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LORD OF BUTT posted:Holy poo poo that's hilarious. It would also be the best way to get T2 if it were still in print, since you'd get the best transfers of the actual movie (Skynet blu-ray and Extreme DVD) and all the extras from the Ultimate DVD (the other versions are completely bare-bones except for Extreme coming with a 720p Windows Media file of T2 on a separate disc, which was nice at the time but... antiquated now). Pretty sure it was actually 1080p and definitely didn't have enough bitrate to warrant that resolution. Was rad as hell and my only HD movie for a real long time. I'm glad I hung on to my Ultimate Edition, though. Just wish I'd gotten it early enough to get the metal slipcover.
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Nate RFB posted:I am definitely not a fan of gimmick boxes either, like the Breaking Bad barrel. Worst one of all time has to be that Alien head housing the Quadrilogy DVDs. I have the barrel because it was actually cheaper than blu ray box set at the time. (probably because no one wanted it), but I would kill for a giant alien head box set.
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Alfred Hitchcock: The Essentials Collection - $25.50 - Rear Window - Vertigo - North By Northwest - Psycho - The Birds
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Here's a special one. $115.49 - The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...625KUZEDVR6AYUP First time it's dipped below $150 $18.99 - Francis Ford Coppola: 5-Film Collection (Apocalypse Now/Apocalypse Now Redux/One From the Heart/Tetro/The Conversation) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...NWZ5AYGGSWWKHPA $27.99 - preorder The Martian 3D (+ UV code) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...QTH3XQXF4KPY42J $4.25 - Dawn Of The Dead (remake) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...34NAO4Y5JXSNDUE $4.25 - King Kong (remake) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...2LIGTYCZIDHNQZF $5.26 - Chicago (+ UV code) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...O46WESUIP5RFVB3 Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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Fast & Furious: 6-film collection - $24.99
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Call Me Charlie posted:Here's a special one. How is the quality on this release? I've always wanted to see Keaton's work and now seems as good a time as any.
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TheScott2K posted:Pretty sure it was actually 1080p and definitely didn't have enough bitrate to warrant that resolution. Was rad as hell and my only HD movie for a real long time. I'm glad I hung on to my Ultimate Edition, though. Just wish I'd gotten it early enough to get the metal slipcover. Even weirder, it was 1440x816.
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GrandpaPants posted:How is the quality on this release? I've always wanted to see Keaton's work and now seems as good a time as any. I only own The General but Kino always does a good job with these things. They don't overprocess their transfers so there's minor film damage but the added clarity of seeing a nearly 90 year old film in HD is worth it.
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Kino's Keaton releases are great, but new 4K restorations are in progress. But it'll be a few years until they are on Blu.
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I figure this would be the best place to ask. Is there any good Melies Blu Ray collection out there that's not just A Trip to the Moon?
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Speaking of older movies on blu, why hasn't there been a release for the Marx brothers movies?
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Call Me Charlie posted:Here's a special one. godDAMN it. I was about to buy this a week ago but the exchange rate butchered it to the point where I just bought a few of the B+N Criterions anyway. gently caress.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I figure this would be the best place to ask. Is there any good Melies Blu Ray collection out there that's not just A Trip to the Moon? Duey posted:Speaking of older movies on blu, why hasn't there been a release for the Marx brothers movies? Melies eventually since Flicker Alley put out HD streams on their site. The five Paramount Marx films have new 4K restorations coming next year. Warner is working on A Night at the Opera since they found an almost uncut print in Hungary.
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Egbert Souse posted:The five Paramount Marx films have new 4K restorations coming next year. Warner is working on A Night at the Opera since they found an almost uncut print in Hungary. This is awesome news! Thanks!
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Mad Max: Fury Road (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Ultraviolet) - $16.81 Awww yeah.
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Neo_Reloaded posted:Mad Max: Fury Road (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Ultraviolet) - $16.81 Awww yeah. I'm not sure if they're still doing it but the other day Best Buy had the blu-ray only Fury Road for $7.99.
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Call Me Charlie posted:I have to give Star Wars fans credit, doing a scan of a 35mm print of The Empire Strikes Back is hardcore and extremely cool. What would be a good program to play this on? Also, I didn't realize the Batman TV set included a hot wheels Batmobile.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Signature Edition) - Feb. 2 New extras include a bunch of Disney Channel crap. They're not including the massive supplemental disc that also included about an hour of classic cartoons, along with documentaries, trailers, and interviews. They're also leaving off the original mono track that was on the Diamond Edition.
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TheScott2K posted:Pretty sure it was actually 1080p and definitely didn't have enough bitrate to warrant that resolution. Was rad as hell and my only HD movie for a real long time. I'm glad I hung on to my Ultimate Edition, though. Just wish I'd gotten it early enough to get the metal slipcover. The special features on the Ultimate DVD are ridiculous, back before special features were standardized into a 9-minute "behind the scenes" promo fluff piece and maybe some bloopers. It had a SCENE-BY-SCENE shooting diary for the film along with screenshots, as well as breakdowns of every VFX shot in the movie. A lot of it is text, but it's ridiculously in-depth.
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Steve Yun posted:Even weirder, it was 1440x816. Weird - it always wanted to extend the player past the edge of the 1600x1200 monitor of my laptop back then. HD video sure was a clusterfuck back then.
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Armyman25 posted:What would be a good program to play this on? The Despecialized editions should work fine in VLC, Kodi, or Media Player Classic. They're mkv files so I'm not sure if they'll play nice with Windows Media Player or similar, though
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Amazon has the Best of Warner 50-film collection for just $125, which includes: 1. Grand Hotel* (1932) 2. Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935) 3. Wizard of Oz (1939) 4. Gone with The Wind* (1939) 5. Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 6. Mrs. Miniver* (1942) 7. Casablanca* (1942) 8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 9. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) 10. American in Paris, An* (1951) 11. Singin' in the Rain (1952) 12. Gigi(1958) 13. North By Northwest (1959) 14. Ben-Hur* (1959) 15. How the West Was Won (1962) 16. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 17. Cool Hand Luke (1967) 18. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 19. Bullitt (1968) 20. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971) 21. Dirty Harry (1971) 22. Clockwork Orange, A (1972) 23. Exorcist, The (1973) 24. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest* (1975) 25. Superman, The Movie (1977) 26. Shining, The (1980) 27. Chariots of Fire* (1981) 28. Risky Business (1983) 29. Amadeus* (1984) 30. Color Purple, The (1985) 31. Lethal Weapon (1987) 32. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 33. Driving Miss Daisy* (1989) 34. Goodfellas (1990) 35. Unforgiven* (1992) 36. Bodyguard, The(1992) 37. Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) (1994) 38. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 39. Matrix, The (1999) 40. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) 41. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 42. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 43. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (2003) 44. Million Dollar Baby* (2005) 45. Departed, The* (2006) 46. Dark Knight, The (2008) 47. Blind Side, The (2009) 48. Hangover, The (2009) 49. Sherlock Holmes (2009) 50. Inception (2010) I'd like to own or kind of want to own 25 of those, which is around $5 a pop. Kind of tempting to have everything in a nice, compact package but feels like a waste when I'm not going to watch many of them.
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I'd trade you some Blu-Rays for the Ultraviolet code. (or you could probably sell it)
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LORD OF BUTT posted:The Despecialized editions should work fine in VLC, Kodi, or Media Player Classic. They're mkv files so I'm not sure if they'll play nice with Windows Media Player or similar, though The Harmy editions work fine, all I can find of the ESB Grindhouse is a 24gb file that I can't get to work.
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morestuff posted:Amazon has the Best of Warner 50-film collection for just $125, which includes: To be fair, you can get a lot of the good movies in here for 5-10 bucks each on blu-ray.
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I never really understood the point of those huge box sets unless you're really super hard-up on space or you're buying it as a gift for a burgeoning cinephile friend.
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It's basically an instant collection if you're just now getting a BD player.
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Terrorist Fistbump posted:I'd buy the poo poo out of that box set if I had the dough right now. Lots of stuff I'd probably never think to watch if I didn't get it in a pack like that. Yeah, there's only like 10 duds in that set so $2.49 per movie for a Blu-Ray and UV copy is really good deal. Even better if you don't care about the UV code and sell that to offset the cost more.
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Amazon doesn't have any copies of the latest Citizen Kane blu listed. Is it going out of print?
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Jack Gladney posted:Amazon doesn't have any copies of the latest Citizen Kane blu listed. Is it going out of print? Amazon's all hosed up when it comes to listing them. The book (which I think was Best Buy exclusive) is first and if you dig around, you can find the Ultimate Edition in stock for $41.81 (under 'other sellers on amazon') http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...SMEX35KBS5VRIK5
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Jack Gladney posted:Amazon doesn't have any copies of the latest Citizen Kane blu listed. Is it going out of print? It's probably getting a plain case repackage. The first edition was a digipak with The Battle for Citizen Kane and RKO 281 (both on DVD), then a digibook second edition that left off those two discs. I jumped for the Amazon exclusive that included The Magnificent Ambersons.
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Armyman25 posted:The Harmy editions work fine, all I can find of the ESB Grindhouse is a 24gb file that I can't get to work. So your options are basically:
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LORD OF BUTT posted:It's basically an instant collection if you're just now getting a BD player. My problem with those kind of sets is I like to organize my movie collection in some way, usually by genre or director, and a set that's all over the place like that kinda throws a monkey wrench into the whole thing. Great deal though, can't argue that.
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g0del posted:The people who did the grindhouse release might know a lot about scanning 35mm film, but they're kind of idiots about encoding the finished product. The most widely available version was encoded as a 24Mbps AVC with the High 4:2:2@L4 profile. The 4:2:2 is the sticking point here - I don't think anything supports hardware decoding of 4:2:2 video, so you need to watch it on something powerful enough to decode it in software. They later took some advice and released a fixed encode with more sane settings, but as far as I can tell that's only available on a private torrent site which isn't inviting new members. Thanks, that's a very comprehensive answer and is much appreciated.
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Basebf555 posted:My problem with those kind of sets is I like to organize my movie collection in some way, usually by genre or director, and a set that's all over the place like that kinda throws a monkey wrench into the whole thing. Great deal though, can't argue that. I organize my collection in reverse alphabetical order by the second letter of the Key Grip's last name.
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Xenomrph posted:I organize my collection in reverse alphabetical order by the second letter of the Key Grip's last name. What can I say, I enjoy organizing and reorganizing my collection and then staring at it lovingly. I'm not a healthy person.
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Alphabetically by director's last name and then chronological order. Then you throw The Twilight Zone Movie into the garbage where it belongs. (exceptforthelithgowone)
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