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I respect The Lost World ending for giving us the closest thing to a live action Calvin & Hobbes we’re going to get, but that’s about it
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I'm weird about JP in that I never really feel the need to rewatch any of them once I've seen them (including the first), and I generally enjoyed them all even if they're not good. Except the most recent one, which was genuinely bad and worse than JP3 in my eyes. But I hope the next one is kinda what I was hoping for from it and it gets back on track.
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# ? Aug 10, 2020 22:29 |
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TheScott2K posted:-They have a perfect Smash To Credits moment with the escaped TRex roaring at San Diego, but they don't - the movie keeps going! Enjoy this bonus 15 minutes of catharsis!
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# ? Aug 10, 2020 23:31 |
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TheScott2K posted:Lost World is like Star Trek Generations for me - it's a mess, but I love the slop. that reminds me of this bit by Patton Oswalt about the circus and what if you were to treat Elton John like a lion you have to tame to perform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSBnYGsbQiI&t=141s what if Steven Spielberg was just being lion tamed off screen to leave the dumpage that is Lost World on celluloid. dorium fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Aug 10, 2020 |
# ? Aug 10, 2020 23:43 |
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dorium posted:what if Steven Spielberg was just being lion tamed off screen to leave the dumpage that is Lost World on celluloid. afaik The Lost World was promised to Joe Johnston and Spielberg was planted in last minute, but that's half remembered artifact from a Jurassic Park 3 promo thing on VHS I think, so I could totally be wrong.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 01:35 |
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There are a lot of things to hate about JP III, but what is possibly that movie's biggest sin is that they establish that huge loving gun and then no one ever uses it. Like they show a guy loving up old planes with it so you're like "gently caress yeah that's going to explode a loving dinosaur later and it's going to be AWESOME!". Nope! You just never see it again.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 01:50 |
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I think the rough part about Jurassic Park III is that it was roughly put together with sequences from the first two books that didn't make the first two movies. It was like a B-sides movie.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 02:08 |
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Jurassic Park never having dinosaurs with guns attached to them is its biggest crime.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 02:15 |
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MacheteZombie posted:Jurassic Park never having dinosaurs with guns attached to them is its biggest crime. That’s gotta be coming next.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 02:36 |
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dorium posted:That’s gotta be coming next. Its taken to Worlds but we're almost there
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 03:19 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I honestly like JP3 more than Lost World. LW has the big trailer cliff action sequence and the novelty of the T-Rex running around the city and that’s about it, the rest is just dull as poo poo. JP3 isn’t fantastic or anything, but it’s consistent all the way through and it’s a decent lazy Saturday watch.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 03:42 |
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Nihonniboku posted:I think the rough part about Jurassic Park III is that it was roughly put together with sequences from the first two books that didn't make the first two movies. It was like a B-sides movie. The scene where they go into the pterodactyl cage and one of them is walking towards them on that catwalk and it's all foggy is genuinely creepy. That's the only thing good in that movie. Even the rest of the pterodactyl scene is dumb but that one image is actually scary.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 04:11 |
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Xenomrph posted:I'm willing to overlook the "raptor gymnastics" part, but the whole "avoiding the raptors" sequence in the abandoned workers' town is really great, too. yea the "STAY OUT OF THE LONG GRASS", the cliff/trailer scene, poor Richard Schiff getting the banana split special, Peter Stormare getting mauled by compy's, a maxed out swagger Ian Malcom, and T-Rex chowing down in front of Blockbuster easily put 2>3 for me CPL593H posted:The scene where they go into the pterodactyl cage and one of them is walking towards them on that catwalk and it's all foggy is genuinely creepy. That's the only thing good in that movie. Even the rest of the pterodactyl scene is dumb but that one image is actually scary. Even if I 100% agree with this take. There's not much meat on the bones of JP3.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 04:43 |
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MacheteZombie posted:Jurassic Park never having dinosaurs with guns attached to them is its biggest crime. That's where I thought they were going with Jurassic World Dominion. They were totally setting it up in Jurassic World. I was pushing for them to call the movie Jurassic War. Instead they did a lovely remake of Lost World. CPL593H posted:The scene where they go into the pterodactyl cage and one of them is walking towards them on that catwalk and it's all foggy is genuinely creepy. That's the only thing good in that movie. Even the rest of the pterodactyl scene is dumb but that one image is actually scary. The whole dome sequence was from the first book I think.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 05:22 |
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Nihonniboku posted:That's where I thought they were going with Jurassic World Dominion. They were totally setting it up in Jurassic World. I was pushing for them to call the movie Jurassic War. Instead they did a lovely remake of Lost World. Yeah I remember hearing that that's why I mentioned it. The river boat thing was too. The boat thing made it so far as to be storyboarded fro the first film but they decided that the movie would be too long and that scene didn't really do much of anything for the overall story so they cut it.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 10:06 |
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Full Metal Jacket 4k announced! Considering how The Shining and 2001 turned out, I’m pretty pumped for the results. Also, I’m a big fan of FMJ!
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 11:38 |
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Essential Fellini - Nov 24 https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3...content=fellini Films featured: Variety Lights, The White Sheik, I vitelloni, La strada, Il bidone, Nights of Cabiria, La dolce vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon, Roma, Amarcord, And the Ship Sails On..., and Intervista All but one of the missing films are already out or coming soon except for Fred and Ginger - Arrow put out Orchestra Rehearsal and The Voice of the Moon, Cohen has City of Women, Raro has I Clowns, and Kino Lorber announced Casanova for later this year.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 19:38 |
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Do Tarkovsky next, please. Pretty please. Please with a little birdie on top.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 19:54 |
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ringu0 posted:Do Tarkovsky next, please. Pretty please. Please with a little birdie on top. Ain’t gonna happen. The only unreleased (in North America) Tarkovsky they have the rights to is The Mirror. A box set with five of his seven features doesn’t make any sense.
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 22:27 |
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Severin or VinSyn need to make a Jess Franco box set please
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# ? Aug 11, 2020 22:28 |
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I think the most likely boxes to see in 2021 are for Kurosawa and Welles. Kurosawa is such an obvious one since they have the rights to 26/30 of his films already (remaining four are all existing rights partnerships via Mosfilm and Shoichku except for StudioCanal's Ran). Welles is iffy because all but Mr. Arkadin are on Blu in the US, but they have been confirmed to have It's All True, The Other Side of the Wind, and The Eyes of Orson Welles plus strong rumors about having Citizen Kane and The Trial. Maybe they'll just do Kane on its own, a box of unfinished Welles projects that includes Wind, and The Trial. Though, Mr. Arkadin needs a Blu upgrade, Touch of Evil could use a better encode (Universal crammed all three cuts on one disc via seamless branching, but it's kind of filtered), and there's no definitive The Stranger. Criterion also supposedly has a bunch of W.C. Fields films.
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 00:51 |
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Speaking of Kurosawa, has this been mentioned? It's an upcoming Spanish BD, but hopefully others will follow soon. https://www.amazon.es/Dersu-Uzala-Blu-ray/dp/B08DV9T6LP
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 08:07 |
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MacheteZombie posted:Severin or VinSyn need to make a Jess Franco box set please I'd buy it and I'm not even a fan of Franco. At least his movies are interesting. Other sets I'd like to see: Jean Rollin, Doris Wishman, John Waters, Russ Meyer... I could probably think of a bunch of others but those are the big cult/exploitation directors I can think of that don't have big retrospective blu ray sets yet. For the Waters set I'd want just the movies up to Polyester, and throw in a bunch of documentaries and his music compilation CDs.
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 15:11 |
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oneforthevine posted:Ain’t gonna happen. The only unreleased (in North America) Tarkovsky they have the rights to is The Mirror. A box set with five of his seven features doesn’t make any sense. I guess they don't have The Sacrifice and Nostalgia. A blu-ray of the newly scanned and restored The Mirror would be what I really want...
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 17:11 |
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this thing is a brick
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 19:40 |
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VinSyn, just sent out my monthy package. they're running early this month, I was going to add Alphabet City on Friday, maybe next month, or I'll wait for the sale.
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 20:01 |
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dorium posted:
For some reason I was not expecting it to be anywhere near that big
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 20:58 |
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is that the same size as the Bergman set?
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 21:15 |
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I dont have the bergman set, but this is at least the size of a hardcover novel, as thick as one too.
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 21:37 |
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dorium posted:I dont have the bergman set, but this is at least the size of a hardcover novel, as thick as one too. I found a picture online and it's a little smaller, the Bergman set is a beast. e: for anyone curious:
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 21:41 |
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ringu0 posted:I guess they don't have The Sacrifice and Nostalgia. A blu-ray of the newly scanned and restored The Mirror would be what I really want... The Sacrifice is available on Kino, and it looks stunning. Also, given the small number of films he has, a boxset would be a hard sell since a lot of your audience already has his films. Cemetry Gator fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Arrow did a limited edition run of The Game. Front Back Did I mention it was actually a hardcover book? Here's the table of contents. Also comes with one of these cards, tucked into the book. Oh wait never mind, here's the blu-ray, tucked into the front cover. And the DVD tucked inside the back. And here's a size comparison with the blu-ray of one of the greatest films ever made.
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# ? Aug 13, 2020 01:06 |
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Cemetry Gator posted:The Sacrifice is available on Kino, and it looks stunning. UK got this, among other interesting boxsets: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sculpting-Time-Tarkovsky-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B074ZXQ226/ But they have to import Criterion editions from us, so that evens things out somewhat. Also people in this very thread constantly double- and triple-dip when a movie they like gets another release. Just to clarify, I'm not complaining or trying to change anyone's mind about anything, it's just that Mirror in better quality was always my dream. I have it on DVD, and I would definitely buy a Criterion edition. ringu0 fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Aug 13, 2020 |
# ? Aug 13, 2020 01:48 |
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Good price on the Matrix Trilogy Steelbook at BBY: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/the-matrix-trilogy-steelbook-includes-digital-copy-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-only--best-buy/6344901.p?skuId=6344901 It’s just the UHDs and digital copies, as someone who owns the Matrix Collection on Blu-Ray, I was v happy w that option. However, the Blu-Ray’s included w the UHDs are the remastered versions I believe. The first Matrix looks absolutely gorgeous, and the next two are p good even if the story jumps off a cliff.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Good price on the Matrix Trilogy Steelbook at BBY: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/the-matrix-trilogy-steelbook-includes-digital-copy-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-only--best-buy/6344901.p?skuId=6344901 It still pisses me off Animatrix isn't in this, even just on blu-ray.
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 17:18 |
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did The Matrix Revisited make it over to post-DVD?
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 18:40 |
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Vince MechMahon posted:It still pisses me off Animatrix isn't in this, even just on blu-ray. I think it may OOP. Considering how many people were involved, would there be rights issues that would need to be negotiated first?
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Boywhiz88 posted:Good price on the Matrix Trilogy Steelbook at BBY: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/the-matrix-trilogy-steelbook-includes-digital-copy-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-only--best-buy/6344901.p?skuId=6344901 I'm so sick of these gimmick releases. Why would anyone pay that much extra for a copy of the Matrix just because it comes with two drink coasters?
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 21:48 |
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Yup. My wife and I are rewatching the 89 Batman movies, and now want to watch Beetlejuice again. Looks like our only option for 4k is the upcoming $50 release. I just can't justify spending that money, chalk or no chalk.
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IUG posted:Yup. My wife and I are rewatching the 89 Batman movies, and now want to watch Beetlejuice again. Looks like our only option for 4k is the upcoming $50 release. I just can't justify spending that money, chalk or no chalk. There’s a normal release. There’s no chalk, so I don’t know why you’d want it.
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