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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" coming to Blu-ray on July 29
This release will be available as a rental online and at many Blockbuster stores, so all of us who want to see it without rewarding New Line for their shoddy work can avoid buying.
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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" coming to Blu-ray on July 29
I'm perfectly happy to take a wait-and-see approach.
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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" coming to Blu-ray on July 29
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Originally Posted by Craig Beam
Love the film, but I'll probably check it out via Netflix before buying. I find myself doing that more and more these days...
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Does Netflix stock new BD releases quickly (and w/ a decent inventory)? I started using BlockBuster a couple months back and find them rather lacking when it comes to new BD releases so far.
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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" - the DNR travesty continues
No surprise. Screen shots show obvious edge sharpening and wax like faces. Just like the transfer shown on HBO many times.
Better than DVD? Yup.
But so what?
Death to PG-13! And now death to DVNR too!!
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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" - the DNR travesty continues
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Originally Posted by Johannes S
I know what answers there will come up: "Just wait a little longer...." "the studios got the message.....". But this will not excuse this new travesty.
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You are aware that there's prep time of several
months for getting titles ready for Blu-ray, right? It's not an instant process that we can see in the next week.
If the studios got the message last month (hypothetically speaking) then it's unlikely that any movies that came after said hypothetical policy would be released until the holiday season.
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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" - the DNR travesty continues
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Do you think it's possible that we could have an online chat with one or more representatives, as has been done in the past regarding other issues?
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Why would any rep show his face with the kind of aggressive hyperbole being bandied about in some of these threads? Any rep reading some of this stuff could rightly conclude that any "discussion" would degenerate into name calling and outright rudeness if his/her statements on the matter did not coincide with what a lot of people expect to hear.
The safest path for reps to follow is to say nothing. If they say nothing then they do not have to deal with the negative fallout that would surely follow.
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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" - the DNR travesty continues
I believe what has been learned to this point translates to "Do Not Pre-order."
It simply isn't worth the risk that releases will not be up to par, and with reviewers receiving copies well enough in advance of street date, there is more than enough time to generally receive a desired disc quickly...
after reading comments from whomever you trust on line.
RAH
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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" - the DNR travesty continues
I'm still curious as to whether this was sourced from an older D-Theater master and the DC material spliced in and de-noised to match. That's the rumour and it would be interesting to see a confirmation or denial.
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Re: "Dark City: Director's Cut" - the DNR travesty continues
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I'm not trying to start an argument and I agree with your basic viewpoint but "diplomatic appeasement" and "That's the language those people understand, nothing else" are just more hyperbole. Everyone here is very passionate about movies but those terms are more applicable to terrorism than movies. Trying to apply them to movies are the exact type of thing that will make studios take our concerns less seriously.
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Exactly.
I'm with Johannes on the DNR issue, but speaking in such hostile terms does nothing to help the cause, and much to hurt it. It's a brazillion times more effective to calmly point issues out to people like RAH and owners of sites like HTF or the Bits, who have a much more direct connection to the studios. Otherwise, all the anger does is antagonize the studios into ignoring
everyone who shares the concern.
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