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3/14/09 at 9:11pm
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Ok so "The Thing," "Halloween" and the SE of "Assault on Precinct 13" are the only John Carpenter films currently on Blu-Ray correct?

Who here owns them and what do you think of the picture quality? Significant upgrade?

"Ghosts of Mars" comes out March 31st, by the way.

Any rumors about the rest of his work?

Universal has: They Live, Prince of Darkness and Village of the Damned

Sony has: Starman, Christine and Vampires

Warner Brothers has: Memoirs of an Invisible Man and the TV movie "Someone's Watching Me"

VCI has: Dark Star

MGM has: Escape from New York and The Fog

Paramount has: Escape from L.A.

Elvis: The Movie? Still don't know who owns that, waiting on Dick Clark Productions to finally work something out.

FOX has: Big Trouble in Little China

Who owns his 'Masters of Horror' films "Cigarette Burns" and "Pro-Life"? Starz?

What else am I missing here? Anyway that's a lot of Carpenter not in HD yet!

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3/14/09 at 9:44pm
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

Oh forgot, New Line has "In the Mouth of Madness" but didn't Warner officially close them out (New Line I mean) so i guess that's a WB title now. Still not on Blu-Ray.

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3/14/09 at 9:57pm
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

Think "They Live" will ever see the light of day again? The most "anti-establishment", "anti-commercialism", "anti-everything" movie ever to come out of Hollywood. I'd love to see someone to give it the treatment it deserves (I know plenty of people involved with "The Industry" would like to bury this movie deep in a hole and burn it).

FYI: This movie has the best performance from a "wrestler".
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3/14/09 at 11:15pm
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

Eric, heck I'd be happy if they just had that commentary with Carpenter & Piper included.

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3/15/09 at 12:55am
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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Ok so "The Thing," "Halloween" and the SE of "Assault on Precinct 13" are the only John Carpenter films currently on Blu-Ray correct?

Who here owns them and what do you think of the picture quality? Significant upgrade?

All three have excellent picture quality and are significant upgrades to the SD releases.
The Fog and Escape From New York have been released on BD in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Netherlands etc all using the same Studio Canal masters).
The BDs are region free but while they're better than the SD versions, the picture quality on these releases is not as good as it could be so I would wait on MGM for those.
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3/15/09 at 1:32am
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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Think "They Live" will ever see the light of day again? The most "anti-establishment", "anti-commercialism", "anti-everything" movie ever to come out of Hollywood. I'd love to see someone to give it the treatment it deserves (I know plenty of people involved with "The Industry" would like to bury this movie deep in a hole and burn it).


Considering at least half of JC's movies have been remade or are in the process of being remade, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there's a remake for this under development.
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3/15/09 at 2:48am
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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Considering at least half of JC's movies have been remade or are in the process of being remade, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there's a remake for this under development.

Which only bodes well for a SE release......

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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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Who owns his 'Masters of Horror' films "Cigarette Burns" and "Pro-Life"? Starz?
I don't have it but Cigarette Burns must be in one of the 4 volumes of Masters Of Horror: S1 Blu-rays.
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

Recently Fox Germany has announced that they will release "Big Trouble in Little China" on Blu-ray in Summer.
So maybe you US-folks will get a Code A Blu-ray as well.........
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3/15/09 at 8:19am
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

I want all of JC's stuff on Blu, and I want it NOW.

You guys neglected to mention Vampires, which is also a Sony title. I really wish they were releasing that instead of Ghosts of Mars, but oh well...

Universal, please release Streets of Fire on Blu-ray.

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3/15/09 at 8:54am
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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MGM has: Escape from New York and The Fog
These were released on BR in the UK, but IIRC were later proven to be upconverts.
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Who owns his 'Masters of Horror' films "Cigarette Burns" and "Pro-Life"? Starz?
"Cigarette Burns" is on the MOH Volume 1 Blu-ray from Season 1. "Pro-Life" is part of Season 2, which hasn't been released on Blu-ray yet.
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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Ok so "The Thing," "Halloween" and the SE of "Assault on Precinct 13" are the only John Carpenter films currently on Blu-Ray correct?

The Fog and Escape from New York are available on Blu-ray Disc as region free UK releases. Both leave a lot to be desired however (DNR and upconvert respectively).

They Live was scheduled to be released by Optimum Home Entertainment as well, but it was canceled when it was discovered it shared the same issues as Escape from New York.

Universal Blu-ray Discs I will not be buying while they're offered only as Blu-ray + DVD 'flipper' discs:

The Jackal, Out of Africa, and Traffic.

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3/15/09 at 11:45am
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

I watched The Fog again last night and was surprised by how acceptable it looks. It's not great, but it's still streets ahead of the R1 SE DVD and it puts the low-rent EFNY Blu-ray to shame.

They Live will no doubt be with us at some point, but after the cancellation of the European Blu-ray version I've got some hope that Studio Canal have been busy creating an actual high-def version...
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

Put me down for the entire John Carpenter catalog.

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3/16/09 at 10:37am
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

VCI are finally going to release a SE of Dark Star later this year:

IMDb :: Boards :: Dark Star (1974) :: Calling all Dark Star fans!!!

I spotted this last night after watching the UK DVD via online rental.
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

That's awesome news. More Carpenter please!
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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VCI are finally going to release a SE of Dark Star later this year:

IMDb :: Boards :: Dark Star (1974) :: Calling all Dark Star fans!!!

I spotted this last night after watching the UK DVD via online rental.

Interesting but an odd way to announce the release....

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3/19/09 at 8:38am
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

While I feel that JC's talent has waned over the years give me everything up to They Live on BD.

I have Halloween on BD and IMO it's excellent even though they seemed to have used the DIVIMAX master which of course isn't the Dean Cundy approved version.

Still there's no denying that this BD is the best the film has ever looked at home.
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3/20/09 at 8:36pm
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

Escape From LA needs an anamorphic release.
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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Escape From LA needs an anamorphic release.

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Universal, please release Streets of Fire on Blu-ray.

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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

And a Carpenter/Russelll commentary!
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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And a Carpenter/Russelll commentary!

AMEN AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Please, Paramount! Give us a Carpenter/Russell commentary track for Escape from LA. Please!

Universal, please release Streets of Fire on Blu-ray.

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5/7/09 at 9:41pm
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

So "Big Trouble in Little China" AND "Starman" have been announced for BD release this August!

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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

Yeah, I'm really beginning to doubt They Live will ever come out (for reasons I earlier described).
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

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Yeah, I'm really beginning to doubt They Live will ever come out (for reasons I earlier described).
Never say never but I think you're 100% wrong. They Live has been released twice on DVD (and is still in print) so it's not like the movie has been buried and hidden. The studio could care less about the message as long as they think it will sell.
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

They live is out in the UK on Blu:
They Live [Blu-ray] [1988]: Amazon.co.uk: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George Flower, John Carpenter: DVD

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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

The Escape From New York blu-ray is admittedly nothing great, but The Fog gets unfairly lumped in with it. The transfer is very strong, even if the grain-busting was a little high for some folk's tastes. I think it looks worlds better than the R1 DVD, and considering how cheap some of the blu-rays at amazon.co.uk have been lately, there's no reason not to get it.
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Last year I was lucky enough to catch a screening of THEY LIVE as part of a Carpenter mini-festival. The print was almost perfect, it looked amazing. If I could get THAT on BD, I'd be pretty happy!

In contrast, EFNY was so scratched and full of pops & jumps it was exactly like Grindhouse was trying to be. Which was pretty fun, too (except for the few poor souls who'd never seen it before).

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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

I'm really hoping that the Blu-ray of Starman will include the commentary track from the R2 DVD and some decent extras. The only DVD release it's had in the US was pretty skimpy.

I'm pretty happy with the Blu-ray of The Thing.

I agree that a solid release of They Live would be fun, particularly if it includes the R2 commentary and some goodies. By the same token, Prince of Darkness is a guilty pleasure from the same period and might benefit from some TLC. Both of those films were fairly low-budget, as I recall - Carpenter's step back after the bigger budgets of Starman and Big Trouble in Little China.

I was actually pretty happy with Cigarette Burns and about the first half of Pro-Life before things got really silly.

I continue to hope that he has another good movie in him. Who knows? He's working on something now - hopefully it will come out okay.
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Re: John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray

Prince of Darkness is a strange duck for me, I don't fully understand what happens in the film but yet it disturbs the hell out of me lol.

Particularly the recurring dream of the dark figure emerging from the church, it gives me the willies.

Wouldn't mind a BD of that one, Christine as well, but keep all the extras from the SE DVD. Nothing I hate more than when they release a film on BD and dump all the great extras from the DVD, it forces me to keep the DVD around when I could just as well sell it to make room for more BD's.
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