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Oh goddammit, Arrow... Black Sunday Donnie Darko (2 disc edition) The Hills Have Eyes The Story of Yonosuke Tetsuo/Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer Uzumasa Limelight What Have You Done to Solange? The Woodsman and the Rain Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
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That Donnie Darko set is loving fantastic. I know people can be lovely abut DD, but there’s a lot of nostalgia w me and I think it’s a rad movie. Although the directors cut is definitely less good. Arrow did a bang up job though.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 19:21 |
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I only own a few Arrow Films discs. Society, Creepshow 2, and A Fish Called Wanda. I also have Slugs because some guy in a flea market was selling it for three bucks.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 19:42 |
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Mine are: The Addiction The Apartment (Limited Edition) Audition (Steelbook) Big Trouble in Little China Black Society Trilogy Blade of the Immortal (Steelbook) Branded To Kill Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Limited Edition) The 'Burbs Candyman (Limited Edition) Children of Men The Conformist Dark Water The Day of the Jackal Dead or Alive Trilogy Dead-End Drive-In A Fish Called Wanda The Happiness of the Katakuris Hellraiser Trilogy (Special Edition) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version) The Killing The King of New York The Long Good Friday (Steelbook) Network The Night of the Hunter The People Under the Stairs The Phantom of the Paradise (Steelbook) Psycho II Pulse The Quiet Earth Ronin Runaway Train Sleeping Dogs Society The Sorrow and the Pity Thief (Limited Edition) The Thing (Limited Edition) The Third Murder To Live and Die in LA Twelve Monkeys Videodrome Vigil The Villainess Withnail and I The Marx Brothers At Paramount set (Limited Edition)
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 20:09 |
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I actually only own a single Arrow release, but I think it's one of their absolute best, Blood and Black Lace.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 20:15 |
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Vagabundo posted:Mine are: What is it like being a millionaire?
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 20:33 |
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If you only buy stuff like Arrow or Criterion when it's 50% off, it's really not bad and then you do end up with a fairly large collection pretty quickly. I've been more into Criterion, and I don't think I've ever paid full price for one but just by picking 2 or 3 each sale I ended up with like 30-40 Criterions pretty quickly. There are a lot of sales if you include flash sales.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 20:39 |
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Basebf555 posted:If you only buy stuff like Arrow or Criterion when it's 50% off, it's really not bad and then you do end up with a fairly large collection pretty quickly. I've been more into Criterion, and I don't think I've ever paid full price for one but just by picking 2 or 3 each sale I ended up with like 30-40 Criterions pretty quickly. There are a lot of sales if you include flash sales. I do often buy Criterions during those sales and really only buy them during sales, but I have so much poo poo already that I've been limiting myself. Especially since I don't have much room for the poo poo anymore and I really shouldn't be pissing the money away on it in the first place. The last couple Arrow discs I bought were because the store was going out of business and they were marked down.
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CPL593H posted:I do often buy Criterions during those sales and really only buy them during sales, but I have so much poo poo already that I've been limiting myself. Especially since I don't have much room for the poo poo anymore and I really shouldn't be pissing the money away on it in the first place. The last couple Arrow discs I bought were because the store was going out of business and they were marked down. I'm basically at that point now too, which is nice. I have pretty much all of my "must buy" Criterions, so I really only buy them now if it's a recent release I'm interested in(Night of the Living Dead, Stalker, etc.)or maybe one a year just on a whim at a B&N. But for a while there I was buying a few Kurosawas every sale. But I'm not gonna keep buying and buying to build up a bigger Criterion collection just because.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 21:01 |
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Basebf555 posted:I'm basically at that point now too, which is nice. I have pretty much all of my "must buy" Criterions, so I really only buy them now if it's a recent release I'm interested in(Night of the Living Dead, Stalker, etc.)or maybe one a year just on a whim at a B&N. But for a while there I was buying a few Kurosawas every sale. But I'm not gonna keep buying and buying to build up a bigger Criterion collection just because. I also collect records and read comic books (as well as big people books with no pictures) so all my hobbies involve poo poo that just piles.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 21:26 |
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Home video is really my only hobby. It helps that 99% of the time I'm getting stuff from sales. I think I've splurged more recently because I had about a four year stretch where I was lucky to buy maybe 4-5 over an entire year for myself. On top of that, I've wanted to support more boutique labels lately. I've only purchased six releases this year from the studios - half being UHD (Deadpool 1/2, The Dark Crystal, and 2001) plus Disney's Celebrating Mickey, Peter Pan: Signature Edition, and Universal's Complete Classic Monsters set. Meanwhile, I've picked up 20 of Criterion's releases for this year, 11 from Kino Lorber, 4 from Flicker Alley, 3 from Indicator, 2 from Warner Archive, and one each from Olive Films (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Twilight Time (The Birth of a Nation), and BFI (It Happened Here). And that's just stuff released this year, let alone stuff I've picked up from various sales from previous years. By the way, apparently some French website leaked some 2019 4K releases including: Lawrence of Arabia The Godfather The War of the Worlds (probably the Spielberg film, but the '53 Pal film is on iTunes in 4K HDR too) Ben-Hur (1959) Panic Room Heat Scarface (likely the DePalma remake, but the '32 Hawks film recently had a 4K restoration done too)
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 23:00 |
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Well I'm buying at least 4 of those. 2 for the second time. Lawrence of Arabia took forever to get a Blu-ray release, and now I'll probably replace it next year.
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# ? Dec 13, 2018 23:56 |
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I’ll get Lawrence in 4K, but just swapping cases/discs because I’ll never get rid of that amazing deluxe set.
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 00:20 |
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If any of you want to complete your arrow collection and buy my Yakuza Papers boxset I’m selling them for $200
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Egbert Souse posted:Lawrence of Arabia Yea I'm probably gonna end up with every one of these with the exception of Scarface. I bought that for $5 and I don't even really like it that much, don't feel the need to upgrade. Panic Room I don't own at all in any format and it's Fincher so why not.
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Boywhiz88 posted:That Donnie Darko set is loving fantastic. I know people can be lovely abut DD, but there’s a lot of nostalgia w me and I think it’s a rad movie. Although the directors cut is definitely less good. Arrow did a bang up job though. Donnie Darko was one of my first forays into independent film, along with Memento. Maybe it isn't very good, but it will forever hold a special place in my heart, and I also believe that it was still peak Gyllenhall.
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 01:41 |
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I don’t think Panic Room ever got a blu-Ray release, so this is pretty big. I’m just a little upset to see Heat and Godfather on there. I just bought those! Whatever, they were dirt cheap. While I’m here... Kino are releasing Park Chan-wook’s Thirst in 2019 Vinegar Syndromes January titles are Uninvited, There’s Nothing Out There, Splatter University and A Climax of Blue Power. Shout (via the Shout Select line) has Ned Kelly, Someone to Watch Over Me, Born in East LA, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Kalifornia in March. Liar Lyre fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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CPL593H posted:What is it like being a millionaire? I imagine it's like this.
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 02:49 |
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Cloks posted:I imagine it's like this. Tag yourself I’m suicide squad
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 02:52 |
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Lol, I bought the entire DC universe to torture myself over Christmas.
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Nihonniboku posted:Donnie Darko was one of my first forays into independent film, along with Memento. Maybe it isn't very good, but it will forever hold a special place in my heart, and I also believe that it was still peak Gyllenhall. I had a cool older cousin that showed me Clerks when I was way too young to be watching Clerks, also in a similar fashion my dad let me watch Pulp Fiction under the agreement that I was not to tell my mother he let me watch Pulp Fiction. And I have to ask if you've just never seen Nightcrawler or Enemy. Cloks posted:I imagine it's like this. Did this lunatic organize these by the Criterion spine number?
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 04:34 |
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CPL593H posted:Did this lunatic organize these by the Criterion spine number? Do you not?
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 05:28 |
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I Before E posted:Do you not? I'm autistic, but I'm not that autistic.
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 06:07 |
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I used to organize my movies by the mood they put me in, so I can't really judge.
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 06:30 |
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Are there many examples of directors cuts making the film worse? Donnie Darko and the Warriors are the only two that come to mind.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Are there many examples of directors cuts making the film worse? Donnie Darko and the Warriors are the only two that come to mind. The term "director's cut" has been completely ruined by it being used as a marketing gimmick to sell DVDs. Previously it was meant to identify a version of the film that better reflects the director's intention after it had been heavily interfered with by the studio or the ratings board. I don't know about Donnie Darko, but in the case of the Warriors that was not a true director's cut. Though as far as I know Donnie Darko was basically the same thing where the director went back and threw in a bunch of deleted scenes or something because the film was a big hit on video and they more or less wanted to milk the cash cow a little more. If this is the case then it's also not a true director's cut.
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 08:17 |
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CPL593H posted:The term "director's cut" has been completely ruined by it being used as a marketing gimmick to sell DVDs. Previously it was meant to identify a version of the film that better reflects the director's intention after it had been heavily interfered with by the studio or the ratings board. I don't know about Donnie Darko, but in the case of the Warriors that was not a true director's cut. Though as far as I know Donnie Darko was basically the same thing where the director went back and threw in a bunch of deleted scenes or something because the film was a big hit on video and they more or less wanted to milk the cash cow a little more. If this is the case then it's also not a true director's cut. No doubt. But that's kind of what I'm talking about, for lack of a better term.
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CPL593H posted:The term "director's cut" has been completely ruined by it being used as a marketing gimmick to sell DVDs. Previously it was meant to identify a version of the film that better reflects the director's intention after it had been heavily interfered with by the studio or the ratings board. I don't know about Donnie Darko, but in the case of the Warriors that was not a true director's cut. Though as far as I know Donnie Darko was basically the same thing where the director went back and threw in a bunch of deleted scenes or something because the film was a big hit on video and they more or less wanted to milk the cash cow a little more. If this is the case then it's also not a true director's cut. I, uh... I'm fairly sure both are true director's cuts, it's just that they're cases where the director had fairly bad ideas. Donnie Darko's DC is basically re-edited to make the movie more coherent, with the key problem being that it's not actually that interesting in that form; essentially, it was saved by loving it in the first place. The Warriors, meanwhile, has almost no actual different footage, but has those stupid comic book transitions added in, which I gather actually were Walter Hill's idea. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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Lizard Combatant posted:No doubt. But that's kind of what I'm talking about, for lack of a better term. I would say Alien kind of counts. The cocooning scene is interesting but it really hurts momentum the film builds up at that point. It's also called a "director's cut" despite Ridley Scott outright saying that the original theatrical version of the movie is absolutely his intended version of the film and the later cut was just for the hell of it because Fox approached the makers of all of the movies to make "director's cuts" for a then new DVD box set. Incidentally Fincher basically told them to go screw because they hosed with him and Alien 3 so much that he didn't even get to shoot a lot of the stuff which would have made up his true director's cut. But anyway. the "director's cut" of Alien isn't significantly worse for the addition of that deleted scene it just hurts the pacing near the end of the movie (which is why it was originally cut). I've never watched the extended version of Aliens but it's basically another case of "they threw in some deleted scenes and called it a director's cut". I can't think of too many that were out ruined by this sort of thing mostly it just hurts the pacing and makes the movie bloated. The one thing I will say is that there is a third version of Terminator 2 with an alternate ending that is godawful. The second version (called the special edition) of the movie is basically the same thing but with the ending from the theatrical cut and one less scene which shows the T-1000 searching John's bedroom. In both cases it's easy to see why they cut what they cut, especially since the released version is already over two hours long. Some of it's interesting but all of it is unnecessary. This was the original ending to Terminator 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEpjgFZpAt0 Thankfully someone realized it was a good idea to change it before the movie came out. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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Lizard Combatant posted:Are there many examples of directors cuts making the film worse? Donnie Darko and the Warriors are the only two that come to mind. The longer version of Cinema Paradiso was considered to be worse when it came out in the early 2000s. Although that's a weird case where the US distributor cut down the movie and the re-release added them back in addition to more scenes. Apocalypse Now Redux is usually considered worse, as is the version of Close Encounters where you see the inside of the ship. Also, the cut of ET where he's CG and the 2000 cut of the Exorcist. I'm not sure if there's a consensus on it or not, but I think the Donner cut of Superman 2 is a significantly worse movie than the original.
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CPL593H posted:What is it like being a millionaire? Oh, I got these over a prolonged period of time. Some, I was lucky to be able to nab.
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That extended cut of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was a colossal waste of time and the only version widely available for a decade. Ditto with The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen and Apocalypse Now: Redux. The early-mid 2000s were full of this bullshit thanks to the success of DVD. Hell, you still can't get the right cut of Once Upon a Time in the West.
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 08:56 |
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Not that Terminator Salvation was a good movie as is, but the "director's cut" only adds something like 40 seconds, and it's just Moon Bloodgood showing her boobs. The director, who insists on going by a stupid acronym which I refuse to use, had a press conference about it. He got up on stage next to her and excitedly asked "Who here wants to see Moon's tits?"
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CPL593H posted:I would say Alien kind of counts. The cocooning scene is interesting but it really hurts momentum the film builds up at that point. It's also called a "director's cut" despite Ridley Scott outright saying that the original theatrical version of the movie is absolutely his intended version of the film and the later cut was just for the hell of it because Fox approached the makers of all of the movies to make "director's cuts" for a then new DVD box set. Incidentally Fincher basically told them to go screw because they hosed with him and Alien 3 so much that he didn't even get to shoot a lot of the stuff which would have made up his true director's cut. But anyway. the "director's cut" of Alien isn't significantly worse for the addition of that deleted scene it just hurts the pacing near the end of the movie (which is why it was originally cut). I've never watched the extended version of Aliens but it's basically another case of "they threw in some deleted scenes and called it a director's cut". I can't think of too many that were out ruined by this sort of thing mostly it just hurts the pacing and makes the movie bloated. The one thing I will say is that there is a third version of Terminator 2 with an alternate ending that is godawful. The second version (called the special edition) of the movie is basically the same thing but with the ending from the theatrical cut and one less scene which shows the T-1000 searching John's bedroom. In both cases it's easy to see why they cut what they cut, especially since the released version is already over two hours long. Some of it's interesting but all of it is unnecessary. I agree with the pacing issue of Alien but it's just different rather than worse. Aliens is a mixed bag, as with T2 Cameron usually has good instincts but sometimes cuts great scenes and I don't know why. Aliens didn't need the Hadley's hope intro but Ripley's daughter and the sentry gun scenes are great (the later is one of the best in the film), similarly with T2 I have no idea why he cut the chip scene, it's perfect.
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# ? Dec 14, 2018 09:16 |
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The Butterfly Effect isn't a good movie either way but the director's cut changes the ending so that Ashton Kutcher's character time travels back to when he was in the womb and strangles himself with the umbilical cord so he's never born, undoing the events of the movie lmao
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CPL593H posted:I've never watched the extended version of Aliens but it's basically another case of "they threw in some deleted scenes and called it a director's cut". I'm pretty sure that Cameron has stated that the "special edition" (ie. the longer version) was his original cut, but the studio asked him to trim the runtime. I think the added scenes are generally very good, but the movie is not as tightly paced as the theatrical.
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What about the opposite then? What are essential directors cuts? I know 4 that I hear frequently mentioned are Daredevil, Halloween 6, Brazil and Blade Runner.
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I used to watch Alien/Alies/Alien3 alllll the time. I had the Alien Legacy boxset which only had the DC for Aliens. I didn’t see the original cut until 2yrs later when the Quadrilogy dropped. I really think the DC of Aliens is better than the theatrical cut. Also, I own the first 4 Alien movies in three separate collections, and I’ve still only seen Resurrection like... 2/3 times. The last time I tried, I noticed the guards in the opening shot are both chewing gum really obviously and it pulled me out. Oh and Touch of Evil’s directors cut is the definitive version.
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Liar Lyre posted:What about the opposite then? What are essential directors cuts? I know 4 that I hear frequently mentioned are Daredevil, Halloween 6, Brazil and Blade Runner. Kingdom of Heaven
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Liar Lyre posted:What about the opposite then? What are essential directors cuts? I know 4 that I hear frequently mentioned are Daredevil, Halloween 6, Brazil and Blade Runner. It's not actually a director's cut as mentioned, but Alien 3 is greatly improved (I like it, fight me), Aliens, T2 (the first one), Once upon a time in America, Kingdom of Heaven (apparently, haven't seen it), Apocalypse Now (another mixed bag), there's more but I'm not remembering them e: the LOTR films too, again not called directors cuts but they have a lot of great character scenes that should have been included at the expense of some of the action. Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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