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King Vidiot posted:I think Spookies would make a great double feature with Phantasm. Two movies with inexplicable dream logic, but for entirely different reasons, and I think they'd complement each other well. I'll leave it up to you which movie you should watch first. I'd also nominate THINGS as a double feature for either of those. It feels a bit like a Canadian Evil Dead made by people suffering in the aftermath of head trauma, but the surreal disjointedness is funny and unsettling. It'd also go fine with a Polonia Bros movie, or any number of other SOV flicks. edit: Come to think of it, what's a good double feature with HAUSU? PHANTASM? GODZILLA V HEDORAH? Mescaline? Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 01:24 on May 10, 2021 |
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Gripweed posted:I emailed Mill Creek about it. Has anyone had any luck getting replacement discs from them? Yeah - I had a bad disc in a 12 DVD/50 movie collection (quality is exactly as awful as you imagine, but it was still fun), I emailed them about it, and they had a replacement to me in like two days. They’re pretty swell.
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Heavy Metal posted:Just a bit devil's advocate (Pacino style), that blu-ray is great. I don't see the slight open matte as a bad thing, and this is the first I've heard of it being too warm. Usually it's the other way around and things are too cold. I think sometimes something is more of a side grade stylistically, but it's gotta be framed as a big positive to hype the new release. Gotta agree. I've been tickled pink by that Blu-ray set, and while I appreciate the nuance of the new image, I'm not clamoring to buy it all over again. Which is kinda rare for me.
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CPL593H posted:People already said the ones I was going to say so my pick is Jaws: The Revenge. “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” - Michael Caine on Jaws: The Revenge, which is genuinely hilarious on a so bad it’s good level
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aperfectcirclefan posted:I'm guessing Malignant is good by the reactions It’s divisive. People who like it, love it, and people who don’t tend to skew more strongly negative than usual. I give it about two stars outta five. But it would look quite nice in UHD.
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Is Olive Films still active? Their webpage hasn’t been updated since 2020 from the look of things… I always had a soft spot for them.
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Chris James 2 posted:Let’s loving go I’m excited about this, but aren’t there significant problems with DOG SOLDIERS’ source elements? There was a review over on blu-ray.com that turned into a deep dive on the subject and it sounds like a big mess.
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Apr 4, 2022 19:03
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I’m still on the region-free vanilla Blu-ray slow coach - don’t want to buy a new TV. What’s new and interesting in genre cinema for us 1080p troglodytes?
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Apr 13, 2022 17:48
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Iron Crowned posted:My dude, have you heard the good word of Vinegar Syndrome yet? Lord, yes. I don’t remember how many of their films I’ve got, but off the top of my head Uninvited, Petey Wheatstraw, and Disco Godfather are in my collection. Edit: Also Tammy and the T-Rex, hallowed be its name. Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Apr 13, 2022 |
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Cemetry Gator posted:I think why people talk about VCRs is that the earliest use for videotape was recording TV broadcasts. Laserdisc was also the first real showcase for quality home theater audio - it supported digital audio before any other medium, including Dolby Digital surround, and the spec topped out at multichannel 1.5 Mbit DTS HD. That wasn’t lossless, but at a point when fuzzy stereo audio coming out of a CRT was standard, it was a different experience altogether. The video was an incremental improvement, on par with the later S-VHS, but Laserdisc was plural orders of magnitude more likely to have widescreen transfers. Overall it was a really interesting experiment and the first home video format for film connoisseurs. But as you said, VHS was so flexible and ubiquitous (and so much cheaper) that it was always going to win on sheer numbers. That DVD - and the roughly simultaneous emergence of TiVos and set top boxes - toppled VHS so quickly took a lot of people by surprise.
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Apr 17, 2022 15:24
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Gripweed posted:If the xbox 360 had been able to play HD-DVDs, that would've beaten bluray in the American market. There would've been a weird split where America was all in on HD-DVDs and Japan was all in on blurays. Everyone in this thread would have a big HD-DVD collection and import the nicer Japanese bluray releases of favorite movies. I had an HD-DVD USB drive from an Xbox 360 for a while, and even ripped a handful of discs I snagged super cheap. Between the 30GB max capacity’s effect on bitrate and the format leaning hard into VC-1, it wasn’t competitive from a quality standpoint. The better format won.
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Apr 18, 2022 13:57
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Steen71 posted:I think there was no region coding. Yep. Somebody mentioned the picture-in-picture feature and fancy menus being easier to implement on HD-DVD too. Beyond that they were fundamentally similar but had different corporate backing, different default preferred codec support (HD-DVD/VC-1, Blu-ray/AVC), and 15GB/30GB storage capacity on HD-DVD for single/dual layer versus 25GB/50GB for Blu. The better overall spec won by din of storage capacity alone.
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Apr 20, 2022 12:53
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Boywhiz88 posted:Avatar, baby. We had to keep a copy at our Geek Squad Precinct to upgrade/test players for folks. You reminded me - our first Blu-ray player came with a voucher for a free 3D copy of “the greatest movie of all time - AVATAR” (their words). Oh, Panasonic. The laughs we shared.
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Iron Crowned posted:I saw Avatar in the theater one time, I have never felt the need to watch it again. Avatar stands out as one of the only big budget buzz movies where I sat down in my living room to watch it for the first time and spent the entire runtime MST3K-ing it, unprompted. It’s so deliberately derivative and stupid in that very careful big studio way that it just seemed natural to dunk on it. I’m not going to play pattycake with a movie because the director made me happy before. And yes, the idea of five cuts of Avatar is like five cuts of a Marvel movie. What’s to be mined from it? It’s all surface.
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dorium posted:the best thing that could happen with those Avatar sequels is he finally goes back to the real work of transferring all his better work to UHD (and fix Terminator 2 goddamit, that movie shouldnt look that lovely on UHD). What’s up with the UHD? I thought the restored Blu looked gorgeous even if they didn’t bother with the original mono track (which bothers me maybe more than it should).
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Apr 20, 2022 20:09
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dorium posted:it's DNR'd to hell and looks super smooth because of it. then he adjusted the color timing as well so got rid of that blue tint that was on the original theatrical version. the blu-ray looks good, but man I wish he would stop futzing with it like that. Oh man. I misread your earlier post and thought we were talking about the original Terminator. Yeah, for a movie that makes it to every format imaginable (including D-VHS!) Terminator 2 is a fiasco. It was shot on a particularly finicky variant of Super35 that looks gorgeous in its original incarnation, complete with lovely grain and color fidelity, but you’d never know that from the way it’s made it to video. See also what Cameron did to Aliens, because in the pantheon of revisionist muckery that should have its very own wing dedicated to it. Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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This all makes me want an accurate UHD version of The Deadly Spawn, because that was shot on a dozen different kinds of whatever 16mm film they could get their hands on. Done right that would be a patchwork quilt of visual texture.
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Apr 20, 2022 20:51
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The lack of any consideration of the body horror angle put me off of it quickly. Seriously: a guy disabled for years doesn’t struggle in the slightest adapting to a giant new alien body, and I’m supposed to accept it credulously? I’m not asking for Cronenberg here, but come on.
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Apr 20, 2022 22:12
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A while back an outfit called Filmcentrix handled Blue Sunshine in an exhaustive special edition, and then appear to have quietly abandoned plans for anything else. That disc is now going for hilarious amounts of money because  , but does anyone know of plans by any other houses for that movie? Also for Zaat/The Blood Waters of Dr. Z, because I love that bizarre thing.
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worms butthole guy posted:Does anyone here own the Ice Cream Man release Vinegar Syndrome released? Is it quality? Shudder is using their transfer, and given the source material I can’t imagine it could reasonably be better than what they’ve accomplished. If you love that dumbassed movie, you’re in for a (frozen) treat.
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Egbert Souse posted:Re:Voir's Jonas Mekas/Diaries Notes and Sketches box set delivered yesterday. Idle curiosity, does anyone bother with VC-1 or MPEG-2 in 2022? I don't remember the last time I picked up a disc with anything but AVC - maybe the Tim Burton collection I got for a song a while back, with Batman '89 (and its supplements) all in VC-1. And the standalone Sleepy Hollow in MPEG-2, come to think of it...
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Rageaholic posted:One of us! One of us! Yeah, for real - I keep a subset of my nicer-looking disc packages on a shelf, but the rest are bindered after I’ve inventoried them in a spreadsheet and ripped them to my media server for convenience.
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This Is the Zodiac posted:Now that Criterion have released Multiple Maniacs, Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, and Polyester, are they going to do Desperate Living too? I don't think that's ever had an HD release. That would be a day one purchase for me. It’s one of his most deliriously inspired movies, and every time I see it I’m flummoxed that more people aren’t excited about it.
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MacheteZombie posted:Deadly Spawn 4k!?!? I KNOW! I’m as shocked as anyone, and will be stunned if it looks good.
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worms butthole guy posted:What the gently caress is this movie Indelible. Unforgettable. The finest creation the director of Mac and Me and Mannequin 2: On the Move ever managed.
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Sniep posted:Mac and Me is like uncomfortably well done for how terrible it is. Like, you'd think the budget would have been gone early in and it just keeps hitting with too-legit-for-the-film special effects and dance sequences and poo poo.. idk. it's surprisingly watchable and i hate that about it It was scored by Alan Silvestri, and Nick McLean, cinematographer for a dozen ‘80s comedies, shot it pretty well considering what’s happening onscreen. The most exasperating thing about Mac and Me is how much it looks and sounds like a real movie of the time despite it being awe-inspiringly cynical and stupid. That outta nowhere McDonald’s musical number is a moment for the ages.
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Oof. What a time for me to be saving money. Enjoy, goons.
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Chris James 2 posted:This is definitely the best one Head and shoulders above the rest, yeah. Watch as half of a horror-of-entrenched-power double feature with Hara-Kiri and… poo poo, now that think about it, that would be rough afterward.
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Gripweed posted:I saw that at Target the other day. I almost got it before I realized I was thinking of Footloose. Footloose also had a horrendous dogshit transfer, if you’re looking for another bullet to dodge. Though from what I remember no catalog release out there was worse than The Color of Money…
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I’m still running a 1080p set I bought nearly a decade ago, and am still happy with Blu’s. A 4K upgrade is inevitable but there are a dozen things I need to put money toward before that’s going to happen, barring the TV suddenly dying, and I don’t fancy getting a 4K player when I have a region-free Blu-Ray player as it stands. It just isn’t a priority for me. That said, I’m impressed Fright Night is getting such a great treatment. I felt like I lucked out snagging the Twilight Time release years ago - wonder what happened to bump its status in the years since. It’d still be nice to find its sequel anywhere…
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I have an import Blu-ray of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Memories, which has (as far as I know) not gotten a stateside release outside of DVD. It’s gorgeous in HD but has a weird issue where CG-incorporating segments of Magnetic Rose look like they’re in SD, then quality goes back to staggering as soon as it cuts away. I don’t know that’s going on there. I also own a Blu-ray of the inimitable Polonia Bros.’ Bad Magic sourced from S-VHS, limited to around 200 copies or so. It remains one of my go-to discs for traumatizing people who want to see a bad movie.
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ringu0 posted:There was a Discotek Media release: https://www.rightstufanime.com/Memories-Blu-ray Oh, cool. I guess I should have waited longer.
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gey muckle mowser posted:hey folks, thought this thread might be interested - I am downsizing my movie collection by a fair amount (both because I've been less interested in collecting over the past year or two and also find myself with some unexpected costs) and have a bunch of stuff for sale in SA-Mart: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4007669 Just poked my head over there and messaged you about two discs. Thanks - I hope whatever fate’s thrown your way passes soon enough.
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Tesh posted:Honestly, this is a fun way to do a release. Want to sell something like EVIL DEAD for the hundredth time? Slap some retro cover art on it and include a “degraded version” as a bonus. This is one reason I bought from Code Red DVD for a while: there’s something very engaging about seeing a movie other people unmistakably have before you, and to be reminded that film’s a physical medium that degrades over time. Just preordered that White Zombie disc and looking immensely forward to it.
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Homeybeef posted:God drat it someone talk me out of this. The third Birdemic takes nearly an hour to get to the birds and a lot - a LOT - of it is brooding environmental doomerism. I think the director had one good idea he milked to death with awful execution the first time around, then was in on the joke that was himself the second time around and has now come back to do it all over again. It’s your money, do what you want, but $35 is kind of a lot for… that.
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PinkoBastard posted:I own the horror and sci fi 50 packs and the prints are (mostly) bad but there’s something so fun about choosing one of them to watch, and the “2 or 3 movies per disc” format. it’s been a long time since I dug them out but I really have a lot of affection for those sets. It’s also fun to select the Play All option and then let them run in the background when you’re working from home or folding laundry. There’s something deeply nostalgic for me about lo-fi movies as background, probably rooted in renting bad movies on VHS in high school and letting them play in my room as ambiance while I dicked around on a modem connection or chattered with friends on the phone. They look awful, by and large, because they’ve also squeezed the bitrate to cram so many movies onto the disc, but if you wanted HD, this wouldn’t be your jam anyway. Good stuff. And Mill Creek sent a replacement disc for a defective one in my pack in all of two days!
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EL BROMANCE posted:If anyone asks about your copy of Bat Pussy, just watch it with them and they’ll soon learn never to ask about the movies on your shelf ever again. I watched it once when a porn connoisseur former friend sent me a DVD rip, way before the Blu was announced. Seeing its two principals gently caress-grapple each other while engaged in the kind of sincere loathing I’d associate with a long, horrifically dysfunctional marriage was an experience, as was the slow-building tension of B.P. herself steadily advancing on them on a hippity-hop, but I can’t imagine revisiting it. Near the end, when the titular character says “gently caress this” and walks out, I can’t tell whether it’s the actress or the character speaking, and it’s probably both. Oh, to imagine Bat-Pussy Returns.
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Egbert Souse posted:It's 4K for DCP purposes, but I can't fathom a single reason why a UHD would make sense. Even expanded color space and HDR probably mean nothing for something shot on MiniDV. However, Blu-ray makes total sense between it allowing for a vastly better encode and the fact the new restoration is probably the best I've ever seen a MiniDV origin film look. They probably also acknowledge how unlikely the UHD would sell well despite it being Lynch Given the limitations of INLAND’s source material, even with the Lynch-approved machine learning upsampling/reconstruction applied to bring detail into the MiniDV footage, I really don’t even know if I’m missing out on much with my European import Blu predating the restoration. Have there been comparisons posted online?
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FilthyImp posted:Am I crazy for thinking Pixar re-rendered ToyStory to be in high definition? They did - the original Toy Story was rendered at a resolution somewhere in the neighborhood of 720p, which was staggering in 1995 but whose limits were thrown into stark relief on Blu-ray. There’s at least one really interesting write-up detailing their process, but the gist of it was that they had to take the original Toy Story data and projects and import them into a newer but still behind the curve version of RenderMan, then backported newer functionality to it and re-rendered the original scenes and assets on their current server farm. You can still see some jaggy aliasing at the edges of Rex’s scales, which are literally the limits of detail and precision in those source assets, but the improvement is huge. WALL-E would probably be a less dramatic undertaking to make current. Thing is, I really don’t know how much extra detail would be extracted in each scene by taking the original assets and quadrupling the render resolution. Improvements would likely be marginal if they could be noticed at all, unless you were watching on a gently caress-off gigantic screen or theater. It would be like re-compositing all of THE LORD OF THE RINGS at 4K versus the upsampled 2K we have. Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Orange Carlisle posted:Has there ever been a reason given for why Toys (1992) isn't on blu ray? I mean outside of the poor box office numbers at the time of course. A 4k of that movie with HDR would look amazing. It's so colorful. I think it’s just a case of Toys being a high profile failure the studio’s loath to spend any more money on. It’s strange… I could’ve sworn I heard about a special edition Blu-ray coming out somewhere a while back, but I may well have dreamed it. edit: Toys stands out in my mind as one of two movies my parents walked out on when I was a kid - the other was What About Bob? Revisiting them years later I thought Toys was flawed but fascinating and worth my time, and I loving loved Bob?. Their taste was… straightforward, in hindsight.
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