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Post by rick220 on Feb 23, 2017 16:17:44 GMT
At a movie theater? Alone? At home, (big?) TV, or computer screen? I prefer movie theaters, but where I live the offerings of (American) classic movies are pretty limited. So, I made my own little cinema. Projector and a 10ft x 7ft screen, perfect for watching classic Academy Ratio 133:1 features. While I do watch films with my wife, kids and/or others, I mostly prefer to watch movies alone. With others, I am always a bit worried whether they are having a good time. Also, I like watching them as a matinee most of the time, or early in the evening. But as an early riser, I can easily start off my Sunday at 6.30 AM with a John Ford feature
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Post by MooseNugget on Feb 23, 2017 16:19:20 GMT
Normally on TCM. Sometimes I just buy random things on Amazon.
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Post by marshamae on Feb 23, 2017 16:21:15 GMT
I had a long lovely apprenticeship watching classic films on the big screens of Paris.
Nowadays, it's at home on TCM, FXM RETRO , VHS, DVD AND ITUNES. There are 2-3 people I will watch films with but usually I'm alone.
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Post by Moviefan on Feb 23, 2017 16:34:38 GMT
At a movie theater? Alone? At home, (big?) TV, or computer screen? I prefer movie theaters, but where I live the offerings of (American) classic movies are pretty limited. So, I made my own little cinema. Projector and a 10ft x 7ft screen, perfect for watching classic Academy Ratio 133:1 features. While I do watch films with my wife, kids and/or others, I mostly prefer to watch movies alone. With others, I am always a bit worried whether they are having a good time. Also, I like watching them as a matinee most of the time, or early in the evening. But as an early riser, I can easily start off my Sunday at 6.30 AM with a John Ford feature I usually watch classics alone at home, either on blu ray, dvd, web sites like Fandor, Mubu, and Netflix, or tv channels like Hollywood Suite and The Movie Network Encore.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 23, 2017 16:36:29 GMT
Alone, in my bedroom, on my TV set, via DVDs and Blu-Rays. I occasionally download public domain films and TV shows from the Internet Archive (lately I've been addicted to the 1950s talk show "Longines Chronoscope"). There are no cinemas near me that show classic films (and I am pretty much stuck at home anyway), the Australian cable channels truly suck (including the local version of TCM back when I still had cable), Australian network TV was already down the gutter by the time I was born in 1990 (my parents say it had a lot of great old films during the 1970s....old TV Week magazines seem to confirm this), and the streaming services here are truly craptastic. So, DVDs and Blu-Rays (and some PD downloads) for me.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Feb 23, 2017 16:40:10 GMT
Either from TCM or other stations that provide them, or I stream them, and usually on the big-ass TV. It's a waste of a good sound system because a lot of the older movies didn't have the technology, but I like watching them on the biggest screen I can. I always watch them in their original ratio.
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Post by Daisy on Feb 23, 2017 18:57:44 GMT
I would love to be able to see classics in a theatre but no where near me shows these. I usually watch alone and consider it a treat when I can convince someone to watch one with me. I don't mind watching alone, but its nice to share sometimes too Its usually on my computer or bedroom television.
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Post by phoebecole on Feb 23, 2017 22:19:57 GMT
My options are limited since I don't own a dvd/blu ray player and don't have TCM or Movies TV network and don't have Netflix. I watch on YouTube, viki and sometimes FXM retro, Retroplex. I watch myself.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 22:35:07 GMT
Well most of the time, I'm watching them alone. I would say 85% of what I watch tends to be classic TV and movies, usually on TCM or Netflix. I'm not particularly fond of new/current movies (with of course some exceptions, like John Wick, Taboo, AHS, Black Sails). I also prefer the original ratio. For some reason, my eyes do not like "wide screen" as everything looks stretched out and distorted, and I have to keep whipping my eyes or head back and forth to see everything.
To be honest, I even like the little grainy film quality sometimes,...same way I like vinyl over digital music.
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Post by rctina on Feb 23, 2017 22:42:57 GMT
Mainly I watch on TCM or one of the other retro movie channels. I also watch on Youtube and Internet Archive. I also check on Amazon Prime to see if anything is available.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 23, 2017 22:45:14 GMT
Well most of the time, I'm watching them alone. I would say 85% of what I watch tends to be classic TV and movies, usually on TCM or Netflix. I'm not particularly fond of new/current movies (with of course some exceptions, like John Wick, Taboo, AHS, Black Sails). I also prefer the original ratio. For some reason, my eyes do not like "wide screen" as everything looks stretched out and distorted, and I have to keep whipping my eyes or head back and forth to see everything. To be honest, I even like the little grainy film quality sometimes,...same way I like vinyl over digital music. Glad to know I'm not the only one who prefers the old aspect ratio. Maybe it is because I grew up on late 20th century TV, VHS tapes, and old B&W movies that I watched with my parents, but the old aspect ratio just seems more natural to me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 23:01:10 GMT
Yep! There's a nostalgic quality for me, and I remember when our TV's were square and not so rectangular/wide. I don't think my eyes or brain ever adapted to this trend of big TV's and wide TV's and wide ratio TV screens, etc., etc. It physically hurts my eyes, and I miss more of the action when I have to keep looking around trying to see what I'm missing on the other side of the screen. Everyone and everything looks distorted to me.
As we speak, I'm watching a Britcom from 1990's in a beautiful square ratio and it's so very easy on the eyes. Even with the black bars on the SIDES of the wide screen to accommodate the ratio is just peachy. But when it's full-screen and wide, I find myself not paying as much attention and not enjoying what I'm viewing nearly as much.
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 23, 2017 23:47:16 GMT
95% DVD or Blu-ray 4.9% television .1% youtube/internet
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 23, 2017 23:54:33 GMT
Yep! There's a nostalgic quality for me, and I remember when our TV's were square and not so rectangular/wide. I don't think my eyes or brain ever adapted to this trend of big TV's and wide TV's and wide ratio TV screens, etc., etc. It physically hurts my eyes, and I miss more of the action when I have to keep looking around trying to see what I'm missing on the other side of the screen. Everyone and everything looks distorted to me. Having been born in the same year as CinemaScope, I've grown up with every conceivable size and shape and can't really express a preference. I very much appreciate having a TV screen that can more readily accommodate features shot in wider than 1.33 ARs, but it's always of interest to me to note the preferences of others. As long as what I'm seeing is as close as possible to what was originally intended, I'm happy. I do wish, though, that those who record video on their smart phones would do so horizontally rather than vertically. The proliferation of videos on YouTube, Twitter, the news and elsewhere of video that looks as though shot through a doorway is both a mystery and a pet peeve, and relates to no field of vision found in nature. I only hope it doesn't foretell of some future trend among professional film makers. "Vertiscope?" "SlotVision?" "Tall-A-Rama?" Yikes.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 24, 2017 0:02:47 GMT
Yep! There's a nostalgic quality for me, and I remember when our TV's were square and not so rectangular/wide. I don't think my eyes or brain ever adapted to this trend of big TV's and wide TV's and wide ratio TV screens, etc., etc. It physically hurts my eyes, and I miss more of the action when I have to keep looking around trying to see what I'm missing on the other side of the screen. Everyone and everything looks distorted to me. Having been born in the same year as CinemaScope, I've grown up with every conceivable size and shape and can't really express a preference. I very much appreciate having a TV screen that can more readily accommodate features shot in wider than 1.33 ARs, but it's always of interest to me to note the preferences of others. As long as what I'm seeing is as close as possible to what was originally intended, I'm happy. I do wish, though, that those who record video on their smart phones would do so horizontally rather than vertically. The proliferation of videos on YouTube, Twitter, the news and elsewhere of video that looks as though shot through a doorway is both a mystery and a pet peeve, and relates to no field of vision found in nature. I only hope it doesn't foretell of some future trend among professional film makers. "Vertiscope?" "SlotVision?" "Tall-A-Rama?" Yikes. I keep coming across potentially interesting YouTube videos ruined by vertical aspect ratio. I hate the vertical aspect ratio almost as much as I hate post-modern architecture.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 24, 2017 0:38:16 GMT
I do wish, though, that those who record video on their smart phones would do so horizontally rather than vertically. The proliferation of videos on YouTube, Twitter, the news and elsewhere of video that looks as though shot through a doorway is both a mystery and a pet peeve, and relates to no field of vision found in nature. I only hope it doesn't foretell of some future trend among professional film makers. "Vertiscope?" "SlotVision?" "Tall-A-Rama?" Yikes. I keep coming across potentially interesting YouTube videos ruined by vertical aspect ratio. I hate the vertical aspect ratio almost as much as I hate post-modern architecture. Ah, yes, for those who like their architecture with MPD. You've found a sympathetic ear here.
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Post by LaurenceBranagh on Feb 24, 2017 0:40:31 GMT
However I can. When I'm at home on weekends, I use the public library to find classics and then watch on the biggest screen at home. When I'm at school, I have to use YouTube on my laptop to watch more obscure classic films.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 0:52:24 GMT
Mostly on TCM while I am trading and communicating on the web.
If I read(hear) suggestions of films I have not yet seen, I will check with my library first to see if they have it. And if not, I check VIVO or YouTube, and other streaming sites. If that fails I check eBay for a DVD in Very Good+ condition.
I don’t go to theaters anymore because the experience of doing so has vastly diminished since I was a young lad seeing all the first run films on the "big" screen from the balcony. Inconsiderate patrons talking out loud, constantly checking in on their devices, and a small screen. And to watch what? Everyone in a movie nowadays thinks they are stars! And most of the movies are glorified video games... in summary - no class.
Besides, nowadays who knows what has transpired on the very seat in which you have placed you kiester.
Better off watching in the comfort of you own home!
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Post by gunshotwound on Feb 24, 2017 0:59:59 GMT
At home. Mostly I see them on TCM but I also watch my VHS tapes. I do not like watching movies on the computer.
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Post by louise on Feb 24, 2017 16:32:32 GMT
Mostly at home on the telly. i have all my favourites on dvd. occasionally I go to the classic movie shows at a cinema in a town not too far away. they're at 11.30 am on thursdays, and the price of admission includes a cup of coffee. usually there's about thirty people there ( about a third capacity of the cinema), not bad for a weekday morning. next T hursday they are showing Birth of a Nation, I am not sure if. I want to see that or not.
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