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- RyanGWU82 19y agoGreat post.
- ghiotion 19y ago> I personally own one DVD, because there’s only one movie that I sometimes suddenly feel like re-watching without having to drive to Blockbuster or wait a few days to get from Netflix. I'm almost paralyzed by my desire to know what that one movie is. Totally irrational, but I MUST know. I've discovered my purpose in life. I suppose there's a little Asperger's in all of us.
- rms 19y agoEither intuition or a memory of a previous Matt Maroon article makes me pretty confident that it is the Big Lebowski.
- ghiotion 19y agoLebowski seems like a pretty safe bet: http://mattmaroon.com/?p=52 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=52 I guess if you only own one movie, that's a pretty good one.
- hobbs 19y agoI've never been able to relate to Lebowski for some reason. Loved many of the other Coen bros films, though. Using Matt's criteria for movie greatness, I can name several other movies off the top of my head that are much more quotable than Lebowski: Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers, Airplaine, Holy Grail, Fish Called Wanda, Napoleon Dynamite, Pulp Fiction. ...I must be significantly older than Matt, I guess.
- mattmaroon 19y agoI've seen all of those. Maybe we just have much different conversations, because I never find anything from Ghostbusters to be apropos. Pulp Fiction and Napoleon Dynamite are pretty high up my list for sure. Pulp Fiction might actually be number 2.
- hobbs 19y agoGhostbusters has many good quotes (e.g., no dick), but here's a few that I've actually used in conversation: "Don't cross the streams" "It would be bad" "Yes, have some." "I don't have any Tylenol, but I do have some acetylsalicylic acid." "Listen... do you smell something?" "Where do the stairs go?" "They go up" The last one usually isn't quoted directly. Rather some variation, such as "I wonder what's behind that door." "A room."
- ghiotion 19y ago"Dogs and cat's living together... mass hysteria!"
- mattmaroon 19y agoHa. That is a good one.
- mattmaroon 19y agoIt seems a little too generous to attribute "It would be bad." to Ghostbusters. Or the last one, which is basically Vaudeville. You might as well say you're quoting Earth Girls Are Easy every time you say the word "the", because it's in that movie at least once.
- hobbs 19y agoVaudeville: True enough. In fact, I can only use that around close friends who are already familiar with the original quote. If I said something like that to anyone else, they'd think I'm being an ass. It would be bad: You have to use it in the proper context as a gross understatement. As in every atom in your body exploding at the speed of light would be bad. True, the same line has been used as an understatement in other movies, but the Ghostbusters instance sticks out for some reason.
- mattmaroon 19y agoYep.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoGood post. I have always been of the same opinion: high-def DVDs are doomed to the same fate as the high-end audio formats. I assure you that HDCD and DVD-Audio discs sound really great on a high-end stereo system, but they don't sound great enough for the mass market to actually give a damn. I can’t even guess what mass movie downloading would do to the internet’s overall structure, but I’m sure it will adapt. It is just not that big a problem. There are only so many movies in the world -- the good ones take time and money to make -- and 1TB hard drives are now cheap. Let's see... Netflix claims to have 90k titles. An HD-encoded movie seems to average 20-25GB. Let's call it 25GB. By my calculations, that means I need something like 2200 TB to hold the entire Netflix library in HD form. That's like $200k worth of drives, and shrinking fast... and that's for one copy of every film in Netflix. I don't think the idea of putting one such server in every city, or even every few city blocks, is particularly radical at this point, and it will seem even less radical in six years when the cost is down to $13k (with, one hopes, concurrent shrinkage in energy usage and support costs). We'd have done this already if it weren't for the licensing issues. The BitTorrent hobbyists have been pretty darned successful already, considering that using BitTorrent to swap commercial movies is not only kind of complicated (relative to, say, TiVO) but also illegal.
- mattmaroon 19y agoI do love some DVD-Audio, but the selection is so limited. Makes me wish I was a bigger Bjork fan. The Gorillaz concert DVD is great. I realize it's not the same, but listening to Ibrahim Ferrer sing Latin Simone in 5.1 is pretty awesome.
- jan_g 19y agoI would not say, that PS3 was a flop. Sale numbers are in the millions. And, since we are talking about high-def video, as high-def player PS3 whoops ass (in sales) compared to any other high-def player. I also do not agree completely about irrelevance of high-def format. If it's not that important, then why were Toshiba and Microsoft pushing with their own format ?