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If any of you are into steelbooks, Shout Factory's Army of Darkness is at $20 pre-order now, which is cheaper than I've seen the regular edition: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CT8SHGZ/ Also, their The Fog steelbook is $12.61: https://www.amazon.com/Fog-Limited-Steelbook-Blu-ray/dp/B0711CP878/
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Almost Blue posted:If any of you are into steelbooks, Shout Factory's Army of Darkness is at $20 pre-order now, which is cheaper than I've seen the regular edition: Lifeforce https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CTBQ7JG/ Howling https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CT7FN3S/ Almost Blue fucked around with this message at 08:08 on May 30, 2018 |
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Origami Dali posted:All this color correction talk reminded me of the original TT release of NOTLD '90. Man, what a fuckup. Was that ever re-released with the original color timing?
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ultraviolence123 posted:I bought this one from Umbrella Entertainment, and it looks a million times better than the Twilight Time disc Thanks! I'll check it out. Iron Crowned posted:What did they do? For some reason when the DP was contacted about the transfer he requested that the movie's look be totally overhauled. It was changed to be dark blue/green and murky, essentially day for nighting the whole movie. I can't find any really good comparisons online but here's an example:  
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Jul 5, 2018 19:31
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feedmyleg posted:I asked in GenChat a while back, but maybe this is a better place: has modern color-grading been used to overhaul any older films? Not basic color correction or bringing it more in line with the director/DP's vision, but going all-out with digital grading to give the film a new/modern look? I'd say the aforementioned Night of the Living Dead is an example. If this video is accurate Jurassic Park was futzed with in some scenes. Arguably, Blade Runner Final Cut. I heard the Lord of the Rings movies were made more green, but I haven't seen it on blu ray.
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Jul 6, 2018 20:44
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Hell yeah, Detour. Kinda surprised Criterion hadn't already released it.
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Jul 21, 2018 03:38
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I love how the interviewer didn't ask "How the hell did come about?" but instead went with the least interesting question possible, which Tarantino took in a really strange direction.
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Aug 9, 2018 05:53
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Does anybody know if Barnes and Noble loses money on their Criterion/Arrow sales? Or is the bulk cost cheap enough that it's still somewhat profitable? I've always wondered how they're able to do them year after year.
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Aug 17, 2018 02:29
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Timby posted:So I asked my friend about this, and he pulled data on this for me. During the Criterion / Arrow sales, the margins are pretty much razor-thin, like retail price being maybe a buck or two more above store cost. B&N does it to get people in the store and hopefully buy magazines (which are stupidly high-margin), or again get interested in nerd toys or Nook tablets. Wow, thanks for checking! That seems like a pretty bad strategy, as I'm sure that like 90% of people who are interested in Criterion won't consider buying toys or whatever. If I get anything from the sale, I usually buy it from their website anyway, as they have much better selection. codyclarke posted:With 10% off Member Discount (+ a 20% off coupon sometimes) is it then a loss? I'm almost certain that it is. There was a blu-ray forum I was on a few years back where people were pissed when B&N stopped allowing for most of their coupons to stack with the Criterion sale. Before that happened, I ended up getting the Tati set for around $40.
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Aug 18, 2018 18:32
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Are there any blu-rays where the movies have the old red-blue 3D instead of RealD?
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Aug 31, 2018 03:40
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I'm gonna be on the complete other side of this and say that The Mangler is fantastic. Features a wonderfully campy performance from Robert Englund. On the scale of Hooper's movies, I'd actually place it just below stuff like The Funhouse. The central metaphor of the movies is Sam Fuller's levels of blunt. And it's hilarious.
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Sep 5, 2018 00:02
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Spatulater bro! posted:Sold. I think? It's also a plot point that a refrigerator is possessed.
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Sep 5, 2018 19:40
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codyclarke posted:Is the Criterion release Breakfast Club blu-ray the same transfer as the 30th anniversary blu-ray? And if it isn't, is it noticeable enough an improvement that it'd be worth paying the Criterion price and not the $5.99 that the 30th anniversary goes for? I'm not interested in bonus features, just want to watch the movie. It's the same transfer but Criterion has a slightly better encoding. You can see the (marginal) difference at Caps-a-holic: http://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=11241&d2=9287&c=3754 If you don't care about special features, you're better off just going with the 30th anniversary version.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Is anything after II worth watching? I love the original, but I was extremely apathetic about II. Every Phantasm movie is good, but II is the least good.
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Oct 5, 2018 04:18
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DC Murderverse posted:I think I've picked out everything I want but I have one question for anyone who might know: Their release of The Thing is an improvement to me (you can see the grain much better on Shout Factory's, I think Universal's has slight DNR), but I'd suggest checking caps-a-holic or DVDbeaver to see how you feel about the differences first. I've heard some people complain their remaster looks too blue/green, but I think it looks pretty good. e: Actually, it looks like Shout has another 4k remaster of it coming out in a few weeks, so you might want to wait for that instead.
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Oct 9, 2018 17:17
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Doesn't that set also straight up contain 3 copies of some of the movies?
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Oct 21, 2018 18:06
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Spatulater bro! posted:Yeah I think there are at least 3 copies of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The set's just a bundled repacking of the individual sets. I looked it up and apparently it also has three copies of House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. It was probably cheaper to just put existing stock in a different package, but you'd also think it would cheaper to not give customers three copies of the exact same disc.
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Oct 22, 2018 17:32
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Whenever I've done Black Friday shopping I've bought random movies I wouldn't otherwise get such as Woochi: The Demon Slayer.
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Nov 3, 2018 03:16
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Lizard Combatant posted:Are there many examples of directors cuts making the film worse? Donnie Darko and the Warriors are the only two that come to mind. The longer version of Cinema Paradiso was considered to be worse when it came out in the early 2000s. Although that's a weird case where the US distributor cut down the movie and the re-release added them back in addition to more scenes. Apocalypse Now Redux is usually considered worse, as is the version of Close Encounters where you see the inside of the ship. Also, the cut of ET where he's CG and the 2000 cut of the Exorcist. I'm not sure if there's a consensus on it or not, but I think the Donner cut of Superman 2 is a significantly worse movie than the original.
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Dec 14, 2018 08:45
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Shout Factory just announced a Bela Lugosi/Boris Karloff box set: https://twitter.com/Scream_Factory/status/1083418614462439424 No special features announced yet.
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Jan 10, 2019 20:18
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The one nice thing about the VHS cover versions is they're putting out a few that never had releases outside of sets or were previously only available on BD-R.
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Jan 26, 2019 02:48
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Anybody know if Song to Song on blu-ray is out of print? I can't find new copies of it for sale, only used from second-run stores. Same goes for Knight of Cups. Did another label snap them up? (Criterion maybe?)
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Feb 1, 2019 05:05
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Egbert Souse posted:Looks like all of Broad Green Pictures' releases are OOP and their last release was in Feb 2018. That's a shame. I looked into it a little and it seems that their entire company is shutting down due to low box-office returns on the films they financed.
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Feb 3, 2019 03:11
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Kino is having a flash sale on high-stock blu-rays/dvds through February 10th: https://www.kinolorber.com/list/view/code/february-2019-sale So if you want It's Pat on blu-ray for cheap, here's your chance.
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Feb 5, 2019 19:30
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Kino just announced Ridley Scott's Hannibal for blu-ray and UHD, which makes it their first title to be released on UHD.
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Feb 6, 2019 21:32
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Second Civil War also used to be up on Amazon Prime if you had a subscription, but it looks like it's off now. You can still rent it there and iTunes though and it is in HD on both. But I do wish somebody would it out on blu-ray, since it deserves a good home video release.
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Mar 16, 2019 04:25
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Maxwell Lord posted:On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is legit good I'm not super into Bond movies, but that one is far and away my favorite out of what I've seen.
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Mar 17, 2019 03:54
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It's kind of wild that it took so long for movies to stop being released cropped (or uncropped in some cases) in order to fit 4:3 TVs only for that to come back a few years later for 16:9 TVs.
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Mar 27, 2019 05:47
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CPL593H posted:Is Texas Chainsaw Massacre going out of print? The prices appear to have gone up a little. I'm pretty sure it's still in print. I checked a few price tracking sites & the price for it seems to usually fluctuate between $15-50 throughout any given year for some reason.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:49
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I think they're limiting the sale to only people who are members to prevent scalpers/limit traffic? They sent an email out about it a while back and I think that was the gist of it. e: Oh, maybe not.
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May 23, 2019 00:18
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And it's John Waters's favorite Christmas movie, which tell you everything you need to know about how good it is.
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May 24, 2019 23:33
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That blu-ray also has an audio commentary with John Waters and the director, it owns.
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May 24, 2019 23:51
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I seem to remember a couple of cast members from Shock Treatment talking about how Arrow never paid them for working on the special features too.
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Jun 1, 2019 20:10
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caligulamprey posted:I'll drink to that! https://twitter.com/BudweiserUK/status/1134491737920065536 holy poo poo
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Jun 4, 2019 00:01
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The weird thing about the adding the Jabba scene back in the original movie is that dialog was taken from it (as in the same exact audio clip) for Greedo's scene and nothing was altered about that, so you just hear the same dialog play in two different scenes.
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Jun 24, 2019 19:32
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Are there any Region-A friendly releases from Arrow that are worth checking out? I was planning on picking up Kill Baby Kill and Pulse from them.
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Nov 28, 2019 23:39
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Hey goons, my roommate is moving out at the end of the month and I'll be without a blu-ray player. Is there a good cheap-ish (like say ~$150 give or take) region-free blu-ray player that you guys would recommend?
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Apr 13, 2020 23:33
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Franchescanado posted:I got mine off of 220 Electronics and have been very happy with it and their service. Thanks so much! Just ordered one. Also if anybody else is in a similar boat, they currently have coupon listed on their front page for 7% off blu-ray players.
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That's a shame. While some of their older releases on loan from studios have found their way to other labels, I doubt the majority of their Fox titles are going to get any kind of re-release (because of Disney), which is really too bad.
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