ApexAftermath posted:

I'm surprised to be the first to post this. The Man with No Name Trilogy on Blu Ray for $23.99 as Amazon's Deal of the Day.

I've never seen any of these but I am really tempted to blind buy at this price. I have to believe that I would like these movies if I gave them a chance.

Criminal Minded posted:

Asnorban posted:

I hate how they take the coupon from the MSRP and not the actual price that it sells at.

ApexAftermath posted:

I haven't checked but if it's off the MSRP then I bet they are still like 25-30 dollars after discount. You could get them for that price at best buy and not have to wait for something to ship. I hate these "deals that really aren't deals". Barnes and Nobles is also an offender of this.

frumpsnake posted:

The films are great, but I've held off because MGM's TGTBTU looks like poo poo compared to the Italian disc.

Geekboy posted:

There are also no special features, which is a killer for me. I have two different people I can borrow the DVD's off of (we bought them for my Dad and my father-in-law at different times as gifts) and I already have TGTBTU on BR in the two disk edition with a lot of great extras. I'd honestly rather buy them all separately with special features than together without them.

They haven't released all of these separately yet though, so it comes down to your preferences really. I just don't see the point in buying something on BR if there aren't any special features. There are always exceptions, but that's a general rule for me.

Geekboy posted:

They haven't released all of these separately yet though, so it comes down to your preferences really. I just don't see the point in buying something on BR if there aren't any special features. There are always exceptions, but that's a general rule for me.

RichterIX posted:

If you have a Target near you they have individual releases of all three of these for like $15.

Magic Hate Ball posted:

The Beev on Barry Lyndon

I'm so happy right now.

FitFortDanga posted:

Want Magnificent Ambersons (DVD) without buying the massive Kane box on Amazon?

you're welcome


(a bit spendy for a barebones disc, though)

Egbert Souse posted:

Wow, it really does look like a film made up of oil paintings. They really did a fantastic job remastering. Imagine had this film been handled by Universal.

This is a film that is terribly overlooked in Kubrick's filmography. Even if you don't care about the content, the cinematography alone will make your jaw drop.

Cemetry Gator posted:

I can understand criticizing the release over it, since it isn't a big deal to show 1.66:1 on a widescreen TV, but to get up in arms? It's a minor issue at best, and at worse, you just don't buy the movie.

Folks will get up in arms about nearly everything. I remember back when The Name of This Band Was Talking Heads was finally issued on CD, and some people were complaining that Rhino chopped off the intro to "Cross Eyed and Dangerous," even though they expanded the album by 50%, and the intro was chopped off so other songs could fit on the disc.

What's worse is when they are wrong about it.

FitFortDanga posted:

For those who get tremendously upset about such things, Barry Lyndon is framed at 1.78 instead of 1.66. And unlike some of Kubrick's other films where there's some debate, all the evidence seems to point to 1.66 being the "correct" aspect ratio.

There's a thread with screenshots somewhere over on criterionforum.org. You're barely missing any of the image, but some folks are up in arms about it.

Neo_Reloaded posted:

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New Best Buy exclusive BDs this Sunday (5/29):

Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Lee Harvey Oswald posted:

Had no idea this was coming out.

Sporadic posted:

The Season 3 release of Breaking Bad dropped to $24.99 on Amazon. Comes out on June 7th

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B004SUDPXW

Jay Dub posted:

Amazon has the blu-ray Die Hard collection for $20.49.

a probably dangerous individual posted:

OK, well, aspect ratio aside (not that I'm happy about that!!), my biggest gripe is the butchering of the opening sequence thanks to that dreadful monochrome 'new' logo replacement. Like no other movie I've seen the visuals, action and editing of BL are synced to the music track to an extraordinarily high degree and the logo change just pisses all over that, right at the most important moment - the grand opening. Without question a hallmark of Stanley Kubrick movies is that the mood and pace is set from the first frame, always coinciding with and synced to the music.

In the 'original' the docking of the zooming "W" logo (and the rest...like "presents") is synced perfectly to the opening chords (probably a lucky accident sequencing it in the edit room but intentional nevertheless) and there is one beat cut to black before the beat cut to "A Film By Stanley Kubrick" - now this has been replaced by a overly long section of black screen which completely destroys that rhythm and renders this once powerful opening quite lame and disjointed, especially the now 'sudden' appearance of his own credit card.

Why is there so little respect granted to the movies of a man who must surely rank as one of the greatest filmmakers ever? Honestly, its pathetic and shameful and all concerned should hang their heads in shame at this kind of alteration of one of the great movies of that great filmmaker. drat, I so love this movie, have seen it so many many times (and will many more times). Fortunately I have a 720p recording of an HDTV broadcast and I will stay with that copy and bin the blu-ray.

Jeez Warners/Vitali et al. Do it properly or give the rights to someone who has sufficient respect.

If you *really have to* to put this crappy new B&W logo on, Warners, put it before the old zooming black on red one. In 10 years you'll change it again anyway. Who cares about it. Are you also going to butcher all the current movies that use this logo in animated fashion when the corporate lackies decide to change the look of the logo again?

a chemically imbalanced poster posted:

There's only one thing I need to write and it is the BE ALL, END ALL of any discussion (and this is the 14th time I'm writing it at Blu-ray.com)

We (human beings) got into Blu-ray for two reasons and two reasons only:

1) PQ

2) AQ

Done!

When we all bought our first HDTV or Bluray Player, we bought them so our video and audio would be awesome. We bought it to play a BLU-RAY DISC.

We didnt buy a Bluray Player so we could get trinkets (spinning dreidels for Inception) toys and cards (Wizard of Oz) or Digibooks.

The last time I checked, my Blu-ray Player cant play a Terminator head or an Inception dreidel or a Wizard of Oz pictorial...etc. It plays Blu-ray Discs.

Give us a great BD in a standard case alongside those digi-books

Space_Butler posted:

In the Big Lebowski thread on blu-ray.com, after it was announced the first print run would be in digibook packaging:


So his point is blu-ray buyers want the best PQ/AQ out of a release and that matters above all else, therefore it REALLY matters what kind of superficial packaging it comes in. (?)

Sporadic posted:

What?

His point is that we bought a Blu-Ray player for Blu-Rays, not "collectible" trinkets or digibooks which the studios use as a justification to raise the prices and that the studio should release a standard version along with any bullshit limited edition version. (since The Big Lebowski has only been announced in a limited-edition digibook so far)

Harlock posted:

Multiplesarcasm posted:

These movies are all solid, diverse and revealing looks into a wide variety of sports topics. I can't recommend them highly enough and if the price goes down about 25% it's on my list. Very pumped they decided to go blu-ray on this and package them all together.

FitFortDanga posted:

Person on HTF bitching about the STUDIO LOGO on Barry Lyndon: