@FuriousMachine haha, beautifully described! I never considered they'd make it a Godzilla sized edition. You'll have to share a pic when you get a chance. Awesome on the KoH, too 🙌 i'm waiting for the nights to draw in just a little before the full showing. I had a quick load of the disc to check it was working and it looked good right away. But for a 3+ hour Ridley roadshow event, I want to make sure it gets shown on OLED in sufficient darkness for the best overall effect.
Minority Report, I feel like I watched a bunch of times and had it on DVD, and then haven't watched it for years. It is very much a gritty/noir of a sci-fi, weird for Tom Cruise, but I remember it was one of my go-to sci-fi flicks, which makes sense as noir and sci-fi were my go-to genres. I hope it gets a good transfer, as I want to make an event of seeing it again in 4k, having basically forgotten everything bar the key feel of it and the general themes, knowing I obviously once loved the movie. And that's as close to being able to watch something for a first time again as we can ever hope for, sans amnesia 🤞
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@FuriousMachine uh, oh. Picture failed to load. Edit. Never mind. Wow, that is like an encyclopedia! How many does it contain?
To be fair, I went back to look for the Dark City release after some pondering, based on yours and Mr. Shoulder's recommendation. But Arrow had sold out by then 🤦♂️ the lesson as always should be: buy now, think later 😛
Also: speaking of steels being delivered (or not) I have one of the Shining currently doing a tour of the UK thanks to Royal Mail. I have no idea why they decided to send it somewhere random instead of sending it, you know, to me, but at least they have stopped giving me updates as to where it is now 👍👍
And the book contains " an essay by cinema historian Steve Ryfle, notes on the films by cinema historian Ed Godziszewski, and new illustrations by Arthur Adams, Sophie Campbell, Becky Cloonan, Jorge Coelho, Geof Darrow, Simon Gane, Robert Goodin, Benjamin Marra, Monarobot, Takashi Okazaki, Angela Rizza, Yuko Shimizu, Bill Sienkiewicz, Katsuya Terada, Ronald Wimberly, and Chris Wisnia".
It truly is a thing of beauty and I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in with it. Hopefully this weekend, but there is a potential trip to the cinema for Paul T. Anderson's "One Battle After Another" and the Norwegian WWII movie "Blücher", which will take up 5-6 hours on either Saturday or Sunday, so we'll see where I land with that.
"Buy now, think later"... a motto I follow way too often and also too often regret when I'm forced to think about where all my disposable income disappeared to
The Arrow release of "Dark City" is a phenomenal package, but I would recommend trying to find the film online, if it's available on a streaming service in your neck of the woods. The film is a masterclass in lighting dark scenes, so much so that it is continually brought up by Roger Ebert and the other people fawning over the movie in the Arrow featurettes, and this 4K transfer truly makes it shine (as it were). Hopefully, the versions available online (if any) also does it justice.
Amazon deliveries are truly weird things. Godzilla had a detour through Sweden, for some reason, and they more often than not stop by the Netherlands on their way from the UK to here. Not the case for my Amazon US order of "Lawrence of Arabia", though... it's still frozen in place and shows no sign of moving, so I'm thinking there is no stock left there to send and they're blissfully unaware of my order going unfulfilled until I poke them (which I will refrain from doing until their delivery estimate of 22nd September - 6th October has run out).
@FuriousMachine very cool. I'm going to have to think of a grail list of movies I could geek out with like you with these Godzillas 😁 because collections like this are pretty awesome. It's a shame Netflix butchered the Witcher IP because that would have made for a sweet collection, if it wasn't a pile of excrement.
I did see some people on Reddit mention just yesterday that they had started getting movement on their LoAs, so you never know 🤞
I feel like Arrow could print more. I don't think they expected how popular it would be. But, if not, I bet there's a few one-and-done people that sell it on second hand.
Eh, with amazon it is expected, but Royal Mail sending it to the wrong county and the wrong distribution center before losing track of it completely, that's a first, for me. The post codes arent even similar in any way with no shared letters, so who knows how it happened 🙃
Right now it is feeling kind of like this:
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@Ravix LOL, that gif was brilliant! Sounds like Royal Mail is the soulmate of the Swedish company PostNord, who operates throughout Scandinavia and one brilliant Swedish comedian once described as "objectively the worst company in the world", which is the best use of the word "objectively" I've ever encountered
And Arrow should always make more of their releases, they're simply too good to not be available for everyone who wants them
I have In the Mouth of Madness on pre-order, which is one of my favourite Carpenter films and has me almost as giddy in anticipation as the Godzilla set did (almost... the big guy is indeed special ). I'm thinking of pulling the trigger on The Mask and Spawn as well, both highly imperfect films that nonetheless hit a chord with me and that I wouldn't mind owning.
@Ravix Gotta have the right conditions to make full use of those inky OLED blacks.
Yeah there are so many editions I've missed out on due to either being sold out or being too pricey for my liking. I'm ok with it thought, I try not to get FOMO these days.
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For Dark City it is still available on HMV. I was just being dense looking at Arrow's official website where it had vanished 😅
I resisted the Tron Fomo, I almost bought it but then remembered i'm not that bothered, and the steelbook was a bit naff looking anyway 🙃
Now, Memento is apparently getting a 4k in Australia, so i'm hoping someone in europe licenses that transfer for printing, or whatever the process would be. The fact is, someone has done the work and the 4k exists, but I don't want to be trying to import from Aus 😬 I was going to ask, have you noticed when random territories get a 4k release, does the rest of the world tend to follow soon after via another publisher?
Hey, I will legitimately fight anyone who wants to watch movies on an OLED with the light on, or with daylight (ptoo) pouring in onto the screen 😂
@Ravix I nearly got roped in on the Tron thing, but as I hadn't seen the OG since the eighties and never seen "Legacy", I decided to give them a try. Turned out that they were not for me, so I dodged that one.
That being said, I live constantly in FOMO land when it comes to Ltd. Ed. vinyls and 4Ks/Blus, but I try to resist as best I can.
As for release patterns, I can't say that I've noticed any pattern I would rely on. For new releases and studio releases they seem to propagate to other territories more often than not, but... uh... "boutique" releases, for lack of a better term, like Arrow, Shout Factory, Imprint etc seems more "exclusive". Luckily, many of them are region free, so importing isn't really a big issue. Australia has the same blu-ray region as us as well, so the biggest issue with importing from down under is, in my experience, finding someone who ships internationally and shipping costs potentially being high. I haven't imported any movies from there, but I have bought quite a few aussie vinyls, and they didn't break the bank.
I checked out Imprint's upcoming Kill Bill set just today and shipping for that was around £22 (the set itself was almost £100, so I wound up skipping that), but if that is par for the course shipping discs, I don't know.
I will strongly consider importing Memento if it's not being released outside Australia, though.
@Ravix It's not something I've paid that much attention to, so no not noticed any patterns for overseas releases coming over here. I have only just noticed Silence of the Lambs is available on 4K here, and has been since January. 👀
I have Memento on blu ray so will pass on the 4K.
Tron is supposed to be a top transfer. I didn't think Legacy was as good, but loved the soundtrack. If the third one is any good, I maybe tempted by a trilogy box set, but it will be behind some other box sets I would wanna get first.
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@FuriousMachine oh, no. Not the accent crowd? (Relating to The Odyssey teaser you saw)
I shall refer thee to Alexander, which, although flawed, is a good example for a point i'm going to make. Who's accent stood out most in that movie? Was it all the Irish people speaking normally, or the dumb Arabian nights accent of Angelina Jolie... yeah. To me, i'd prefer actors using their most powerful and comfortable "normal" voice for any epics, rather than culturally appropriating generic "foreign" accents, and making it super goofy.
There's also, I imagine, the camp that would say it is best to default to British and, at times, Europeam accents regardless of the subject (in epics) even if you are American. But then, I say, Brad Pitt in Troy? We want that accent, do we? I don't think we do 😬
Where do you stand on the matter? For me, acting isn't about accents, it is about acting, so it is best to use your regular projecting voice. I don't beleive anyone has ever said "yeah, it's good and all, but why is that character from Yorkshire?" in every single Sean Bean title, for example.
@Ravix I agree that acting is about acting, not accents, but accents is also sometimes a part of it.
I guess I would say that there is no real set answer here and it depends on the artistic expression one wishes to accomplish. So I would hedge my bets and simply say "it depends" and sometimes one way works for me and other times it doesn't. If the choice pulls me out of the experience, it was the wrong choice for that project, for me.
I'm fairly certain that whether or not I end up liking Nolan's "Odyssey" won't be down to Bernthal's accent, though
It is also telling that I can't remember any specific examples where these things bothered me. I've seen both "Alexander" and "Troy" but can honestly not remember a thing about the accents used (granted, been a while since I saw either).
@FuriousMachine watch the trailers 😁 there will be examples right away. (I checked out the Troy trailer and thats when I noticed Pitt putting on an 'english' accent for my example)
That is a fair assessment. People jump too early on to why they won't like a thing, without giving it an actual chance. And i'm not sure what they would want from Bernthal, anyway? An... ancient Greek accent? An attempted English Accent?
I think in historical epics there definitely needs to be creative license too, as not everyone is Robert Eggers and is going have scripts using long lost languages. So there is no real base, you can't have a cast of civilisations that don't really exist any more.
That said, it was jarring, for me, in Alexander where everyone used their regular voice apart from Jolie. That was my memory of it, anyway. Lots of Irish accents, and then one made up accent. That, and a Blonde Colin Farrell, that sticks in the mind, too 😁
I'm actually eagerly anticipating a potential 4K release coming out in France, soon. I lost track of the details, but it is Alexander Revisted remastered (?), and some mythical cut that is supposed to be pretty good, perhaps.
@Ravix I think the criticism may primarily stem from Americans who wants these movies to simply sound "foreign" and/or "old timey" and when they don't, it doesn't work for them.
Which is a fair point, but not one that really bothers me.
The Jolie example I expect would be jarring, though. These things need to at least be consistent, I think.
I need to rewatch both of these, particularly "Alexander" which I remember enjoying (my memory of "Troy" was that I found it somewhat... meh...)
@Ravix Jodie Foster's South African accent in Elysium was terrible. I like that film quite a bit more than most people, but that stood out like a sore thumb.
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@Metonymy I have a strange sort of relationship to him; I never got all that into "Boogie Nights" and for the longest time I conflated him with Wes Anderson, whom I find incredibly dull, so I never saw a single P.T. Anderson movie after that. It isn't until recently I realised my mistake so I'm rectifying it now by seeing this one tomorrow. It looks quite brilliant and I'm hyped (I'll be double-billing it with a Norwegian WWII movie I've been looking forward to, so long day at the cinema tomorrow )
I'll be following up with a steady diet of missed P.T.A. movies after that, if I enjoy this one.
@FuriousMachine your mistake being that you thought Wes Anderson to be dull? 😛
I get what you mean, they are... an acquired taste, but they are also great movies to watch around Christmas time. But, yes, not really big screen spectaculars.
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@Ravix I find his quirkiness annoying, to be honest. I actually liked "Rushmore", but from "The Royal Tenenbaums" and on I fell off quite hard. I don't necessarily mind weird and/or quirky, but this was the "wrong" kind for me (I prefer Lynch-style weirdness, I guess)
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