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CPL593H posted:Pretty much this. Even though they've come back from the dead vinyl records were still being produced after tapes and CDs killed the market. There was never a period when they stopped making them, it's just that it became more of a thing for nerds and weirdos. I'd say Blu-ray is even safer than vinyl because it represents the only physical media available. In order for Blu-ray to die, interest in collecting physical media would have to die as well.
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Yessssss! They're also releasing a new edition of STREETS OF FIRE, and hopefully that means more Walter Hill movies.
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I love all the moody street lighting and neon piping in Streets of Fire, it's going to look amazing on Blu Ray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiv9Bhbsxfk Also, I have never found Kathleen Turner that attractive, but she is a stone cold fox in Serial Mom.
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I don't know if anyone else will be excited about this but the 1970s Incredible Hulk tv series is out on Blu-ray in the UK. £89.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Incredible...incredible+hulk Comparison between DVD and BR-  
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ruddiger posted:Also, I have never found Kathleen Turner that attractive, but she is a stone cold fox in Serial Mom. She's pretty much my dream girl in Romancing the Stone.
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:I don't know if anyone else will be excited about this but the 1970s Incredible Hulk tv series is out on Blu-ray in the UK. Good choice, taking the shot from the episode where David Banner has to land a plane as the Hulk.
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ultraviolence123 posted:She's pretty much my dream girl in Romancing the Stone. Have you seen Crimes of Passion?
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CPL593H posted:Have you seen Crimes of Passion? Oh yes, many many times. First time I saw it I was 12. Not sure if I understood everything that was going on (name a 12 year old that can fully understand a Ken Russell movie), but I'll never forget Kathleen Turner in that movie. Good stuff. For whatever reason, I still haven't picked up the Arrow Blu-ray. I have the old Anchor Bay DVD though.
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Film preservationist David Shepard passed away a few days ago. He ran Film Preservation Associates and Blackhawk Films. Nearly all silent film DVDs released through Image and Kino in the late 90s and early 2000s were produced by him. He also oversaw a lot of silent releases through Flicker Alley, including starting the big restoration projects for the Keystone, Mutual, and Essanay Chaplin films. Not a huge amount of Blu-Ray work, but he produced the Image and Kino editions of Phantom of the Opera, most of Flicker Alley's silent releases (including the fantastic experimental films set), and others. Looks like the last restoration projects he was working on were for The King of Kings (4K from DeMille's own roadshow print with tints and Technicolor), A Page of Madness (with a score by Alloy Orchestra), and a set of early women filmmakers.
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So what's the story with A Page of Madness anyway? Should we expect a Blu-ray sometime?
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Spatulater bro! posted:So what's the story with A Page of Madness anyway? Should we expect a Blu-ray sometime? That's all the information so far. I'm going to guess it might be a while since Shepard was running a mostly one-person operation, but other posts indicated his projects are in good hands. He frequently collaborated with Lobster Films and UCLA holds the actual film elements. Steve Stanchfield/Thunderbean has been working on Blu-Rays of the Ub Iwerks cartoons, which were part of the holdings he owned. A set of the Willie Whopper cartoons was already released, with complete Flip the Frog and ComiColor sets to follow.
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Rastor posted:Sony just took a $977 million writedown because "the decline in the DVD and Blu-ray market was faster than we anticipated". Probably had more to do with Sony Pictures having a dreadful 2016. Their movie business in general is in trouble right now.
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Daniel Bryan posted:Probably had more to do with Sony Pictures having a dreadful 2016. Their movie business in general is in trouble right now. Hasn't their movie business always been terrible when compared to their tv business? I remember reading some of the Sony leaks with people complaining that they had to carry the movie division.
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Call Me Charlie posted:Hasn't their movie business always been terrible when compared to their tv business? I remember reading some of the Sony leaks with people complaining that they had to carry the movie division. For a period the only division of Sony that wasn't in the red was the PlayStation division. Not sure if the rest of their poo poo has turned around, but when 3D TV didn't become a thing that division took a bath.
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Vince MechMahon posted:For a period the only division of Sony that wasn't in the red was the PlayStation division. Not sure if the rest of their poo poo has turned around, but when 3D TV didn't become a thing that division took a bath. Sorry I meant the television division of Sony Pictures Entertainment that makes TV shows and handles syndication. Not actual physical TVs. I could have sworn there was alot of internal strife between them and the movie section of SPE but I can't find the emails again. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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But Sony releases such quality pictures as...
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Lizard Combatant posted:But Sony releases such quality pictures as... Now, the same cannot be said for the rest of their output...
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Fair play, they were good.
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Lizard Combatant posted:But Sony releases such quality pictures as... The Sony Movie Channel is showing Iron Eagle 3 and 4 today, and then Wild Things 4 in the middle of the night, so they're doing good things with their movie division.
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I recently have begun collecting blu rays again and was wondering, is the market really there for all these niche releases from Scream Factory, Arrow and the like? I would imagine they wouldn't do it if people weren't buying them, so any ideas on how much profit they are making?
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A lot of them are small runs, and they aren't cheap.
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Hmm. I grabbed Kino's Keaton set off their website for $99 and it has the new 2017 disc for The General instead of the 2008 one. A quick peak shows it's a much better transfer (less digital looking), but the print source isn't as good. The first one used a fine-grain positive made from the camera negative while this one looks like a duplicate negative or theatrical print. It doesn't have Carl Davis' score, but the one by Joe Hisashi is incredible. Also received my latest UK haul: Masters of Cinema's Complete Keaton shorts, Intolerance, and Metropolis. The Keaton Shorts set is amazing. It even has a thick paperback book with essays and stuff. A quick skim shows that the Arbuckle shorts are a huge leap in quality over previous editions.
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I'm way jealous of your huge Keaton haul. I only own The General. I have yet to be truly disappointed in a Keaton film; there's a handful I've seen that I'd rate as mediocre, but they're so short that I don't regret having watched them or anything. I feel like the floor for silent films is higher than for sound films; for whatever flaws they might possess, I just find them enjoyable to watch in and of themselves, knowing the incredible work and creativity that was put into them, having to work around the technological limitations of a nascent art form.
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The standard BD edition of Doctor Strange is going to include the DVD and digital code. I hope this is a sign for future Marvel releases. I hate having to spend extra to get the 3D set just to get a digital code.
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Is it common for blu-ray releases to not have a digital code, or is it just Disney not using UV? I don't really buy major new Hollywood releases but I was under the assumption they automatically included UV/some other digital code and had done for a couple years now.
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Disney releases are spotty (or at least have been). Standard BD copies of CA: Civil War don't come with digital copies for instance. Most big studio releases do, though. This seems to be mainly a Disney issue. Disney also runs their own digital service that works just like UV but has better platform support. It's all tied into their Rewards program so it's really convenient but I hope they get better at including digital.
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CortezFantastic posted:I recently have begun collecting blu rays again and was wondering, is the market really there for all these niche releases from Scream Factory, Arrow and the like? I would imagine they wouldn't do it if people weren't buying them, so any ideas on how much profit they are making? It's me. I buy those things.
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CPL593H posted:It's me. I buy those things. Same here.
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My house is 90 % boutique blu ray releases to the point where a shelf of mine committed suicide under the S-T sections weight. See? Bonus one of my kid's bowties and an unused q-tip.
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Glamorama26 posted:My house is 90 % boutique blu ray releases to the point where a shelf of mine committed suicide under the S-T sections weight. See? I thought it fell on Tucker Carlson for a moment. I like how Taxi Driver is over Tangled.
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My wife and kids probably have like 40 movies between them all and I have like 700, so it's just an endless line of poo poo like Cannibal Ferox and Orca or whatever and oh here is a tasteful modern day take on Jane Austen's work and now back to The Prowler and Driller Killer.
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Glamorama26 posted:My house is 90 % boutique blu ray releases to the point where a shelf of mine committed suicide under the S-T sections weight. See? I've got that fancy rear end Society release. It's cool and you're cool. Glamorama26 posted:My wife and kids probably have like 40 movies between them all and I have like 700, so it's just an endless line of poo poo like Cannibal Ferox and Orca or whatever and oh here is a tasteful modern day take on Jane Austen's work and now back to The Prowler and Driller Killer. This rules. I have a friend who is a serious collector of weird/rare VHS tapes and his collection is basically: weird hosed up horror movie, seriously hosed up drama film, campy kids shows, hardcore porn, more kids movies, etc. I always tell him that if he ever gets arrested for any reason at all and they go to his house someone's going to think he's a loving serial killer.
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Glamorama26 posted:My wife and kids probably have like 40 movies between them all and I have like 700, so it's just an endless line of poo poo like Cannibal Ferox and Orca or whatever and oh here is a tasteful modern day take on Jane Austen's work and now back to The Prowler and Driller Killer. Man I collected so much of that poo poo in my early 20s when I had disposable income. Every Anchor Bay special edition, anything from Shriek Show, Blue Underground, Synapse, Troma, etc. I just can't justify the expense these days.
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Origami Dali posted:Man I collected so much of that poo poo in my early 20s when I had disposable income. Every Anchor Bay special edition, anything from Shriek Show, Blue Underground, Synapse, Troma, etc. I just can't justify the expense these days. My collection seems to just abruptly slow to a trickle the year I met my wife. Funny how that happens. No regerts.
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DrVenkman posted:They're also releasing a new edition of STREETS OF FIRE, and hopefully that means more Walter Hill movies. Please do Extreme Prejudice, please do Extreme Prejudice....
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$7.99 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015) https://www.amazon.com/The-Man-from...cf08587e7a0d037
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Amazon UK has the 88 Films release of The Bloodstained Shadow for £5.83 (about $7.25 USD). It's a totally blind buy for me, but I couldn't resist with this art:
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Kino's release of The General/The Three Ages is out and it looks pretty great. But I recall hearing that Eureka is releasing a Keaton set with The General, Sherlock Jr., and Steamboat Bill Jr. at some point in the near future. Of those three I already own Sherlock Jr. on blu-ray. But I also know Eureka will likely put out a stellar disc. Decisions decisions...
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Spatulater bro! posted:Kino's release of The General/The Three Ages is out and it looks pretty great. But I recall hearing that Eureka is releasing a Keaton set with The General, Sherlock Jr., and Steamboat Bill Jr. at some point in the near future. Of those three I already own Sherlock Jr. on blu-ray. But I also know Eureka will likely put out a stellar disc. Decisions decisions... I'd wait. The MoC set will use the new Cohen 4K restorations, which will be fairly definitive. Though, it's not bad to have both. I'm glad I have both the original Kino and newer Lobster/MoC sets of the Keaton shorts because some are improvements, some aren't. Kino had a much nicer film source for Cops, but it had constant jitter. Lobster's is much cleaner and stabilized, but from a lesser quality print. However, the Arbuckles are miles ahead of anything previously released. That's just one of the hazards of silent films - you have all these different prints floating around and different scores.
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