Mrs. Rhymer and I watched Superman Returns the other night–at her behest, because though I’m in reality a fanboy, my official position is that the movie sucks. Anywhistle, while we were watching the best part–the airplace rescue–I noticed something I’d missed in theaters. After Our Favorite Kryptonian saves the space shuttle and accidentally rips the the starboard wing off the place, the plane is plummeting to Earth, nose first. At this point, only one person on the plane knows that Superman is en route to save them–the woman who glimpses him on the aforementioned wing–so, naturally, the passengers all think they’re doomed. There’s a brief shot of Peta Wilson, hands clapsed and eyes closed, praying for a miracle*–and then the picture cuts to Superman, on his way to provide one.
I saw the film several times in theatres, but never noticed that till last night; it’s too quick.
Anybody else have a similar blink-and-you’ll-miss-it movie moment you only notice on DD?
I liked the little check-each-other-out looks exchanged by Luke Wilson and the Asian lady sitting next to him during the Sex Addicts meeting scene in Blades of Glory.
No specifics come to mind, but having the ability to freeze-frame, slo-mo, rewind and replay, not to mention the extras on most decent movies where techniques, camera tricks, editing and other such insider stuff is discussed, have all added to the desire to follow up on continuity errors and other things that probably pass unnoticed in the theater.
Having the closed captions on helps to catch garbled dialog, and in some cases it even gives you dialog (or sound effects) that are missing from the soundtrack.
Fight Club’s subliminals are features we checked several times on the DVD.
But now that we have DVR, we use the same features to dissect things on TV as well.
So it’s the gizmos and not just DVD that have enhanced our experiences.
Lt. Columbo’s first name is shown as “Frank” in an id that was a one-off prop. I think that scene might have been a syndication cut, so it had basically been lost for 30 years.
There’s a scene in “The Last Samurai” right before the final battle, where Tom Cruise is riding up on a horse, wearing his samurai armor, and all of the other samurai soldiers are lined up. It’s kind of a far away shot, and he rides right up to the front of all the soldiers, and one of the soldiers reaches up to grab his horses reigns.
Right then, the horse kicks out with one its hind legs and cathes one of the soldiers in what appears to be his junkal region. The soldier kind of wobbles, and one of the guys next to him holds him up for support.