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zer0spunk posted:that 2007 cgi is real bad. More definition is not our friend in this case, I may downgrade to DVD.
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Aug 8, 2023 23:05
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On the plus that's the last thing that movie is about all things considered and the least important in a sense. I rewatched the ending just now, and it made me remember while I thought it was kinda over the top, I appreciated it had the balls to do it and lionsgate stuff isn't priced badly, even if this is a 4 disc set according to the cover art. Fine FRANK, you win, I'll buy it.
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Aug 8, 2023 23:12
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zer0spunk posted:yes It helps the cgi for sure but I think overall the movie just looks better in black and white. Plus that's how Darabont wanted it released in theaters but the studio said no.
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Aug 9, 2023 00:11
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Been waiting for The Mist, nice
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I believe the North American rights to The Hitcher are with Warner Bros., so that could come from them directly, Warner Archive, or more likely Scream Factory.HannibalBarca posted:https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1688899901600444416?t=ShXzkHoySrSwm8P4ghwCeA&s=19 Worth noting the 4K restoration was done by 3-D Film Archive several years ago for theatrical DCP and Blu-ray, including a restoration of the original 3-track stereo soundtrack. The Blu-ray will have both 2D and 3D versions, while the UHD is obviously 2D only.
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VinSyns physical store got the unearthed films release of august underground today, no way that combination of company and movie doesn’t get you put on a government watchlist
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Aug 9, 2023 02:32
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What heck is this steelbook for The Mist? That's the best you could do? Really? https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Mist-4K-Blu-ray/343350/
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Basebf555 posted:What heck is this steelbook for The Mist? That's the best you could do? Really? You gotta show the whole thing  I like it, it looks like some goosebumps poo poo. The standard cover is still cooler, but I already have a few of these best buy exclusive slipcover lionsgate releases so what's one more.
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Aug 9, 2023 18:56
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The slipcover does make it slightly better I guess. I do love those stiff plastic slipcovers that Best Buy's been doing.
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Aug 9, 2023 18:57
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lol that's a skip. the slip for the regular edition is way better artwork.
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Aug 9, 2023 18:58
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If you just get the standard, so far all the lionsgate stuff has dropped to 16ish from 20+ if you wait a little. See: belly, res dogs..I don't think this movie is super popular, I can see it hitting sales to move units. e: also bluray.com says it's a 2k upscale, which doesn't make sense to me, it was shot on 35mm. So they are just uprezzing the 2k DI? Kinda hoping they'd scan the negative and just upscale the VFX elements, but that requires actual effort. the uk steel for the blu is kinda rad: 
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Aug 9, 2023 19:02
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The Best Buy Steelbook with plastic slipcover for The Man Who Fell To Earth is pretty much the main reason to own what is a kinda unremarkable movie. It's absolutely beautiful.
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Aug 9, 2023 19:12
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It's goofy but I like it, the font they used on the title is so bad.
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Honestly, knowing it's an upscale I would wait on reviews if you already have the blu..assuming the blu was a good transfer. Lionsgate has been good so far, but I don't think this is one of those things where you're going to see a huge difference outside of the bigger color/contrast dynamic range of HDR. I don't own any version of this, and it's not exactly known for groundbreaking cinematography or anything, so I'm good with it but YMMV
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Enter the dragon looks fantastic btw for anyone on the fence on that. Between this and cool hand luke it feels like they are putting in effort on these warner 100 releases
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Yea The Mist is a movie that I'd like to add to my collection at some point just because it's a neat monster flick with some good characters and solid acting. But I wouldn't expect it to have the wow factor that we look for when we're debating whether to double dip and upgrade a blu to UHD. If it had more practical effects then maybe it would but those 2007 effects definitely seem like they'd hold it back from being top tier UHD. So it's one of those conversations where the decision is totally different depending on whether you already own the blu ray. Because I'm sure the UHD will be the best version of the film to own but maybe not by such a wide margin that it's worth $20 to upgrade. We'll see.
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Did anyone post a picture of the new Rosemary's Baby UHD cover because it's got to be the worst I've seen in a long time.dorium posted:But would it be worth someone buying my current blu-ray so I can justify upgrading Last I checked the blu-ray was going for silly money. So even if this new disc doesn't have some wow factor that makes it worth a double dip it's good for anyone who didn't manage to get a copy before. Though I suppose they're about to be cheap now. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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CPL593H posted:Did anyone post a picture of the new Rosemary's Baby UHD cover because it's got to be the worst I've seen in a long time. The OG poster is under that weird rear end slipcover, so just toss that in the trash. 50/50 most people don't even get a copy with one down the line anyway and ever have to see that thing.
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CPL593H posted:Last I checked the blu-ray was going for silly money. So even if this new disc doesn't have some wow factor that makes it worth a double dip it's good for anyone who didn't manage to get a copy before. Though I suppose they're about to be cheap now. Yea my Shout Factory From Beyond blu ray was worth a few hundred bucks before that Vinegar Syndrome UHD came out. I guess I should've sold it before the market cratered but I just didn't want to not have a copy of From Beyond on hand so I never did.
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Basebf555 posted:Yea my Shout Factory From Beyond blu ray was worth a few hundred bucks before that Vinegar Syndrome UHD came out. I guess I should've sold it before the market cratered but I just didn't want to not have a copy of From Beyond on hand so I never did. I just can't imagine why anyone would pay that much for a movie. Any movie. Collector's markets are really loving dumb. I have the first issue Shout Vincent Price set and that was up to about 200 bucks before they reissued it but I didn't want to see mine when I still had the window and knew they were reissuing it. The first release has these cool intro/outros one most of the movies that Vincent Price did for a PBS station in the 80s. They couldn't secure the rights the second time around so the newer set doesn't have that. I've noticed that more and more anything that isn't owned by Disney just pops up from some other label a bit later after one of them puts it out of print. So barring Fox titles I don't really pay these things much mind. I really regret not picking up Freaked when that was readily available.
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CPL593H posted:I just can't imagine why anyone would pay that much for a movie. Any movie. Collector's markets are really loving dumb. I have the first issue Shout Vincent Price set and that was up to about 200 bucks before they reissued it but I didn't want to see mine when I still had the window and knew they were reissuing it. The first release has these cool intro/outros one most of the movies that Vincent Price did for a PBS station in the 80s. They couldn't secure the rights the second time around so the newer set doesn't have that. I've noticed that more and more anything that isn't owned by Disney just pops up from some other label a bit later after one of them puts it out of print. So barring Fox titles I don't really pay these things much mind. I really regret not picking up Freaked when that was readily available. I think it just wasn't that obvious, even as recently as 7 or 8 years ago, that all of these relatively obscure B-movies would be on a constant rotation of being picked up by small labels for blu ray/UHD releases. Like when Shout Factory put out From Beyond in 2013, it kinda felt like that might be it for From Beyond. There didn't seem to be any other release coming on the horizon, the Shout Factory blu went out of print, and Shout Factory was really the only label out there that seemed likely to release something like From Beyond.
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Yeah I won't pay an outrageous price for something that's OOP, nowadays. Though I did snag Dutch on blu ray a few years ago for 35$, and checking eBay it goes for more than double that. I ain't selling though. Love that movie. No one is re-releasing a 1991 Ed O'Neill road comedy, so I was okay with spending a bit more on it.
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I was about to spend OOP-movie money on the 4k of Goodfellas until good sense kicked in and I remembered WB probably isn't going to Disney Vault this movie that they can poo poo out an "anniversary edition" of every 5 years
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esperantinc posted:Yeah I won't pay an outrageous price for something that's OOP, nowadays. Though I did snag Dutch on blu ray a few years ago for 35$, and checking eBay it goes for more than double that. I ain't selling though. Love that movie. The most I ever paid for a movie was for the Euro Phantom of the Paradise blu-ray which was just under 50 bucks shipped from France. It was going OOP and at the time it looked like no one was going to pick that up (as Basebf555) noted about ye olden days. That was the only release of it to date. Then less than a year later Shout announced their edition. Womp Womp. Other than that my top shelf has been 35 bucks if it's a single movie and even then it's rare. I find a lot of good poo poo at Savers believe it or not and I generally stick to sales. Back when FYE was still a thing they frequently had a lot of cool genre films for under 15 bucks. It just takes patience and keeping your eyes open to get OOP stuff cheap. I got Near Dark for two bucks in a video game store. And great deal of in print stuff is pretty cheap new or used.
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https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1689408122144591872quote:HAVE SWORD, WILL TRAVEL
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By the way! If you ordered Taxi Hunter from Diabolik I just got a shipping notice for it today so they're probably going out ahead of the street date of August 28th.
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I recently watched Days of Heaven for the first time, *then* learned the Criterion was OOP. I waffled about buying it OOP for "my collection" but then I just bought the Paramount blu-ray for $11 from Barnes and Noble. It's got to get a proper 4K release at some point, right? That would at least be one I wouldn't have to feel guilty about upgrading... 😁
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DrFlamingo posted:I recently watched Days of Heaven for the first time, *then* learned the Criterion was OOP. I waffled about buying it OOP for "my collection" but then I just bought the Paramount blu-ray for $11 from Barnes and Noble. It's got to get a proper 4K release at some point, right? That would at least be one I wouldn't have to feel guilty about upgrading... 😁 It’ll only be released once someone in this thread pays second hand prices for it. I’ll let you know when I do.
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Days of Heaven is screening at Venice with a restoration credited to Criterion/Paramount. https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/venice-classics-restored-films-80th-venice-film-festival
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They’re just waiting for me to post I bought the blu ray off eBay to announce the release.
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They're gonna 4K the Wes Andersons now that I've completed my set.
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Days of Heaven definitely seems like an obvious choice for a Criterion UHD. It occurs to me that Malick in general hasn't really been a part of the UHD conversation up to this point. I wonder if he's one of those directors who just doesn't have interest in the format, because on the face of it he seems like a great candidate for it. Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World would all be exciting UHDs.
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Don't worry guys, I just bought a used DVD copy of Oldboy and a new copy of Wild Zero, so the US-region Arrow release of the former and the long-awaited boutique edition of the latter are going to be out any day now. I think my most deranged "yeah I'll probably pick this up at some point" is a region 1 DVD of I'm A Cyborg But That's Ok. I don't have it yet but I stare at it on my wishlist every so often despite the $60 used price tag. When I get my region free player I may just import since I think a Blu-Ray from the UK exists and just get a nice custom case or something.
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I'm a Cyborg But That's OK was so good. I've beat this drum before but it really drives me crazy how the early 2000s were such a good time for getting recent Asian movies on DVD in America, and none of the new boutique bluray labels fill that niche. So many fantastic movies from the 90s and 2000s trapped on out of print DVDs, and god knows how many great new movies that don't get anything.
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Gripweed posted:I've beat this drum before but it really drives me crazy how the early 2000s were such a good time for getting recent Asian movies on DVD in America, and none of the new boutique bluray labels fill that niche. So many fantastic movies from the 90s and 2000s trapped on out of print DVDs, and god knows how many great new movies that don't get anything. I was just thinking about this. I looked up some Kitano movies I used to love that really need an upgrade and most of them never even made it to blu ray.
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Right?? That's something that struck me as I put together my "get a physical of all my favorite movies" project. I was amazed that Death Note and The Last Name got a dual pack BD release but I know that's only because they were based on manga. Wild Zero is still in print but it's only on DVD, I'm A Cyborg But That's Ok doesn't have a region 1 BD and the DVD is out of print. Oldboy has the UK Arrow release but only the Tartan Asia Extreme DVD if you want region 1. Ace Attorney never got a US physical at all so I had to make that one custom. There's a huge untapped market for some great movies that just isn't really being served. I'd kill for Tokyo Tribe in a format that isn't a $144 Blu Ray, or any official release of Antiporno.
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Origami Dali posted:I was just thinking about this. I looked up some Kitano movies I used to love that really need an upgrade and most of them never even made it to blu ray. the bandai japanese releases of all kitano’s films have english subtitles included even if it may not be obvious in the product details you can find them all on amazon japan among other places: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/北&%2337326;&%2327494;/dp/B07419VTNT/ref=m_pd_aw_sbs_sccl_1/356-2062285-3806148 i have a few and i remember the subtitles seemed pretty decent on the ones i watched
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