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I don't know if anyone heard but DragonSlayer is coming out in March and it has all new commentary with Guillermo Del Toro and the director (Matthew Robbins) on there. It's not a great movie but it's a very "me" movie...I just like everything it does. It it has the 80s dirty fantasy look down cold, a really brassy and sinister soundtrack, has some genuinely weird political stuff in it, practical effects mixed with go-motion that works pretty well, and a protagonist who is kind of a dipshit. Very proto-D&D feeling (even though D&D was 5 years old when it was made).
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 21:03 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:41 |
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Tesh posted:Honestly, this is a fun way to do a release. Want to sell something like EVIL DEAD for the hundredth time? Slap some retro cover art on it and include a “degraded version” as a bonus. This is one reason I bought from Code Red DVD for a while: there’s something very engaging about seeing a movie other people unmistakably have before you, and to be reminded that film’s a physical medium that degrades over time. Just preordered that White Zombie disc and looking immensely forward to it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 21:06 |
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The limited edition cover of that Clue documentary already sold out drat
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 21:10 |
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Saw Dragonslayer for the first time a few months ago, glad I did because yea it's definitely something I want to add to my collection. That type of classic fantasy is kinda like Westerns, a mostly dead genre so nothing to do but appreciate the ones we do have. Maybe the one and only time Peter MacNicol had a lead role?
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 21:11 |
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zer0spunk posted:I'm holding out for someone in my region to license these. The day we stop getting extras on region locked blus though, I will go nuts on importing. Yeah I'd buy that set in a heartbeat if half of the discs weren't worthless to me (no region free player). Same with the fancy Romero Dawn of the Dead 4K set that came out last year or the year before. And so many others.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 21:37 |
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I'm sure there's a bunch of us that don't import. I get that I can own a region free BD player, but it's also down to anyone I let borrow a film, won't. I bought a bunch of dvds in amsterdam in 2002, had a region free modded OG xbox, and it came up often enough when people asked for things that I can't do that again for my own sanity
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 21:57 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I don't know if anyone heard but DragonSlayer is coming out in March and it has all new commentary with Guillermo Del Toro and the director (Matthew Robbins) on there. Nice! I had a ton of fond memories of watching DragonSlayer when I was younger, it'll be nice to upgrade my DVD. For some reason I link DragonSlayer with The Last Starfighter a lot, and hope I get a fancy new disc for that one too.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 22:01 |
Oh hey, Vinegar Syndrome is doing a sale on their pornos next week.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 22:51 |
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Gripweed posted:Oh hey, Vinegar Syndrome is doing a sale on their pornos next week. Hell yeah
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 22:57 |
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Gripweed posted:Oh hey, Vinegar Syndrome is doing a sale on their pornos next week. I have the one Doris Wishman double feature. It's nice and I'm glad I have one, it's a trip to have a boutique blu of a couple classic 35mm skin flicks, but it would decrease their specialness if I got any more. It would have to be particularly special to get another. That said I'm open to any suggestions for especially interesting titles. Edit: My ridiculously long and cumbersome post where I talk about those titles and even have a brief "review" of them. pwn fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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pwn posted:I have the one Doris Wishman double feature. It's nice and I'm glad I have one, it's a trip to have a boutique blu of a couple classic 35mm skin flicks, but it would decrease their specialness if I got any more. It would have to be particularly special to get another. I recommend getting the Doris boxsets from their partner labels if u haven't. The first one is a trip
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 23:59 |
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MacheteZombie posted:I recommend getting the Doris boxsets from their partner labels if u haven't. The first one is a trip He got em alright! And they rock loving rear end. Hopefully next up is “A Night to Dismember” VSA (or 4K lol) and I’ll have all the wishman I need.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 00:27 |
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oh my god, the birdemic trilogy looks fantastic. that's happening.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 00:27 |
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Chris James 2 posted:Severin announced the boxset nobody deserved in April God drat it someone talk me out of this. I've only seen the first 2 and kind of hated the second one, but I also own (and spent more money on) much worse movies.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 00:33 |
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Gripweed posted:Is there really a market for novelizations of niche movies? I’ve literally got a novelization of Van Helsing in my glove compartment because I can’t figure out what to do with it.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 01:39 |
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Gripweed posted:Is there really a market for novelizations of niche movies? I always find it so interesting that the HG Lewis films Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs and Color Me Blood Red had novelizations back in the 60s (written by Lewis.) John Waters famously owns copies, and they go for a lot of money but I’m not lining up to buy one. Does anyone here have one? Edit: lol re: the Van Helsing novelization PinkoBastard fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Delzuma posted:I’ve literally got a novelization of Van Helsing in my glove compartment because I can’t figure out what to do with it. Vampires HATE this ONE trick! Click here to find out
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 01:56 |
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Homeybeef posted:God drat it someone talk me out of this. i've only seen the trailer, granted. but there are 'much worse' films? this looks...i don't know. this looks real, real, real bad.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 02:23 |
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I saw the trailer for Beats, is it good?
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 02:30 |
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Homeybeef posted:God drat it someone talk me out of this. The third Birdemic takes nearly an hour to get to the birds and a lot - a LOT - of it is brooding environmental doomerism. I think the director had one good idea he milked to death with awful execution the first time around, then was in on the joke that was himself the second time around and has now come back to do it all over again. It’s your money, do what you want, but $35 is kind of a lot for… that.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 02:45 |
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Any word about an UHD of Re-Animator? I desperately need to upgrade my DVD.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 02:49 |
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Boinks posted:Any word about an UHD of Re-Animator? I desperately need to upgrade my DVD. My research says Brian Yuzna may have talked about a new restoration or transfer being in the works, but I can’t find anything concrete. I say one is very likely to be coming in the next year or two.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 03:04 |
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MacheteZombie posted:I recommend getting the Doris boxsets from their partner labels if u haven't. The first one is a trip Oh I got em. Dear god they were $150.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 03:45 |
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I try not to think about how much I spend on physical media. I just know it’s too much.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 03:54 |
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Wait. These things cost money?! I thought they arrived in the mail after I thought about them real hard, pass out into a fugue state and then they arrived a couple days to a week later.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 05:31 |
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https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1621528497016512512?s=20
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PinkoBastard posted:I always find it so interesting that the HG Lewis films Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs and Color Me Blood Red had novelizations back in the 60s (written by Lewis.) John Waters famously owns copies, and they go for a lot of money but I’m not lining up to buy one. Does anyone here have one? We're spoiled in the era of physical media, and now streaming, for the most part we can just wait a couple of months and watch a movie that was in theaters. You couldn't do that in the 60's and 70's, so that's why novelizations were and to a much lesser extent today are a thing. If you wanted to watch a movie, and it wasn't playing anywhere near you, you had to read the book. The really fun part about the novelizations are that they're based on earlier versions of the script, so there are all kinds of things that are different between them. I used to have a handful of them I got at thrift stores in the 90's, and I have no idea what happened to them. One I never had, but would love to get my hands on is Escape from New York, which is apparently a lot more bleak than the movie. That said, hopefully VS is going to give us reprints of older ones, and new ones of newer movies, perhaps from the VSP line, based on earlier versions of the script.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:52 |
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Graphic novel adaptations of movies were a big thing too. Most of these were pretty dire, with two notable exceptions being Alien and Outland.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:00 |
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Kirby's adaptation of 2001 is pretty great too.
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Iron Crowned posted:We're spoiled in the era of physical media, and now streaming, for the most part we can just wait a couple of months and watch a movie that was in theaters. You couldn't do that in the 60's and 70's, so that's why novelizations were and to a much lesser extent today are a thing. If you wanted to watch a movie, and it wasn't playing anywhere near you, you had to read the book. The comic version of Blade Runner was based on the script so it doesn’t have “like tears in the rain” because that was an adlib by Rutger Hauer.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:32 |
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After watching From Beyond 4k I feel like I now have an even more intimate knowledge of every nook and cranny of Jeffrey Combs face.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:04 |
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I'm just finishing up all the special features and now I'll never get the image of his pineal gland being a "dog dick" out of my mind.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:22 |
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I thought about it for awhile, but I just can't. I would literally die knowing there's an UHD in a DVD case sitting on my shelf.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 19:22 |
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Boinks posted:
Yeah, those are geared more towards people that still have DVD players and are maybe open to one day upgrading
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 19:32 |
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I'm holding out for the Laserdisc + VHS + DVD + BD + UHD combo pack, personally.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 19:41 |
I don't guarantee any of these are still valid, you know how it works
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 21:23 |
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Gripweed posted:I don't guarantee any of these are still valid, you know how it works Took the one ending AMT8. Thanks for Dark Crystal!
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Gripweed posted:I don't guarantee any of these are still valid, you know how it works Took the Lionsgate one (Reservoir Dogs). Thanks!
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 21:53 |
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Redeemed the Universal one and it's Nope! Thanks!
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 21:58 |
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Yeah without knowing what's what i can't really participate. I already own nope, reserve your dogs and dork crystal. I would feel like poo poo if i redeemed something i had and deprived someone else. Thank you though!
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