Dr Stangelove & Taxi Driver Blu-rays coming Dec & Feb (1 Viewer)

[Med]

Wow! You seriously need to reassess this movie I think!

One of my favorite Scorsese films and an instant buy on Blu-ray for me.

 

[Thivanka R. Perera]

Well, my guess is that they will use the HD transfer they did for the 2 disc special edition of 'Taxi Driver'--which was bit brighter than the first DVD release.

 

[Jari K]

Roger Ebert would envy your "review"...

 

[Paul Arnette]

My pre-order for Taxi Driver that I placed with DVD Planet was canceled yesterday, and when I called them to ask why they stated they would not be getting the title in. After Dr. Strangelove's premature announcement, I certainly hope this title isn't being delayed/postponed too. :frowning:

 

[MatthewA]

So is this going to be a recurring theme with Sony? Titles that people actually want getting cancelled.

I was going to complain about the chick flicks, but they got cancelled too, and there but for the grace of God goes a film (or films) I care about.

 

[Brandon Conway]

Maybe I'm reading the thread history wrong, but I don't think Sony ever announced these titles. Rather, some retailers listed them. Sony probably has them in the works, but until they issue a press release one can't really consider this an announcement and a delay.

 

[Dave Mack]

Right off the bat your interpretation is off. DeNiro is not "bored." He is a vietnam vet, arguably shell shocked and detached from almost everyone. He suffers from insomnia, pops pills, eats tons of sugar and drinks random stuff like Peach schnapps, all subtle but observable. He says "loneliness has followed me my whole life... I'm god's lonely man" One day he sees Cybil Shepard's character and it's like a revelation to him. He is hardly "bored". She is initially interested in him because she's "never met anyone quite like him" and he sees the truth in her situation. But because he can't properly perform in the typical social rituals, (takes her to a porno film on their first date because he truly doesn't know any better) she dismisses him and that about sends him off the deep end. He then says, "she's just like all the rest of them" and because Cybil's associated with the senator, he's now one of "them" too. But with Jodie Foster's character, he can be a "hero" albeit in a psychopathic way. At the end of the film even though he is considered a "hero", he is just as unhinged and ready to snap as he was in the beginning. It's way more layered and complex than, "DeNiro's bored..."


Ebert's review sums it up way better than I could...


http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...401010364/1023

 

[Jim_K]

Yeah there was no official announcement (or was there?, I don't know anymore) but you're splitting hairs. Retailers wouldn't have listed these without something from Sony indicating these titles as coming with a release date and SRP. Either these were intended to be released and cancelled or somebody at Sony has their head up their ass and screwed up sending totally false info to retailers.

 

[Kris Z.]

Dr. Strangelove and Taxi Driver are canceled, and instead we get Blue Streak and National Security? Oh happy day!

Way to push the format Sony.

 

[Brandon Conway]

'Canceled' and 'Re-scheduled' have two different meanings, guys. I doubt that Sony scrapped all plans just because they ditched an originally intended release date.

 

[Jim_K]

How can you call this "re-scheduled" if it's been pulled with no new date?

Let's just call it what it is - cancelled. We can even call it delayed if it makes us all feel better. Sure they could come out later next year, the year after or 5 years from now.

All I know is once we had a couple Sony classics to look forward to and now we don't. I'm still waiting for LOA, Kwai and Guns of Navarone, the later of which I've read has been in the tank for a year and a half and they're just sitting on it.

 

[Jesse Blacklow]

These titles were never announced, rescheduled, or cancelled by Sony, so I think it's a little premature and misaimed to attack them over it, don't you?

 

[Brandon Conway]

The money involved in getting a HD master ready for BD release is enough to assure that these will come out if they were indeed being worked on. 'Delayed' is probably the best term, but as noted above it's hard to delay something that was never actually announced.

 

[Jim_K]

What's the disconnect here?

Sony to Drop 'Dr. Strangelove' on Blu-ray this December | High-Def Digest

Blu-ray.com - Taxi Driver and Dr. Strangelove Coming to Blu-ray

'Taxi Driver' Coming to Blu-ray in 2009 | High-Def Digest

Is an announcement to retailers not official enough? Does every release get a press announcement to the public?

Do we really have to get into an asinine argument over what type of announcements "count" and which ones don't?

If these were false reports why didn't Sony put the nix on these same reports 3 months ago?

Why all the spin and denial over these cancellations? It's almost comical.

 

[Brandon Conway]

"By the way, I've got an update for you on the status of a couple forthcoming Sony Blu-ray Disc titles: There have been a number of recent reports that Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb would find its way to Blu-ray Disc on 12/9. I've checked in with the studio and have learned that this is NOT the case, but that the title IS expected to be released in 2009."

The Digital Bits, 8/18/08

It's not unusual within a big company for one part of a company (marketing) to get changed information from another (authoring) after some initial groundwork (notifying retailers) has occurred.

 

[MatS]

DR. STRANGELOVE on Blu-ray is the bomb! (June 16) - DVDTOWN.com

 

[Brandon Conway]

Excellent.