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6/24/08 at 10:50pm
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Here's mine:

5-Somewhere in Time

4-Jaws

3-American Graffiti

2-Legend

1-Jurassic Park. I just watched the SDVD, and it looked great. Man I can't wait to see it in High Definition

                          

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6/25/08 at 3:50am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Friday Night Lights (Season 1 and Season 2 with the original broadcast music restored)
Field of Dreams (the original theatrical trailer was left off the 2-Disc Anniversary Edition, so I would like to see this included and in 1080p)

Disney/Buena Vista/Miramax: Please put Beautiful Girls on Blu-ray with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer in 1080p, and an anamorphic re-release with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer day-and-date on DVD. Thanks!

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6/25/08 at 5:51am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

HITCHCOCK!

Any and all.
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

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HITCHCOCK!

Any and all.

Seconded.
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6/25/08 at 7:29am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Sorcerer

but also :
Jaws
Back to the future trilogy
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
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6/25/08 at 9:13am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

12 Monkeys
American Gangster
Back to the Future Trilogy
Backdraft
Bourne Trilogy
Casino
Children of Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hulk
Serenity
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6/25/08 at 9:16am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Colossus: the Forbin Project


Family Plot
Frenzy
Topaz
Torn Curtain
Marnie
The Birds
Psycho
Vertigo
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Rear Window
The Trouble With Harry
Rope
Shadow of a Doubt
Saboteur
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6/25/08 at 9:25am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

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12 Monkeys
American Gangster - Confirmed for later this year, planned for October
Back to the Future Trilogy - Confirmed for 2009
Backdraft
Bourne Trilogy - Rumored for later this year
Casino - Confirmed for later this year
Children of Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hulk
Serenity - Confirmed for later this year, planned for October
Noted with estimated release windows.

Also, I'd be shocked if "Hulk" isn't released with "The Incredible Hulk" (which was recently rumored as coming November 25).
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6/25/08 at 9:27am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

TREMORS
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6/25/08 at 11:54am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

I have a question for those who own the HD DVD release of "Field of Dreams". How was the high-def transfer? This is my favorite film and I hope Universal does it justice for a potential Blu-ray release.

Also, I went on DVD Empire to look at the back cover just now, and it looks like they ported everything over from the 2004 Widescreen Anniversary Edition (including the "Field of Dreams Scrapbook" which was on the first DVD release and ended up as a Wal-Mart "exclusive", and I do have that bonus disc). The original theatrical trailer wasn't listed, so I guess it didn't make it on that release either. It would be nice to see it on a Blu-ray release in 1080p.

Disney/Buena Vista/Miramax: Please put Beautiful Girls on Blu-ray with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer in 1080p, and an anamorphic re-release with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer day-and-date on DVD. Thanks!

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6/25/08 at 12:18pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Speaking of "Serenity", what are the chances of seeing that Q&A with Joss Whedon that was filmed in Australia on the forthcoming Blu-ray release?

Disney/Buena Vista/Miramax: Please put Beautiful Girls on Blu-ray with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer in 1080p, and an anamorphic re-release with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer day-and-date on DVD. Thanks!

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6/25/08 at 4:48pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Scarface
Jurassic Park Trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Miami Vice (It's coming but I hope it at least a little better than the HD-DVD)
The Blues Brothers
Munich
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6/25/08 at 5:03pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

My top five Universal movies off the top of my head:

1.) Back to the Future Trilogy
2.) Hitchcock (the big three and other favorites)
3.) Jaws
4.) The Blues Brothers
5.) 1941

TV:

1.) Miami Vice

One of only two TV shows that I'd probably upgrade to BD.
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6/25/08 at 5:26pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Psycho
Vertigo
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6/25/08 at 8:27pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Chris, I bought the Field of Dreams HD-DVD when Circuit City was blowing out all their titles and sorry to say the transfer is not good. I had sold my 2004 Widescreen Anniversary Edition DVD prior to the purchase. I sold the HD-DVD and re-bought the same DVD I sold.
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6/26/08 at 4:49am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

The Movie Library
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6/26/08 at 5:20am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

If Universal still has the home video rights...Soderbergh's King of the Hill.
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6/26/08 at 6:37am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Thanks Jesse!

Forgot to mention:

The Game
Timecop
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6/26/08 at 8:39am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

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Chris, I bought the Field of Dreams HD-DVD when Circuit City was blowing out all their titles and sorry to say the transfer is not good. I had sold my 2004 Widescreen Anniversary Edition DVD prior to the purchase. I sold the HD-DVD and re-bought the same DVD I sold.

Thanks Dean. Here's hoping Universal does a new transfer then, and they are waiting until the film's 20th Anniversary next year before releasing the Blu-ray release.

Disney/Buena Vista/Miramax: Please put Beautiful Girls on Blu-ray with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer in 1080p, and an anamorphic re-release with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer day-and-date on DVD. Thanks!

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6/26/08 at 2:50pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

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Thanks Dean. Here's hoping Universal does a new transfer then, and they are waiting until the film's 20th Anniversary next year before releasing the Blu-ray release.

I'm hoping the same thing.
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Here is my list of Universal titles:
  • The Andromeda Strain
  • Back To The Future
  • Bourne Trilogy
  • American Graffiti
  • Jurassic Park Trilogy
  • Battlestar Galactica (2004) Season 1
  • Battlestar Galactica (2004) Season 2
  • Battlestar Galactica (2004) Season 3
  • Battlestar Galactica: Razor
  • Battlestar Galactica: Complete Epic Original Series
  • Scorpion King (Coming 7/22/08)
  • The Mummy (Coming 7/22/08)
  • The Mummy Returns (Coming 7/22/08)
  • End Of Days (Coming 8/26/08)
  • U-571 (Coming 8/26/08)
  • Kindergarten Cop
  • They Live
  • For Richer Or Poorer
  • The Money Pit
  • Schindler's List
  • Conan The Barbarian
  • Conan: The Destroyer
  • Jaws
  • Earthquake
  • Red Dragon
  • Baa Baa Black Sheep
  • High Plains Drifter
  • ET
  • The Breakfast Club
  • Bird On A Wire
  • The Shadow
  • Major Payne
  • Liar Liar
  • The Birds
  • Born On The Fourth Of July
  • Children Of Men

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6/26/08 at 5:07pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

I forgot to mention Conan the Barbarian! Love that movie.


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6/26/08 at 7:10pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Hitchcock, mainly: Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Frenzy, and Rope.

W.C. Fields: Pretty much any, but especially The Bank Dick, You Can't Cheat An Honest Man, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, You're Telling Me!, It's a Gift, and International House. From how gorgeous the SD discs for You're Telling Me and "Sucker" look (and sound), they ought to pop off the screen with BluRay.

Marx Bros.: Mainly Horse Feathers and Duck Soup. I'd like to see if they can find a decent print for Horse Feathers.

1930s classics: Scarface, Hell's Angels, All Quiet on the Western Front (all of these have stellar DVDs)

1940s: Arabian Nights (3-strip Technicolor looks GORGEOUS on the DVD!),

Universal horror/sci-fi: Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula's Daughter

Amercan Graffti (1998 DVD is still one of the best transfers ever)

The Blues Brothers

Tell The Weinstein Company to release Richard Williams' animated masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler on DVD in Panavision widescreen and uncut! See and hear what you're missing from their Bitsy Award winner of Worst Standard Edition DVD of 2006 on YouTube!
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6/27/08 at 2:50am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

STREETS OF FIRE
JAWS
KING OF THE HILL
JURASSIC PARKS MOVIES
DUEL
THE THING
...

Norris

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6/27/08 at 1:50pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

Jaws
Jaws 2
Battlestar Galactica (2003) - all seasons, mini-series, one shots, etc
Somewhere In Time
The Brinks Job
Sorcerer
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
The Blues Brothers
A Hall/Montez 'Technicolor Fantasies' Box set
Douglas Sirk Melodramas Box set
The (Universal owned) Hammer Horror Collection
Dracula (79)
1941
Airport
Tammy And The Bachelor
Conan
Conan The Destroyer
Jude
Kolchak: The Night Stalker- Complete Series (newly transfered from original elements)
Anne Of The Thousand Days/ Mary Queen Of Scots
The Ghost And Mr Chicken
The Electric Horseman
Two-Lane Blacktop
and of course...

Flash Gordon!
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6/28/08 at 5:43am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

I am surprised nobody mentioned it yet:

Spartacus

And if they plan to release the same transfer that they used for HD-DVD they should not even bother
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6/28/08 at 10:00am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

one more-Matinee
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6/28/08 at 11:07pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

All Hitchcock, but VERTIGO & PSYCHO in particular.
THE THING
THE UNINVITED
THIS ISLAND EARTH (Widescreen)
KING KONG
JAWS
TOUCH OF EVIL
LEGEND
HULK
BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT
TREMORS
PETER PAN
TIMECOP
THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN
ARMY OF DARKNESS

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6/28/08 at 11:40pm
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

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1-Jurassic Park. I just watched the SDVD, and it looked great.

are you serious?

i just had to the chance to see the film in hd and boy, what treat. then i insert my dts dvd of the film to compare it and it looked bad compared to that. yes, i know that i can't compare hd with sd and then say that sd looks bad. of course hd should look better because of the higher res. but that was not the issue. the problem was within colors, contrast and all other things that makes you droll on a good hd release.

i don't wanna return to this dvd until a br comes out. honestly!
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6/29/08 at 3:25am
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Re: Your most wanted Universal titles on Blu-Ray

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are you serious?

i just had to the chance to see the film in hd and boy, what treat. then i insert my dts dvd of the film to compare it and it looked bad compared to that. yes, i know that i can't compare hd with sd and then say that sd looks bad. of course hd should look better because of the higher res. but that was not the issue. the problem was within colors, contrast and all other things that makes you droll on a good hd release.

i don't wanna return to this dvd until a br comes out. honestly!
I admit, I adjusted my tv settings for a few minutes until it looked good. My LCD tv can tear a sd dvd to shreds unless I set it properly.
The reason it's in my most wanted list, is because I know it will look a lot better in HD, and it deserves it.

                          

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