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When I explain to someone why I want to own blu rays, the first thing I usually say is that I enjoy rewatching my favorite movies on a yearly basis. Once they understand that they kinda get why I'd want to have those movies around without having to depend on a streaming service. But yea for most people movies are the plot, and once they've seen the plot that's it, there's no reason to ever go back to it again.
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I mean, I'm a movie rewatcher at heart, but these days I don't really have the time to both rewatch all my old favorites and enjoy new movies. But still I'll buy interesting blu rays more as a collector who just loves the fact that Tammy & the T-Rex got an unedited gore cut in 4K. I mean I also buy records more for the novelty of owning them than actually listening to them, even if they're albums I'm into (or just think are funny). I recently rewatched Cabin Boy on blu ray, and I was surprised to find that it didn't hold up despite the fact that in the intervening years I discovered Get a Life and loved it. It's basically Get a Life: The Movie but I just could not get into it. That movie has some serious pacing issues and like 90% of the jokes don't land. Maybe it was just me and my mood at the time, I dunno.
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Cabin Boy is flawless. 
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caligulamprey posted:Cabin Boy is flawless. 
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For me it's more about mood than the amount of free time I have. Sometimes I really want to engage with something completely fresh and new, but just as many times I'll get home from work and feel more like sliding into a comfortable old favorite.
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Then maybe it was just my mood  I was delighted by Russ Tamblyn as Chockie, made all the better by having seen Twin Peaks. And I never knew until recently that Ricki Lake was the figurehead. Like, that's dedication to have stunt casting like that for what amounts to a throwaway gag.
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Basebf555 posted:For me it's more about mood than the amount of free time I have. Sometimes I really want to engage with something completely fresh and new, but just as many times I'll get home from work and feel more like sliding into a comfortable old favorite. It's even worse with kids.
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Basebf555 posted:For me it's more about mood than the amount of free time I have. Sometimes I really want to engage with something completely fresh and new, but just as many times I'll get home from work and feel more like sliding into a comfortable old favorite.  I also have a roommate to factor into the mix, so my time to watch "my movies" gets relegated to weekend mornings/afternoons or the occasional evening when she's not around. It's not that I can't watch movies when she's around, it's just trickier since I know she's not going to be interested in watching 2001 or Critters 2.
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I currently live with some rather noisy roomies that make watching anything slow paced or atmospheric a complete nightmare.
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CPL593H posted:But then how will he make half a dozen Avatar sequels that nobody wants? Makes me wonder what Carpenter Alien movie would be like....  Iron Crowned posted:As a side note, does anyone else here ever encounter people who seem shocked that you'd watch a movie more than once? Whenever we have guests at the apartment and they go down the hallway towards the master bedroom and on the corner before the door there's a shelf full of like 500 UHD/Blu-Rays/DVD's/VHS... its all mine and they ask if i really need all that. yes i do you schmuck, how dare you Iron Crowned posted:
the big baby. dont tell her i said that.
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I'm blessed in that I have a group of friends who as a yearly tradition crowd into a single room and watch Freaked. That's going down tomorrow and I'm super excited. Gonna have to bring along a copy of Cabin Boy, too.
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dorium posted:Makes me wonder what Carpenter Alien movie would be like.... uh-h... Prince of Darkness?
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ringu0 posted:uh-h... Prince of Darkness? yeaaaaaaaa i suppose but with an alien and not the devil.
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dorium posted:Makes me wonder what Carpenter Alien movie would be like.... If only he had ever made a movie about a small crew of professionals stuck in a confined space with a dangerous extraterrestrial creature
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caligulamprey posted:I'm blessed in that I have a group of friends who as a yearly tradition crowd into a single room and watch Freaked. That's going down tomorrow and I'm super excited. I haven't seen Freaked since the time I watched it on an HBO or Showtime free preview weekend in 1996.
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My friends and I are in a horror/cult film club that lets you program a movie for the theater to show after a set number of visits. My buddy chose Freaked and the audience reaction was pretty great. My movie was Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight. 
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Iron Crowned posted:I haven't seen Freaked since the time I watched it on an HBO or Showtime free preview weekend in 1996.  Also: this baby should be hitting my doorstep today:  Big Mean Jerk posted:My movie was Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight.
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CPL593H posted:But then how will he make half a dozen Avatar sequels that nobody wants? You’re wondering if the guy who wrote them both realized they were similar?
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caligulamprey posted:It's aged life a fine wine, it's such a perfectly stupid loving movie. Bonus points for being a movie released in 1993 featuring Mr. T as The Bearded Lady and not being a transphobic mess. Yeah, I remember it owning. It also was weirdly released, like it was hyped up in Fangoria, I remember reading a Jr. Novelization in about 1994, it never released in theaters, and then it got dumped on HBO (or something like that). I think the only home release it got was an OOP DVD.
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Apparently the studio switched hands in the middle of filming and the new heads of Fox hated it and buried the film. Anchor Bay put out a 2 disc special edition packed with features (including a full table read of the entire movie) and there was a single barebones Blu-ray release, which is also out of print. Alex Winter said he was working on a deluxe Blu, but with the Disney buy-out that probably isn't happening. RIP Freaked, you were too beautiful for this world. 
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Freaked has picked up a lot of momentum over the last year. I went from not knowing anything to seeing it all over my corner of the internet in a month. I even showed the trailer to a friend the other day, spreading the good word. Hopefully with Bill and Ted 3 coming out this year it can get a re release with a loose tie in. Seems like a perfect Shout release.
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caligulamprey posted:Apparently the studio switched hands in the middle of filming and the new heads of Fox hated it and buried the film. Anchor Bay put out a 2 disc special edition packed with features (including a full table read of the entire movie) and there was a single barebones Blu-ray release, which is also out of print. Alex Winter said he was working on a deluxe Blu, but with the Disney buy-out that probably isn't happening. That just makes it even sadder, although it's right up just about every boutique label's alley, a VinSyn UHD would be amazing.
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Iron Crowned posted:It really is amazing to me just how "right" 2001 got space, especially when you start looking at the fact that it was made before the moon landing. The killer apes sequence is probably the most dated portion of it but, it was released 6 years before they discovered Lucy, and I think that was the prevailing hypothesis at the time. Pretty sure we knew evolution was a thing before Lucy, yes.
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Happy Hippo posted:Pretty sure we knew evolution was a thing before Lucy, yes. We knew evolution was a thing, but Lucy wasn't discovered until 1970, and Mitochondrial Eve wasn't a thing until something like 1986.
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Freaked is a film I recognize as my “always on HBO in the afternoon when I got home from school.”
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Big Mean Jerk posted:My friends and I are in a horror/cult film club that lets you program a movie for the theater to show after a set number of visits. This is cool as hell
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Big Mean Jerk posted:My friends and I are in a horror/cult film club that lets you program a movie for the theater to show after a set number of visits. My buddy chose Freaked and the audience reaction was pretty great. Alamo Drafthouse Houston? My wife was the weirdo that picked The Voices.
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Kvantum posted:Alamo Drafthouse Houston? My wife was the weirdo that picked The Voices. I like The Voices a whole lot
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caligulamprey posted:It's aged life a fine wine, it's such a perfectly stupid loving movie. Bonus points for being a movie released in 1993 featuring Mr. T as The Bearded Lady and not being a transphobic mess. I still laugh to myself whenever I think of “Super MEGA FREEK LAND!!!”
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Kvantum posted:Alamo Drafthouse Houston? My wife was the weirdo that picked The Voices. The Katy one? That theater is loving awesome, that's where I saw Tammy and the T-Rex gore cut. I miss Alamo Vintage Park, though. loving Studio Movie Grill.
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Kvantum posted:Alamo Drafthouse Houston? My wife was the weirdo that picked The Voices. Yup! I wasn’t there for that one, but I dig that movie. LORD OF BOOTY posted:The Katy one? That theater is loving awesome, that's where I saw Tammy and the T-Rex gore cut. Vintage Park was nice, way nicer than the lovely old Mason Park one Graveyard Shift used to meet at. La Centerra is pretty good, the only downside is it’s an hour drive for me.
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caligulamprey posted:Bonus points for being a movie released in 1993 featuring Mr. T as The Bearded Lady and not being a transphobic mess. My favorite anecdote from the audio commentary was where they said that Mr T would only agree to play the Bearded Lady if they took out the part where Skuggs said he'd "be better off without a dick", because it'd imply that he, Mr T, didn't have a dick. So in the flashback they didn't have Randy Quaid read the line, but ADR'd the line in anyways. Fiddle Faddle?
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King Vidiot posted:My favorite anecdote from the audio commentary was where they said that Mr T would only agree to play the Bearded Lady if they took out the part where Skuggs said he'd "be better off without a dick", because it'd imply that he, Mr T, didn't have a dick. So in the flashback they didn't have Randy Quaid read the line, but ADR'd the line in anyways. That’s such a good line too! Especially with how quick it’s followed by “but you can keep the beard!”
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Everyone should be jealous of my Freaked cardboard standee that I’m hoping is still in my parents attic. The other side was the John Candy oft forgotten movie Wagons East.
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Iron Crowned posted:It really is amazing to me just how "right" 2001 got space, especially when you start looking at the fact that it was made before the moon landing. The killer apes sequence is probably the most dated portion of it but, it was released 6 years before they discovered Lucy, and I think that was the prevailing hypothesis at the time. I know someone who is the opposite of this. He almost exclusively watches poo poo he's already seen and hasn't set foot in a movie theater in over twenty years. I don't know how anyone can live like that. Side note, at this point I've seen Tammy and the T-Rex six times. Basebf555 posted:When I explain to someone why I want to own blu rays, the first thing I usually say is that I enjoy rewatching my favorite movies on a yearly basis. Once they understand that they kinda get why I'd want to have those movies around without having to depend on a streaming service. But yea for most people movies are the plot, and once they've seen the plot that's it, there's no reason to ever go back to it again. If you're someone who does like to go back to stuff or just wants to show the movie to other people owning physical copies is the way to go because of the way streaming services keep fracturing or otherwise pulls poo poo. A blu-ray on your shelf can never be revoked. King Vidiot posted:I mean I also buy records more for the novelty of owning them than actually listening to them, even if they're albums I'm into (or just think are funny). BURN THE HERETIC! DeimosRising posted:You’re wondering if the guy who wrote them both realized they were similar? No I'm wondering if he purposely went "He he, I'm making the stupid movie into the scary movie." or if he was hired to make a script for Alien and deliberately recycled Dark Star stuff into it or that was just the direction he had to take. I know a good amount of stuff about the actual production but not how/why the script came to be. If I recall correctly it was supposed to be more of a low grade b-horror until all the Dune people suddenly found themselves unemployed. Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, I remember it owning. I have that issue of Fangoria. The film is referred to under it's original title, Hideous Mutant Freekz. Iron Crowned posted:That just makes it even sadder, although it's right up just about every boutique label's alley, a VinSyn UHD would be amazing. Boycott Vinegar syndrome until they release the special edition Freaked blu-ray!
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Lionheart is currently only $10 at Amazon. MVD Rewind usually does a really good job with their releases, especially the Van Damme titles. I'm hoping they put out a special edition of Death Warrant this year, as it's my favorite classic Van Damme film, and the current disc lacks any sort of special features. However, it does feature Van Damme fighting a guy who's completely on fire. 13-year old me endlessly marks out to that scene.
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Egbert Souse posted:VinSyn did manage to license at least one Fox film, Catch My Soul (part of the obscure Metromedia library that also includes the 70s Tales from the Crypt), but that was way before the buyout. I really do hope that Disney doesn't just vault the "oddities" from the Fox library forever. I really wouldn't put it past them to be depraved enough launch a competitor label to the boutiques just for that purpose either.
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I know I brought it up before and Egbert clarified it, but Disney subsidiaries have listened before mostly through Criterion and Kino, so there’s a chance.
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