Also I found out that The Lover is the wrong Tony Leung! Even the review I read said "Tony Leung (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, Lust Caution, Shang-Chi)" but apparently this is a different Tony Leung and I've been fooled. So now I bought some random movie with nobody I know directed by nobody I know. Guess I'll watch it and find out.
I must have missed that Criterion was doing 4K discs now. How are they?
I must have missed that Criterion was doing 4K discs now. How are they?
Otherwise, the usual tons of good extras and nice books of essays. Mulholland drive has almost no extras because Lynch :'( I don't even think it has chapters.
Citizen Kane just got an upgrade to 4K on iTunes. I wonder if it’s the same master.
Otherwise, the usual tons of good extras and nice books of essays. Mulholland drive has almost no extras because Lynch :'( I don't even think it has chapters.
Yeah, that's just David Lynch being weird. I remember as far back as the first DVD release, he demanded that there be no chapter breaks (and also refused to do any extras).
(https://i.imgur.com/XAXiVgZ.png)The Warriors videogame was so much better than I had expected. That movie is still a heap of fun.
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https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Godfather-Trilogy-4K-Blu-ray/307780/Watched the Scarface anniversary edition the other day. A really nice restored 4K image although the quality of the sound effects and dialogue is a bit lacking.
Godfather Trilogy 4ks supposed to look great. Should be a nice get when it's like 50% off at Black Friday.
Bought Arrow's Shawscope Vol. 1 and also Come Drink With Me. Bout to get Shaw'd up.
Bought Arrow's Shawscope Vol. 1 and also Come Drink With Me. Bout to get Shaw'd up.
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Yeah, I've never seen Watcher in the Woods and kinda curious so I ebay'd it after reading your post. Also I read Something Wicked This Way Comes like 3 years ago and the movie was out of print so I just saw some youtube clips of it. Wouldn't mind checking the whole thing out.
Also pet peeve, but it pisses me off how when reviewers write about older films that use major spoilers in the first line header that shows up in RT. I was checking the reviews of Watcher in the Woods and basicallyspoiler (click to show/hide)The review titles already spoiled that the Watcher is an alien and it's a sci-fi film.
Also that apparently they ran out of budget so the big blue alien isn't in the movie visually or something and the ending is a mess.[close]
Still will give it a watch. But not that first time review titles haven't heavily spoiled shit. Really annoying.
Annoying thing is definitely stuff like that Infernal Affairs being:
New 4K digital restorations, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
Like I understand it's 99% likely a licensing thing, but still sucks they have new 4k transfers sitting right there and the only way to watch them is a downsampled 2k transfer that gets re-uppressed to your 4k TV.
The Goonies & Gremlins 4K discs are $9.99 at Amazon or Best Buy.
*edit* Actually reading reviews of the 4k for In the Mood for Love, apparently it's almost indistinguishable from the exiting 2K BD because DNR kills the extra grain/detail that would've been gained :-\
Ghost Watch was fun.
Ghost Watch was fun.
Never heard of it. What's its deal?
The selection of movies seems kind of random(?)
If they wanted to go with Sony pictures 'classics' purely from a quality standpoint they should've included the likes of Leviathan.
If they wanted to go with films people remember, where is Black Book, The Raid, Layer Cake or MOON?
Orlando, both the film and the novel, was the primary inspiration for both the 2020 spring exhibition of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 2020 Met Gala. The exhibition, entitled "About Time: Fashion and Duration", was specifically inspired by the "labyrinth" scene in Orlando, where Tilda Swinton runs through the labyrinth dressed in an 18th-century gown before she reappears dressed in mid-19th century garb.[25] Using that scene as the initial inspiration, curator Andrew Bolton took "Orlando’s concept of time and the manner in which she/he moves seamlessly through the centuries" to "trace more than a century and a half of fashion, illustrating how garments of the past influence the present."[25] Although the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the Met Gala, the opening of the exhibition itself was postponed until October 2020.
Kind of weird Criterion releases Mulholland Drive as one of their first 4K releases, then releases Lost Highway 4K soon after. Now they just announced Lynch's Inland Empire for March and it's...not a 4K release.
Kind of weird Criterion releases Mulholland Drive as one of their first 4K releases, then releases Lost Highway 4K soon after. Now they just announced Lynch's Inland Empire for March and it's...not a 4K release.
I mean... the source footage is like 720i on that one, not sure what 4K would add lol.
Dragonslayer coming to BD/4K in March. It's not a great movie, but I enjoy that weird era in the early 80's when Disney was experimenting with more adultish live-action movies.
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Wow, I loved the Duck Dodgers series back in college when I was also obsessed with Futurama. Really surprising to see WB dropping this on Blu-ray.
Got my copy of the Police Story Trilogy 4K from Amazon UK today.
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Woah, THE Jonathan Ross liked it!!!
Preordered the Psycho 4K Collection from Arrow.
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I'm curious to see this "newly uncovered" workprint. I have a bit of a soft spot for Bloodlines since it was the first Hellraiser movie I saw.
H3 & 4 aren’t great, but they are the best of the sequels until the reboot and I do enjoy them mostly based on Bradley’s performance. All the DTV sequel are just increasingly awful. The Hulu reboot is pretty solid. I would rate them H1 > H2 > Reboot > H3 > H4 >>>>>>>> the rest.
Hellbound Heart is good, and it’s short, it’s only like 100 pages. The sequel he wrote about 10 years ago, Scarlet Gospel was terrible but almost worth reading just based on how bonkers and stupid it was. :lol
There's a thread on Blu-Ray.com about Disney pulling out of physical media distribution to Australia and how they've done the same thing already for New Zealand, Italy and various parts of Asia.
Obviously UHD is just a sliver of overall sales and that would be fairly unsurprising but it's a concerning sign given it's all physical in such countries.
Not a great outlook for any hoping for more Fox releases if this spreads.
Not a great outlook for any hoping for more Fox releases if this spreads.