Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Five Frames

Images Posted / Taken With A Sony Mavica CD on 04/24/2016.

These images and many many more can be found on my Flickr account.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

SHUTTER SATURDAY

Images taken with film cameras. All of these images were shot by me using one of several cameras that I own. The film is developed by myself (unless otherwise noted) and the negatives scanned into a computer. Many of the images or updated / reprocessed in Photoshop. The complete gallery of all my public images is viewable on my Flickr Account. Read the picture details / comments on Flickr to learn more about the particular image.

Five Frames

Images Posted / Taken With Various Digital Cameras on 04/13/2016.

These images and many many more can be found on my Flickr account.

Cinema Cycle - Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte

CINEMA CYCLE

(Cardio Workout And Reviewing Movies At The Same Time)

DATE REVIEWED: 04/12/2016

TITLE: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

FORMAT: Streaming (Google Play)

TIME RIDDEN / FILM LENGTH: 2 hours 13 minutes

DISTANCE RIDDEN WHILE VIEWING: 28.1 miles

TOTAL CINEMA MILES LOGGED: 4649.5 miles

SYNOPSIS: A murder triangle haunts the lives of a southern belle spinster and her niece.

CONCEPT IN RELATION TO THE VIEWER: Really good film making. Very entertaining and intriguing, so much so that the viewer really has no idea what is going on until the last 20 minutes of the film.

PROS AND CONS: This is one of those sleeper films in my collection that was much better than I expected. Back in the day, Hollywood made films that relied on technical skill and acting in front of a camera, not created on a computer graphics system.

This film is a tour-de-force for Bette Davis, who does her best over-the-top crazy and yet is still rock solid believable in her role. The supporting cast, including Olivia Dehavilland and Joseph Cotten are also stellar.

If the film didn’t stand on it’s own merit, the back story behind the film and it’s production are almost as entertaining.

To read an overview of this project, check out this status posting.

This film is a part of my LaserDisc Collection.

Clicking on the title will take you to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry for this film.

This film was viewed while exercising on my recumbent cycle. A summary of my time spent working out on my journey through movie-land can be found on Strava.com.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Five Frames - 04/11/2016

Five Frames

Images Posted Using A Lytro Graphite / Droid Maxx on 04/11/2016.

These images and many many more can be found on my Flickr account.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Cinema Cycle - Space Ghost and Dino Boy

CINEMA CYCLE

(Cardio Workout And Reviewing Movies At The Same Time)

DATE REVIEWED: 04/11/2016

TITLE: Space Ghost and Dino-Boy

FORMAT: Laserdisc

TIME RIDDEN / FILM LENGTH: 1 hour 41 minutes

DISTANCE RIDDEN WHILE VIEWING: 21.7 miles

TOTAL CINEMA MILES LOGGED: 4621.4 miles

SYNOPSIS: An interstellar Loan Ranger, patrols the galaxy doing good, with the help of twin brother and sister and their pet monkey. (I can’t make this up)

CONCEPT IN RELATION TO THE VIEWER: Strange creatures bad, good space people kill bad creatures.

PROS AND CONS: I watched this as a kid and thought it was really cool. I watched it 40 years later as an adult and I am somewhat horrified and embarrassed.

I had to remind myself, that this was Saturday morning television fair, 30 minutes with three 7 minute stories. So you have to pretty much sum up an entire independent story between the commercials.

Those seven minutes usually left enough time to find danger, confront danger, and defeat danger. There wasn’t ever negotiations or empathy for the defeated. They got what they deserved. Chilling and empirical when viewed with today's mindset.

To read an overview of this project, check out this status posting.

This film is a part of my LaserDisc Collection.

Clicking on the title will take you to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry for this film.

This film was viewed while exercising on my recumbent cycle. A summary of my time spent working out on my journey through movie-land can be found on Strava.com.