Favorite movie not on Blu-Ray?
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Battlejayroyale — 11 years ago(December 09, 2014 01:41 AM)
Chicken run. I love that movie to death. I know there is a French and German version of it but I want a proper release, including the special features from my 2 disc dvd (and a Dutch dub because I grew up with that).
Actually there are more Dreamworks and Aardman movies I still want like Wallace and Gromit, Antz, The prince of Egypt, The road to El Dorado. What's the deal with that?
Oh and The land before time and The Iron Giant. Lot's of animation.- I just didn't want to be a loser anymore. -
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Speed_Daemon — 11 years ago(December 12, 2014 12:12 AM)
I was going to say "Kill Bill", which I had to buy on DVD because there was no Blu-ray edition. But I see that there now is a Blu-ray.
"David Gilmour Live in Gdansk" is still only on DVD, so there's that. -
Nuclear_Exorcist — 11 years ago(December 13, 2014 01:49 PM)
Kill Bill 1 and 2 were among the first films released on BD, all the way back in 2008.
Music titles often seem to take forever to come to new formats. Hell even the Pink Floyd - PULSE DVD was a late entry, and there's still no sign of The Wall film on Blu. -
Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(December 08, 2015 08:13 PM)
I'd still buy a Blu Ray of PULSE just for the audio upgrade. The DVD only had Dolby Digital, even though it was at 640kbps I still think the audio quality would be noticeably better in lossless form.
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Speed_Daemon — 10 years ago(December 15, 2015 03:45 PM)
That is if they choose to offer a LPCM sound stream, of course. No guarantee that will happen. I'm told that some of the tunes that were edited down for space on DVD would be welcome in their full length. Shame they didn't shoot video for "The Sound of Delicate Thunder"; that was the tour to see IMO. Hopefully the people at Das Boot will have more high quality remasters for us in 2016.
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Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(December 16, 2015 04:36 PM)
Well, they could easily fit both 24 bit LPCM 5.1 and stereo streams on the disc since the video wouldn't require a high bitrate. Sometimes I prefer the sound of the stereo tracks on music BDs, surround streams oftens sound too airy and thin.
There was actually a VHS of Delicate Sound of Thunder, but it's never seen an official DVD release (there's a shady bootleg version), I have no idea if that will ever be reissued. One can only hope! -
Speed_Daemon — 10 years ago(December 16, 2015 09:15 PM)
There is a big difference between something being possible in theory and an actual product for sale though. Technically "Gdansk" could have been released on Blu-ray too, but it wasn't. And that's a shame, as I would love to add a LPCM version of "Wot's uh the Deal" as performed for the closing credits on "Gdansk" to my music collection. That and "Fat Old Sun" are perhaps the two most underappreciated PF tunes ever. And though I never saw them played by the Floyd in concert, the David Gilmour / Rick Wright versions are must-haves.
So there was an official video of the '86-'87 tour? Maybe that explains why I had always thought that Pulse was the video companion to "The Delicate Sound of Thunder". I knew I saw a video back then (or saw them shooting video at one of the gigs), but since I wasn't collecting videos myself, I had nothing concrete to remind me. Once again I passed up the chance to buy the one thing that became rare and valuable! Story of my life, and my collection of band trinkets. -
mikekuhlman-415-393642 — 11 years ago(January 10, 2015 10:12 PM)
It seems my prayers have been answered by the great Warner in the sky (they must've had a good decade financially):
Burt Reynolds' Hooper is about to be released on blu-ray (April 7, 2015)! Pay Burt those royalty checks! He needs them!
And Memphis Belle is already out! Ordered from Amazon.
Here's one that Warner still hasn't gotten around to:
Innerspace (1987 comedy/action/sci-fi thriller executive produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Gremlins' Joe Dante, a loose remake of Fantastic Voyage, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan, about miniaturization; it won ILM, which ingeniously created the inside of the human body, the Oscar for Best Visual Effects) -
unknown1000 — 11 years ago(March 23, 2015 07:53 PM)
The Boys Club (1997) Complete with audio commentary track with Dominic Zamprogna (Kyle), Stuart Stone (Brad), Devon Sawa, (Eric), Amy Stewart (Megan), Nicholas Campbell (Kyle's Dad), John Fawcett (Director of the film), and Doug Smith (story), Peter Wellington (screenplay). Also it should have deleted scenes and a HD transfer with 16x9 widescreen and English subtitles and behind the scenes making of feature if one was ever made lol.
http://www.imdb.com/board/10118763/?ref_=nv_sr_1 -
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persen1 — 10 years ago(May 12, 2015 05:08 PM)
The Abyss!!! This has to be one of the longest-awaited Blu-rays out there, and is a perfect title for a high-def setup. I wish I knew what the hold-up was.
The question is if it got a Blu-ray release, if people only get the theatrical version and not the Extended Cut.
The movie companies just love to give people only the theatrical versions of elder movies, instead of their later created extended versions. -
Nuclear_Exorcist — 10 years ago(May 14, 2015 02:53 PM)
20th Century Fox is usually one of the better studios at releasing BDs with either both versions or the definitive version of most films with multiple versions, so it should be safe from that nonsense. Paramount is the worst at that sort of thing, they recently released Sliver on BD in Australia and it's the R-rated version, and EVERY previous release of that film was uncut.