This last Friday, Dec. 19th, 2008 we were treated to a great meeting, in a marvelous theater on a beautiful bay of the Big Island of Hawaii.  Our host and South Seas Cinema Society's Big Island Branch President (and only member there) Roger Meeker introduced us to his new home theater with a curved "10-foot wide (132" diagonal) cinemascope (2.35:1) screen, DreamVision projector with anamorphic lens, and assorted killer electronics and speakers".  Even though we viewed a non-Blu-ray version of THE BOUNTY with 5, yes 5 future and present Academy Award winners on DVD the movie looked spectacular on the super wide screen because of the Blu-ray/DVD player's upscaling.  Thank you, President Meeker, for a memorable evening.  Be prepared because now a few of us members will want to make a pilgrimage to your branch annually.  Be prepared, Roger, with extra blankets and pillows! 

I would ask who are the 5 Academy Award winners in the movie, THE BOUNTY (1984) ORION but you web cheaters would just go to IMBD.com or the southseascinema.org to get the answers, so here they are:  Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis and Liam Neeson.  Wow what a cast not to mention the hordes of beautiful "barely clad" tahines and idyllic island locations.