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Cemetry Gator posted:Probably not. It's funny, I've heard this forever and no doubt it's true, but it's SO weird that this cut he hates was suddenly on HBO a few years ago and then vanished. Why would they even bother? Part of me thinks... maybe they had to run it again to maintain a trademark or something? But like, it's The Godfather, isn't that trademark pretty much maintained always?? In any case- I enjoy the chronological cut as a Godfather fan who has seen the movies 300 times. It goes without saying no normal human should see them this way.
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david_a posted:Manually adjusting the audio delay on the receiver is my black hole of productivity (the receiver can’t do UHD passthrough so video goes straight to the TV). I can tell when the audio & video aren’t lined up but it’s subtle enough that I keep second guessing if I adjusted it correctly and it drives me bonkers. You really need to stop trying to set up your AV receiver using spaghetti westerns.
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Rocco posted:It's funny, I've heard this forever and no doubt it's true, but it's SO weird that this cut he hates was suddenly on HBO a few years ago and then vanished. Why would they even bother? Part of me thinks... maybe they had to run it again to maintain a trademark or something? But like, it's The Godfather, isn't that trademark pretty much maintained always?? I'm guessing that was a specific deal with HBO that put another nice chunk of money in Coppola's pocket, versus just adding that cut into a blu ray box set with a bunch of other cuts of the same films which probably doesn't make a difference in how much money the set is gonna bring in.
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HBO actually paid for the "Novel for Television" cut to be newly remastered rather than Paramount or Zoetrope.
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I have never seen either of the television cuts of the Godfather and wish they would do a commercial release of at least Part's 1 and II. Personally I don't care for the dual narrative in Godfather Part II, and I think it makes it a very uneven movie. Pacino's performance as Michael in Part II is electric though, and whenever I watch it I am always impatient to move back to the Michael narrative. I feel like watching it in a chronological order might resolve some of this. I'm in Canada so I don't even know if it would ever end up on our weird HBO pipeline - we didn't get any of the US simultaneous theatre releases in the past year. I bought Coda last year during the pandemic and thought it was a big improvement on Part 3. I do note as well through some background reading that the theatrical version of Part 3 has never actually had a home video release, so it's interesting that they finally decided to do it for this set.
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To quote Derek Zoolander, the Sense and Sensibility UHD is really really really really ridiculously good looking.
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OOOOOH just got a shipping notice for the Dead Heat UHD. What a movie to get the UHD treatment.
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dorium posted:OOOOOH just got a shipping notice for the Dead Heat UHD. What a movie to get the UHD treatment. I haven’t pulled the trigger on it yet, a little birdie indicated that we’re getting some Doris Wishman in February so I’ll probably grab whatever that is (I’m assuming it’s Double Agent 73 since Brad Henderson recently posted about it on Letterboxd), Dead Heat and maybe Fortress of Amerikkka next month.
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dorium posted:OOOOOH just got a shipping notice for the Dead Heat UHD. What a movie to get the UHD treatment. Same. I can’t wait.
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2022 already being a huge year for releases, with The Hitcher 4k, Martin (4k?), Trick or Treat (rock's chosen warrior Sammi Curr finally getting his due), and Dream a Little Dream all coming soon, rumors of Fright Night part 2 and a 4k for The Lost Boys. All essential purchases. But now Scorpion Releasing with an RKO outta nowhere just announced 1977's unreleased revenge epic The Farmer: https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product..._eid=cc3c9800b9 Crazy Bill Olson from Code Red has been honeydicking people with this movie for a good 15 years, putting the trailer on his discs and demanding something like $100,000 to release it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSIJ1EC9uMw Finally coming out.
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ultraviolence123 posted:2022 already being a huge year for releases, with The Hitcher 4k, Martin (4k?), Trick or Treat (rock's chosen warrior Sammi Curr finally getting his due), and Dream a Little Dream all coming soon, rumors of Fright Night part 2 and a 4k for The Lost Boys. All essential purchases. But now Scorpion Releasing with an RKO outta nowhere just announced 1977's unreleased revenge epic The Farmer: Thanks for this info, that’s awesome e: code red are the most hated boutique label by a country mile, right?
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Egbert Souse posted:HBO actually paid for the "Novel for Television" cut to be newly remastered rather than Paramount or Zoetrope. Kinda shocked at the way HBOMax became the first streaming app I open after the kids are down. Got it for free with my loving prepaid phone plan.
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ultraviolence123 posted:2022 already being a huge year for releases, with The Hitcher 4k, Martin (4k?), Trick or Treat (rock's chosen warrior Sammi Curr finally getting his due), and Dream a Little Dream all coming soon, rumors of Fright Night part 2 and a 4k for The Lost Boys. All essential purchases. But now Scorpion Releasing with an RKO outta nowhere just announced 1977's unreleased revenge epic The Farmer: Martin is getting a UHD and blu-ray release but I'm pretty sure they're pumping the brakes on it because they want to see if they can do something with the director's cut. In other weird release news, God Told Me To is getting a UHD release.
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TheScott2K posted:Kinda shocked at the way HBOMax became the first streaming app I open after the kids are down. Got it for free with my loving prepaid phone plan. For a movie person I think it's currently the best streaming sub you can have. It's just a very very deep pool of movies from a wide range of time periods and genres and a lot of it seems semi-permanent, i.e. you know they aren't losing the rights for it anytime soon. CPL593H posted:In other weird release news, God Told Me To is getting a UHD release. Let the Larry Cohen UHD era begin! Gold Told Me To should have some classic NYC footage that will look amazing on UHD. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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looking forward to that God Told Me To UHD. https://twitter.com/blunderground/status/1483965810662010880?s=20
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Basebf555 posted:For a movie person I think it's currently the best streaming sub you can have. It's just a very very deep pool of movies from a wide range of time periods and genres and a lot of it seems semi-permanent, i.e. you know they aren't losing the rights for it anytime soon. Did you know HBO Max also has Doom Patrol?
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Autochrome posted:I have never seen either of the television cuts of the Godfather and wish they would do a commercial release of at least Part's 1 and II. Personally I don't care for the dual narrative in Godfather Part II, and I think it makes it a very uneven movie. Pacino's performance as Michael in Part II is electric though, and whenever I watch it I am always impatient to move back to the Michael narrative. I feel like watching it in a chronological order might resolve some of this. I'm in Canada so I don't even know if it would ever end up on our weird HBO pipeline - we didn't get any of the US simultaneous theatre releases in the past year. Looking at HTF, apparently the camera negative to III had always been conformed to the theatrical cut. The 2007 4K remaster of the "home video" cut was the first time the extra footage was resourced from camera negative, though fades and dissolves were mostly from the dupe negative cut into the negative (as was normal for nearly any movies pre-digital). Apparently, the new 4K remaster went back to camera negative for every single shot. Also looks like I and II may have had a few shots upgraded, but sounds like Paramount more or less replicated the 2007 restorations with newer scans and in 16-bit 4K with HDR. Overall, III having the theatrical and home video cuts as extra features is due to them having to scan the negatives anyways for the Coda version. Coppola seems to be absolutely fine with multiple cuts on releases of his films on UHD and Blu-ray as seen by Apocalypse Now and The Outsiders.
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Egbert Souse posted:HBO actually paid for the "Novel for Television" cut to be newly remastered rather than Paramount or Zoetrope. Interesting- but why, then, would they only keep it up on HBO Go and whatnot for a limited time? It was only there for a few months! The whole thing doesn't make any sense, I tell ya!
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Basebf555 posted:To quote Derek Zoolander, the Sense and Sensibility UHD is really really really really ridiculously good looking. In the same vein, some does Stripes, even if I dozed off when they stole the RV. There are some simply beautiful dawn and dusk shots. dorium posted:OOOOOH just got a shipping notice for the Dead Heat UHD. What a movie to get the UHD treatment. Vinegar Syndrome hasn't shipped mine yet 
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Basebf555 posted:For a movie person I think it's currently the best streaming sub you can have. It's just a very very deep pool of movies from a wide range of time periods and genres and a lot of it seems semi-permanent, i.e. you know they aren't losing the rights for it anytime soon. yeah they have the best library by far, it's my most watched service except maybe Shudder. Worst actual app though, it crashes and gets hung up all the time on my TV
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CPL593H posted:Did you know HBO Max also has Doom Patrol? And Peacemaker
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gey muckle mowser posted:Worst actual app though, it crashes and gets hung up all the time on my TV Built in TV apps are dogshit garbage for the most part and at some point just stop working. They're right at the bottom of their list of priorities, and getting a reputable streaming box is generally the best option. I don't use the Max app often, but never noticed an issue on my Apple TV.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Built in TV apps are dogshit garbage for the most part and at some point just stop working. They're right at the bottom of their list of priorities, and getting a reputable streaming box is generally the best option. I don't use the Max app often, but never noticed an issue on my Apple TV. I noticed the other day that my 4k Firestick downscales everything except Prime to 1080p. If I want to stream any other service in UHD I have to use the in TV app. They work fine fortunately, but just a warning that you may want to check the resolution of your inputs from Amazon devices.
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I had a $10 points credit from Best Buy to use so I got this version of the Akira UHD: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Akira-4K-Blu-ray/303772/#Overview. I remember there were problems with an earlier version, is this one fine now?
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I ordered Dead Heat and New York Ninja from VinSyn. I watched the former years ago and enjoyed it, and the latter looks interesting enough.
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Casimir Radon posted:I ordered Dead Heat and New York Ninja from VinSyn. I watched the former years ago and enjoyed it, and the latter looks interesting enough. New York Ninja is very much like a Cannon Films/Golan and Globus ninja movie. You'll enjoy it.
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Shiroc posted:I had a $10 points credit from Best Buy to use so I got this version of the Akira UHD: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Akira-4K-Blu-ray/303772/#Overview. I remember there were problems with an earlier version, is this one fine now? They should’ve corrected any discs in circulation by now. Otherwise it’s a pretty straightforward process getting a new disc replacement.
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VoodooXT posted:New York Ninja is very much like a Cannon Films/Golan and Globus ninja movie. You'll enjoy it. New York Ninja owns
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for PC and HDR TV users: I found out you can make special K inject HDR into SDR video by pairing it with software like mpc-be and vlc. It's been working out pretty well for me.
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https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/status/1487081665340096513 8 Diagram Pole Fighter is a new scan done by Arrow so I guess I'm probably upgrading from the 88 Films release edit: and yesterday’s Eureka announcement for region b/free people. Dreadnaught rules I preordered it with Knockabout https://twitter.com/Eurekavideo/status/1486806479957024772 FancyMike fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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My copy of Dead Heat came in! I've never seen nor heard of it but all you other goons enthusiasm for it made me super stoked. Watching it tonight!
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aperfectcirclefan posted:My copy of Dead Heat came in! I've never seen nor heard of it but all you other goons enthusiasm for it made me super stoked. Watching it tonight! It's real good.
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It’s an underrated horror comedy masterpiece. It pushes its premise so hard in the best way.
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aperfectcirclefan posted:My copy of Dead Heat came in! I've never seen nor heard of it but all you other goons enthusiasm for it made me super stoked. Watching it tonight! Mine has been rescheduled to tomorrow. I loving hate FedEx, when it was media mail I'd get it like a day after I got the shipping notice.
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Just pre-ordered Arrow's 4K of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. I'd been meaning to get my hands on a copy of that film for a while.
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edogawa rando posted:Just pre-ordered Arrow's 4K of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. I'd been meaning to get my hands on a copy of that film for a while. I haven't seen that since I saw it on VHS in like 1996 probably, I bet that 4K is gonna be aces
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Happy Hippo posted:I haven't seen that since I saw it on VHS in like 1996 probably, I bet that 4K is gonna be aces I hate to be That Guy but Henry is one of those rare movies that I think actually benefits from being watched on a crappy video tape. I usually scoff when people say this but I actually think this for once, especially in the context of what might be that film's most disturbing scene. It's technically a great film but not one I'd ever sit through again.
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CPL593H posted:I hate to be That Guy but Henry is one of those rare movies that I think actually benefits from being watched on a crappy video tape. I usually scoff when people say this but I actually think this for once, especially in the context of what might be that film's most disturbing scene. It's technically a great film but not one I'd ever sit through again. I'd sorta disagree with this. Like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, watching it on a grainy VHS doesn't exactly hurt and does have a certain charm (maybe moreso for Henry than TCM since Henry is shot in 4:3), but both are also movies that, properly cleaned up and restored, look kind of stunning. Henry is a brutal, brutal movie but outside of that scene you mentioned, I find it kind of shockingly watchable. Just goes to show what a great job McNaughton did directing it that something with content so hideous is so compelling to watch.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I'd sorta disagree with this. Like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, watching it on a grainy VHS doesn't exactly hurt and does have a certain charm (maybe moreso for Henry than TCM since Henry is shot in 4:3), but both are also movies that, properly cleaned up and restored, look kind of stunning. I've been like "Raaaghhaahhhaahh" about people saying this about TCM for years so I get the irony of me saying this. Granted it's been a long time since I saw Henry so I'll take a seat if I remember wrong but that film uses the aesthetics in a completely different way. TCM is all about the bright colors and seeing things in high detail. Henry deals more with a dreary sleaze.
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