Still Sore Over My Near Academy Victory

But—but—there is a huge advantage to watching film on the big screen! The brains just never splatter quite so convincingly on the home entertainment system.

I get what Eszter's saying. I asked the same thing way back when about commercials for DVD technology . . . being played on VHS casettes. All those amazing visuals! and sounds! that you couldn't possibly live without! were intended to make you run-not-walk to the store to buy a DVD player, despite their being amazing on the video-casette player you already own. One thing I did notice in the hour or so I caught of last night's blowjob to the movie theater: the clips from Star Wars were certainly, obviously pulled from the original version and not the THX Remastered or Special Edition collections. I caught one quick scene from Return of the Jedi, but I can say that with absolute confidence. So there may be something to Eszter's sotto voce suggestion that these beloved but grainy clips were subtle signals, intended to make you recall that, yeah, those did look good in the theater. . . .