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As did I. But my mention of Watchmen, with regard to Zack Snyder's overall directorial style, seems to have inadvertently derailed the thread. Still, I've seen threads go completely off topic for a dozen pages on end, especially when people start talking technical points, so this is pretty...

Chapter IV of Watchmen tells the origin of Dr. Manhattan. It also explores several themes, most prominently "Who Makes the World?" And deconstructs the space-time continuum, to boot. In the film, it's just an origin story for Dr. Manhattan. Themes are often expressed between story beats...

My personal opinion, having viewed the disc without anyone's prior input, is that there's definitely something wrong with the grain. The image isn't entirely without texture. It appears, oddly, selectively without texture. I'm seeing a minimized but still reasonable grain field in portions...

You don't understand Black Freighter for the same reason you think the book and the movie are virtually identical. Because you read the story. If you were looking at the themes of the original, you would see that the film scarcely addresses them, and you would also understand that The Black...

I don't know where the term "grain management" originated, but the first time I heard it, the person saying it worked for Universal's film restoration department. So I'd say it's worth mentioning in discussion regarding a new Universal "film restoration."

My copy arrived on Monday (thanks, Amazon Prime!) and I was thrilled with the quality while watching it. Haven't gotten into the extras yet, but the disc is already well worth the asking price, and then some.

Should be noted that audio here is not original, and the original punk soundtrack is not entirely intact, though better than the MGM 5.1 track. Second Sight in the UK is still the one, audio wise. Though this is a clear step up visually.

I need to pick this one up. I have the MGM release, but this is one of my favorites, so I'll have to double dip. Just like American Werewolf, The Thing, etc.

Best transformation still goes to American Werewolf in London. Can't wait for Universal's remaster of that one.

The Adventures of Robin Hood was my first brush with 3-strip Technicolor on BD, and I was amazed by the lushness of the color. A highly recommended presentation. I first saw The Mark of Zorro when I was 10 years old, and it instantly became my favorite version of the character. Decades...

I've had my fingers crossed for this one. One of my favorites (from the days when Bobby D was in far fewer, and far funnier, comedies), and it seemed to take forever to reach BD in Region A. The Region B transfers had me worried, as well as Universal's track record with "lesser" catalog...

And sadly, the team behind Batman: The Killing Joke just went one (or SEVERAL) further than Snyder, in completely misrepresenting the source material. And with Bruce Timm, Kevin Conroy, and Mark Hamill on board, I had high expectations of these guys in the "Gets What This Story Is About"...

The movie's ending made no sense, either. If the threat were Dr. Manhattan, America's lapdog, the world would not set aside their differences, they would converge on America as the home of the enemy, even if American targets were hit, as well. At the very least, Adrian could never be SURE of...

I would have been more enthusiastic about a film where Snyder condensed and even changed the story a great deal, had he used the opportunity to focus on the central themes. Instead, I got a film that tells the exact story of Watchmen, beat for beat, with virtually no changes, and one which left...

The Watchmen film was a complete thematic failure. Probably Snyder's biggest failure to date. He tells the exact story (of a novel whose author says the story is beside the point), he recreates the visual setting precisely, and yet he drops the entire central theme of Watchmen by reducing...

I am the biggest Batman fan I know, having met in my lifetime only a handful of people who share my level of obsession with the character. I have yet to see Batman v Superman. I think David Goyer is great with story, but TERRIBLE with actual shooting scripts. His dialogue is cringeworthy, and...

I'm interested in picking up the extended cut on regular BD down the line, but I'm still quite happy with the theatrical version. And frankly, the new cover art is hideous, and barely looks like Matt Damon. The original poster/cover was much better.

Peter Cushing's performance here is second only to Jeremy Brett's, in my opinion, when it comes to faithfully rendering the character as written by Conan Doyle. Personally, I found him rather too affable in the '60s BBC series, when he took over for Douglas Wilmer. In Hammer's Hound, he is...

Just finished the series the other night. They brought everything together nicely at the end. As a fan, I was quite satisfied.

Bug really needs a good Region A release. And before everyone tells me that I should just go Region-free, I will state that for me, not going Region-free is a money-saving measure. If I could buy any BD release I wanted, I would quickly be in the poorhouse. haha

Great movie. Super dark. Super funny. Super gritty.

The broad and often juvenile comedy of TCM2 is not my cup of tea. The commentary with Bill Moseley, Caroline Williams, and Tom Savini, however, is a delight. Like watching a cheesy movie with good friends. Good friends who worked on the cheesy movie in question and have a ton of great stories...

Fair enough. That's pretty much how I've felt about every horror film that's been touted as an "instant classic" in recent years. The VVitch is the only one that's connected with me on any level

That's it, though that video removes the Crypt Keeper segments, which featured the undead host interacting with a digitally resurrected Alfred Hitchcock. As an episode, it's a lot of fun. It was originally intended as the final episode of the series, until Fox (who were having much success...

Yes, and yes. As a lifelong horror fan, I've become rather jaded in recent years, as even rave-reviewed movie like It Follows do absolutely nothing for me. I'd begun to wonder where all the real horror movies were. And then I saw The VVitch. Echoes of Polanski and Nic Roeg, with a smattering...

Ah, Deadpool...the R-rated superantihero movie that Fox thought there was no market for, that ended up becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, and domestically outgrossing every previous X-Men film. I've been a Deadpool fan for a long time, and I never thought this film would be...

While it's not my favorite, Dark Passage is easily the most underrated of the four Bogart/Bacall screen pairings. It's a great picture, with a fun gimmick, that is too often overlooked. While The Big Sleep was THE Bogie & Bacall film I was waiting for on BD, I'm every bit as excited for Dark...

Very definitely a kind of Bonnie & Clyde clone - complete with use of We're in the Money to similar effect - and not remotely accurate to real events, though Warren Oates is quite well cast, and Harry Dean Stanton as well. Ben Johnson is also a hoot in his portrayal of Melvin Purvis...

There is a BD release of this one...but really, it's a BD-R release...burned on demand. Doesn't look very good, but it's much better than either of the two awful DVD editions I owned. As a Huston/Bogart film, however, it definitely deserves better than a modest transfer from a...

Great to hear. Unless my memory has taken a serious turn, I believe this is Bogart's first appearance in the Collection (excluding his photograph's appearance in A bout de souffle). Which is a major event.