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Big Mean Jerk posted:I wonder what the Bruce Lee box would include? Shout just did decent releases for The Big Boss and The Chinese Connection not that long ago. Shout's box has Fist of Fury, The Big Boss, Way of the Dragon, Game of Death, and Game of Death II (same as some ancient Fox DVD sets years ago). They later issued Fist of Fury and The Big Boss separately from newer 4K masters, but they quickly went OOP. I recall Way of the Dragon and Game of Death were both upscales. FortuneStar owns the films and I'm guessing Criterion/Janus has the rights to their library in the US now. It wouldn't surprise me if they did a theatrical reissue. edit: It's also possible they'll get Enter the Dragon from WB Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jan 1, 2020 |
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Egbert Souse posted:Shout's box has Fist of Fury, The Big Boss, Way of the Dragon, Game of Death, and Game of Death II (same as some ancient Fox DVD sets years ago). They later issued Fist of Fury and The Big Boss separately from newer 4K masters, but they quickly went OOP. I recall Way of the Dragon and Game of Death were both upscales. That would be one very nice box set.
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Started watching the '70s sci-fi that was put on the Criterion Channel and No Blade of Grass is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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i'd take pretty much any HK action box set over a bruce lee one personally
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Well, we got Jackie Chan recently at least
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I’d love a Brucesploitation set with proper remastering.
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I was actually looking for a few Wong Kar-wai films last sale but a few of them were unavailable. I hope the box set is out for the July sale at least.
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Jan 6, 2020 20:07
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Jan 7, 2020 09:49
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Gimme that original cut of The Grandmaster
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Gimme that upscaled laserdisc rip of the original cut of Ashes of Time 🤞
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Gimme that original cut of The Grandmaster I said this for a while, too, until I saw it.
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Just in case anyone else has been meaning to see Hardcore with George C Scott it's on the channel and it whips rear end
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Bring it onnnnn https://twitter.com/janusfilms/status/1215017322886389760?s=19
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That 70’s sci fi collection sure is nifty. It’s also pretty big. I’ve already seen the biggest ones (THX, Clockwork, Death Race 2000, and Mad Max). What would you say are the best of the rest? No Blade of Grass The Omega Man ZPG Westworld Soylent Green The Terminal Man Rollerball A Boy and His Dog Shivers The Ultimate Warrior Logan’s Run God Told Me To Demon Seed
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I remember liking Omega Man way more than I thought I would the last time I watched it. Logan’s Run starts solid but really runs out of gas and gets stale once they escape the city. I know a lot of folks love A Boy and His Dog but I just couldn’t get through it. Westworld is good but the last hour-ish is just a pretty standard cat and mouse chase that doesn’t hit the same highs as the first half of the movie.
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Demon Seed is bonkers and owns. This transfer is great too.
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A Boy And His Dog is one of those movies where I can understand why people can't get through it, but man the ending really is what makes it.
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God Told Me To is amazing and everyone should watch it. One of two movies in existence to feature a man with a chest vagina.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:That 70’s sci fi collection sure is nifty. It’s also pretty big. I’ve already seen the biggest ones (THX, Clockwork, Death Race 2000, and Mad Max). What would you say are the best of the rest? I've got God Told Me To, Demon Seed, Shivers, and Rollerball on my list to watch this week, but... A Boy and His Dog and Westworld are fun, even if the latter is way more high brow. Logan's Run is kind of silly and oddly cheap-looking, but worth it for the cast (though, be warned that while it's PG, it has full frontal nudity). Everyone should also check out the Luis Bunuel films, too.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:That 70’s sci fi collection sure is nifty. It’s also pretty big. I’ve already seen the biggest ones (THX, Clockwork, Death Race 2000, and Mad Max). What would you say are the best of the rest? I'm watching all of them in order and of the ones here I've seen, Soylent Green and Rollerball are the best. Soylent Green was incredibly better than I expected but knowing the ending already put a damper on it. Rollerball is hilariously violent in a way that had to have injured a lot of the actors. ZPG is interesting and kind of worth watching but it's not what I'd call good. The last one I watched was A Boy and His Dog and it's incredibly rapey. There's a lot of poor treatment of women in these movies but this was one of the worst.
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I did a Death Race 2000/Rollerball and then Omega Man/Soylent Green double bill the next night. So now I gotta figure out if I can do doubles on the rest lol. Also funny watching Soylent Green after all these years and being reminded that it takes place in 2022, where there's a permanent heatwave in NYC due to the greenhouse effect...
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Rollerball loving rules and you should watch it before it disappears. Westworld is also a good time just for watching Yul Brynner be a terror.
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Demon Seed is a trip. Boy and His Dog has a great payoff but it takes awhile to get there. Funny how a majority of these are free on tubi rn
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Broadcast News is pretty good. Although crazy long for a romcom. And the love triangle is absurdly lopsided. A handsome guy who's popular and great at his job but still humble and honest and open about his feelings and supports women vs an insecure rear end in a top hat who sucks and doesn't believe in date rape.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:WONG BOX WHEN https://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/status/1217192100644708352 This might be a good preview of the contents. No Ashes of Time, or anything past In the Mood for Love except the director's cut of The Hand (which is exciting). It's nice to see confirmation they have Days of Being Wild and As Tears Go By.
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Gripweed posted:Broadcast News is pretty good. Although crazy long for a romcom. And the love triangle is absurdly lopsided. A handsome guy who's popular and great at his job but still humble and honest and open about his feelings and supports women vs an insecure rear end in a top hat who sucks and doesn't believe in date rape. Each time I watch it, I love it more and more. My wife and I purchased the Criterion Channel for a year, which came with a 2-week trial. Our first film kept freezing. Asked around, saw this is a common issue, so we cancelled the service before the trial was done. Oh well!
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Twin Cinema posted:Each time I watch it, I love it more and more. Was that recently? Because those problems were pretty rampant in the first couple of months, but I haven't had an issue for at least half a year.
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FancyMike posted:https://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/status/1217192100644708352 Oh my god. It's perfect.
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Origami Dali posted:Was that recently? Because those problems were pretty rampant in the first couple of months, but I haven't had an issue for at least half a year. Yep, was two weeks ago. My friend tried again last week and there was a similar issue.
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Twin Cinema posted:Yep, was two weeks ago. My friend tried again last week and there was a similar issue. That sucks. I had hoped by this point they would've designed and applied their own customized FilmStruck-esque interface instead of just plugging in their content into whatever streaming template their farmed out Vimeo crew paid for. They should be better than this.
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I'm a sick gently caress who prefers Fallen Angels to Chungking Express so I'm really looking forward to a Criterion release of that.
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Cacator posted:I'm a sick gently caress who prefers Fallen Angels to Chungking Express so I'm really looking forward to a Criterion release of that. I wouldn't go that far but I finally revisited Fallen Angels the other night and, seen out of the shadow of Chungking, it's a loving amazing film in its own right. It has a very 90s-esque conception of "cool" but Wong is good enough to get away with it, not least because his characters are so weird and lonely and otherwise empathetic. However: I also just saw 2046 and I think that might be my favorite of all.
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I think my issue is with bifurcated films in general since I almost always prefer one half of the movie over the other (and it's usually the first half as it is in Chungking Express). Having said that the most recent film I saw that did that was Waves which I thought was fantastic and totally justified in splitting up the story the way it did.
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https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1217559491102810117?s=20 Army of Shadows is back.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know is missing a big ))<>(( on the cover.
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I never realized that the pooping back and forth forever movie was actually good. Or at least Criterion quality.
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Glad to see Budapest coming finally. Really looking forward to revisiting Destry Rides Again as well, that's a fun film.
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GrandpaPants posted:I never realized that the pooping back and forth forever movie was actually good. Or at least Criterion quality. It's not.
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