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I snagged a couple of the $7 Walmart seasonal blus and learned that I have somehow never seen the original Child's Play. Also heads up, their edition of Poltergeist is a 2015 remake that I apparently forgot happened. At least it stars Sam Rockwell 
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Iron Crowned posted:Also heads up, their edition of Poltergeist is a 2015 remake that I apparently forgot happened. At least it stars Sam Rockwell It's actually surprisingly not that bad. As far as remakes go, you could do way worse. I'd say it's one of the better ones of the last decade or so.
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Amazon has Universal’s Marx Bros. set for $18.99 right now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01K...rQ6L&ref=plSrch It has all five Paramount comedies from new 4K restorations: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup. Animal Crackers is the newly rediscovered pre-code version and there’s a feature-length documentary on the films. The films don’t look perfect, but they’re all a gigantic improvement over the DVDs.
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Mimic UV code: 96CM47JJB3Q6
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smallmouth posted:Mimic UV code: I redeemed this, thanks! Was just thinking about this movie yesterday too.
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Jumanji UHD - Dec. 4 New 4K remaster from the camera negative. New features include deleted scenes and a gag reel featuring Robin Williams.
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codyclarke posted:It's actually surprisingly not that bad. As far as remakes go, you could do way worse. I'd say it's one of the better ones of the last decade or so. gently caress that.
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Rocco posted:gently caress that. I held off commenting because I figured maybe I was just pissed off that I got fooled like that, but I found it to be very unnecessary at best. It felt like it couldn't decide if it was a straight up remake or a reboot. They renamed all the characters, and gave the brother a half-assed redemption arc which made it feel like they rushed the script. I think there were only two things I liked, the concept of using a drone, and the "Hooper High School" bumper sticker. Even Sam Rockwell was underused and felt to me like he was just phoning it in. Not to mention the CGI was PS2 levels of bad, especially for 2015. EDIT: On the other hand it did make me wonder what people thought at the time about remakes of what we consider classics now like The Thing or The Fly. Iron Crowned fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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I know that The Thing was poorly received on release.Vincent Canby of the New York Times posted:"a foolish, depressing, overproduced movie that mixes horror with science fiction to make something that is fun as neither one thing or the other. Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80s.
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Iron Crowned posted:On the other hand it did make me wonder what people thought at the time about remakes of what we consider classics now like The Thing or The Fly. I remember a Danish reviewer being upset about Cronenberg wasting his time on a "conventional horror remake" (or something of that ilk) like The Fly. I agree that it's not as out there as some of his earlier stuff, but that doesn't make it less awesome.
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Did anyone order Devil's Honey from severin? They said my preorder was "ready" about a week ago but I haven't received a shipping confirmation/tracking email. First time pre-ordering from them so I'm not sure if I need to do something or just be patient.
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Oct 3, 2017 15:35
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Iron Crowned posted:EDIT: I always wondered what Vincent Price thought of the remake and looking around on the internet, I scrounged up my answer! quote:Vincent Price starred in the original 1958 The Fly and Goldblum reached out to the icon via letter. Goldblum wrote that “I hope you like it as much as I liked yours”. After viewing the movie, Price wrote back that it was “wonderful right up to a certain point… it went a little too far.”
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Oct 3, 2017 23:51
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Amazon just dropped the original House of Wax to $14.99. https://www.amazon.com/House-of-Wax...m=ATVPDKIKX0DER It's been $30+ for the longest time. Not only in 3-D, but from a 4K restoration with a re-creation of the original stereo surround track, plus a commentary, making-of doc, the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, and the trailer.
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Liar Lyre posted:I know that The Thing was poorly received on release. We should all aspire to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80s.
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UV code for Glengarry Glen Ross. Please post if you take it so other don't bother: TAKEN. UV code for Hardcore Henry. As before, please post if you take it: TAKEN. Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:UV code for Glengarry Glen Ross. Please post if you take it so other don't bother: JGTGTMBJWTGQ. Grabbed Glengarry. Imma abstain from taking these for a while, I seem to get lucky when clicking this thread with an unfair frequency. Thanks for posting codes, you're doing God's work. My wife's gonna see Glengarry tonight TheScott2K fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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TheScott2K posted:Grabbed Glengarry. Imma abstain from taking these for a while, I seem to get lucky when clicking this thread with an unfair frequency. Thanks for posting codes, you're doing God's work. UV codes are for closers.
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Cloks posted:UV codes are for closers. Always be coding
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Sir Kodiak posted:UV code for Hardcore Henry. As before, please post if you take it: PKAHAEKLTH6H.
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Oct 4, 2017 21:57
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On the subject of the upcoming Ghibli re-releases, as far as anyone is aware is the information in this list accurate? It would mean that the only titles I might want/need to double dip on are Kiki, Laputa, and Mononoke.
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UV code for John Wick (the first, not the second). Please post if you take it so others don't bother: TAKEN.
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Oct 6, 2017 19:54
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John Wick is great, whoever claims that will be very happy.
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Unless they love dogs. (My wife won't watch it.)
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It's the best movie for dog lovers though. He murders a ton of people over a dog. If that's doesn't make you hug your pup, nothing will.
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Claimed it! Thanks a bunch!
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Egbert Souse posted:Amazon just dropped the original House of Wax to $14.99. Thanks for the heads up on this. It was the same price in the .ca store so I snatched it up.
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IUG posted:Unless they love dogs. (My wife won't watch it.) She can watch the sequel though, the dog is 100% safe the whole movie and even gets to hang out with Lance Reddick.
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Figures, I just bought the dvd sets two months ago
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Oct 9, 2017 02:22
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Aww yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I hope they don't gently caress it up.
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Rewatching BTAS is sorta weird since a whole lot of the episodes are really bad (like the one where Batman gets amnesia and joins some sort of slave labor camp?) and we just remember the amazing ones like Heart of Ice.
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GrandpaPants posted:Rewatching BTAS is sorta weird since a whole lot of the episodes are really bad (like the one where Batman gets amnesia and joins some sort of slave labor camp?) and we just remember the amazing ones like Heart of Ice. I think the majority of them are great.
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GrandpaPants posted:Rewatching BTAS is sorta weird since a whole lot of the episodes are really bad (like the one where Batman gets amnesia and joins some sort of slave labor camp?) and we just remember the amazing ones like Heart of Ice. Season one has a few clunkers for sure but episode you're talking about rules, so maybe you just have bad taste.
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Yeah I used to have major rose-colored glasses about BTAS. I became a big fan of Batman Beyond and Justice League but had this vague sense that they still weren't as unbelievably amazing as BTAS. But when you go back and watch it... I'd say it's about even. They were really churning 'em out.
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Yea if you look at the ten best episodes of each season it may be the best animated show ever made, but they were cranking out 20+ per season and like a third of them aren't that great. But the lesser episodes are still way better than what was in kid's cartoons at the time.
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As a show for kids I think it's really very good. "Serious" action shows for kids were absolute trash at that time, so even the ones that don't pass muster as good in an absolute sense were generally better than anything else at the time. I watched some Gargoyles a while back, and in a sense it seems really clear that show had a goal of out-sophisticating the Batman cartoon in terms of plot and character complexity. Their main villain is a millionaire with a ton of gadgets and a super-suit who is also an emotionally rich and deep character. It's almost like a parody of kids' entertainment trying to be "serious.l
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It's definitely true that the stuff from that time that stands out today are the shows that did the bare minimum to not insult the intelligence of the kids watching. So like, Gargoyles, as simplistic a show as it is, had characters expressing legit emotions and also staying somewhat consistent. The different gargoyles had their own character that didn't just change at the drop of a hat to serve the needs of this weeks' episode. That alone put it ahead of most other shows and made you feel like you were watching a "real show" as a kid.
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CPL593H posted:Aww yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Better not be a BD-R release.
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codyclarke posted:Better not be a BD-R release. I was thinking more in terms of them doing dumb poo poo like cropping it into widescreen or doing a lovely remaster.
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WB doesn't do BD-R, only replicated Blu-rays. They just do smaller runs than a regular release if it's Warner Archive. Also, they've been good about keeping original aspect ratios. The Blu-ray of the It miniseries is the original broadcast version in 1.33:1 instead of 1.78:1 and edited to feature-length like the DVD. I think they even kept the 1.33:1 aspect ratio for Justice League.
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