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Kingtheninja posted:God drat, streets of fire is a very solid 4k choice. Watched it for the first time in a few years and it just really boosts the movie. It and The Warriors look absolutely fantastic. Two movies I already loved and it had them feeling brand new.
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pwn posted:Assuming you don't stop at Eco cases, if you end up replacing regular Elite/Vortex cases please consider sending them my way rather than the landfill. I'm tired of dealing with pirates on eBay for replacement cases. I had thought about the demand for the regular blue cases, so I'll probably offer them up here if there's interest. Seriously, I'm probably stopping at just major studio regular Blus and Warner Archive that don't have slips. I considered adding Kino Lorber to the list, but too many of their releases are OOP or likely to go OOP. At most, I'd only swap out the few standard edition Arrow and Indicator discs I own, but even those are at least in the nicer clear cases already. But I don't have any regrets and likely won't. Nearly all the Blu-rays I've switched to the sleeves were picked up for under $10 each.
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ultraviolence123 posted:88 Films' 4k for The Blood on Satan's Claw is gorgeous. I’m happy with my Severin blu…. But god I bet that 4K is stunning
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Ok I learned my lesson, I will never again consider “big sale on Troma movies!” an exciting phrase.
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Ordered the Shinobi trilogy from Orbit last friday and it's already here today, and its release date isn't supposed to be until the 27th. Have been watching the Zatoichi criterion set over the past month or two and finally going to see the last film tonight. Really enjoyed most of them with maybe two or three were just unremarkable and forgettable
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Egbert Souse posted:After some hesitation, I ended up ordering a pack of the Tarifold Blu-ray sleeves. I've noticed a lot of people started using their CD sleeves, so I was curious about how they'd look for Blu-rays. I did the switch on my cds after ripping everything in FLAC and stored all the cds away in some nice boxes. Only the jewel cased ones anything with a strange package got a plastic sleeve to live in and boxed away. I have pulled a few to take on road trips and it wasn’t a bad experience. The plastic is pretty heavy duty and holds well.
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TheMopeSquad posted:
Can we get your top 5 or so? I've only seen the first one (and the Takeshi remake), and was gonna watch the 2nd one, also heard Chest of Gold is a good one. Gripweed posted:Ok I learned my lesson, I will never again consider “big sale on Troma movies!” an exciting phrase. I don't know about the sale thing, but I do heartily recommend every Lloyd Kaufman movie! Toxie 1-4, Kabukiman, Tromeo & Juliet, Poultrygeist, Class of Nuke 'em High, you name it.
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, Zatoichi at the Fire Festival, and Zatoichi the Outlaw are pretty definitively the best and after that it's a bit hard to remember what's what let alone round out a top five. Off the top of my head I liked Zatoichi's Cane Sword and Zatoichi Challenged. Fight Zatoichi Fight where he takes care of the baby is good. Chest of Gold is the one where his actual brother plays the villain (who also played Ichi's brother in the second film and is the star of Lone Wolf and Cub and the Bounty Hunter) it was pretty good. It also stood out because it's a little different than practically every other film in the way he acts and the big fight at the end. TheMopeSquad fucked around with this message at 16:23 on May 7, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 16:09
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The thing that really amazed me about the Zatoichi set is that even though they're formulaic, if you like the formula there are none of them that are just straight up garbage. I honestly enjoyed every single one of them and never really felt like getting through the entire set was a slog in any way. I also ordered the much-later Darkness Is His Ally from Australia but I haven't watched it yet.
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Got an update from the Keepa app that the price was down on the Lawrence of Arabia 4K on Amazon. It's listed as "temporarily out of stock" but I put in an order in case they're expecting stock soon.
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RichterIX posted:The thing that really amazed me about the Zatoichi set is that even though they're formulaic, if you like the formula there are none of them that are just straight up garbage. I honestly enjoyed every single one of them and never really felt like getting through the entire set was a slog in any way. I think it works because Zatoichi is so entertaining even when he's not fighting and being dramatic just watching him interact with the world in every scene even if he's just walking around, eating rice and drinking sake. He's such an adorable chubby dork.
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TheMopeSquad posted:Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, Zatoichi at the Fire Festival, and Zatoichi the Outlaw are pretty definitively the best and after that it's a bit hard to remember what's what let alone round out a top five. Off the top of my head I liked Zatoichi's Cane Sword and Zatoichi Challenged. Fight Zatoichi Fight where he takes care of the baby is good. I second the recommendation for all of these and would also add Samaritan Zatoichi and Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage. TheMopeSquad posted:I think it works because Zatoichi is so entertaining even when he's not fighting and being dramatic just watching him interact with the world in every scene even if he's just walking around, eating rice and drinking sake. He's such an adorable chubby dork. 
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I remember really liking the 2003 Zatoichi except that they used cgi blood.
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The_Rob posted:I remember really liking the 2003 Zatoichi except that they used cgi blood. Yeah but at least they did something with it, they made the blood really dramatic and theatrical.
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May 7, 2024 18:25
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4K UHD sale at Shout! Factory
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Right on, good ol Zatoichi, thanks for the recs. I have an interest in it but not quite 20 films or whatever, so I like dipping my toe in the saga.
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Heavy Metal posted:Right on, good ol Zatoichi, thanks for the recs. I have an interest in it but not quite 20 films or whatever, so I like dipping my toe in the saga. They're all on Criterion Channel if you want to check them out without dropping three figures on the box set sight unseen.
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pwn posted:Well their 10% coupon took off 8.99 and made the deal even better. What's a little forever-living-in-debt, right.
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Yeah there's a lot of shout stuff I'm always looking at (man in the iron mask) but I have to wait for the next one, too many upcoming releases already.
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Me, smug, before clicking on the link: I am above this, I am not tempted by sales, I am not like these fools Me, 5 minutes later, after clicking on the link: I need to see several of these movies in very high quality, I am a sucker and a fool, I have spent $75
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I've somehow managed to resist upgrading Streets of Fire, getting Slumber Party Massacre 1 & 2, and finally grabbing They Live...but it was close. For once I'm glad I definitely do not have the money for it right this second.
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Gotta be strong... saving all my money this month for Cynthia Rothrock movies at Halfway to Black Friday.
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Everyone doing sales all at once. From Shout 4K I grabbed: Clue Pumpkinhead The Dead Zone They Live -Steelbook Last one is an upgrade but I don’t mind double dipping on Carpenter. Also grabbed the Nausicaa steelbook as I’ve been meaning to do that for a while.
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Casimir Radon posted:Everyone doing sales all at once. Good stuff! Obligatory have you seen Castle of Cagliostro post, Miyazaki's second deserves Miyazaki's first! Also, Christopher, Walken, he's really good... in the Dead.. Zone, really liked it. So it looks like my next piece of physical media may be the Laverne & Shirley complete series DVD set. It only has sporadic episodes up to stream on Amazon. That's how they get ya.
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feedmyleg posted:Me, smug, before clicking on the link: I am above this, I am not tempted by sales, I am not like these fools I am replying to affirm your poor financial decisions and keep myself deluded that no, actually I am smart for borrowing high interest money I don't have to throw more shiny discs into the bottomless hole in my soul. ringu0 posted:Haha, I went for those four Laika movies, too 
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feedmyleg posted:Me, smug, before clicking on the link: I am above this, I am not tempted by sales, I am not like these fools Heh, yeah…75 seems like a lot…for sure…
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Loads of Once Upon a Time in the West BD vs. UHD comparisons: https://slow.pics/c/WRezQSDg I like the colours of the UHD (blue skies, yay), but they really went overboard on the filtering (possibly caused by the compression to a 66 GB disc). Apparently there's a streaming version with a higher bitrate on something called Kaleidescape.
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The_Rob posted:I remember really liking the 2003 Zatoichi except that they used cgi blood. I think this still doesn't have a good release unfortunately, I need to look it up. I don't think any of the existing blu-rays in any region get the color timing right, so I think the best copy might be the DVD?
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RichterIX posted:I think this still doesn't have a good release unfortunately, I need to look it up. I don't think any of the existing blu-rays in any region get the color timing right, so I think the best copy might be the DVD? The German and UK editions have very different colour timings: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=10791&d2=10789&c=4305 I have no idea which one is correct - though I think the UK has the same colour as the Japanese BD, so I guess that's more likely to be correct... maybe?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ovUB-OavE We've covered this topic here recently but I found myself watching all 41 minutes of this before bed last night. Very edifying
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Steen71 posted:The German and UK editions have very different colour timings: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=10791&d2=10789&c=4305 I think the German version looks more like what I remember from seeing a print in a theater a million years ago, but I might also be talking out of my rear end again. The Japanese BD looks pretty similar color-wise to the Miramax one too so it's hard to say.
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pwn posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ovUB-OavE I feel kinda lucky that I didn't get into collecting movies until the blu ray era. For one thing you have the issue brought up in the video which is that DVDs are more susceptible to damage and rot, and then another thing is that I don't know if I would've had the ability to upgrade DVDs to blu ray and then a second time to UHD. Buying some of my favorite movies on two formats has been a bit annoying sometimes but I definitely would've been even more annoyed at having to buy them on three formats. I think the only three movies I had in DVD, blu ray, and now UHD are Ghostbusters, Die Hard, and Blade Runner.
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https://twitter.com/catsuka/status/1788288971467792766quote:[DVD is not dead] "Dexter's Laboratory - The Complete Series" is coming in June.
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loving finally. I remember when they first attempted to do season sets and never finished them over a decade ago.
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Fantastic. Any idea if this contains the TV movie, as well?
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FYI, Craig McCracken created The Powerpuff Girls (as well as 2 Stupid Dogs), though Tartakovsky did work on the show.
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