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I got my copy of the Mel Brooks Collection from Amazon and it has the 2014 remaster of Blazing Saddles! The set came out in 2012, so I'm guessing they switched to the newer disc for later pressings.
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So apparently the new Scream Factory release of Black Christmas has some kind of issue with the mono audio track and they're doing a replacement program on the discs.
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The Best Of Warner 50 (+ UV) is down to $69.99 as the deal of the day. There's some duds but it's $1.40 a movie and you can probably sell the UV code to bring the cost down even more. https://www.amazon.com/Best-of-Warn...f586ddcd3f8e8c4
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CPL593H posted:So apparently the new Scream Factory release of Black Christmas has some kind of issue with the mono audio track and they're doing a replacement program on the discs. Seems like the complaints are because they didn't filter it enough compared to the prior DVD.
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CPL593H posted:So apparently the new Scream Factory release of Black Christmas has some kind of issue with the mono audio track and they're doing a replacement program on the discs. I saw this at their Facebook page (or at Bluray.com, I forget which) quote:We will be offering a replacement (Disc 1 only) of our Blu-ray release of BLACK CHRISTMAS which will include the original mono audio track as it was presented on prior releases of the film on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Egbert Souse posted:Seems like the complaints are because they didn't filter it enough compared to the prior DVD. I'm wondering if it's actually bad enough to gently caress with the replacement disc thing or if it's just internet spergs spergin. I picked it up last night but I haven't opened it yet so I'm wondering if I should just return it to the store I got it from and buy another copy directly from Scream Factory in a few months. The people who post on blu-ray.com can be pretty extreme about trivial poo poo a lot of the time.
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Okay, so I figured gently caress it and popped in the movie. And yes the mono sound mix is exactly as bad as people are saying. There's such excessive sibilance that you can hear a loud audible hiss when people are talking. That said, there are two other sound mixes a 2.0 stereo and a 5.1 that sound just fine if you don't really care about hearing the original sound mix.
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Egbert Souse posted:FYI, if anyone wants the Flicker Alley Blu of A Trip to the Moon, it's going OOP after the 31st. I own the original steelbook edition of Trip to the Moon. I was looking to buy a replacement copy as mine got slightly damaged in a basement flood - but this is not a steelbook edition (confirmed by Flicker Alley on Facebook). Assuming it just arrives in a typical bluray case? Nonetheless, it's definitely worth owning in whatever form you can! A fantastic release.
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All the Flicker Alley releases I have are in Criterion style clear cases.
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There's an anime deal of the day going on. https://www.amazon.com/dlp/fa2edc41...18040f88091640a The blu-rays: $19.99 - Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series $47.49 - Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series (Amazon edition with 2 exclusive art books) $12.99 - Ghost In The Shell Arise: Borders 1 & 2 $14.99 - Ghost In The Shell: The New Movie (+ UV) $12.99 - Evangelion 2:22 $14.99 - Evangelion 3.33 $16.49 - Black Butler: Book of Murder OVA's $17.49 - Black Butler: Season 2 Classic $22.99 - High School DxD: The Series $22.99 - High School DxD New: The Series $29.49 - High School Dxd Born: Season 3 $29.49 - Black Butler: Book Of Circus - Season 3 $29.49 - The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya Season 1 & 2 $36.99 - Brothers Conflict: The Complete Series I've only seen Cowboy Bebop but it was pretty good and animation is always great on Blu-Ray.
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So my copy of Napoleon arrived from Amazon UK pretty damaged, just like I expected. I contacted Ben Stoddart at BFI and he sent me a free replacement slipcase and digipack, which arrived yesterday in perfect shape. Now THAT'S excellent customer service!
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Spatulater bro! posted:So my copy of Napoleon arrived from Amazon UK pretty damaged, just like I expected. I contacted Ben Stoddart at BFI and he sent me a free replacement slipcase and digipack, which arrived yesterday in perfect shape. Now THAT'S excellent customer service! Oh drat mine showed up banged up too. Is the contact info on BFI's page?
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Masters of Cinema will be releasing the new 4K Buster Keaton restorations starting next year. First release is a box set with The General, Steamboat Bill Jr, and Sherlock Jr. Kino is releasing two double features from Lobster Films 2K restorations (The General/Three Ages and Steamboat Bill Jr/College), but will lose the rights to the rest of the features next month. Cohen Media has US rights, but have been licensing to MoC and Arrow in the U.K. Spatulater bro! posted:So my copy of Napoleon arrived from Amazon UK pretty damaged, just like I expected. I contacted Ben Stoddart at BFI and he sent me a free replacement slipcase and digipack, which arrived yesterday in perfect shape. Now THAT'S excellent customer service! I might do that, though it's not that bad. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Dec 22, 2016 |
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The address I used: Ben.Stoddart@bfi.org.uk
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Egbert Souse posted:Masters of Cinema will be releasing the new 4K Buster Keaton restorations starting next year. First release is a box set with The General, Steamboat Bill Jr, and Sherlock Jr Oh gently caress yes. Too bad I already bought the KINO release of Sherlock Jr. Oh well.
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Yeah Amazon UK could never send me a package inside the country without damaging it, so no surprise one coming to the states got badly dinged. Glad you were able to sort it out directly and not deal with Amazon at least.
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It was all due to the packing they used. Instead of a box they use a flat mailer. There was literally zero chance of it arriving undamaged. Hell they probably had to crush it just to get it inside the mailer.
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Yep that's always been my issue too. I've brought it up a few times, but they once sent me a hard drive in a mailer that might've just about protected a paperback book. Literally just a thin bit of cardboard wrapped around a bare drive.
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We need a support group for those suffering PTSD from Amazon UK shipping. I ordered the region-free Blu-ray box set of Star Trek: The Next Generation when they had some crazy deal before Black Friday. My first order never arrived after over a month and never had any shipping/tracking information whatsoever. They sent me a replacement via UPS, which arrived just a few days after I reported the missing original. The shipping box was about four times too big for the actual item. Instead of filling all the empty space with styrofoam, air pillows, or bubble wrap, there was one fist-sized wadded-up piece of generic brown packing paper. That's it. That was the only "padding" in the entire box. So all the way from the UK to US, that poor little box the Blu-rays were in was tossed around like it was in a washing machine. When I opened the set box, the two oversized Blu-ray cases themselves were smashed to bits. Like completely pulverized. Most of the "pages" of discs were cracked or missing corners or edges. Fortunately, none of the discs themselves look damaged, but a few were loose doing to the little center snap-on mounts being busted out. Amazon UK is sending another replacement, but I told them that unless they significantly improve how they package it, I don't expect another to arrive in any better condition than the last. Are air pillows and bubble wrap not a thing in the UK? 
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Amazon has The Jazz Singer for only $9.65. https://www.amazon.com/The-Jazz-Sin...N=B009P07QPS&m= It's a 3-disc Digibook set. First disc is a Blu with the movie, commentary, and a few shorts (including I Love to Singa in 1080p). Second disc has a feature-length documentary on early sound and half a dozen more shorts. The third disc has 24 Vitaphone shorts (about 3 1/2 hours worth).
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So I recieved a region free blu ray player for Christmas. Can anyone here recommend some must-have imports?
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Sith Happens posted:Are air pillows and bubble wrap not a thing in the UK? It probably has more to do with the Amazon warehouse it shipped from. Can't say how warehouses are in the UK, but when you throw minimum wage at people, expect minimum effort. This goes double when it's seasonal work, like the ramp up to Xmas, where they just throw extra people at the system with little to no training.
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They used to have more protective packaging iirc. I assumed it was some sort of environmental drive. Quite thankful I never buy TV/movies from there now.
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Merry Christmas everybody  $4.99 - Independence Day: 20th Anniversary (+ UV) https://www.amazon.com/Independence...d6f3e8e79a243b4 $5 - Woodstock (Limited Edition) https://www.amazon.com/Woodstock-3-...e7e317f519d3684 $14 - Kubo And The Two Strings (+ UV) https://www.amazon.com/Kubo-and-the...c5cf7e8db5b61ef
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melvinthemopboy3 posted:So I recieved a region free blu ray player for Christmas. Can anyone here recommend some must-have imports? BFI Napoleon release. Someone posted a bunch more in this thread I think.
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melvinthemopboy3 posted:So I recieved a region free blu ray player for Christmas. Can anyone here recommend some must-have imports? I asked this question a month or so ago. Here's Egbert's awesome reply: Egbert Souse posted:Not a comprehensive list, but a good start...
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JVFUNBG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Woodstock 40th Anniversary Edition $5 Out of stock, but can still be ordered for that price.
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Spatulater bro! posted:I asked this question a month or so ago. Here's Egbert's awesome reply: This is is no way a criticism of the man's hard work, but I notice that The Last Wave is missing from the list. Does anyone have any info on it?
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Does Amazon US do a boxing day sale at all? Got a gift card and I'm waiting to see if the Marx Brothers set gets a bit lower than the current price point.
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I, Butthole posted:Does Amazon US do a boxing day sale at all? Got a gift card and I'm waiting to see if the Marx Brothers set gets a bit lower than the current price point. What the gently caress is boxing day?
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CPL593H posted:What the gently caress is boxing day? Black Friday for Brits and Canadians.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Black Friday for Brits and Canadians. Gross.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Black Friday for Brits and Canadians. And Australians, thanks  Ended up biting the bullet on some of the Looney Tunes platinum collections anyway. Also, it's apparently impossible to find a copy of Blade Runner on blu-ray around my area - I'm thinking they're gearing up for a re-release of the deluxe edition with the new movie coming out? It's stupidly frustrating, though.
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They'll definitely do another Blade Runner set. One major omission on both the original and the later repackaging is that Dangerous Days was fully produced in HD. It's only been seen in SD on both editions, either on its own DVD or as an extra on a Blu disc. I bet they'll also re-encode the Final Cut version since both the 5-disc and 3-disc versions have it on a BD-25. Jack Gladney posted:This is is no way a criticism of the man's hard work, but I notice that The Last Wave is missing from the list. Does anyone have any info on it? I did a full listing of Criterions not yet updated to Blu-Ray here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2116939&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=280#post466162740 However, at the time of the writing, The Last Wave was OOP (according to Criterion's site), so I didn't include it in my list. For that matter, I was surprised that Criterion only updated six previously DVD-only editions to Blu-Ray in the entirety of 2016. Except for those six and a few repackagings, the year was all about brand new stuff. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Egbert Souse posted:I did a full listing of Criterions not yet updated to Blu-Ray here: In general do you think Criterion intends on releasing these on Blu-ray at some point? Or is it safe in most cases to go ahead and grab another studio's release?
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Spatulater bro! posted:In general do you think Criterion intends on releasing these on Blu-ray at some point? Or is it safe in most cases to go ahead and grab another studio's release? I'd expect anything from major directors to make it. Lean, Powell & Pressburger, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, etc. unless rights issues occur. Andrei Rublev, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Written on the Wind, The Lady Eve, Mishima, and Z are definitely in the works. Also, a lot of films on Filmstruck have newer HD masters like Andrei Rublev, Joan of Arc, Alexander Nevsky, and Ivan the Terrible. There's also films that Criterion licensed their transfers for UK releases like The Human Condition, The Naked Prey, and White Dog.
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Egbert Souse posted:I'd expect anything from major directors to make it. Lean, Powell & Pressburger, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, etc. unless rights issues occur. I want both of these so bad.
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Just got The Jazz Singer in the mail today. It's in a VHS thickness digibook. The book part is about as thick as one of the Criterion mini-books. Has some essays, the press book, and credits. The film itself. WOW. I didn't expect it to look this amazing on Blu-Ray.    The screencaps don't really capture how sharp and detailed the film looks in motion. You can see thread textures on jackets. Also, the sound is incredible. You'd never think it was from 1927. Sounds more like a mid-30s production. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Does the film itself have much merit aside from the "first"-ness of it?
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Spatulater bro! posted:Does the film itself have much merit aside from the "first"-ness of it? It's actually a very good film. Keep in mind it's actually a silent film with talkie sequences. Al Jolson's performance is fantastic and not just for the songs. It's easy to see why the film was a gigantic success. I also find it interesting how natural it seems to go from silent to talking sequences. Not clunky at all like so many other transition-era films. I would consider it 100% essential because it really is one of the key early sound films and that it's ground floor to a lot of pop culture references. The main problem people will have is the blackface, but it's not done to be racist or anything. That really was a performance thing at the time and actually fits in with the story's theme of ethnic identity. Also, the set is pretty much an entire film course on early sound and Vitaphone.
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