doctor thodt posted:

Nope, region B locked.

doctor thodt posted:

Oh neat, so basically it's just a question of when QT gets off his rear end and puts the whole thing together for Sony? I wonder what it was that prompted them to release the complete Grindhouse, and if/when they'll find the same motivation to give us TWBA.

doctor thodt posted:

I'm so calling in sick today.

FitFortDanga posted:

One of the things I love about Blu-Ray is the reduced shelf space. I know it's only a few millimeters, but it adds up.

doctor thodt posted:

doctor thodt posted:

I'm sure you'll be thrilled to learn that 2 Fast 2 Furious no longer pollutes my collection. I dumped at least 100 titles - Legion, Alice in Wonderland, Night at the Museum, all kinds of useless crap. Though I still own all four seasons of Heroes, so I guess I've still got a lot of trimming to do.

Harlock posted:

Amazon's schedule of 'Black Friday' DVD/BD deals:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=s9_al_gw_feat?ie=UTF8&docId=1000452571

I find it interesting that Back to the Future is going to be featured the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Captain Charisma posted:

I guess at $6 it might be a non-issue but wasn't the Time Bandits disc a disappointment

sportsgenius86 posted:

I have never seen any of the Harry Potter movies nor read the books.

At $40, will I be at all disappointed in buying the set tomorrow?

Captain Charisma posted:

Is BTTF worth buying or is the DNR bad enough to avoid it

Harlock posted:

If you guys held off on LOTR for a couple of days..

http://www.target.com/Lord-Rings-Picture-Trilogy-Blu-ray/dp/B003HPAYZG

$8 on Target for the complete set

FitFortDanga posted:

SCORSESE
TARANTINO
JENA MALONE

Space_Butler posted:

I wonder what people do when sequels have different names but they're entirely committed to alphabetical order. It must be an absolute bitch to find the Dirty Harry movies, unless they were all bought as a collection.

fenix down posted:

What brand of TV do you have? My Sony Bravia looks pretty sweet with the sharpness cranked up to like 20 (out of 30).

quote:

Kubrick filmed several scenes that were deleted from the final film. These include a schoolroom on the moon base—a painting class that included Kubrick's daughters, additional scenes of life on the base, Floyd buying a bush baby from a department store via videophone for his daughter, details about the daily life on Discovery, additional space walks, astronaut Bowman retrieving a spare part from an octagonal corridor, a number of cuts from the Poole murder sequence including the entire space walk preparation and shots of HAL turning off radio contact with Poole—explaining the non sequitur of HAL's response to Bowman's question, and notably a close-up shot of Bowman picking up a slipper during his walk in the alien room—the slipper can still be seen behind him in what was then the next shot[85]. The most notable cut was a 10-minute black-and-white opening sequence featuring interviews with actual scientists, including Freeman Dyson,[86] discussing extraterrestrial life, which Kubrick removed after an early screening for MGM executives. The actual text survives in the book The Making of Kubrick's 2001 by Jerome Agel[87]. If the music intro and outro are included, 29 minutes of film have been excised from the theatrical version.[88] Kubrick's rationale for editing the film was to tighten the narrative; reviews suggested the film suffered too much by the radical departure from traditional cinema story telling conventions. Regarding the cuts, Kubrick stated; "I didn't believe that the trims made a critical difference. [...] The people who like it, like it no matter what its length, and the same holds true for the people who hate it".

According to Kubrick biographer Jan Harlan, the director was adamant the trims were never to be seen, and that he "even burned the negatives"—which he had kept in his garage—shortly before his death. This is confirmed by former Kubrick assistant Leon Vitalli, "I'll tell you right now, okay, on Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, some little parts of 2001, we had thousands of cans of negative outtakes and print, which we had stored in an area at his house where we worked out of, which he personally supervised the loading of it to a truck and then I went down to a big industrial waste lot and burned it. That's what he wanted."[89]

morestuff posted:

I enjoy them completely ignoring the elephant in the room.

Joe Don Baker posted:

Pre-ordered.

Harlock posted:

Best business decision ever to break up the boxes into two sets. I hope that the OT box will have Empire of Dreams, or some other SW documentary.

FitFortDanga posted:

I'm guessing the individual trilogy boxes will be bare-bones except maybe commentary tracks.

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Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will feature all six live-action Star Wars feature films utilizing the highest possible picture and audio presentation, along with three additional discs and more than 30 hours of extensive special features including never-before-seen deleted and alternate scenes, an exploration of the exclusive Star Wars archives, and much more.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Is there a number less than 0?

Space_Butler posted:

Thanks for posting this. I didn't even know this was an issue, and sure enough after popping it in it only plays with PiP. I'll be calling tomorrow.

FitFortDanga posted:

So they can play along at home, duh.

VoodooXT posted:

Alice in Wonderland was shot in Technicolor; Technicolor has a strong red bias.

quote:

After a showing on HD-DVD what seems like ages ago—April 2007—followed by a Japanese Blu-ray release that was snapped up by eager importers, Eternal Sunshine finally makes it to Blu-ray in the U.S. with a 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer that's much better than merely acceptable but just shy of great. By and large, this is a satisfying high definition presentation and an immediately appreciable upgrade from the DVD. Clarity is not quite exemplary, but is certainly strong, with ample fine detail visible in the pores and whiskers on Jim Carrey's face, the patterns of cloth, and the textures and lines of in-focus background objects. Color also seems accurate to Gondry and cinematographer Ellen Kuras' intent, vacillating between warm early memories and the cold, ghostly palette of the flight through Joel's mind. (Of course, Clementine's ever-changing hair hues are always ultra-vibrant.) That said, there are a few minor issues that keep Eternal Sunshine from looking its best. Although grain appears entirely natural through much of the film, certain scenes have a slightly filtered, more artificial-looking quality—as if smoothed out with some light DNR—and there are also telltale traces of edge enhancement at times. Black levels also have a tendency to be a bit too dense, occasionally robbing the image of some of its shadow detail. However, none of these quibbles would keep me from picking up this disc. Eternal Sunshine still looks appropriately dreamy.