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I’m not sure if this is the best place to ask but for someone looking to get a blu-ray player, are there any recommendations? I’m kind of getting sick of playing hide and seek with figuring out which streaming service has certain movies and when and for how long
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For a horror fan just starting in on getting into physical, what does everyone consider essential 4K UHD horror movie blu-rays?
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Feb 16, 2024 01:54
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Watched The Shining today in 4K with surround sound and despite being one of if not my favorite movie ever it’s like watching it for the first time. Now I’ve ordered a load of horror movies in UHD suggested earlier in the thread. Gonna be an expensive hobby but it’s totally reinvigorated my love for movies and I wanna watch a least one a week now and start returning to the theater
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Feb 17, 2024 16:35
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Big Bizness posted:Kubrick films have fortunately been treated very well on the format. Check out 2001 if you haven't already, it's stunning. The sound track in 5.1 is amazing, especially as Jack starts chopping down the door. The insanity of the strings swirling around you showing he’s completely lost his mind is near overwhelming and put me on edge even though I’ve seen the film a thousand times
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Feb 17, 2024 18:21
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SlowBloke posted:What he meant is shutting down their in-house distributors and use third parties to print them. All Fox and Disney physical media in Italy is no longer done by them but by Eagle pictures (which isn't the worst local to be honest but not the best either) for instance. Dies Disney or Fox releases even come out on UHD? I thought they only do basic blu-ray still?
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Feb 18, 2024 12:04
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I’m surprised we’re getting Big Top before Big Adventure but it’s Big Adventure’s 40th anniversary next year so maybe WB can stop being a bunch of stupid shits and finally get us a 4K release
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Feb 19, 2024 15:31
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Big Mac posted:This Criterion flash sale email showed up literally moments after I saw that my tax return deposited. RIP to all my plans of financial responsibility. Got one myself, ended up getting Videodrome
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Feb 27, 2024 18:59
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Jose Oquendo posted:I picked that up around Black Friday. It's a neat looking box and stuff. I already bought the Evil Dead Groovy edition, steelbook Army of Darkness, the Evil Dead remake UHD, and Evil Dead Rise steelbook this month plus the Color out of Space steelbook and Creepshow steelbook. I probably should’ve resisted this purchase 
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Feb 27, 2024 19:21
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This just reminds me I really want a 4K release of all of Twin Peaks
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Mar 4, 2024 01:36
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Yeah, I started in on 4K blu-rays partly because the streaming services were not showing the best picture but the biggest reason, honestly, was because of the enshitification of streaming services. More money, worse image quality, poorer audio, ads in the middle of movies unless I pay even more each month. Then there’s the issue of having to constantly juggle monthly subscriptions to keep up with what movies are where and when and in what quality because not all streamers do 4K while being the exclusive place to stream a film. The turning point for me was when I wanted to watch a series of movies, I think it was Halloween I want to say, and I found I had to bounce between three different services because the licenses had all been piecemealed out to various streamers. gently caress that.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:38
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It’s conditioning, really. Streaming has been so prevalent for so long people just except worse quality and accept it as the standard. Same with compressed music through streaming over phones compounded with bad Bluetooth lossy compression. It’s been the standard so long people just shrug when you show them it could be better. It’s kinda sad. I think a stand out point of that was seeing Godzilla Minus One with a friend who hadn’t stepped foot in a theater for nearly a decade and they were honestly surprised by how the movie looked good
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Mar 4, 2024 16:41
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Tim Whatley posted:Killer Klowns is up at Shout with some insane bundles Even for films I absolutely love I just can’t get any of these bundles with a bunch of chachkies. It’s just too much junk I’d never really have space for. I did preorder a steelbook edition because steelbooks activate my monkey neurons of my brain, though Dr. VooDoo fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 05:08
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On a lark I checked the steelbooks at my local Walmart. Got Dune: Chapter 1, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and American Psycho
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Mar 6, 2024 15:32
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I really wish we’d get a 4K release of Eyes Without a Face eventually
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Mar 9, 2024 03:29
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What’s funny is, of all places, Wal-Mart seems to be the one who’s figured out there’s demand for in store sanely priced movies. They just set up a big section of steelbook movies and the 4K ones still cost like $20 less than that 4K Barbie in that picture
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Mar 9, 2024 15:24
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I’ve wanted to see it a few times so I might as well buy that. I don’t have a problem, I can stop buying blu-rays anytime I want
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Mar 9, 2024 16:33
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pwn posted:If you left Walmart disappointed today, fear not! Go look on eBay right now and you will find dozens of the repackaged Oppenheimers at ~$50 a pop. Very cool dudes who bought them just to flip them. Still better than when they were sitting at $150 when they were BestBuy exclusive. I’m hoping with Walmart just wanting to make money and not rely on FOMO like Bestbuy, maybe movies can be one piece of entertainment that isn’t scalped to hell like everything else since covid?
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Mar 10, 2024 17:39
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So question based on what I’ve seen on other parts of the internet but is it worth to get dividers or sleeves for steelbooks? I figured they’d be the ones most resistant to any damage but the way Redditors talk about them you’d think they’re made of glass?
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Mar 10, 2024 21:38
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Steen71 posted:That leather shirt Gorman is wearing looks pretty uncomfortable. :P Honest question; how does stuff like this end up happening? Are they just running scans through an AI upscale and not checking the results?
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Mar 16, 2024 14:49
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PinkoBastard posted:AI for sure but I do think people are checking the work. It’s just that people have developed some kind of actual brain rot where they genuinely think these upscales look good. Which is even worse! I hate this garbage future
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Mar 16, 2024 15:04
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Now that I’ve seen Aliens in motion it really does have that look of those YouTube videos where someone ads interpolated AI frames to make scenes “better” by being at 60 FPS. Any motion of a character and it feels like there’s some weird slight uncanny valley effect going on, like they’re partly covered up suddenly by a 3D model of themselves because suddenly they lose texture definition
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Mar 16, 2024 22:47
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James Cameron is your dad who has you setup his TV for movies but the second you finish he sets all the sharpening filters to max and changes the picture to the “vivid” setting
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Mar 16, 2024 23:29
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Speaking of poorly done 4Ks, what’s the best version currently of A Clockwork Orange? Last I checked there were some versions that had real bad audio problems?
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Mar 18, 2024 15:05
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Basebf555 posted:I've started stopping by Walmart once a week and I'm seeing a pretty steady stream of these steelbooks being stocked. This past Saturday they had some of the Vestron Video ones that I'd never seen before. Never thought, in 2024, that I’d be saying Walmart is be your best option to walk into to find steel books and less mainstream movie releases but I guess that’s what happens when every other retailer decides to base their business around selling lovely warranty services for crap electronics
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Mar 19, 2024 17:23
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Yeah, James Cameron is a known idiot with a melted brain when it comes to this stuff. The only way we’re getting a decent 4K release is if he isn’t allowed to be involved
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Mar 20, 2024 21:12
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Well, had my first movie by mail casualty. My steelbook copy of DarkMan came in completely crushed, one side even split from compressing so much. Luckily Shout will replace it but still that’s disappointing
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Mar 21, 2024 17:36
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I’m going to go to the one by hoping for the Knives Out steel book
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Mar 21, 2024 19:47
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Sniep posted:Checked out my local wal*mart. Nada. A one cut of the dead steelbook isn't something I knew I wanted until now
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Mar 22, 2024 00:27
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dorium posted:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/27/the-film-fans-who-refuse-to-surrender-to-streaming-one-day-youll-barter-bread-for-our-dvds  But yeah I honestly started buying movies again because of the enshitification of streaming services. The fact this video is all 100% factual at the time of making is insane
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Mar 28, 2024 19:10
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caligulamprey posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aez5SDxshJc I was really not looking to drop $135 for this but kung fu Dracula….gently caress
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Mar 29, 2024 01:45
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I just started buying physical movies like two months ago and I'm already up to 49 films so  at never breaking 100, I'm doomed
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Mar 29, 2024 05:17
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I do need to start ripping my blu-rays to make local backups of them in the next few months
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Mar 29, 2024 12:37
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Thats the limited edition coming from Arrow, right?
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Apr 1, 2024 02:14
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I wish I had a video store around me. The last place that sells movies at this point near me is Barnes and Noble
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Apr 14, 2024 01:17
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I live in Rhode Island so I don't get any of that cool kinda poo poo 
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Got my limited edition copy of The Green Knight in from the A24 shop and the disc in the book is nearly cracked fully in two sent an email requesting a replacement disc, never have had that happen before
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