{"id":2,"date":"2008-04-19T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T16:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-02-12T18:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:20:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Suggestion Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although we are stubbornly committed to forcing our choices upon you, it’s not an easy job. Please feel free to make suggestions about movies (and MovieNight, for that matter). Your input may be pooh-poohed straight away, only to find that, a few months later, your suggestion is taken up, and absolutely no credit is given to you!<\/p>\n

Seriously, though… it’s good to have feedback and we welcome your suggestions. Please consider the following attributes we look for in a MovieNight pick:<\/p>\n

Off the beaten track<\/strong>
\nWe don’t want to show something that everyone has seen, even if it is great (except for films like “Casablanca” and “North by Northwest”, which we could watch over and over). Many times we find foreign films that slip through the major studios’ hands, and are available on import before their theatrical release dates here! Keep your eyes out for those.<\/p>\n

Humor<\/strong>
\nAlthough comedies are the best, we don’t really like silly<\/em> and we can’t cope with stupid<\/em>. Even the most chilling thriller can (and should) have a few well-placed laughs.<\/p>\n

MovieNightness<\/strong>
\nRemember that you’ll be watching a film in the unique atmosphere of MovieNight… it’s not like sitting in a cinema packed with people you don’t know, and having to keep absolutely quiet (although there are<\/em> rules, as you know…)<\/p>\n

Length<\/strong>
\nAbout 100 minutes is ideal… of course we make exceptions sometimes when a longer film is just too good to be ignored. Your email invitation to such a film will generally implore you not to be late!<\/p>\n

Quality<\/strong>
\nWith the improvements we have been making over recent months (Blu-ray, HD-DVD, up-sampling DVD players, new projector, Dolby 7.1 sound system, new, gray screen), we have been enjoying very-near-cinema quality (although, we still have to close one curtain to shut out that ridiculously bright streetlight in front of Trader Joe’s!). Unless the content is really really really outstanding, we don’t like to screen poor quality work, or crappily mastered DVD’s. “Hands on a Hard Body” is an example of a great one that we deliberated over for a long time before we showed… the quality is terrible but, hey, it was a great MovieNight!<\/p>\n

Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although we are stubbornly committed to forcing our choices upon you, it’s not an easy job. Please feel free to make suggestions about movies (and MovieNight, for that matter). Your input may be pooh-poohed straight away, only to find that, a few months later, your suggestion is taken up, and absolutely no credit is given … Continue reading Suggestion Box<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}