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05-12-2007, 12:51 PM
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Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
I am curious why Sony is not putting Fistful of Dollars on Blu Ray in June when the new CE of the film comes out on DVD.
It would seem to make good sense to add the titles to the new format.
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05-12-2007, 01:28 PM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
Aside from Warner, BD seems to be getting movies from two categories: New releases, and things that PS3 owners will buy. I'm not sure Fistful of Dollars is perceived as fitting in either.
Also, it's in the MGM library, which comes out via Fox, and they're not putting out anything.
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05-12-2007, 01:54 PM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
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Aside from Warner, BD seems to be getting movies from two categories: New releases, and things that PS3 owners will buy.
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What are things PS3 owners buy?
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05-12-2007, 03:06 PM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
Basically, movies primarily appealing to 15-25 year-olds. Action movies and (male) youth-oriented comedies. At least, that's what seems to be the priority from the BD-exclusive stories.
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Transplanted Life: Sci-fi soap opera about a man placed in a new body, updated two or three times a week.
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"What? Since when was this an energy ball movie?" - Overheard during a screening of Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive
"What the hell religion are you people?" - Overheard during the Captain Marvel serial at SF/29
"If I feel even one bullet hit me, I will rip your lungs out through your nostrils!" - Ron Silver as himself, "Heat Vision And Jack"
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05-12-2007, 09:44 PM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
A Fistful Of Dollars is a Fox title.
edit: Oops, didn't see that Jason Seaver already posted this.
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05-13-2007, 03:11 AM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
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Originally Posted by Jim_K
What are things PS3 owners buy?
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Let me think about it.....
Ok, I'd say: "Crank", "Crank", "Crank".
Did I already mention "Crank"?
IMHO, a major marketing failure of the "BD only" "cartel", not to release "classic" films on BD. The only interesting "classic" from Sony was the cancelled "The Professionals". What a shame.
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05-13-2007, 03:30 AM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
Well, I own a PS3 and I don't own CRANK. I'm not in the 18-35 demo, but I guess 18-35 year olds who own a PS3 must be a smart breed, considering that BD sales of a nature documentary (planet earth) have been quite strong.
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05-13-2007, 05:24 AM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
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Well, I own a PS3 and I don't own CRANK. I'm not in the 18-35 demo, but I guess 18-35 year olds who own a PS3 must be a smart breed, considering that BD sales of a nature documentary (planet earth) have been quite strong.
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Didn't you notice the " "?
I own "Crank" myself btw...
But fact is that we are missing titles on BD like "Fistful of Dollars", "The Professionals", more classic Columbia Westerns, the 50's "epics" like "The Robe", "Demetrius and the Gladiators", Hitchcock, the James Bond collection, "Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", classic SciFi, Fox's John Wayne films, Sony's "Dr. Strangelove" or "Major Dundee"............
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05-13-2007, 12:06 PM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
Yeah, I'm just saying that this appears to be what those studios think the PS3 owners want, based upon what they release. Especially those that bought the PS3 primarily for games rather than as a movie player. How much truth there is to it, I don't know.
Jay's Movie Blog - A movie-viewing diary.
Transplanted Life: Sci-fi soap opera about a man placed in a new body, updated two or three times a week.
Trading Post Inn - Another gender-bending soap, with different collaborators writing different points of view.
"What? Since when was this an energy ball movie?" - Overheard during a screening of Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive
"What the hell religion are you people?" - Overheard during the Captain Marvel serial at SF/29
"If I feel even one bullet hit me, I will rip your lungs out through your nostrils!" - Ron Silver as himself, "Heat Vision And Jack"
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05-13-2007, 01:07 PM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
This was initially announced by Fox to be released on Blu-ray Disc around the same time as the forthcoming SD boxset. Since Fox has bowed out of BD, taking MGM with it, presumably until BD+ is available, I wouldn't expect to see this title until Q4 at the earliest.
I've already got the boxset pre-ordered, as I was anxoius to ditch the PAL speed-up of my R2 SEs. I don't think you'll see Duck You Sucker, for example, on BD for a long time.
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05-13-2007, 02:09 PM
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Re: Fistful Of Dollars on Blu-Ray?
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I don't think you'll see Duck You Sucker, for example, on BD for a long time.
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I agree, which is why that's the only title in the set I pre-ordered - gladly ditching the R2 PAL.
Though I'm sticking with the previous R1 versions of the Dollars trilogy for the time being (unless in the next 6 months it starts to look like Fox won't be returning to HD).
The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Akira, The Dark Knight, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Death Proof, King Kong, La Femme Nikita, Planet Terror, Raging Bull, Ronin, The Third Man DVD: .................
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