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Hellboy is the only one that makes sense. Paul isn’t a comic book or even comic style lmao. They go to comic con I guess but still. Crap cover but it was 5 bucks! I like the flick a lot so no problem dealing with it.
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CelticPredator posted:Hellboy is the only one that makes sense. Paul isn’t a comic book or even comic style lmao. They go to comic con I guess but still. Yeah I picked up a bunch of those horrible looking steelbooks years ago at clearance. It wasn't bad spending $3.74 apiece for Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead
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Jul 29, 2022 19:21
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Guys you’re making me feel bad for collecting them  I’ve got Hellboy 2, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Death Race, Gladiator, Wanted, and Doom
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Jul 29, 2022 19:37
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Xenomrph posted:Guys you’re making me feel bad for collecting them I actually think it's kinda cool as a little collection like that. It just when you see them individually you're like "what does Gladiator have to do with comics?"
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Jul 29, 2022 19:39
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Yeah I picked up a bunch of those horrible looking steelbooks years ago at clearance. It wasn't bad spending $3.74 apiece for Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead Yeah, I got the Scarface comic steelbook at a Big Lots for $4, they had a ton of them
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Basebf555 posted:I actually think it's kinda cool as a little collection like that. It just when you see them individually you're like "what does Gladiator have to do with comics?" Gladiator would be a cool comic book series. Especially that proposed sequel. quote:Cave’s Gladiator 2 screenplay opens with Maximus waking up in the afterlife. To his disappointment, it isn’t the sun-kissed Elysium he dreamt of in Gladiator, but an endless rain-sodden netherworld where wretched refugees huddle on the shores of a black ocean. With the help of a ghostly guide, Mordecai, Maximus treks to a ruined temple where he meets Jupiter, Mars and five other diseased and decrepit Roman deities. Jupiter explains that one of their number, Hephaestus, has betrayed them, and is now preaching the gospel of another god who is more powerful than all of them. Just to quibble for a moment, Hephaestus is a Greek god, not a Roman one, so Cave should really have named him Vulcan. But the screenplay compensates for this slip with some writing to relish. like that's comic book as gently caress oh yeah it was written by Nick Cave https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180810-gladiator-2-was-written-and-its-mad dorium fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Jul 29, 2022 |
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Jul 29, 2022 20:15
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Has gladiator aged well? Never saw it
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I think it largely holds up. It's right at the beginning of Ridley's later career so he gets a bit too bloated for my taste, especially the further we go along into the new century but its still stuffed with fantastic performances from the cast.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Yeah I picked up a bunch of those horrible looking steelbooks years ago at clearance. It wasn't bad spending $3.74 apiece for Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead I’d like to replace the box one day. But I’m too lazy.
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worms butthole guy posted:Has gladiator aged well? Never saw it Kingdom of Heaven plays with history too, but not to the same degree, and it’s also a better movie. I’d like to see that come to UHD. It would be an upscale from 2K, but still an improvement on 1080P plus HDR.
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Jumped on B&N’s Criterion sale, bought 4 more movies I’ll never watch (if my prior Criterion sale history is any indication): For All Mankind 4K (already seen it, upgrading from the bluray) Citizen Kane 4K (never actually seen the movie, figured I should fix that) The Piano 4K (blind buy, never seen it, but I’ve listened to the soundtrack more times than I can count and I love it, so I figured it was time to get it) Flight of the Phoenix (another blind buy, I like the remake a lot so I figured this was a safe bet)
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After you watch kane, you should watch any of the making of material out there. Some of the things they did in terms of filmmaking was impressive, especially for the time period. The politics behind it are also interesting, RKO 281 (https://www.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GYC2nSQOUlKCGsQEAAAAE) is also a good follow-up, covering the events around the making of the film. E: You could also skip a making of and read this breakdown about all the cool poo poo they do by roger mfing ebert- https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/a-viewers-companion-to-citizen-kane do not read this until after you watch zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Jul 29, 2022 |
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I got the email saying that the sale was still on but I think I’ll sit it out. I’ll save that money for Heat, The Fog, and various Spooky Season releases.
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dorium posted:I need to relook at my entire pre-order list. I'm so glad I don't gaf about horror. I would somehow be even broker than I already am. I watch these companies milk horror fans for every drop with this fetish property and cannot fathom how ruined I would be.
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I finally got around to watching the LoTR: Fellowship of the Ring on 4K and both discs of the movie have errors. When the Ring starts making everyone bicker at the Council of Elrond the sound starts glitching and the picture seizes up, same thing happens early on the second disc when the Fellowship is on the mountain and Sarumon is causing avalanches. I bought the entire trilogy in 4K from the local second hand shop too, so I guess I'm just hosed  edit; now that I think about it, both of those scenes have pretty busy sound mixes, maybe my soundbar could've caused it somehow..? Happy Hippo fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jul 30, 2022 |
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Xenomrph posted:Guys you’re making me feel bad for collecting them Did the Blues Brothers get a cover like that in your neck of the woods? I remember seeing that down here in NZ, at the JB Hi-fi on Queen Street back in the day.
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I know the whole deal behind putting lovely covers on old movies is to make it look "more modern" to get people to buy it. But at this point the only people still buying discs are nerds. So why can't they just use the original poster art?
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Because someone's nephew runs the graphic design department and has to justify their employment. It's capitalism, 90% of any big company is people not actually doing what they were hired to do and instead tricking the higher ups into thinking they desperately need them.
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Isn’t that the same reason why when Stranger Things and the 80s aesthetic trend blew up a bunch of older films got re-released in VHS style cases? I remember seeing the checkouts at JB Hifi lined with them.
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I’m pretty sure I remember seeing them at various JBs before Stranger Things was a, uh, thing. However, there is also a reasonable chance I’m misremembering this.
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Creature posted:Isn’t that the same reason why when Stranger Things and the 80s aesthetic trend blew up a bunch of older films got re-released in VHS style cases? I remember seeing the checkouts at JB Hifi lined with them. It’s so unfair that the third season didn’t get a physical release. It begs for UHD w Dolby Vision. I loved the colors in S3. Arrow announced Videodrome 4K for UK in October. So I assume we’ll see it in the US from them or Criterion sooner than not.
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Biff Rockgroin posted:Because someone's nephew runs the graphic design department and has to justify their employment. I imagine it's also not wanting to pay Drew Struzan royalties when they could have a salaried graphic designer whip up some dumb bullshit in an afternoon instead.
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It’s real: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Heat-4K-Blu-ray/162890/#Review
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I’ll only believe it when that steel book is in my hands. I’m also excited to read Heat 2
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I need someone other blu-ray.com to review heat before I go for it. They gave a huge thumbs up to the craft, which says they didn't watch it and just skipped around, and then deleted said review when everyone could see the bitrate dropping into single digits over and over through the whole film. A 3-hour movie on a 66 gives me pause, disney kinda really sucks.
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Lumbermouth posted:I imagine it's also not wanting to pay Drew Struzan royalties when they could have a salaried graphic designer whip up some dumb bullshit in an afternoon instead. I didn't even think of that, but if the original artists or graphic designers get royalties for reuse then that's definitely it.
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Bad art is super frustrating considering the number of new designs to choose from out there I have these books in my book collection; -https://www.matthewchojnacki.com/read-me-1 -https://www.matthewchojnacki.com/alternative-movie-posters-ii -https://mondoshop.com/blogs/news/the-art-of-mondo-front-cover-spreads-from-our-upcoming-book and that's just a small sample of alt posters e: i would buy the poo poo out of lebowski with these https://alternativemovieposters.com/amp/the-big-lebowski-by-ale-giorgini/, https://alternativemovieposters.com/amp/the-big-lebowski-by-dave-merrell/, https://alternativemovieposters.com/amp/the-big-lebowski-by-tyler-stout/ e2: someday i'm going to move everything into these and have my own uniform printed jackets with whatever front art i like...goals. zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jul 30, 2022 |
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Do any of you have a reccomendations for a 4k player? The series x struggles to play dawn of the dead and the northman so I'm thinking it's time for a upgrade
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worms butthole guy posted:Do any of you have a reccomendations for a 4k player? The series x struggles to play dawn of the dead and the northman so I'm thinking it's time for a upgrade
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worms butthole guy posted:Do any of you have a reccomendations for a 4k player? The series x struggles to play dawn of the dead and the northman so I'm thinking it's time for a upgrade I have a Sony UBP-X800M2 and I've been very happy with it.
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Rageaholic posted:I don't have a recommendation for a UHD player, but how is it struggling? It might be the discs themselves and not the Series X. My Series X has successfully played every UHD I've thrown at it except for a couple, but with those couple, I returned those discs and got replacements and then those played fine. Stuttering, lag on layer changes etc. The Xbox one x used to do this too. I'll check out the Sony UBP-X800M2 tho
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Biff Rockgroin posted:I didn't even think of that, but if the original artists or graphic designers get royalties for reuse then that's definitely it. They absolutely do not, it's work for hire.
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Sirotan posted:I have a Sony UBP-X800M2 and I've been very happy with it. The X700M is also wonderful and much less. And for a few dollars more, get one that's been modded to play all regions of Blu-rays and DVDs. https://www.220-electronics.com/2017-bf-bluray/sony-ubp-x700-region-free-4k-uhd-blu-ray-player.html Got one for my mum earlier this Summer and she's had no problems. You can also find the 800 on their site, I decided against it because my mum didn't need Dolby Atmos and that was almost $100 more. https://www.220-electronics.com/region-free-blu-ray-players/sony-ubp-x800m2-region-free-4k-uhd-blu-ray-player-multi-region.html Protip: Leave the tab open in your browser for a day and come back periodically and a coupon code may well pop up. I had gotten one that took $30 off (dollars, NOT percent.)
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Hah sweeet. Then I can sell my region free Blu ray player to a goon for cheap
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17 years after seeing it as part of a Humanities elective and being blown away by how much I liked it, finally a copy of my own.
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TheScott2K posted:17 years after seeing it as part of a Humanities elective and being blown away by how much I liked it, finally a copy of my own. It’s so loving good. Welles owns
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PinkoBastard posted:It’s so loving good. Welles owns I weirdly picked up F For Fake first
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TheScott2K posted:I weirdly picked up F For Fake first Also owns Now go get Ambersons and Othello Arrow has a sale on too on their site now so I just picked up the Battle for Honor and Humanity boxset, Don't Torture a Duckling, and Amazon had a decent price on the Second Sight Dawn of the Dead boxset and the first volume of Arrow's Fassbinder set last week so now I've got a shitload of things arriving in the mail and god please stop
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