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post #91 of 159
11/4/09 at 7:18am
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Originally Posted by Paul_Warren View Post

Most new films are terrible and lack any emotional impact (even though the technical aspects are now quite advance) when you watch these old classics you realise how far the lost art of filmaking has fallen!!!

I'm with Travis on this one.  Filmmaking hasn't fallen, and there are tons of forgettable movies made back then, too.  We only remember the classics through rose-colored glasses because they're, well, classics.
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post #92 of 159
11/4/09 at 7:28am
I'm gonna go with DVDs previously released in non-anamorphic (or fullscreen) versions

1. Breakdown
2. The Journey of Natty Gann
3. Frantic

Runners up

Death Becomes Her
Iceman
Runaway Train

These will make great Blu-rays someday
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post #93 of 159
11/4/09 at 8:56am
Spartacus----cleaned up Criterion version
Titanic
Forbidden Planet

Rerelease wish list

Robocop Director's cut---cleaned up Criterion version
Star Treks 1, 2 & 6 Director's cuts
Fantastic Four extended cut


Not a 'high-brow' list by any means.........
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post #94 of 159
11/5/09 at 1:23am
1. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
2. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
3. Star Wars Trilogies
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post #95 of 159
11/5/09 at 7:16am
1. Star Wars
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Point Blank
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post #96 of 159
11/7/09 at 9:40am
Well a lot of what i woul like is already mentioned but borrowing from a post earlier i will break this down into live action and animation

Live Action:

Detour (Criterion - please do this as was stated on dvdbeaver as a joke)

Universal Monsters (All Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, Creature In 3D and flat) after they all have gone throuh a simular process that WB did with Casablanca anything less would be unacceptable.

Song of the South (Disney ??? will the ever happen???)


Animated:
Universal - Complete Woody Woodpecker Theatrical Collection in sequential order (never finished on DVD)

WB - Tom & Jerry Theatrical Collection in sequential order (HB through Dietch through Chuck Jones include all special features as before in HD and no ommiting toons this time)

Fantasia- Yes i know it is scheduled to come out but i want Disney Co to release it as it was originaly, no edits, no zooming, no changing the original artistry that went into the film, they are bad at editing out the past or modifying to the current trend, no smoking or more contriversal material. 


i have others that will never see blu for some time if ever, but great B series like Rathbone Holmes would be ripe for a set considering UCLA just restored those a few years ago so who knows, but this format should be  used to preserve the past in the best way possible  

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post #97 of 159
11/7/09 at 10:52am
As I said in another thread: my most wanted films are on BD already. I can name 1 film I want on BD most of all now, but not three. But here are five, only the first one is really the new no. 1:

The Last of the Mohicans.
Pulp Fiction
The Lion King
Citizen Kane
Ben-Hur.


Cees
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post #98 of 159
11/7/09 at 11:53am
Blue Ray:

Days of Heaven
Spider's Stratagem
Apocalypse Now (2.35:1 only Both versions)

Ill Take even dvd:
El Sur
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post #99 of 159
11/9/09 at 8:31am
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Originally Posted by Coca Cola Kid View Post

Highlander


Highlander is already out on Blu-ray Disc, albeit in the UK.  However, it is region free or at least Region A, B.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Highlander-Immortal-Limited-Steelbook-Blu-ray/dp/B0027P9BJC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1257784304&sr=8-1

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post #100 of 159
11/9/09 at 10:11am
1.) The Man Who Would Be King - Great movie, horrible flipper DVD with atrocious sound and missing dialogue.

2.) Grand Prix - Supposedly the restored HD version using the original 65mm film elements appeared fantastic.

3.) Strategic Air Command - Starring Jimmy Stewart. Not the best movie of all time, but the flying scenes of the gargantuan B-36 bombers are spectacular. Never released on DVD to my knowledge.
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post #101 of 159
11/9/09 at 12:13pm
Lawrence of Arabia
Blue Velvet
Holy Mountain
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post #102 of 159
11/11/09 at 7:00pm
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

in that order
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post #103 of 159
11/11/09 at 9:16pm
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
HELLO, DOLLY!
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (properly mastered)


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post #104 of 159
11/14/09 at 6:07pm
Light Of Day
Add that to post 40. Again never released in this country on DVD
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post #105 of 159
11/15/09 at 6:15am
I'm going with:
The Quiet Man
Barry Lyndon
The Thin Red Line
Two more?
The Conformist
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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post #106 of 159
11/16/09 at 6:25pm
Alien
Aliens
The Abyss

There are countless movies that I want on Blu, but those three would round out my entire top ten list of favourite films on HD optical disc.Preview
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post #107 of 159
11/27/09 at 1:30pm

In no particular order.

Auntie Mame - didn't WB hint at this needing some major restorative work?

Jason and the Argonauts - I'd love to see this (respectfully) cleaned/restored.

Solaris - Soderbergh's preferred longer cut.

And finally,

(Danger) Diabolik - Mario Bava's classic.

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post #108 of 159
11/28/09 at 7:05am
Moulin Rouge (coming)
1776
Universal Marx Brothers Films  
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post #109 of 159
11/28/09 at 8:41am
The Ten Commandments (a transfer from VistaVision elements)
Spartacus (color timed to resemble original Technicolor prints)
El Cid (a proper transfer derived from Technirama negatives)


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post #110 of 159
11/28/09 at 8:56am
Criterion (or somebody) needs to give these the Blu-ray treatment:

1. The Red Shoes
2. The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover
3. Theater of Blood (Vincent Price's favorite of all his movies -- the existing DVD uses a terrible print, with lousy video and audio.  Surely the elements could be found to restore this!)

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post #111 of 159
11/28/09 at 12:46pm


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Originally Posted by PianoPlayer View Post

Criterion (or somebody) needs to give these the Blu-ray treatment:

1. The Red Shoes
2. The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover
3. Theater of Blood (Vincent Price's favorite of all his movies -- the existing DVD uses a terrible print, with lousy video and audio.  Surely the elements could be found to restore this!)
 

Criterion will be releasing The Red Shoes sometime in 2010.
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post #112 of 159
12/4/09 at 1:45pm
Universal Marx Brothers Films  

good choice for universal to really step into the classics on blu
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post #113 of 159
12/4/09 at 2:43pm
I cheated kind of and made 3 groups:  

1.  A John Hughes box set with deleted scenes & commentaries:  Weird Science, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Uncle Buck
2.  Back to the Future Trilogy
3.  The original Star Wars trilogy, not the revisionist versions with extra beeping & blinking creatures
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post #114 of 159
12/6/09 at 11:34pm
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
THE LION IN WINTER
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT



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post #115 of 159
12/9/09 at 8:38am

1) Barry Lyndon (Terrific film!! I am shocked to see this on so many people's lists... I honestly didn't think this was that popular.)

2) Alien & Aliens "super ultimate" double feature (yeah, I know it's cheating. But these two always have to go together. And the other movies in the series just don't exist for me in my world.)

3) 1941: Extended Director's Cut (Despite all of the criticism, this movie makes me laugh and feel warm and fuzzy everytime I see it. I love Spielberg's misunderstood epic unapologetically. Only one of three full-blown "destruction comedies" - as I call 'em - that Hollywood ever made good and right (the other two being "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "Blues Brothers").

Runners Up:

The Blues Brothers
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Robert A. Harris Restoration)
Back To The Future Trilogy
Legend: Director's Cut
Jaws
Radiers of the Lost Ark
The Abyss: Extended Edition
and more that i just can't think of right now...
 

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post #116 of 159
12/9/09 at 5:23pm
3 (more or less) most wanted (from each studio).
My biggest priority is to see things that still either haven't been released on DVD or else have only been issued in a substandard edition i.e. non anamorphic or just poorly mastered. Amazingly, this still applies to many great films.

Sony
1776
The Swimmer

Warner
Outland
Mister Roberts
A Little Romance
The Accidental Tourist
Wolfen
The Year Of Living Dangerously

Universal
The Blues Brothers (will be surprised if we don't  see this next year)
Somewhere In Time
Jaws 2
Flash Gordon

MGM
The Great Escape
The Russia House
Jean de Florette/ Manon Of The Spring

Paramount
Days Of Heaven
Tucker: The Man And His Dream
Apocalypse Now (theatrical version. I won't buy Redux if that 's all that is made available)

Lionsgate
Fabulous Baker Boys
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers  (not sure who actually controls this whether it's Paramount or Lionsgate)


Fox
Seven Year Itch
Oklahoma
Last Of The Mohicans

Disney
The Rocketeer
The Black Hole

Miramax
Amelie


Edited by Paul_Scott - 12/10/09 at 12:43am
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post #117 of 159
12/9/09 at 6:12pm
Interesting choices. I would really like to hear John Williams's Jaws 2 score in HD (as it is one of the mot seriously underrated scores in cinema - and I'm not joking!).
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post #118 of 159
12/10/09 at 12:42am


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Originally Posted by shazzerman View Post

Interesting choices. I would really like to hear John Williams's Jaws 2 score in HD (as it is one of the mot seriously underrated scores in cinema - and I'm not joking!).
Absolutely.
And sadly out of print at the moment.
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post #119 of 159
12/10/09 at 8:33am
RYAN'S DAUGHTER
STAR! (with original B&W footage)
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (from a newly discovered mint print)
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post #120 of 159
12/10/09 at 12:01pm
There is a newly discovered mint print of "Around the world in 80 Days"? or is that just your fantasy?

Star! always had black and white footage in every release, what do you mean??????
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