Movie Night: THE ENFORCER, Saturday, February 7, 2009

[KC]

This is the Movie Night discussion thread for The Enforcer. We'll meet here up to an hour before we start rolling the film. For anyone who'd like to join us ... have your Enforcer DVD (or video) ready to play on Saturday, February 7th (or in Australia, early Sunday morning, the 8th) We'll start the film at 22:00 UTC, Board Time. Check here to see what time we'll be starting in your area:

      In CST (U.S. Central Time Zone) states - 4:00 PM
      In EST (U.S. East Coast) states - 5:00 PM
      In Great Britain, Portugal - 10:00 PM
      In France, Italy - 11:00 PM
      In Finland - Midnight
      In Sydney and Melbourne, Australia - 9:00 AM, Sunday, February 8

(If anyone badly needs to start an hour earlier, there is still time to make the change—just let me know.)

If you need more time conversions, check here:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

We'll be starting the movie at the first frame, showing the Warner Bros. logo.



On the R-1 DVD (from the boxed set, "The Dirty Harry Series" in "The Clint Eastwood Collection"), this is at 00.00.06 on the counter. Set up your movie here, and pause. We'll all be hitting "Start" at exactly the top of the hour.

We'll be taking three short breaks (about ten minutes each) during the film. The first comes in the middle of Chapter 8, the munitions warehouse robbery scene. DiGiorgio and his partner are about to stumble on the robbery. The partner says, "Charlie left the gate open," and DiGiorgio says, "Better check it."



On the R-1 DVD, this is at 00.24.01.

The second pause will be just after the beginning of Chapter 16. Callahan and Moore drive up to a dilapidated building in a sinister part of town. Moore: "OK, I give up, what's this?" Callahan: "It's the Fillmore chapter of the VFW—Very Few Whites."



On the R-1 DVD, this is at 00.48.41.

The third and final pause will be just after a great Harry quote. It's at the end of Chapter 21, after a face-to-face confrontation between Harry and McKay. Harry: "Your mouthwash ain't making it."



On the R-1 DVD, this is at 01.13.21.

I hope to see as many members here as possible Saturday! (Or, for the Aussies, Sunday morning!)

(I'm starting this thread early so I could add the event to the calendar--all events must have a thread to link to.)

[KC]

Only four hours to go! 

Just a couple of reminders:

1) By default, this board gives you a warning message when someone else has posted while you're writing a post. That can get very frustrating in the heat of things in these threads ... but now the feature can be turned off, temporarily (or permanently if you prefer).

To turn it off, click the link on the brown bar near the top of the page to your profile:

You'll go to your profile page. On the left-hand side, there's a list of stuff you can do here including "Modify profile." Under that heading, click the link to "Look and Layout Preferences." Now you'll see some choices with little white checkboxes next to them. One of them is "Don't warn on new replies made while posting." Click in that box so there's a check mark there. Then, in the lower right hand corner, click "Change profile" and you're all set.

I find it also helps to use the keyboard shortcut when posting: alt+s. (Or in the latest version of Firefox, alt+shift+s.)

2) You can also use the "Quick Reply" feature: At the bottom of each thread is a brown bar with "Quick Reply" on the left hand corner. If you don't have it enabled, that's all you'll see and there will be a plus sign to the left of "Quick Reply." Click the plus sign, and a reply box will open beneath the brown bar and will stay there until you click the sign (now a minus) next to "Quick Reply" again. You can type your post right in this box and don't have to wait for a "Reply" page to open. It's a little harder to use smilies, though, unless you remember all the shortcuts!

3) Finally, remember Board Time is a little fast ... by my watch, it's nearly three minutes fast. But it's what we're going by here.

[Lin Sunderland]

Well I am here first for a change!      I just bought a new keyboard today and it is so much better than the old one.   I seem to be able to type faster on it.          It is smaller than the last one and the keys are closer together plus it is QUIET.  No click click when I type.     I am sure you all wanted to know that.   

[-satu-]

I could almost hear "the click" when you had your old keyboard. 

[The Schofield Kid]

Hey Lin & -satu-

Great that -satu- found the film this time. 

[KC]

Less than ten minutes to go! Ready ... set ...

[The Schofield Kid]

Just two minutes to showtime.

Don't tell me AB has forgotten again?

[Americanbeauty]

^Nope. I remembered! 

[-satu-]

Nice to see you here, AB =)

[The Schofield Kid]

^Nope. I remembered! 

[KC]

Go!

[The Schofield Kid]

rolling!!

[KC]

Nice scenery!

[-satu-]

trouble with sound.. sometimes i hate computers..

[Americanbeauty]

Friscooooooooooooooooooo 

[The Schofield Kid]

Nice scenery!

James Fargo mentions that in the collectors edition commentary.

[KC]

Ooh, super duper close up of eyes a la Leone!

Eh eh, shouldn't smoke!

[KC]

I like the killer's affectlessness. Reminds me of a line from a film noir, "How do you feel when you kill people?" "I feel fine!"

[KC]

This is a nice jazzy score by Fielding. He did a good job of filling in for Lalo.

[-satu-]

I wonder if I've even seen this before