Mall-day—just strolled around—oohs and aahs in the appliances section—large LCD tv screens with high-definition demos. Something's wrong with movies shown on HD—very very clear but the "movie-like" quality is lost. It's as if i'm watching "The Making" and not the movie itself—movements are fast, fluid and everything but i feel like watching the shooting, not the movie itself . . . the 'believability' (suspension of disbelief [?]) is gone. I can imagine HD would be fantastic on many documentaries . . . but on movies? Falls flat. A movie, like any good work of art, relies on the creative participation of the viewer's mind. Too much definition leaves nothing for the imagination. HD is to movies as politically correct is to language—it kills the flavor of the thing. Charles Bukowski sez: "An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way." HD in movies is t
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