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- Comment on James Bond Sean Connery 4K steelbook collection is up for preorder 7 hours ago:
I’m sure I’ll end up rebuying them. But just give me the regular 4K discs, not a space hogging “SteelBook library case.”
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 8 hours ago:
Tomorrow I’m seeing The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie before it leaves theaters. (I’m not really into horror movies or Statham action movies.)
FWIW, Paul Rudd stars in Death of a Unicorn, and David Harbour and Michael Peña are in A Working Man.
- Comment on Report: WB looking to sell Looney Tunes brand after Coyote vs. Acme 1 day ago:
What is WB even doing? With the Discovery merger they’ve destroyed HBO as a brand, and now they want to sell the most iconic thing about their studio
- Comment on "Avengers: Doomsday" is officially in production 1 day ago:
Most new movies are not those things, but likely most new movies you’ve heard about are. They’re the only ones that get any real marketing spend behind them.
- Comment on With 5,700 Movie Screens Shut Down and the Box Office in a Slump, Theaters Are Still Waiting for a Post-Pandemic Comeback 1 day ago:
Where on earth do you live that the cost of a movie ticket is over $50
- Comment on AMC Entertainment To Bring ScreenX, 4DX Premium Formats To U.S. Theaters For First Time 1 day ago:
No one:
AMC: Let’s add motion sickness and smell-o-vision
- Comment on ‘Mickey 17’ Projected to Lose $75 Million in Theatrical Run 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’d expect it on opening night. But the drop-off for many movies these days is huge.
- Comment on Apple Loses $1 Billion Annually on Apple TV+ | Report 1 week ago:
That’s “look under the couch cushions” money for Apple
- Comment on ‘Mickey 17’ Projected to Lose $75 Million in Theatrical Run 1 week ago:
Granted, I saw a weekday matinee, but there were only 3 other people in my IMAX theater. This has been the case with every movie I’ve seen in recent memory. I can’t remember the last time I had someone sitting next to me in a full theater. Maybe 2021 when theaters reopened?
- Comment on Warner Bros Negotiating Big Sale Of Shelved ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ Movie: The Dish 1 week ago:
It deserves to be seen
- Comment on Moviegoers Want More Comedies, Thrillers and Action Titles, Global Cinema Study Finds 1 week ago:
I saw a non-horror movie yesterday, and 3 out of the 4 previews were for horror movies, including one entire scene from one.
Studios are creatively bankrupt.
- Comment on Anyone else found Mickey 17 embarrassingly bad? (Just watched it) 1 week ago:
Yeah, I had the same thoughts about where her character was going, and that either her character arc was cut for time or got lost in a rewrite.
But the really weird thing was how Bong portrayed her as a little unhinged when she was shooting the baby bug: no restraint and no expression. They made sure to show her face at the end of that scene after the baby had been turned into hamburger, and it seemed a little intentionally unsettling based on the context.
When they depicted Nasha as a little unhinged as well, I was wondering if they were saying something about future soldiers. No, I guess, based on the ending. Nasha just gets homicidal about Mickey, and who knows what’s up with Kai because her character failed the Bechdel Test and then disappeared.
- Comment on Anyone else found Mickey 17 embarrassingly bad? (Just watched it) 1 week ago:
No. “Objectively bad,” lol. At least make an attempt to distinguish your opinion from objective reality about a subjective medium.
I think it was pretty OK, not bad, a few odd pacing choices. The biggest flaw was how undeveloped Kai was. She was set up in act 1, had a lot of screen time in act 2, then completely disappeared from existence for the entire last act except for one brief “oh yeah, here’s Kai” shot at the end.
Some of the on-screen violence against the baby bugs was repugnant, but it was supposed to be, so I’ll forgive it.
Otherwise I thought Pattinson did a great job realizing his characters and the overall plot worked pretty well as a movie, without being too simple or too complex.
- Comment on Netflix Director Arrested for $11 Million Fraud, Spent $2.4 million on five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari 1 week ago:
I remember reading about this guy years ago and at the time the reaction from Netflix seemed to amount to, “You got me! Good one.”
His real problem is that he didn’t steal $11 billion—then you’re apparently untouchable.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2025-03-08: Gladiator II is Number I in debut. 1 week ago:
We Were Soldiers? That feels like it came out of nowhere. I watched it once and thought it was a good movie I didn’t ever need to see again. The flame thrower victims left an indelible mark on my mind, even 23 years later.
- Comment on Poll: which specialty 4K Blu-ray label do you like best? 1 week ago:
What an incoherent non-sequitur of a quote. The first 90% doesn’t even have anything to do with the poll except being an excuse to yet again needlessly bring up a tired and dramatically overblown topic.
Anyway, I’ve become partial to BFI for affordable, high-quality 4K releases. Radiance has also been putting out some nice sets. But in terms of who I buy from most, it’s the usual suspects: Kino Lorber, Arrow, etc.
- Comment on What’s the cheapest/easiest way to get a non-region locked Blu Ray player? 2 weeks ago:
I can also vouch for them. I’m very happy with the Panasonic DP-UB820 I bought from them.
- Comment on Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore 3 weeks ago:
They are, but disc rot in CDs and DVDs is typically caused by the aluminum reflective layer oxidizing, frequently caused by adhesive separation. Blu-rays were specifically designed to be more resilient; they have a silver alloy for their reflective layer instead of aluminum, and their protective layer is much thicker.
(CDs have an ultra-thin protective layer. DVDs have a thicker one and are thus much less susceptible. Blu-rays have a significantly thicker layer than DVDs.)
- Comment on Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore 3 weeks ago:
Disc rot is a problem with LaserDiscs and early CDs. It’s a manufacturing problem, not something inherent in optical media. Generally the problem in the early discs is the adhesive.
Blu-rays have a protective coating, unlike earlier formats. As an example, BD-REs record data by means of a kind of metallic spray and are expected to last for 20-50 years. Commercial discs, by contrast, are pressed, meaning data is physically etched into the disc. That means they’re expected to last significantly longer.
The real problem will be the players.
- Comment on Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore 3 weeks ago:
For DVD, it depends entirely on storage conditions, and particularly humidity. DVD-Rs are more susceptible.
Blu-rays will outlive us all, though.
- Comment on It’s Official: The DVD Business Died in 2024 3 weeks ago:
It seems like a new article like this is posted every couple of weeks, all saying the same things. Meanwhile they’re still making way too many Blu-ray and 4K discs I’m interested in for me to buy them all.
- Comment on Lionsgate will be releasing "FLIGHT RISK" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on April 1. 5 weeks ago:
I can’t believe they didn’t include the second-best movie tagline ever on the cover
- Comment on Crocodile Dundee | New 'Encore Cut' removes footage from original film 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m not going to lose sleep over it. Probably would’ve been better to have branching and a disclaimer, though.
Around Christmas I watched Holiday Inn for the first time, thinking it would be a nice movie starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. It began with an offensive content disclaimer, and I thought, oh, there’s probably some unflattering stereotypes. Then the full-on blackface musical number that included an offensive slur basically sucker punched me in the face. Really took me out of the movie.
I think it would be pretty hard to excise that one without losing a story beat, but these two Crocodile Dundee scenes are just dumb gags that contribute nothing.
- Comment on No, Sony Isn’t Ending Blu-ray Disc Production 1 month ago:
I mean, not really. This story and then the inevitable clarification have been going in a loop for several cycles now. No one buys BD-Rs (and never really have), but plenty of people still buy Blu-ray and 4K discs, just going by the huge volume of new titles constantly being released.
- Comment on Mill Creek is the Worst (The Rockford Files) 2 months ago:
They’ve done some good releases. They put out some truly incredible He-Man and the Masters of the Universe DVD sets at one point. But yeah, most of their stuff is bare bones. “Mill” is right there in the name.
I unfortunately bought my set of The Rockford Files from Amazon, and you should never buy box sets from that company because they’ll just end up crushed due to no-shits-given packing. I didn’t notice the damage within the return window, of course.
- Comment on Jackie Chan set to hit the action/comedy target with the home release of his latest adrenaline fueled family hit Panda Plan! 2 months ago:
Oh jeez. We get this, but no Cantonese dub and Hong Kong cut of Rumble in the Bronx or First Strike (Police Story 4), or Who Am I?, Thunderbolt, etc.?
I finally broke down and picked up the German release of First Strike. In typical German fashion it only has the Mandarin dub and not the Cantonese one.
I own just about every Jackie Chan movie through the early 2000s on Blu-ray, but most of his output from the last 20 years is pretty hard to justify buying. This is maybe the worst one.
- Comment on Lionsgate Limited will be releasing "THE THIRD MAN" Limited Edition 4K SteelBook on February 25. 2 months ago:
Almost certainly, but not right away. Previously there was a StudioCanal UK release in a limited edition box (Region B locked for the Blu-ray). And there are several European standard releases.
- Comment on Lionsgate Limited will be releasing "THE THIRD MAN" Limited Edition 4K SteelBook on February 25. 2 months ago:
That’s a nice cover. I’m in, obviously
- Comment on John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat Films Among Hong Kong Classics in Shout! Deal 2 months ago:
Just to impress upon folks the magnitude of this announcement, this the biggest news that’s ever been posted in this channel. The vast majority of these films have basically never been officially available on disc in the West.
There have been a couple of DVD releases of Hard Boiled and The Killer, including by Criterion. Dragon Dynasty released a typically mediocre Blu-ray of The Killer. For A Better Tomorrow, Bullet in the Head, Once a Thief, Prison on Fire, etc. you have to pick up a European release (usually region-locked, if you’re a North American fan). Many (all?) of these are bootlegs trying to pass themselves off as officially licensed releases.
The quality is what you would expect. They usually don’t have the original Cantonese soundtrack, let alone the original Cantonese mono soundtrack (the later mixes are sometimes very bad), and the picture quality is usually only passable. Sometimes they’re missing English subtitles. There are also region-free Taiwanese releases of some of these, but many are missing the international cuts.
It’s just a mess. This is the first opportunity that we’ll get many of these films in 4K or HD from new scans, with the original Cantonese mono, and with multiple cuts of the film.
- Comment on Alien: Romulus fixed a CGI issue for the home video release 2 months ago:
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