Posted by Lucifer Lyndon Razoodock at spider-tp023.proxy.aol.com on April 26, 2000 at 15:49:34:
In Reply to: Nope! No sale! posted by Neil on April 26, 2000 at 15:02:43:
Hm.
I see and can sympathize...
Everyone's economics involving their media(movie-info-etc.) is transitory and snowflake-unique, I know...personally, I blew more than 50% of my salary on laserdiscs for the first three years that I was workin'...fuckin' over-priced 12", wanna-be-shinier-vinyl-cool platters...
Nowadays, DVideoDs ping-pong all-over the place (and in several different industries; not all of them entertainment, though most complement the ent. industry in some way) because:
--Anyone so-inclined can burn one now for no hassle; just a pretty-pony of a wad (much cash...for now)up-front...
No one's trying to sell ya anything here, Neil.
Right now, it doesn't matter whether ya impulse-buy at SamGoody or electronically get something a hair-above-cost from bumblefuck.com (...who'll request that you squeeze a $6 shipping-cost outta yer main-vein...), digital-video-discs can still lighten-yer-purse as priced-to-own don't mean cheap...and are a kinda'cruel joke from minimal-wage and on up a good 5-10 years...
Obviously, everyone's going-to step-up-&-put-out for the "Dogma" disc they can afford/desire...
To they & you, I've no intention of swaying on the matter...
As for my personal-opinion of "special editions," I think they're the kreme-de-la-cat's-meow. I wouldn't have ponied-up for all of those $100+ LD-platter-box-sets if I didn't want to roll-around in the sturm-und-drang surrounding films whose final-cut I loved...
As for the ViewAskew spec.-ed.s, I think that they not only contain some of Jason Lee's better moments (...the only actor to make a homophobic tirade sound damn-near-unconscioushatetrash-poetic...), but the Criterion "Chasing Amy" LD stunned me in that a film which'd wet-stomped my friggin' heart...managed to wriggle back in for a coupla' scenes that I didn't expect to see...
I, personally, got-hard for "Dogma"'s "bare-bones" for two simple reasons:
--Despite the exagerrated self-deprecation I've read 'round these parts regarding "visual style," I think that the ViewAskew films look pretty damn-good. "Mallrats" is a film with a little more visual-pop, than most folks (including it's creative-team) give it credit for. Personally, I believe that it's a credit to what you can accomplish shooting on 16mm and then "Blowing-it-Up" to 35mm...just look at that green neon in the Lee/Lee sequence...
When the end-notes for "Dogma" thank Robert Yeoman for "raising that visual bar," the praise is not faint, I'd imagine..."Dogma" is a great-looking film on DVD (...in fact, the grain in "Barry's Descent" is so minimal in the digital-format, that what seemed a "good-try" theatrically, is smooth-&-beautiful now...)
My recommendation is primarily to the filmmaking-enthusiasts on this board (there are a few here, right?) that the new "Dogma" DVD offers the chance to compare-contrast the framing of a film shot digitally-&-open-matted...and, also
--...the chance to see how inspired-editing, can take a rambling indie-epic and tighten a sly-scatological sermon...
--tom
somewillbuythemboth...otherswillhavebothhandedtothem