You can't remake The Honeymooners. It's value system belongs to a different age. It's like remaking I Love Lucy or Leave it to Beaver. And, as for retaining the 'spirit' of the original piece, well, Gabrielle Union ain't no Alice Kramdem, unless Alice somehow got major reconstructive surgery and...
Given that the R1 DVD will be a "Director's Cut" (with Alexander's bi-sexuality toned down, if not eliminated), this may be the only way to see the theatrical cut. It also has a DTS track, which the R1 will not have (as it's a Warners release).
The Fugitive I'll give you, but the other two were pretty ordinary (and Mission: Impossible had an only passing association with the TV series). Land of the Lost, however, is fodder for camp. And Hollywood isn't nearly as clever as it used to be when it comes to comedy.
Well, Mary Kate and Ashley have one, so why can't Ryan? We'll be seeing Omarosa getting hers next year, in all likelihood. The Walk of Fame is just real estate for sale to whoever is willing to fork out 15 grand and who has managed to keep working in the industry for 5 years.
If they loved it so much, then why did they cancel it? And speaking someone who is as far from a frat-boy as you could possibly imagine, I thoroughly enjoy the show. Sure, it's not as good as King of the Hill or Futurama, but at least it isn't another reality show.
Those extras don't look so hot. Probably EPK crap and one of those god-awful HBO making of featurettes. Frankly, the film was so acted and directed with such obvious disinterest (and with nothing more than a paycheck in mind for many, no doubt) that I can't imagine Soderbergh would be into an SE...
Another great Australian film of the '70's, 'Don's Party', has just been released in a good anamorphic transfer with a 100 minute making of documentary and 1 hr interview with David Williamson. Australia certainly doesn't make films like this anymore, more's the pity (although Lantana came close...
The DVD is available for sale at Amazon. It is listed as "All Regions" and as many of the comments are from US reviwers, I'd say it was an NTSC DVD. Amazon link
Isn't this produced by the BBC and follows the same sort of factoid structure used in the Walking With... series? At least that's better than those cheesy A&E docos.
Another one to avoid: Testosterone. Starts out OK, but ends up the most idiotic mess of a movie. Still, it does have Jennifer Coolidge's only performance as a normal human being.
I'm a huge Lucy fan and wouldn't touch this monstrosity with a ten foot pole. It can't even pass as camp, unfortunately. It's only redeeming feature is Bea Arthur and they cut all her best lines out (I wonder who thought that would be a good idea?).
It's happened everywhere in the western world, EXCEPT for the US. Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under are all screened unecnsored on broadcast television in Australia. The UK regularly shows full frontal nudity on broadcast television. It's only a big deal in the US, which ironically...
Strangelove was made in variable aspect ratios, between 1.37:1 to 1.66:1. Seven Samurai was made strictly 1.37:1. You will never see an anamorphic version of this film on DVD.
Well, don't buy NTSC DVDs then, either. Because they run at 30 fps and introduces 3:2 pulldown to get films from 24fps up to 30fps. In both NTSC and PAL, the integrity of a film is compromised to fit in with the television standard. I don't see 3:2 pulldown effect and I don't hear PAL speedup...
That's an entirely different issue. Comparing a deliberate, conscious decision to hack movies to suit your moral beliefs to a television standard over which consumers have no control over is ridiculous.
The R1 release is from Warners Bros, not Miramax, so they'll be no DTS. However, you can at least be assured a decent transfer, unlike Scorsese's last effort.
But that would require telling your child why they can't watch a certain film. It's much easier to just put your copy of Porky's into the censor-machine (or whatever sanitised name they call this thing) and let it do the parenting. Abdicate all responsibility; it's much easier that way. There's...
I suspect you're going to have to get this one on R4 DVD. I can't think of one Australian television series on DVD in the US, and each season comprises over 20 episodes. I just can't see it as a commercially viable prospect.
The film was released the same year as Traffic. I suspect that he was somewhat pre-occupied at the time on other matters to do a commentary over the whole film. Or, he just didn't want to.
The presenter for the Best Director Oscar is rarely the previous year's winner. At least Julia Roberts didn't make it all about her this time, as she did when Denzel won for Best Actor. Martin Scorsese needs to stop making films designed to win him Oscars and go back to the kind of films...