Crappy DVD's make excellent drink coasters

[RLA]

<font color='#000000'>here are my newest drink coasters
Scorpion King &lt; A miss mash mush of bad acting with
no story line &nbsp;De Rock should stick to Wrestling
come to think of it this movie looked like a wrestling match

Brotherhood Of The Wolf
This one is so bad that it replaces my hall of fame
drink coaster Crouching Tiger Hidded Dragon
Now I know why foriegn films are so foriegn
The film did have excellent cinema photography and sound effects &nbsp;but it was almost painfull to sit and watch.
the dubbing was terrible with most of the mens voices
having the same baseball announcer type tone &nbsp;and the lips were way out of sinc &nbsp;story line?what story line
if I could guess it would be CTHD meets Excaliber meets
Henry the 5th meets Jason.

What drink coasters do you have in your collection?
Cheers Ray</font>

[Clint DeBoer]

<font color='#000000'>Drink coasters:

Deer Hunter - highly acclaimed drivel...
Forsaken - love Brenden Fahr, hated the film
Just about any George Clooney film EXCEPT 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou' - Who am I supposed to be rooting for anyway???</font>

<font color='#000000'>Waterworld, Little Nicki...</font>

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Guest : <font color='#000000'>Waterworld, Little Nicki...</font>
<font color='#000000'>don't forget Stigmata...</font>

[rpgonzalez]

<font color='#000000'>HEY... WATERWORLD IS A CLASSIC!! &nbsp; No other movie flopped so hard and lost so much money in the history of movie making. &nbsp;Its the very first billion dollar b-flick . I LOVE IT!!</font>

<font color='#000000'>[B]
Try listening to meat Loaf on DVD or Alice Cooper or Prince!
They got shipped to the local pawn shop Quick smart! Not even good enough for a drink coaster!

On the other hand, three favourites are ELO DTS, Mike oldfields Tubular bells DD, and of course #### freezes over bye the Eagles, actually the BEE GEES live in concert sound awsome aswell.

Regards from John.</font>

[Clint DeBoer]

<font color='#000000'>I got one more - Thin Red Line. ALl time worst movie (I had THOUGHT Deer Hunter was the winner prior to seeing this flop.)</font>

[htlearner]

<font color='#000000'>I'll add Major Dundee, the long, very boring version. Even Charlton Heston shared this view in an interview.</font>

[barrythemod]

<font color='#FF0000'>I don`t have any &quot;coasters&quot; on DVD because I still go to the movies.If i enjoy a movie,I make a note to get it on DVD when it`s released. <img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':cool:'> Why spend good money on a DVD when you don`t even know if you like it or not <img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'></font>

[Clint DeBoer]

<font color='#008080'>Well, in my neck of the woods, I can get a new release DVD for the same price as two movie tickets. My wife and I have purposely put ourselves 6 months out of kilter with the movies so that we can buy them and watch them at home (on a better sounding system than most theaters.)

Now, I DO make sure to go out and see blockbuster movies as well, but DVD purchases really do make sense for movies you'd like to keep around. And evey once in a while, you pick up a drink coaster... like the ones mentioned in this thread.</font>

[Clint DeBoer]

<font color='#008080'>Newest coaster - Bulletproof Monk... sheesh... what were they thinking!?!</font>

[tburg]

<font color='#0000FF'>I just received and listened to the first disc in Led Zeppelin's Box set, and was wondering if anyone else had issues with the sound? <img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> After about 5 min. or so I had to switch to 2 channel because of some weird noise coming from the center channel.</font>

[Rob Babcock]

<font color='#000000'>Hmmm... I really loved Brotherhood of the Wolf, although it wasn't really what I was expecting. &nbsp;I guess &quot;good&quot; is in the eye of the beholder.

Likewise I thought The Thin Red Line was excellent. &nbsp;Maybe a tick behind &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot;, although I thought it was a bit more peotic, almost elegant. &nbsp;Of course, it helped not having Tom Hanks!</font>

[Khellandros66]

<font color='#000000'>I SPY, with Eddy Murphy and Owen Wilson.

Eddy Murphy should retire after Nutty Professor.

Owen Wilson should stick to movies like The Royal Tenenbaums

Bob :(~</font>

[petermwilson]

<font color='#000000'>hi rla,
It is interesting that you would choose Brothrthood and Crouching as your worst.

From a visual perspective Brotherhood is a reference disc
I would like to suggest that watching a film in it's original language and using the subtitles, brings the intent of the director much more to the for.

Having said that the film &quot;La Femme Nikita&quot; has the worst subtitle translation of any film I've ever seen/listened to.

I speak french well enough to recognize that this is a total mess.

If however you purchase any HIREZ music your tempted to use as a coaster, I'll send you a self adressed stamped envelope complete with a pristine cdr and would aprreciate if you sent me the offending disc.

Thanks,
Peter m.</font>

[Clint DeBoer]

<font color='#000080'>Black Mask just came on cable the other day.. Worst Jet Li movie EVER. And I love that guy.

I loved Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - just watched it again last week. And one of the most INCREDIBLE dubbing jobs ever accomplished. (note: I'm talking in a technical sense, not in a translation sense). Of course, it helped that Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat did their own dialogue.

I saw the original in Mandarin, but I have no prblem watching the DVD in English 5.1</font>

[petermwilson]

<font color='#000000'>hi Hawke,
Do you own the SUPERBIT or the regular crtgr? Just curious.
I have a tendancy to listen in the original language and use the subtitles at least once.

The film &quot;La Femme Nikita&quot; however was a compete mess.
My wife and I both speak English and French and I can tell you that there was very little accuracy between the spoken
language and what we were reading in the sub's.

It was like a completely different movie.
If you like foriegn films. &quot; The Seven Samuri&quot; Criterion Edition is great.
There was an American movie made based on that original Japanese film called &quot;The Magnificent 7&quot;

Peter m.</font>

[Clint DeBoer]

<font color='#000080'>Having seen the remake of La Femme... I thought the original was bit lacking - perhaps this was because of the bad langauge conversion/dubbing you mention.

I only have one Superbit disc, it's the Fifth Element - one of my favorite all-time movies. People call me crazy, but I rank it up there with Star Wars on my must-have list.</font>

[petermwilson]

<font color='#000000'>Hi Hawke,
Actually, I had always wanted the Superbit version of FE and the excuse came up last week when I gave away the original as a gift.

I feel that The Star Wars discs have a distinctly inferior PQ to any version of Fifth Element and I use an sdi modded rp82 through a video scaler so everything I watch is scaled to 1080i.
The best part about that is a bit like the silk purse/sows ear thing where It bothers me less when I pick up a cheapie movie that had a poor to mediocre transfer and know that I can improve it somewhat with the scaler.

SUPERBIT VERSIONS like Fifth Element, which have long been reference dvd's really are great without any processing help.

Peter m.</font>

[Clint DeBoer]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>petermwilson : <font color='#000000'>I use an sdi modded rp82 through a video scaler so everything I watch is scaled to 1080i.</font>
<font color='#000080'>***drool***

I've got an NEC LCD projector broadcasting my picture from the HTPC onto a 92&quot; glass-beaded screen, but I'd love to see what a line-doubler and a compatible projector would look like...

I'll post new Reference System 3 photos shortly (just got the projector back up and running this weekend).</font>

[Unregistered]

if it features adam sandler and it is not called 'punch drunk love,' it is a coaster.

[Unregistered]

How old are you, 13? I'm sure it'd be easy not to like either of those classic war films if you were too stupid to comprehend its masterpiece. C'mon, grow up a little, it's time you ought to stop watching Rambo and Predator and Terminator.

[Unregistered]

Behind Enemy Lines - better acting exists in low-budget porn

The Bourne Supremacy - It was a shame to see such a cool story ruined with some of the worst camera work in cinematic history. They shook the damn camera around so much I thought I was going to get sick. I guess you're supposed to feel like you're a part of the action. Didn't work.

The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre - ugh.

And this just may be my thing, but pretty much anything with Jean Cleade Van Damme or Steven Seagal automatically qualifies as a coaster.

[Rob Babcock]

I liked The Bourne Supremacy pretty well, but I was also greatly annoyed by the crappy cinematography. Whatever the intended effect was to be it just made me dizzy.

[nadnklipsch]

"I liked The Bourne Supremacy pretty well, but I was also greatly annoyed by the crappy cinematography. Whatever the intended effect was to be it just made me dizzy."

i guess all of you 45 yr. olds on here aren't used to all that excitement. :D

[Wabbit_Swayer]

Bourne Supremacy was pretty much shot using all steadicam. And I thought it was badass :P

[Mudcat]

Dam, I just bought Bourne and now I see all these new posts slamming it. I have not watched it yet, nor have I seen it in the theater. But no matter how bad it actually is, it has to be better then the **** Chamberlain version from a couple of dozen years ago or so. Does anybody remember that sorry piece?

[Rob Babcock]

I wouldn't worry, Mudcat. The Bourne Supremacy was a great flick & a worthy addition to your collection. I bet you'll enjoy it.

[Gatorchong]

I'll have to agree with the Bourne Supremacy complaints. Bad *** movie, but I don't know if they shot the action scenes that way because they wanted to save time and money on the choreography or what. During the fight scene when Bourne visits the other assassins house I couldn't tell what the hell was going on. And some of the car chases were shot just as badly. Other than that, it was a great movie. I'm still going to buy it when it comes out on DVD.