Re: Seamaster and Iago's endless rehashing Bond thread

**Seamaster** Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:47 am

Are you selling, gifting, or donating your old bond Blu-rays?

**Iago** Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:55 pm

I will probably sell them. You get very little for used discs these days, but every little bit counts. While I hate getting rid of anything before I get the new stuff (given the delay with the rest of the Bond Blus, part of me wishes that I had hung on to the DVDs) it probably will be smarter to sell them BEFORE the new set comes out.

**Seamaster** Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:18 pm

Too bad there wasn't some sort of a trade-up program, but then why would a company consider doing that when most will just purchase the new box set.

**Iago** Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:21 pm

The reason that they pull crap like this at all is that they know that they can get away with it.

By the way, I must note with some pride that I have stuck to my guns about not giving George Lucas any more of my money.

**Seamaster** Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:10 am

Well done! What if Indiana comes to Blu?

**Iago** Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:32 pm

It is coming this fall, and I will buy that. As far as I know, other than that infamous new digital effect in Raiders, everything is otherwise untouched. Lucas does have to keep Spielberg happy. The only downside is that you have to get the last one with the box. But there have not been a lot of details about it yet.

**Seamaster** Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:07 pm

So you'll get your favourite movie of the series. What's not to like?

**Iago** Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:12 pm

I have not seen the fourth one since I saw it in the theatre, and when I buy the boxed set I doubt that I will watch that disc!

**PhotoOtaku** Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:54 pm

Hey my cousin supervised the digital effects in that one, ... you don't like all the digital effects?

**Iago** Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:54 am

So your cousin is the one that we get to blame? Good to know!

Actually, other than the lousy story, terrible actions scenes, fake looking digital effects, and tired acting, it was probably a pretty good movie.

**PhotoOtaku** Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:12 am

Don't know never saw it.

Ha ha, it was middle of the road at best.

**Seamaster** Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:58 am

The score wasn't too bad . . .

**Iago** Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:38 pm

Even that was tired.

**Seamaster** Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:12 pm

I didn't say it was good.

**Iago** Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:13 pm

There is a pretty small amount of territory between not too bad and good.

**Seamaster** Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:22 am

There is the whole realm of mediocre . . .

**Iago** Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:27 pm

Which could be considered a synonym of "not too good," so that expands the realm a bit.

**Seamaster** Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:19 pm

Where would better than nothing fit in?

**Iago** Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:20 pm

Somewhere.

**Seamaster** Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:26 pm

That's better than nowhere.

**Iago** Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:51 pm

Man . . .

**Seamaster** Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:21 am

. . .

**Iago** Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:28 am

Got my tickets for the first showing of The Dark Knight Rises on the Monday after it opens, at the one true Imax theatre in the Twin Cities. I figure that way I will avoid the biggest crowds and most rabid fanboys, though I will still have to deal with kids out of school. But hopefully I will not have to get in liine as early as I would trying to see it Friday or over the weekend, regardless of the showtime.

**Seamaster** Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:39 am

And that's why I wait a week or two after opening, or attend the midnight showing.

**Iago** Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:18 pm

The midnight show is going to be a zoo. (Inside joke, if you know where the Imax theatre is located in the Twin Cities.) I do not want to wait a full week as I am too worried about hearing spoilers, especially from my friends who will have already been to the midnight show. I figure that I can make it three days.

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