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Good advice. I think I'll hold off. An unrelated question. Do any of you without UHD players/4k TVs still purchase the UHD versions for the sake of future proofing? I notice that nearly all UHD releases also include the 1080 Blu-ray. I'm not 4k-ready yet but I will be in the next couple years.
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Kino Lorber just confirmed the latest major studio they're licensing from is... Disney. The titles, though, are limited to the ABC Films, Selznick International, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures libraries. They haven't confirmed any titles yet, but notable unreleased/OOP titles in these libraries: All four Hitchcock films produced for Selznick (Rebecca, Spellbound, Notorious, and The Paradine Case) [MGM released all but Paradine on Blu-Ray, now OOP] Straw Dogs They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Duel in the Sun Portrait of Jennie Since You've Been Away Sleuth Take the Money and Run Prizzi's Honor Silkwood The Ref Cabin Boy Super Mario Bros. (lol) What About Bob? Kazaam (lol) Quiz Show Grosse Pointe Blank Spatulater bro! posted:Good advice. I think I'll hold off. I almost got the Deadpool 4K to "future proof" but I was vain and went for the Target Blu-Ray in a red case. I'll probably get the 4K edition when applicable, except I rarely get blind buy new releases. Most of my purchases are catalog titles.
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Feb 9, 2017 23:36
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The Rock super duper better than criterion edition please.
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Feb 9, 2017 23:49
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I'm going to buy the Super Mario Bros movie.
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Feb 9, 2017 23:52
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CelticPredator posted:The Rock super duper better than criterion edition please. It's already out from Disney. This will be for films not yet on DVD or Blu-Ray, if it's anything like the other licensed libraries they've handled.
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Feb 10, 2017 00:07
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Spatulater bro! posted:Good advice. I think I'll hold off. Yeah, I've done it for a couple titles in the last year. It's a fairly small price difference and it allows me to entertain the idea of one day having a full-fledged home theater setup. Having said that, I honestly don't think I'll ever actually own a TV large enough to notice the difference, and the black cases gently caress up the look of my blu-ray collection.
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Baronash posted:Yeah, I've done it for a couple titles in the last year. It's a fairly small price difference and it allows me to entertain the idea of one day having a full-fledged home theater setup. I'm already sitting relatively close to my 65" plasma (about 8 feet away), but when I eventually upgrade to 4K I'm seriously considering going with a 75". It'll devour the room but it'll look glorious. Maybe by the time I upgrade I'll be able to buy a 75" 4K OLED without having to take out a second mortgage on my house.
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Feb 10, 2017 01:00
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Egbert Souse posted:Kino Lorber just confirmed the latest major studio they're licensing from is... Disney. I just bought Prizzi's Honor on DVD too, drat.
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Feb 10, 2017 01:00
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Spatulater bro! posted:Good advice. I think I'll hold off. It's weird to see this one the page that followed the "THIS IS THE DEATH OF PHYSICAL MEDIA!" discussion. Also to answer your question, no I don't do that because the UHD library is diarrhea, I think the format is going to go the way of Betamax, and I can;t see myself ever owning a 1500 inch tv. egon_beeblebrox posted:I'm going to buy the Super Mario Bros movie. I'd be loving delighted to own Super Mario Bros on blu-ray.
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Feb 10, 2017 02:33
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CPL593H posted:I'd be loving delighted to own Super Mario Bros on blu-ray.
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To clarify... here's what the Kino rep said on the Blu-Ray.com forums: "We don't have any, not even one titles from the actual Walt Disney library, so no Song of the South or any other unreleased features or cartoons. We also have no titles previously released on DVD under the BVHE banners (Buena Vista, Walt Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood, etc)." So, unfortunately, that means no to Super Mario Bros (as well as Kazaam, What About Bob, The Ref, etc). Even though the only US DVDs were ports of laserdisc transfers. Also, apparently Sleuth is owned by another company, so it's not part of the library. Seems like the deal is mostly about the ABC Films/Selznick titles and there's supposed to be around 100 total.
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Feb 10, 2017 05:00
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Super Mario Bros. has a blu-ray in the UK coming out very soon though https://www.zavvi.com/blu-ray/super-mario-bros-zavvi-exclusive-limited-edition-steelbook/11374103.html
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Feb 10, 2017 05:22
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I don't see Song of the South coming out in this political climate. It's nowhere near what people have built up in their minds, but it is still very much a product of its time.
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Casimir Radon posted:I don't see Song of the South coming out in this political climate. It's nowhere near what people have built up in their minds, but it is still very much a product of its time. I think the only way it could be released is if someone made a documentary about it or if someone bought the rights. It's actually an absurdly tame movie. Those expecting something like The Birth of a Nation will be disappointed since it's actually less uncomfortable to watch than Gone with the Wind. Hell, it's more progressive than most of the films with African-Americans of the time.
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Feb 10, 2017 06:07
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Casimir Radon posted:At the very least the production design is pretty cool. The production design is amazing. It also has some surprisingly good matte work, but aside from that I love how much of a bewildering mess the movie is and how they interpreted the characters and themes from the game into all kinds of weird abstraction. A large black woman in a spiky outfit is the thing that goes "Thwomp". It's not by any means a good movie, but it's loving wild.
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Feb 10, 2017 06:10
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Egbert Souse posted:I think the only way it could be released is if someone made a documentary about it or if someone bought the rights. It's actually an absurdly tame movie. Those expecting something like The Birth of a Nation will be disappointed since it's actually less uncomfortable to watch than Gone with the Wind. Surprise they didn't do something similar on DVD like with War Time Shorts where they have a intro about the subject can be offensive.
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Feb 10, 2017 06:15
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CPL593H posted:The production design is amazing. It also has some surprisingly good matte work, but aside from that I love how much of a bewildering mess the movie is and how they interpreted the characters and themes from the game into all kinds of weird abstraction. A large black woman in a spiky outfit is the thing that goes "Thwomp". It's not by any means a good movie, but it's loving wild. Actually she's Big Bertha: 
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Feb 10, 2017 08:25
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$7.75 - Pushing Daisies: Season 1 https://www.amazon.com/Pushing-Dais...12b28da63888823 $10.49 - Pushing Daisies: Season 2 https://www.amazon.com/Pushing-Dais...010047aa42eb424 It's also around the same price ($7.99 & $9.99) if you'd rather buy it in HD from Amazon Video.
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Feb 10, 2017 09:36
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The cartoons in Song of the South are great and still teach a unique lesson. The live action parts are boring but yeah it's not as racist as it's made out to be. Granted it is bad in current times but it's way more tamer to the stuff Warner Bros was doing at the time. Disney is still reluctant to even put out merchandise in regards to Splash Mountain so I don't think we'll ever see Song of the South on blu ray.  if anything I wish they'd just strip out the cartoons and release them on their own like they did for the new Oswald cartoon.
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Feb 10, 2017 14:50
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Empress Brosephine posted:The cartoons in Song of the South are great and still teach a unique lesson. The live action parts are boring but yeah it's not as racist as it's made out to be. Granted it is bad in current times but it's way more tamer to the stuff Warner Bros was doing at the time. They could get some good publicity by putting it out with appropriate warnings and accompanying documentaries and also give the proceeds to a relevant charity.
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If it doesn't come out this year where it turned 70 (or 75 can't remember) then we probably won't see it for a long time.
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Feb 10, 2017 15:07
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Egbert Souse posted:Kino Lorber just confirmed the latest major studio they're licensing from is... Disney. Super down for these ones. Quiz Show is so underrated.
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I think Disney simply doesn't have a good enough excuse to release Song of the South yet. Regardless of how offensive the movie actually is, they know it'll cause a PR frenzy if they try to release it, and not the kind of PR frenzy they typically like to cultivate. "Animation nerds want it" really isn't a good enough reason yet. At this point they've gone conspicuously long without releasing it, so they would need something else that lets them say, "Yeah we know it might be offensive and so we have a disclaimer, but we really want to release it right now because _________________". A documentary about it, like someone suggested above, would be a good excuse -- they could just quietly include the full movie in the same blu-ray package. Either that or just like, no fanfare at all, just throw it out there. But that doesn't sound like a financial decision Disney would make.
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The easiest thing for Disney is to just license it to a boutique label. They just have a dumb licensing stance. Important films with expensive restorations are being released as Disney Movie Club exclusives like Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, Pollyanna, and Old Yeller. Others are sitting on the shelf like Song of the South and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.Empress Brosephine posted:The cartoons in Song of the South are great and still teach a unique lesson. The live action parts are boring but yeah it's not as racist as it's made out to be. Granted it is bad in current times but it's way more tamer to the stuff Warner Bros was doing at the time. I think all the animated segments were part of Disneyland episodes that ended up on various Walt Disney Treasures DVDs. I'd jump all over Blu upgrades of those sets, especially since they all have 4K masters now. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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Feb 10, 2017 15:14
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TBH they throw a lot of their really obscure titles on Blu Ray exclusively on their Disney Moviw Club program. Lots of old programs like Davy Crockett, Three Caballeros etc. that would be the ideal outlet for it, but they know it's bigger then it should be.
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CPL593H posted:The production design is amazing. It also has some surprisingly good matte work, but aside from that I love how much of a bewildering mess the movie is and how they interpreted the characters and themes from the game into all kinds of weird abstraction. A large black woman in a spiky outfit is the thing that goes "Thwomp". It's not by any means a good movie, but it's loving wild. This is exactly why I don't hate the movie. It's really interesting and, dare I say, fun.
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Feb 10, 2017 15:25
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http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2015/05/song-of-south-disneys-loaded-gun.html?m=1 This is a good article by probably the best Disney historian alive. Worth a read.
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Feb 10, 2017 15:27
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Parallax posted:Super Mario Bros. has a blu-ray in the UK coming out very soon though And its a steelbook? man o man, I want that although the cover art isn't my favorite. Will have to read what the transfer is like.
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Feb 10, 2017 17:07
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The regular edition was already released a few years ago, it looks about as good as transfers get: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=5445&d2=5446&c=2222
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Llamadeus posted:The regular edition was already released a few years ago, it looks about as good as transfers get: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=5445&d2=5446&c=2222 Wow, I expected it to look decent, but that honestly looks like a full 2K or 4K remaster.
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Egbert Souse posted:Wow, I expected it to look decent, but that honestly looks like a full 2K or 4K remaster. Yeah no joke that looks amazing. Wish the pre-order page told me if it was a new transfer or that previous one. Might just preorder it anyway.....
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Egbert Souse posted:Wow, I expected it to look decent, but that honestly looks like a full 2K or 4K remaster. Yeah, I got my copy a few days ago and the transfer is out of this world. Having last seen in on VHS, I gotta say I appreciate it a little bit more now.
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Feb 10, 2017 17:21
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Jesus, I can't believe you guys are making me consider buying Super Mario Bros.
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Feb 10, 2017 17:24
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lol if you guys don't have the 1080p scan somebody did of a privately-owned song of the south ib technicolor 35 print
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Rusty Staub posted:lol if you guys don't have the 1080p scan somebody did of a privately-owned song of the south ib technicolor 35 print This exists???
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Feb 10, 2017 17:33
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Spatulater bro! posted:Jesus, I can't believe you guys are making me consider buying Super Mario Bros. Ain't no shame in the bluray game. 
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Feb 10, 2017 17:54
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Empress Brosephine posted:This exists??? I don't know about this one in particular, but there's definitely a healthy scene of similar preservations.
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Empress Brosephine posted:This exists??? I just looked on a site I'm obviously not going to give a name to. But I found they have a 1080p version from a 35 scan. Below are their preview images from that scan. https://ptpimg.me/dh7j7i.png https://ptpimg.me/gtvh52.png https://ptpimg.me/4kf1bd.png https://ptpimg.me/1m30a5.png More here: http://imgur.com/a/Pj8rS
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It's about time someone did something with GROSSE POINTE BLANK. I have no idea why that and HIGH FIDELITY have such terrible releases.
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