scene also required numerous bites of cake. According to Sir Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp "is absolutely unafraid of a world most actors live in fear of, which is eating on-screen."

One day actor Johnny Depp showed up on set several hours late and hungover. Director Branagh proceeded to dress him down in front of the crew. "I expect all of my actors to be on time and well prepared. If this is too difficult for you, I have no problem finding another actor." Depp showed up early every day afterwards.

Big screens with animations of moving landscapes were installed on the set to create the visual effect of a moving train. Josh Gad experienced some motion sickness during filming due to this.

Pulp Fiction, 1994..



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The movie cost only $8 million to make. The initial budget was reportedly even lower until Bruce Willis was added to the cast (he had a recent string of domestic flops but was still a box-office draw overseas). $5 million went to pay the actors' and actresses' salaries. The film was already profitable when its worldwide rights were sold for $11 million (again, mainly on the strength of Willis' presence). It went on to gross over $200 million at the box office.

Quentin Tarantino wrote the role of Jules specifically for Samuel L. Jackson, however, it was almost given to Paul Calderon after a great audition. When Jackson heard this, he flew to Los Angeles and auditioned again to secure the role. Calderon ended up with a small role, as Paul.

you never tire of a great film...up there with the classics...


now another Tarantino... The Hateful Eight, 2015...


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After the script leaked online, writer and director Quentin Tarantino did not want to make this movie. However, after they did a brief reading of the script in Los Angeles, the cast was stunned and got excited for the film, and with Samuel L. Jackson persuading him to do this movie, Tarantino accepted.

Writer and director Quentin Tarantino said that some of Ennio Morricone's compositions for the film are the unused scores for The Thing (1982). Kurt Russell was the star in that movie.

As of 2015, most theaters worldwide had their film projectors replaced with digital projectors, as traditional film stock was no longer in favor. As a fan and supporter of celluloid, writer and director Quentin Tarantino aggressively fought with distributors for the film to be shown in its original Ultra Panavision 70 presentation. As a result, fifty theaters internationally were retrofitted with anamorphic-lensed 70mm analogue film projectors to display the film as he intended it to be seen. It was released on December 25, 2015, as a roadshow presentation, in 70mm analogue film format theaters exclusively, before being released in digital theaters on December 30, 2015.