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Paramount has done a great job with their catalogue releases and I think the above comment is uncalled for and just plain silly.
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Uncalled for and quite ignorant. Bad vocabulary also. 
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11-15-2003, 05:59 PM
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11-15-2003, 07:01 PM
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| Some supplements would be nice on the catalog titles though, when available. |
If a studio does a good job with the dvd presentation then I'm a happy camper, anything extra is gravy to me.
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11-15-2003, 08:44 PM
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anything extra is gravy to me.
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But Man, I do love Gravy
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If a studio does a good job with the dvd presentation then I'm a happy camper, anything extra is gravy to me.
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Especially since their pricing policy has improved dramatically in the last year or so. $14.98 SRP for many of their featureless catalogue releases, all with fine anamorphic transfers! 
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11-15-2003, 09:20 PM
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Why would Hud be an old laserdisc transfer?
BTW, if you'd like to see how Paramount handles their films, check out http://www.paramountpictures.com/fil.../projects.html
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11-15-2003, 10:15 PM
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Great link Patrick. Thanks!
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Yes, great link Patrick!
The following mission statment taken from the Paramount site.
Paramount Preservation Website
The Mission
The motion picture as a narrative art has its roots firmly planted in the soil of the Greek drama and its descendents, the Miracle play of the middle ages and Shakespeare. By the time Shakespeare wrote Anthony and Cleopatra, the fluid dramatic structure, which we identify with the modern screenplay, was established.
The form of the drama changed very little over the centuries. It was a medium of words. The rhythmic movement of a story was propelled by words. Then came the motion picture and the rhythms of a story had to be told by purely visual means. Indeed, Ingmar Bergman has stated that the film has more in common with music than literature. At the heart of filmmaking is the visual grammar that we call film editing where each shot is like a bar of music.
Thus, unlike the drama, poetry and the novel, where the mere copying of words is preservation, the film image is so fragile that it is only with the greatest care and effort that the original integrity of the image can be maintained.
Of the visual arts, film is the most fragile.
It is the protection of the original integrity of that image and the supporting sound that is the goal of the Paramount Film Preservation Program. |
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11-16-2003, 02:49 PM
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Looking at DDD, it seems as if the MSRP of The Godfather DVD Collection had dropped from $105 to $75, undoubtedly another confirmation of the rerelease. However, if the discs as being re-released individualy, what is going to happen with the disc with the bonus features? Is Paramount going to break down that 5th disc and release parts of it with each single release? Or are they going to do it like Fox is for the Alien Quadrilogy, where you can buy each title individually or get re-released box set with the new transfers and an additional special features disc?
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11-16-2003, 02:55 PM
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I wonder if each film will be on two discs this time. If that's the case, they can certainly throw some kind of bonus feature on there (although I don't really care if they do).
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11-16-2003, 04:24 PM
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Have the reissues ever been offically announced by Paramount, or is this still just going off of the article?
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