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penismightier posted:but Alien is a big gently caress difference, if only for the Dallas scene, which is great in concept but has probably the worst effects in the film and just feels flat. Honest Thief posted:The extended cut of Alien has some glaring pacing issues, like with Ripley finding what happened with the crew. I watched it a week ago and I don't recall any of this? Do you mean where they figure out Dallas is an android and he tries suffocating Ripley? That scene was terrifying and I think the effects work was fine? And what do you mean her finding out what happened to the crew? Also was the sex scene in the original version or Extended cut? I swear to god I remember a sex scene somewhere when I watched it years ago, but it was absent from the Anthology version... edit: One thing I do like about the Extended version is at the end when everyone else is xenomorph food other than Ripley. She's running around the ship and all that? To me that's the most terrifying moment of the film because you have no idea where that drat creature is so you're in her head for the entire last act. That was what made it for me. That entire sequence was longer than the original theatrical version I believe. edit 2: Oh I realize that you mean when she finds the crew pinned up in the goo-web. I actually liked that. Preston Waters fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Oct 26, 2010 |
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Randy Rand posted:I watched it a week ago and I don't recall any of this? Do you mean where they figure out Dallas is an android and he tries suffocating Ripley? That scene was terrifying and I think the effects work was fine? Right about when she starts the self-destruct sequence, Ripley stops along the way to find out that her old crew is all stickied to the walls, revealing some eating habits of the creature, and then she torches them all. To me, it ruins the urgency of the moment, just to show some neat little detail of the creature.
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Randy Rand posted:I watched it a week ago and I don't recall any of this? Do you mean where they figure out Dallas is an android and he tries suffocating Ripley? That scene was terrifying and I think the effects work was fine? That's not Dallas, the android is Ash.
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doctor thodt posted:Toy Story 3 reviewed well, its Pixar, so before reading this I can already tell you what it will say "Immaculate PQ! Reference Quality! Another slam dunk for Pixar!" I cant wait to see this on blu 
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doctor thodt posted:It's....so....beautiful.... Holy poo poo! All this for so cheap. So glad I preordered!
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Sirotan posted:Holy poo poo! All this for so cheap. So glad I preordered! Got mine when Play.com was still offering it for £14.99  (It's still there at £17.99 if anyone's interested: http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/16150624/Battle-Royale-Limited-Edition-Box-Set/Product.html)
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I remember seeing Aliens on network TV in the early 90's, and it was my favorite cut of the movie because the only thing they added was the sentry gun scene. Everything else in the extended Aliens is unnecessary IMO
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Adrianics posted:Got mine when Play.com was still offering it for £14.99 I have it on preorder at Amazon.co.uk for £12.76 + shipping to the US for a grand total of £15.84. 
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Sirotan posted:I have it on preorder at Amazon.co.uk for £12.76 + shipping to the US for a grand total of £15.84.
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Blodskur posted:Yeah, but isn't that price due to the fact you don't pay our VAT? Got mine for £14.99 from there. Nah, they had it listed as the Special Edition when I preordered because no details about it had been released yet. They raised the price and changed the listed to Limited Edition after I ordered. (At least, I'm pretty sure thats what happened....you could be right though.)
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Adrianics posted:Got mine when Play.com was still offering it for £14.99 I knew I should have ordered it yesterday, ah well its still a very fair price
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Edit: hosed up quote Is the edition of Battle Royale at amazon.co.uk usable on US players? Specifically, this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003ZIZ2HK/ref=oss_product Ineffiable fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Oct 26, 2010 |
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Ineffiable posted:This says Region 0. Will it be fine on US players? The first two discs are region free Blu-Rays which should play in any US player. However, the third disc (which contains a lot of the bonus features) is a region 0 PAL DVD, which will work on some players but not others (e.g. an XBox 360 can play a R0 PAL DVD, but a PS3 can't). doctor thodt fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Oct 26, 2010 |
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doctor thodt posted:The first two discs are region free Blu-Rays which should play in any US player. However, the third disc (which contains a lot of the bonus features) is a region 0 PAL DVD, which will work on some players but not others (e.g. an XBOX 360 can play a R0 PAL DVD, but a PS3 can't). Assuming the amazon one is the same, that should work out fine. I can use the 3rd disc on my xbox or something as long as the first two work on my PS3. This is actually my first time getting an import bluray.
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doctor thodt posted:The first two discs are region free Blu-Rays which should play in any US player. However, the third disc (which contains a lot of the bonus features) is a region 0 PAL DVD, which will work on some players but not others (e.g. an XBox 360 can play a R0 PAL DVD, but a PS3 can't). Where does it state this? My understanding is there is the set on blu-ray or DVD. The blu-ray set has 3 blu-ray discs, and the DVD set has 3 DVD discs, there are no mixed sets.
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Sirotan posted:Where does it state this? My understanding is there is the set on blu-ray or DVD. The blu-ray set has 3 blu-ray discs, and the DVD set has 3 DVD discs, there are no mixed sets. Straight from the horse's mouth (an email response from an Arrow rep): quote:Of the three discs of the Limited Edition Blu-ray, two are blu-ray discs where the features and the extras are playable on US blu-ray players. The third disc is indeed a Region 0 PAL DVD so if you PAL can handle a PAL signal you will be fine. Aside from the third discs there are two booklets, a comic, a poster and 8 postcards so if the third disc is a problem you still have quite a bounty of extras!
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doctor thodt posted:Straight from the horse's mouth (an email response from an Arrow rep): Weird, why the heck don't they state this in their own press releases on their own forum. I am talking about this specifically: http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/battle-royale/3799-arrow-video-battle-royale-dvd-blu-ray-specs.html#post109076  Oh well don't really care about those extras anyway.
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So... How do I get Back To The Future out of the case without snapping the disk in half?
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Alien Anthology is a thing of beauty. I really hope moving forward for big sets like this everyone uses this packaging model; it's so much nicer than a box full of thinpaks or those ugly, awkward LOST-style cases. Really feels like it's worth every cent of the asking price. Also loving the "Reaction to the Film" segments in the documentaries on disc 5. Alien3 is a succession of people saying "well everyone was loving around with Fincher's vision, that's why it sucked" and Resurrection is literally "well the french people loved it!".
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Noxville posted:I got the UK collector's tin and it's great. So much silly tat, by far the best being the hologram replication of the photo of Marty and his siblings disappearing. The case for the discs themselves sounds better than yours too, it's just a standard foldout thing where the discs press in very simply. Glad I chose to import it, then. Can you confirm that they're region-free? And what about the extras? Are they all in HD, or are there some that are in PAL? Sucks to have to wait until early-mid November to get it, though. I just hope to have it in time for a November 12th marathon screening.
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royalejest posted:So... How do I get Back To The Future out of the case without snapping the disk in half? Taken from somewhere else:  OldSenileGuy posted:Glad I chose to import it, then. Can you confirm that they're region-free? And what about the extras? Are they all in HD, or are there some that are in PAL? From what I've heard, all content on the UK set should be playable on US players. Sirotan posted:Weird, why the heck don't they state this in their own press releases on their own forum. I am talking about this specifically: http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/battle-royale/3799-arrow-video-battle-royale-dvd-blu-ray-specs.html#post109076 If worse comes to worst, most computer DVD drives can play R0 PAL DVD's.
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That BTTF US packaging looks terrible. Apparently they've been using that for TV shows as well - House s6, Office s6, and Heroes s4 all have it. Can anyone in the UK with any of those sets chime in on whether Universal uses the lovely packaging there too? Obviously they didn't with the UK BTTF, but that may be because it's only 3 discs instead of 6. I'm curious about the UK House s6 release, specifically.
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NewEgg has the Alien boxset for $79.99 shipped http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ID=1312731&SID=
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OldSenileGuy posted:Glad I chose to import it, then. Can you confirm that they're region-free? And what about the extras? Are they all in HD, or are there some that are in PAL? Pretty sure it's region free since I don't see the 'Region B' logo on the back. Special features it lists as '1080i/p & 480i/p' so they're not all HD but since PAL is 576 lines I think they'll be OK on a US player.
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No major studio Region B Blu-Rays use PAL, especially simultaneous global releases.
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doctor thodt posted:Taken from somewhere else: Of course the downside of getting the blue ray out of the holder is it also summons Pinhead as well.
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Now comes the next challenge: putting the Back to the Future disc back into it's case.
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I posted:My plan is to rip the digital copies, throw those discs out, and jury-rig a BTTF case out of the Toy Story 3 case once that finally comes out Done! I found an extra case lying around, went ahead and threw together a quick/dirty photoshop job aaaand...  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 640x480 image.
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Jay Dub posted:Look what I did Holy poo poo. WHY COULDN'T THE STUDIO RELEASING THE MOVIE DO THIS?
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doctor thodt posted:The Bridge on the River Kwai reviewed Hmm, not exactly a ringing endorsement.
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FitFortDanga posted:Hmm, not exactly a ringing endorsement. Looks pretty good to me. Not perfect, but considering Sony's track record and knowing how much they invested into this restoration, I think it's fair to say that it looks about as good as it possibly can, and any issues are most likely due to limitations of the source elements.
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It's definitely horizontally stretched (SQUISH), and the grain has that blimpy look that you see in Blu-Rays that are simply releases of previous high-def DVD remasterings (though that probably has more to do with the original anamorphic print), but at least it's not DNR'd to hell and back.
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That's just Jack Hawkins's oddly-shaped cranium.
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Aliens is even better than the screenshots suggested. I've never seen it look anywhere near this good -all the problems it had with murkiness are totally gone, and there's no DNR waxiness. If anything, it looks even more textured than before.
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Ugh. All of this Alien talking is almost making me wish I wasn't going home this weekend. I'm getting payed Thursday, and I totally won't have enough after the trip to afford it. Oh well... maybe next month...
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I feel like with every new generation of media, I'm reintroduced to Aliens. I first saw it on a beat-up old VHS where I could barely make anything out, then a slightly less beat-up VHS of the special edition which blew me away at how much story I was missing, then a nice DVD where I saw it in widescreen and was amazed at all the background detail, then the restored DVD from like '06 where it was as good as I ever imagined it getting, then this loving Blu-Ray where I didn't even want to blink while it was going on. For the next generation of media, I fully expect it to do my laundry and suck my dick.
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