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I believe there are three possibilities here: 1) It's an upscale from the 2K DI. 2) It's a new 4K scan of the film-out from the original 2K DI. 3) The studio went back to the negative and built a new 4K DI. If I'm not mistaken, #3 often requires rebuilding the entire feature. Because the movie...

Personally, it's not a deal-breaker for me. The only significant change in the unrated cut is the extra-graphic sex scene with puppets peeing and pooping on each other, which I feel goes too far over the line and isn't funny at all. It's just gross and off-putting. I prefer the theatrical cut...

Because that filmmaker is Jim Cameron, and retroactively changing something he did in the past is his M.O.

They were pretty obvious even in DVD.

I only have the older Paramount Blu-ray, which suffered from DNR issues. Did the Shout! Factory Blu-ray improve upon that? Even if it did, I'm a little wary about the 4K release reverting back to Paramount, which has an uneven track record (to put it lightly).

For me, $50 would have to get me a limited edition in some sort of special packaging that's highly likely to sell out without a price drop. Even then, it will have to be a title I care about enough to want to pay extra for that special box set or SteelBook rather than wait for a less-expensive...

“It is what it is, warts and all,” Fincher said. “And some of it is spectacular and some of it is stuff that I would change or fix today, but I didn’t want to mess with that." [Article proceeds to describe a million changes and fixes Fincher has imposed on the film because he absolutely...

Why Target? Do you get a particularly good discount from their rewards program or something? Target has never been all that great for selection or prices. I don't like what this bodes for the market in general, and I agree with others that reduced competition means that Amazon will have less...

Wasn't this a 2K DI movie? Did Warner redo the DI, or is this just a rescan of the film-out? I recall giving the Blu-ray and HD DVD high marks at the time they came out, but thinking back I also remember them having visible edge ringing and other digital artifacts, and I suspect they probably...

I just popped my copy of the Criterion Blu-ray into my OPPO 203 and it loaded right away. I jumped around to a few chapters without issue. FWIW.

Aliens is absolutely the same master from the 2010 Blu-ray, run through A.I. processing. Even the studio has confirmed that according to Digital Bits. There's no question of it when watching the two side-by-side. Lightstorm supposedly claims that True Lies and The Abyss are new scans, but I...

Yeah, but those complaints were mostly brushed off at the time and the movie was a huge box office hit. The more recent revival of them would have everyone believe the movie is the most horrifically racist and misogynistic piece of hate speech ever made - which, I'm sorry, is an outsized...

Even with this issue, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that The Abyss is the best seller of this Cameron wave. 1) It benefits from the publicity and hype of the recent theatrical re-release. 2) Aliens already had pretty good Blu-ray editions available for the past 14 years, so demand for an...

Jayembee already mentioned Barnes & Noble. I'll also toss in a mention for Newbury Comics, though selection is typically limited and prices high.

There have been a number of supply chain and distribution issues with all three of these Cameron titles. Many of us who preordered the Abyss ahead of release still haven't received it. My copies of True Lies and Aliens were a couple weeks late. Amazon gave me a vague date of sometime before May...